Just a thought as I came across this thread. I just came acorss ActiveSky recently and visited their website. The latest verstion for FS9 is to be released in the next month or so and seems to have a lot of pretty impressive improvements on an already incredible program. You might want to have a look at :
http://www.hifisim.com/activesky2.htmand see what you think. The list of extras and screenshots certainly seem to ge beyond what is already there!!
Geoff