I have decided to move to a different Navigational Program. No further assistance is required. Thank you.

All programs run as administrator. No log file is found in PlanG or any other folders anywhere on my PC. Also, no indication in the FSUIPC log for that approx time that showed any inability to connect. When I click on the "connect" icon. . .there is approx a 3 to 4 sec pause and then it disconnects.

I am also having problems connecting to FSX. I have been using FSTramp, but due to a change in pricing policy I have dumped it and returned to PlanG. I used to use this program and never had a problem connecting. . .now I have a problem.
I am running the program as an administrator
I have a registered version of FSUIPC which I continue to update.
I have run the database program for both FSX and P3D_V3.1
I have a continuous internet connection and I have a router (which I only have in order to access wifi for my satellite TV function).

When I load PlanG and click on "connect" it attempts a connection and then almost immediately drops. I don't want to belabor the point, however I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get a program to work. . .and I fear that that's exactly what is coming. Please tell me I'm wrong and it's something simple.

Note: this appears to be an FSX Only problem as I just loaded P3D and it connects without any problem.

(RTFM) Well, I am not sure why Plan-G decided not to connect via "simconnect" and I'm hoping that isn't a sign of other bad things happening within FSX, but after actually reading the manual and in specific the section on "Connections" I opted to run via FSUIPC which was immediately successful. Onward into the fog I go. lol

I purchased and installed Prepar3D v1.4 a few days ago. I won't go into details, but it was a bust for me and so I uninstalled it. Today I went back to continue a Cross-Country flight I'm doing and when I tried to connect to FSX through Plan-G it would not connect. Since this has never been a problem before, I'm wondering if something either in the P3D installation or uninstall process somehow messed with simconnect?

While waiting on an answer, I noticed that a beta build 5 was available, so I installed that one, built the database, loaded FSX, clicked on "Connect" and got the same result, no connection. Hoping someone can give me a suggestion on where to look or how to troubleshoot.

Got it Tim. Under options in the IE Tools dropdown. . .I checked the "connections" for LAN and discovered it was not setup to detect any connections. . .who knew? Sheeese. So despite the fact that you may not use IE, it affects a lot you wouldn't even think of, even if you otherwise have a solid Internet Connection.

Not the firewall. I'm working another angle right now. I use Firefox for my browser, but if I try to open IE, it also is unable to find the server, so it could be something related to IE.

Ok, thanks Tim,
I'm going to consider this a wash at this point. I've done what I know to do. . .all the times I ran Plan-G before I never had any problems and no one seems to be having any of the problems I'm having so I don't know where to go from here. It honestly shouldn't be this difficult to get the program to run. I don't use any exotic software, no router, a simple cable modem and that's it. I'm always connected to the internet, I can fly multiplayer and never have any trouble with internet connections, I use FSWidgets GMap and it runs fine.

I'm at a loss. Thanks again for your assist. I'm going to leave the program installed and maybe down the road someone will hit on a solution.

Thanks Tim,
I was able to connect to map.google.com with no problems at all, as far as the internet connection. . . .obviously that's running fine or I wouldn't be here now, lol. The only firewall I have is the default one for Windows. . . .what would it be blocking to keep Plan-G from talking to the internet? Do I just tell it to allow Plan-G?

Just as some added information, I don't use a router, I'm just direct connected to the cable via the cable modem.

Thanks for the assist.

Here's the log:
00:38:07.0
00:38:07.0 ---===+++===---
00:38:07.0 Starting Plan-G, build 2.0.1.474
00:38:07.0 OS is Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7600.0
00:38:07.2 webBrowser_SizeChanged. Width = 732 Height = 324
00:38:07.3 webBrowser_SizeChanged. Width = 748 Height = 362
00:38:07.4 FSX is installed
00:38:07.5 webBrowser_SizeChanged. Width = 748 Height = 518
00:38:07.5 Selected data set is FSX
00:38:08.7 IsInternetConnected failed: Unable to connect to the remote server

Well, I know it didn't do this the first time I installed it after the Motherboard Crash. . . .I had the program open with no problems, but now every time I try to open, I get this:
(X) Plan-G requires an active Internet connection. Please check your network connections and try again.

Any suggestions?

Tim,
As fate would have it, my computer imploded last Monday evening and so, after repeated efforts to get it fixed failed, I purchased a new system. I am in the process of getting FSX reinstalled and everything back as it was (no small feat as you know). One thing I did do though, was to install Plan-G and give it another go (remember my last attempt only caused a repeated error about .NET 4.0). Well, this time it worked perfectly, no real surprise, obviously there was a problem with my system in more ways than one. Just wanted to let you know.

Thanks!

After googling the inability of a program to identify .NET 4.0 I found a netverification tool and ran it. It was able to verify and pass all versions except 4.0 Full and Client. It found approx 4 "dll" files that it said were not installed. This after uninstalling Plan-G, uninstalling .NET 4.0 (both), then reinstalling Plan-G (it did not install anything for .NET 4.0) and then reinstalling 4.0 manually and even running 4.0 repair after Plan-G again refused to recognize it's presence. For whatever reason, .NET 4.0 is not installing correctly, so I'm done messing with it until I can figure out why 4.0 isn't installing correctly.

Tim,

Got your e-mail this morning and uninstalled Plan-G, removed all references I could find and installed the file you sent. No difference, it still doesn't recognize that I have 4.0 installed. I've gone back and uninstalled 3.5 SP1 and 4.0 and then reinstalled just to be sure and it makes no difference to Plan-G, for whatever reason, whatever it looks for on my system, it's not seeing what it expects to see and I'm not really interested in troubleshooting this beyond what I've already done. Too bad, it looks like you've made some nice improvements to this build, but it's just not going to work on my computer. Thanks again for you help in trying to correct the problem.

Well, sorry to say, I've deleted Plan-G. It just continues to give me the error that I must install .NET 4.0. I have all of the .NET versions installed up to and including 4.0 Full. Thanks Tim for your input, but this is a bit more of a problem than I need for a program to work.