Hi folks,
thank you for the kind words, the work continues

About the strange freezes, I can only say that try to install another panel for the problematic airplane. If you succeed with the new panel, then probably there is a gauge in the attached panel that does not "like" your system.
In the past I had a nasty Fuel Calculator gauge problem with FS. It was said, that the gauge will not work on XP-Home, and neither on non-English XPs !!! When I loaded the plane with that panel, FS crashed randomly within 1-5 minutes, or sometimes immediately. Then I contacted with the author and he sent me a fix for all international XPs.
I wanted to say this, because annoying problems may occur in the strangest moments, and if it is a local problem and not a general, the only answer is: the problem is in your system. It can be either a wrong installation, or an installed add-on, or basically the FS version, or the Windows version that does not feel comfortable with other softwares...many things can happen. Do not forget that most of the gauges are simply DLL files. These contains functions from other DLL files, and if those are not correct in age, or version, the gauge will fail, and may freeze FS.