Finally tried out the QGC version you published Ron (notice I'm not calling it "your" version
). For some reason it required installing C++ libs (MS C++ redistributable package) before it would start up, but not a big deal. After that it seemed great at first. Then it crashed in the maps viewer, but I've seen that happen with the Peter's version as well. Re-opened, re-created the connection, connected, tried a few things, disconnected, and then closed QGC. Now it just crashes every time it starts up
Now granted this is on an old laptop, but the older QGC works fine on it (slow, and has an occasional crash, but works).
But overall I do agree that it would make a lot of sense to make it easier to synch up to the current QGC version. For instance I noticed a new HIL (hardware in the loop simulator) feature which could be pretty nice to play with.
Thanks for trying Ron!
-Max