I really am sorry to write this...
I am very dissatisfied with FCR v5. Let me list some of the problems I have encountered:
the manual is very clumsy and not always easy or logical to understand.
the interface is not very comfortable - which one do I use? The one from the inflight toolbar or the FCR5 panel that opens outside of the game.
loading a recording seems to take a long time before any other aircraft appear in sim.
I can only use identical aircraft to the one recorded in the original recording. There is no option to load up different liveries.
despite using offset values, I often get "play as AI" aircraft directly over the recording. The offset values are in NM - can we have metres please? 15 metres at the start point is easier to understand than some unit of nautical miles.
if I do get a multi aircraft flight going, I don't seem to be able to record it.
the software does not work with certain non-asobo aircraft, the SF260 leaves a rainbow coloured smoke trail for instance.
I have experienced several msfs crashes to black screen.
There used to be a recorder in FSX - anyone remember? It was very intuitive. Record, save, load recording #1, add another aircraft with different livery, play, record the new flight as a two-ship... repeat. I was able to fly along with myself in as many as 7 different liveries. Actually it was called FS recorder and first available in FS2004
Flying 5 copies of exactly the same livery is simply not realistic - at the very least you need to allow different registrations. Just think of real life - there is no possible way you would ever see groups of aircraft with the same registration codes. Unless the fictional pilot is maybe a criminal mastermind with some smuggling needs. 😉
Most of all, it was easy to use and did not need 40+ pages of manual.
Still, I paid for this software, so I will persevere.