
I finally made it. The viewer component now always shows the correct textured aircraft. You can have the viewer form open and change aircraft and liveries as you like - it will just display what you select in AIAE.
I got an idea from some pretty obscure discussions about VBnet not allowing an event to be raised from another form (it triggers but does not fire and that was what I was seeing). I then constructed something and to my utmost surprise it just worked. I still can't believe it.
This was the biggest nut to crack so far and I was beginning to feel bad about it, because it was not progressing whatever I tried for some time. Arno invested much time and brain to support me. But he is all C, not Basic.
In case you wonder what I am trying to tell you - don't do it...

Now simfolders and then you get the beta.