Yay...Frontier you geniuses!!! You deserve those cookies!
1st time in Beta 2...open play 1st time.
I did get a server disconnect as I was flying around 5 mins later, but I put that down to server updates...maybe.
My heart did sink when clicking Start->Open. The sidewinder vanished 1 second later...thought the game had locked up like before, but no, black screen for maybe 10 seconds, then in.
So something slightly not right with the loading screen, which also happens when launching the tutorials...but I'm in.