I’ve flown the Nevada bush trip multiple times now. the plane crashes over the mountains every time / the screen goes black and I should restart or should go to the main menu. I am flying very calmly at a constant altitude. What am I doing wrong?
nobody has an idea? 
At which leg is it crashing? Do you have a “rough” location of the crash? Is it always close to the same location?
It’s always in different places at different times. Probably if I fly too low at too high speed. Or too high. I haven’t figured it out yet. You can’t deactivate anything in this mode. For me, the mode seems to be more for advanced users. Unfortunately, you cannot activate any help.
Try with another bush maybe? So you can see if it is coming from this location?
I guess you can also control your speed, to keep it at the correct cruising speed for your plane ?
Not sure how cumfortable you are with flight simulation, if you are asking yourself questions about altitude and speed (dont take it bad). Maybe worth to do the 8 tutorials? They are fun and very informative.
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Thanks for your answer … and no, I don’t take it bad … I appreciate it 
I’ve already tried another bush. Same problem, black screen after about 10 minutes and the prompt to restart or go to main menu. Your guess is correct, I’m not very comfortable with flight simulations. But I’ve already done the 8 tutorials. Very funny and helpful. But I seemingly still have problems with altitude and speed. Maybe I should do the tutorials once again.
Is it just black screen or is your plane actually crashing to the ground? Would be nice if you could record a video
Then, try a single flight, very simple one, starting from one small airport, take the Cessna 152, just take off, take a 5 000 / 7 000 feet altitude just straight, and keep flying flat and straight. Check your engin RPM, check the altitude regularly , keep focus on the sound of the engine.
During flight, more than half of your time should be to check your main indicators.
Check this one : http://digitalpilotschool.com/aircraft-cockpit-instruments-explained-for-newbies/
Then try , still flying straight, to accelerate and deccelerate, see how the plane is reacting, get used to it.
When you will this in control, then you can become more easy and less focus on instrument, and look outside
my 2 cent !
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It’s just a black screen. I will try to record it later. But as I wrote before, sometimes it takes more than 10 minutes to crash. So maybe I have to cut the video before post it
It is really looking more like a bug and game crash then 
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Great help … thanks a lot 
I don’t think it’s a bug and game crash. I thinks it’s due to my inexperience with flight simulation 
I guess with your link to digitalpilotschool it will get better soon
Your speed could be going too high for your plane and the plane breaking up. When you get the black screen there should be a message advising what causes you to crash
No, there is just a message to restart or go to main menu. no indication of the reason
Just tried the 1st bush. I was distracted (it is Friday evening) so I did not care much about my speed at Take off. Boum. And then I got a black screen and a window suggesting to restart.
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I have had the Black Screen of Doom several times due to inflight damage to aircraft.
I recently tuned my controller settings (needed a larger dead spot), but need to fine tune them some more when my new flight stick arrives.
I was having problems with some of the bush planes. I think due to speed. I’m still learning. I had a wild ride over the Sierra Madre in Mexico the other day. Hoping controller tuning and experience will help.
@peterro I will be interested in seeing your recording. My black screens always have a short text message - almost too short and easy to miss. I’ll post if I have a similar experience without a message. Does your black screen have a dialog box to quit/restart or does it just crash to the main menu or desktop?
I just did the first leg of the balkans bush trip succesfully without crashing. at least now I know what happens when you have finished a stage 
@windseer
yes, it’s the blck screen with the dialog box to quit/restart. It doesn’t crash to the main menu or desktop.
It’s like @Thelgar described it in his post above. I try to record it now and let you know …
so here is the promised video. i provoked the crash to see what was written in the window.
You were right … there is a message “You overstressed the aircraft …”
In this case that is correct, but in my other cases I flew very calmly and in my opinion not too low or too high.
Sorry, but the video was too big so I took a screenshot of it
I did the same thing. Drop your throttle and make sure your speed and RPM stay within the green areas. After climbing over the mountains you gain speed as you descend and can end up going faster than the airframe can handle.
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I am about midway through this mission - partly to see if I could re-create the problem in the OP. I also noticed the plane picked up speed rapidly coming down into the desert - I had to rein it in by cutting throttle and using flaps.