Leg 204, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands via Bougainville to Momoto, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea
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A bit of a frustrating flight marred by performance problems from the recent sim update. FPS better measured in frames per minute while crossing the forested mountain ranges, main and manipulators thread throwing up times in excess of 1400 ms while the terrain slowly turned into bland squares.
A couple restarts later, reducing the draw distance to half of what worked fine before and it sort of stays in the air. Still periodic long stuttering, not really looking forward to the dense jungles of Papua New Guinea.
Bad performance or not, it never crashed and landing at 2 fps is still possible. Hopefully a hotfix will come soon, for now less trees to keep it sort of going.
03-13 Babanakira AGGI 2:36 PM
03-13 Avu Avu AGGJ 2:50 PM
03-13 Marau AGGU 3:01 PM
03-13 Parasi AGGP 3:16 PM Performance degrading
03-13 Afutara Aerodrome AGAF 3:35 PM 2 attempts, short runway, sim behind, not sure if right spot
03-13 Atoifi AGAT 3:44 PM
03-13 Auki AGGA 3:55 PM Terrible performance, heavy memory fragmentation
03-13 Kwailabesi AGKW 4:09 PM
03-13 Maringe AGGF 4:38 PM
03-13 Suavanao AGGV 5:15 PM Terrible performance, memory fragmentation
Long pauses, long period of sub 1 fps while flying over water along the island, try a restart
03-13 Suavanao AGGV 5:26 PM
03-13 Seghe AGGS 5:52 PM
03-13 Munda AGGM 6:08 PM
03-13 Ringi Cove AGRC 6:14 PM
03-13 Kukudu AGKU 6:24 PM
03-13 Gizo AGGN 6:30 PM
03-13 Geva AGEV 6:46 PM
03-13 Kaghau AGKG 7:08 PM
03-13 Ballalae AGGE 7:46 PM Terrible stuttering, half drawn terrain
Reduced settings, trees down to high, terrain from 200 to 100, disabled online traffic/multi
03-13 Ballalae AGGE 8:35 PM
03-13 Buin UBI 8:43 PM
03-13 Tonu AYVO 8:50 PM Terrible performance, no hard faults, not a ram problem
03-13 Aropa AYKT 9:06 PM
03-13 Arawa RAW 9:12 PM
03-13 Torokina TOK 9:26 PM
03-13 Sabah AYSH 9:44 PM
03-13 Buka AYBK 9:56 PM
03-13 Nissan NIS 10:19 PM
03-13 Boang BOV 10:51 PM Short runway due to faulty water (sea polygon)
03-13 Silur SWR 11:14 PM No runway…
03-13 Tokua AYTK 11:34 PM Bad performance, frequent long stutters
03-13 Tol AYLM 11:55 PM
03-14 Open Bay OBY 12:08 AM Ulawun 5°03’04.4"S 151°19’51.6"E
03-14 Sule SULE 12:25 AM
03-14 Stockholm SMP 12:41 AM Right on the edge of the water
03-14 Kunaye AYKY 1:17 AM Beacon blocking end of runway
03-14 Simberi AYSE 1:35 AM
03-14 Kavieng AYKV 2:03 AM
03-14 Emirua ERU 2:29 AM
03-14 Eloaua Airstrip AYEU 2:37 AM
03-14 Momote AYMO 3:26 AM
Flight time 11:50 38 stops
Deaprture from Kologhona in the morning
Heading to Avu Avu
Sun spotted near Naho
Parasi Airport in Marapona
Waisis harbor on Maramasike Island
Mt Veve (5,801ft) extinct vulcano on Kolombangara island
Mount Veve is the island’s highest point
It looks like the top blew off some time in the past
Pretty place to visit
Nusatupe Airport at Gizo
Manggo Bay Choiseul island
Fauro island and Rohae island
Bouganville, still part of Papua New Guinea for now. Voted for independence in 2018.
Mount Takuan (7,385ft)
Part of the Takuan Group, a volcanic group located in the southern part of Bougainville Island
Mount Balbi (8,907ft) a holocene stratovolcano
Known as Tutue by local people, still active but no recorded eruptions
Nissan Island
Landing in Silur mission, New Ireland. I could not locate any airstrip.
Weitin river coming down the Hans Meyer Range
Hans Meyer Range on the other side, Kait river on the right
Tol Airport on New Britain
Open Bay Airport
Ulawun (7,657ft)
Ulawun is a basaltic and andesitic stratovolcano in West New Britain Province
Last errupted August 3rd, 2019
Locally known as the “father”
Flying out from Eloaua Airstrip
Eloaua island
Emananus island
Watching the sunset over the Bismarck Sea
FInal destination today, Momote
Momote airport, Manus island
More of Papua New Guinea tomorrow. Hopefully the game will hold together.