Leg 216, Yanji, China via North and South Korea to Tokushima, Japan
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I upgraded my system to 32GB ram, everything runs much smoother now, except MSFS. It’s not using the pagefile anymore so it does survive a bit longer, however the SU3 bugs still wreak havoc. South Korea and Japan had bad slowdown again requiring restarts. Hopefully the hotfix that’s supposed to come today will help.
03-25 Yanji ZYYJ 6:16 PM 32GB RAM installed, back to 200 terrain detail
03-25 Changbaishan NBS 6:46 PM Peaktu Mountain Heaven Lake
03-25 Sungam ni ZKSG 7:20 PM
02-25 Kyongsong-Chuul ZKKY 7:24 PM
03-25 Orang ZKHE 7:28 PM
03-25 Kuktong ZKHR 7:33 PM River height bugged (aquaduct river)
03-25 Kilchu Highway ZKKI 7:43 PM
03-25 Tanchon South Airstrip ZKIO 7:47 PM Might have landed on a road or it’s a dual use ‘runway’
03-25 Riwon Airbase ZKIW 8:01 PM Stuttering along the way, bad area, terrain back to 100, no improvement
03-25 Toksan Air Base ZKHM 8:23 PM Terrible stuttering, keys not registering, AP trying to kill me
03-25 Yonpo Air Base ZKHU 9:29 PM
Restart, ram usage keeps going up for no reason, 33GB allocated, 19GB working set, 2fps, still takes forever to quit but no hard faults
03-25 Yonpo Air Base ZKHU 9:39 PM
03-25 Sondok ZKSD 9:42 PM Smooth again, 16GB allocated, 10GB working set
03-25 Yo-Do Airstrip ZKWB 8:53 PM 28 knot headwind
03-25 Kalma ZKWS 8:59 PM
03-25 Kang Da Ri ZKWN 9:03 PM
03-25 Hoeyang Southeast Airfield ZKHN 9:13 PM
03-25 R 413 RK21 8:28 PM
03-25 Yangyang Intl RKNY 9:37 PM
03-25 Gangneung RKNN 9:46 PM
03-25 Jukbyeon Emergency Airstrip RKTB 10:01 PM Pretty big for an emergency strip, bad performance bad terrain inland
03-25 Yeongju Emergency Runway Airfield RKES 10:17 PM Road traffic on runway center line
03-25 Daegu International RKTN 10:37 PM Terrain getting better, terrain detail at 200 still slowly kills it
03-25 Pohang Aero RKTH 10:52 PM bad performance
03-25 Ulsan RKPU 11:01 PM terrible stuttering on landing ~5fps
03-25 Iwami RJOW 11:42 PM
Restart, ram usage going up again (over open ocean) down to 5fps
03-25 Iwami RJOW 11:51 PM
03-26 Iwakuni MCAS RJOI 12:06 AM Itsukushima Shrine 34°17’49"N, 132°19’9"E
03-26 Hiroshima RJOA 12:48 AM Tatara Bridge 34°15’35"N, 133°3’48"E
03-26 Kochi RJOK 1:26 AM
03-26 Tokushima RJOS 2:03 AM PG Area, bad performance (started well before the PG area)
Flight time 7:16 28 stops
Climbing up Peaktu mountain (9,003ft), active volcano on the border between China and North Korea
The mountain itself is a mess in MSFS, but it provides a decent view towards North Korea
Heaven Lake sits at the top, a very popular destination
North Hamgyong, North Korea
Myongchon
Kilchu Highway Airport
South Hamgyong with the Sea of Japan (East Sea) in the background
Flying along the beach over Namchang-ri
Ryo-Do
Ch’angdo-up as seen from Kumgangsan, near the border with South Korea
Lake created by Imnam Dam, unfortunately a lot of height errors there
Yangyang International Airport, South Korea
Not much to see at the border on the East coast, broken textures
Daegu in North Gyeongsang Province
Back to Japan, Uradome Coast and Shiwagarano Falls at Iwami, Tottori Prefecture
Actually, that’s not where I got back into Japan at all. Tricked again, I entered at Hagi-Iwami Airport which is at Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, 250km to the southwest of Iwami. Oh well, Iwami is very pretty. It is called Iwami airport in game, hence the confusion. Can’t trust any names!
Hiroshima Bay as seen from Iwakuni
Flying by Itsukushima Shrine, 16th-century Shinto shrine
The gate appears to float at high tide, which it always is in MSFS
Hiroshima, the place where the first nuclear bomb was used in 1945
Here looking at Peace Memorial Park
Hiroshima castle, recreation of 16th century castle destroyed by the 1945 attack
Atomic Bomb Dome on the left, the iconic building near ground zero that ‘survived’ the blast
The recreated Hiroshima castle on the right
A peek into Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, one of the many sites in Peace Memorial park
There is also information here on the second bomb that fell on Nagasaki. Whether a second nuclear attack was ‘necessary’ is still being debated today. Sidestepping the question whether it was ‘necessary’ at all. The worst thing is, nukes are far from the worst horrors humans can inflict upon each other.
Hopefully we’ll never see the likes of this again
A haunting historical manga, not easy to watch.
Nowadays we have White Phosphorus and depleted uranium ammunition, creating lots of birth defects in Iraq. Instead of big bombs, now we’re poising the land one shell at a time.
Time to lighten up the mood, Tatara bridge will do
Looks harder then it is, enough negative trim will keep the plane stable and level
There is no collision detection with the upper part of the bridge
(Bottom is bugged, height problems, cars driving on water)
Can try as many times as you like without fearing to hit the pillars or wires
Dozan River
Mount Miune (4,050ft)
Mount Tsurugi (6,414ft)
Sakashukito river
Takushima, the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island
Located around the Imagire river (seen here), Yoshino river and Kyuyoshino river
Last stop today was at Takushima airport. On to Honshu Island tomorrow, Tokyo and many other things to explore.