Leg 79, Cazombo to Camabatela, Angola
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Today started very rough. Apparently Parque Nacional da Cameia is cursed or rather has some kind of nasty bug that makes the sim get slower and slower until it crashes while flying low over it. At first I though it had to do with trying out a higher LOD factor for terrain, yet also with my regular settings it crashes at about the same time. I have the plane flying the first leg again in the background to figure out if I can pin it down. For my regular tour I ‘solved’ it by climbing to 12K ft, avoiding the high terrain data that might cause it.
11-09 Cazombo FNCZ 4:05 AM
Lockup trying out Terrain LOD at 4.0, very slow until game locks up, restart
It was devmode that locked up while trying to figure out if performance was memory related (GPU < 20% utilized)
Dev mode still active and won’t turn off fps counter, restart again
11-09 Cazombo FNCZ 4:39 AM
Terrible performance still < 10 fps, CTD / lockup, screen went all black, restart
11-09 Cazombo FNCZ 5:06 AM
CTD again tried to use slew mode to skip back to where I was, restart everything
11-09 Cazombo FNCZ 5:19 AM Flying high to avoid another CTD
11-09 Lumeje FNLM 6:11 AM
11-09 Luena FNUE 6:35 AM
11-09 Luando FNCD 7:15 AM
11-09 Camacupa FNCP 7:47 AM
11-09 Andulo FNCO 8:08 AM
11-09 Capenda Camulemba FNSR 9:17 AM
11-09 Cafunfo FNCF 9:38 AM
11-09 Camabatela FNCS 10:37 AM
Flight time 5:18 8 stops
Despite the rough start, still many amazing sights, partly thanks to the weather. The weather engine is the best part of the sim.
First up, some shots of Parque Nacional da Cameia I could grab before the misery started
Nature likes to draw as well
The regular landscape, about 3,500 ft above sea level
Quite a dry area despite still being so close to the rain forest
The wildlife in the park has been almost completely wiped out after the civil war wrought devastation to the park, including uncontrolled poaching and the destruction of infrastructure. There is a serious lack of staff, resources and support for the park.
After finally reaching Lumeje (not much there) I followed route EN 250 to Luena
One of those drives that tests your ability to stay awake
Actually the road looks more like a dirt road, the nice straight path is a railroad
Luena, formerly known as Luso
This brand new looking monument is there, no info on it
The unveiling pictures are dated June, 2019
On the way to Luando, back over the forest
It started to rain here and there, plenty rainbows out here
Luando, mystery settlement
Onwards to Camacupa
Camacupa, peculiar open space in the middle
It turns out that’s the railway station on the central railway of Angola with a section to turn around
The pictures online are as peculiar
I’m guessing, celebrating/remembering the end of the civil war (ended 2002)
Andulo, also no info except one poi, an electronics store
Flying over the canyon visible in the back in the above picture
On the way to Capenda Camulemba the weather decided to kick it up a notch or 10
Sheets of rain everywhere I look
Lightning as well of course
It clears up for a minute
To come back with even more force
Rainbow break before heading back into the rain
Heavy downpour, the sun still finds a way through
Looks like I’m starting to get out of it
Leaving (some of) the storm behind while approach Capenda Camulemba
Capenda Camulemba, the rainbow shows the way
Again no info, except there is a bank with a 5 star rating and comment “Terraria the best game in world” It is a great game for sure.
Leaving Capenda Camulemba behind, onwards to Cafunfo
Approach to Cafunfo. I doubt these roads have that much lighting, if at all, in real life
Cafunfo, still enough light to land in the dirt
Diamonds are mined around here, which turned it into focal point during the civil war
Cafunfo nowadays
One more flight to Camabetala, almost dark already
Back in the storm, flash photography
Safely landed in Camabatela using the 3D terrain viewer to land
Next to a bank, Camabatela also highlights it’s still new looking church
Igreja Matriz de Camabatela, pretty unique design