Outstanding weather experience

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I just completed a flight from Osaka to Tokyo with Beechcraft Bonanza…I’ve been a very casual MS FS user for years, but this was the most awesome experience for me, to date. All was fine at take off…then cloud build up…then I started seeing lightning! (never experienced this in previous FS versions)…then more clouds, then winds…then my engine suddenly slowed to idle…I was fiddling around trying to re-start and praying I would not crash into the foothills of Fuji…then I suddenly remembered to change tanks…I was able to get back to speed, regain altitude and make it the rest of the way to Tokyo Int’l. Hard landing and all.

I’ve read a lot of complaints about the G1000, but on this day, for me, it saved me because I was able to make out terrain through clouds which helped me realize I had time to figure out why my engine suddenly went to idle…

I probably broke every cardinal rule of real life flying today, but for me, it was quite a thrill to “live through” this particular flight!

One last comment: I was in live weather and live traffic, and I could tell there were a lot of simmers in the air today! Hope I didn’t get in anyone’s way!

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I love the Bonanza and have landed using the G1000 in heavy fog on Lukla and at unlit airports at night. It’s not much different from FS 4.0 when you zoom in on the 3D vision.

Overconfident I tried using it to land at a small airfield. However those strips, barely visible or marked, are not included in synthetic vision. I had to abort and turn back, too dark to see anything.

And yep, don’t forget to switch the tanks. I still do, but it’s automatic now. Engine powers down, ctrl+5 switch tanks. Until you find out you drained both… emergency glide landing. I do need to pay more attention. I had the engine cut off once final seconds before landing, landed a tad short of the runway as a consequence. And I had it die on me during takeoff after a stop. I was just fast enough switching tanks not to drop back on the ground.