When I see “Coast Guard” it always reminds me of this:
“Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.
When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
I hope you no part of the coast was stolen on your watch 
What plane is that?
FSReborn Sting S4 - Marketplace exclusive. Very fun plane.
If they are .png screen captures, save as/ export as jpg and they will probably be postable size
That’s odd as for sure I get the right sky in Australia, I can see the Southern Cross, and I’ve checked it against Sky Map before.
Yes it’s normally ok. It may have just been a glitch?
Is it just me? I dont get this.. 
Got me too. Darned if I know, and I thought MY sense of humor was a bit wacky!
The dot was a joke against the white dot that is plaguing some users experience. It’s a leftover from the Beta. If you see the official thread for AAU2 there is many comments about it
(scratching head)
(man tapping his temple)
I have this issue also, there are a lot with the same. Just making light of it rather then gripping
HAHAHAHA, I’m not alone with this line of humour
With respect to your flight plan and the autopilot, does the AP handle the altitude changes?
@ cyclicalobsessv Nah! You have to set each step when you need to ascend or descend.
I’ve also found if the engine hasn’t fully got up to temp, if you set the VS climb rate above +300 the engine has a tendency to lose power, sending the plane into a stall. So for your first climb from rotation it’s best to set a steady climb of +200 to +300. If you climb manually you seem to get better climb rates.
I really love this plane, It’s far superior compared to the stock version.
Also be warned if your doing a IFR flight plan, ATC can have a tendency to try and send you to 16,000ft, when the 152 max’s out at around 14,500ft. So then you get shouted at a lot LoL!
In my experience, ATC usually honors altitude I enter into the flight plan. Except yesterday, I was flying over an US airbase and I wanted to get lower because of icing conditions, but I received access denied. Luckily the icing was not that bad.
But what happens to me very often is that I file a plan with 10000ft altitude. Then in the middle of flight I request to get to 8000ft. It is permitted. But on arrival the ATC created plan with original 10000ft, so they ask me to climb to 10000 just before to start descend. That is annoying. That is one reason I fly only very little IFR.
I really suggest the African tour. I flew Africa around with the L39C Albatros counter clockwise and enjoyed the tour a lot. Surprisingly the desert parts were the most spectacular.
Now my is in South America, doing the same, but I dont fly it as often as I used to
It’s hard for me to find the time as well. I have thought about Africa quite a bit. I’ve thought about flying it in all kinds of aircraft: vintage biplane (romantic but slow), a Caravan (utilitarian), Cariboo (NGO), TBM (speedy, familiar), Piper Warrior (no AP so can be tiring on long, turbulent flights) or even the 152 (no GPS, manual all the way). There a lots of options and because Africa is so huge I will want to choose carefully. I could always change up my rides along the way (ferry pilot) but I kinda like to start and finish in the same craft, warts n all.
I will be scribbling down some notes and trying a few planes out locally to see what might be the most interesting and effective to find my way around the Big Continent. Maybe I’ll try an airliner even (Of my nearly 400hours, I haven’t gotten a single minute in any airliner yet 
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Not sure how to go but I’ll enjoy the research and evaluation 
I did it in legs no longer than 1 hour each, although the Albatros is quite fast for its size 
Edit: sorry that was over enthusiastic, almost like an advertisement. The Albatros absolutely worth the ten bucks, but taking a breather to try different aircraft is probably a very good idea. If you’re willing to learn airliners I’d first suggest a go at the CJ4. It has similar avionics to airliners but is able to use shorter runways and of course it’s in the base game. And of course if you’re willing to spend money to a new aircraft, then there are quite a few to choose from.
To be honest I’m not sure if it makes any sense now to go on with the tour. This leg just shown me how you cannot recreate a flight. You can set the date in the weather to any date, but you still get either the live weather of “right now” or you do preset weather. I’m not sure if there are any working historical weather addons, I do not have any.
As such I had quite different winds, which then resulted in quite a different flight, even on the same route. I also had to switch the runway. I was lamenting on it quite a bit, but I think landing with about 15kn tail wind would have been the worse thing to do.
Historical weather would be a great addition (looking at you msfs2024 ).
Even greater concern is whether the stock DA62 + improvement mod would hold my attention long enough for these trips.