Think I may have found the reason for the huge spikes in FPS...and you're not gonna like it

I fly the C152 most of the time and I’m having the same degradation being complained about. Only thing that changes it from me is to turn terrain LOD below 100, I used to be able to run silky smooth with it set to the equivalent of 400 by directly editing the config. At that setting it’s now a slide show.