I visited Southern France:
I flew from Nice to Toulouse today and the weather turned dreadful. Big thunderstorms throwing me around, no visibility. Over 12K ft I could finally see in between two cloud layers, lightning sparking between them. I never saw the Pyrenees but the weather was epic. So much turbulence going through the clouds my vertical speed was bouncing between -1200 and +800 fpm. I could feel it in my stomach.
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Visited yosemite valley freeware addon with my XCub and it was stunningā¦
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Today was IFR from Santa Barbara, CA to LAX. Took off through the afternoon marine layer and landed in clear skies from the West. Great approach. Tonight is departing LAX and cruising down the coast to SAN. Iām doing a Western Americas tour.
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I was flying my Caravan low through the canyons near Malibu when I noticed someone following meā¦ So I increased throttle , dropped to about 50 ft AGL , did some insane tight twists and turns and wingovers trying to lose my stalker but they kept following me albeit from a higher altitude .
Finally they gave up trying to keep up with me and they flew off or crashedā¦
I think it was a dog.
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MSFS locked up using the FMS flight planner, and then in my second attempt the Longitude bounced around wildly making me seasick. Turned off game and said maybe tomorrow Asobo, maybe tomorrow. Pretty normal day reallyā¦
Crashed to desktop without error message multiple times.
Circuits in the SR22 at YMHB (where I learned to fly many years ago). Simulated some engine failures and ended up landing on the beach rather than trying the āimpossible turnā
Jobs in the amazing app neo fly making some $
Flew along the west African coast from Dakar to Bissau.
The coast here has a lot more going on than further north, where itās mostly rocky-nothingness on one side, and watery-nothingness on the other. I followed the coastline for the first part of todayās trip, before my direct route took me inland over Gambia and beyond. Iād probably have done better to follow the coast all the way, since what started as a pleasant journey looking at almost continuous rainbows under the clouds forming to the east got progressively darker and wetter, forcing me down to 1,500 ft to keep sight of the ground. And the thunder and lightning Iād had intermittently from the start (known bug) was looking entirely authentic as I covered the last 50 nm or so, at least according to Bissau METAR. It cleared just in time for me to make an uneventful landing.
If Iām continuing south, and then across the continent somewhere around Camaroon as I intend, Iām going to have to watch the weather more carefully. And start my journeys with enough spare fuel and daylight to divert. Though in the XCub, if I have to, I suppose I can always find a farmers field to land in. May be less of an option over the rainforest though.
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Currently Iām doing a little test run (background test) to see if the Bonanza can make it to the Azores from Portugal. I got to my desired cruising altitude (17.5K ft) for lowest fuel consumption, managing to maintain 100 knots (134 TAS). Now measuring the fuel consumption to find out if it can get close enough. 756 NM, well under the listed range yet the engine is not up to specs, nor is the fuel consumption. I threw the co-pilot out and went on a diet, one 140 pound pilot.
Itās looking good, 0.174 gallons per minute at 134 knots before wind. The first 436 NM, including ascent, took 40 gallons. The remaining 36 gallons gives me a theoretical range of another 445 although atm 430, 2 knot headwind. Easy in the current weather.
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Wow thatās tough, in a Cessna - have to try to navigate the mountain valleys but always stall, even with low payload. What are you flying? almost as good as my South American SPIS to SPGL challenge VFR (direct) (which seems to tolerate ultra graphic settings more or less).
Love these 15 minute ultra-challenges. Have to get it JUST right.
Ps PLEASE MFS fix the VFR Map glitch. Its becoming really annoying. Have to go to Assistance and switch off. If open during game, be sure to do the same again, otherwise its effectively a CTD.
Can a mod here raise this issue because I know Iām not the only one - thanks! : -) On V high end PC and have tried all sorts of settings so its not a RAM/CPU issue.
You arenāt a Canadian glider, by any chance?
Launched the sim just to check if Pilot Plusā EGTB Wycombe Air Park addon made its way into the marketplace.
It still has not. 
Flew the Japan tour and was absoloutly beautiful.
Purchased the https://secure.simmarket.com/fs-academy-voyager-msfs.phtml
and wow the tours on that are just incredible highly recommended as well
Jumped in the TBM and flew a short IFR flight from Porterville California to Elko Nevada. Had to deal with porpoising for the last 3000 feet of my climb on AP, and for a few minutes after leveling out. Then on approach had to deal with all cockpit buttons stopping from being clickable for about 10 minutes until it decided to work again. Landed successfully.
Then jumped in the C152 to take a quick VFR flight from Warrnambool in Australia, to go past the twelve apostles. (Large rock formations just off the coast That attract thousands of visitors).,. Boy wasnāt that a let down. They havenāt been rendered into 3D and are just flat 2D splodges in the now-lesser-quality water and waves after the update.
Another disappointing day on FS2020, one of many
Tried to fly the A32N then got a CTD a quarter way through it. Sigh. Iāll wait for next patch. This game is just becoming a massive chore.