Did some testing today to see if I could get my VR video captures to upload to Vimeo (eventually I did get it working, but at half the resolution I can upload them to YouTube due to differences in what formats/resolutions they want).
Will do a little VFR flying in regular 2d mode later. 
Great story and cool to see how knowledable people can think of solutions like you explained.
There’s one thing missing from your post…I WANT TO SEE THE VID!! lol
went to do a quick edit and upload, only to find the audio failed to record. grrrrr. sorry
watching aircrash investigations etc, always made me respect how those pilots think on their feet and go about rapidly figuring out remaining flight time and distance, or finding an airport in an emergency… ie the real test of a pilot and how well they know their plane.. when things go wrong. So, it was nice to give it a shot, and nicer that it was not planned so I really was working against the clock. It’s funny, I was just about to start setting up random failures to problem solve
Do you still have the video though? Even without sound I’d like to watch.
You clearly are far more knowledable about planes and how they operate than I am. However what I like to do, is make video fly overs of photogrammetry cities because I know people who don’t have the game love seeing their hometown in a video game form and in detail. I like to end each video with a random forced engine shut off so I have to make a quick decision as to places to land.
I give myself an honest challenge most of the time and often times I end up getting the crash screen. It’s all good though b/c sometimes I’ll do some really tough landings and actually not crash and it’s a very rewarding feeling.
Your story was detailed and really put the reader in the scenario you were in.
I tried to do a flight from KFLL to TJSJ and got 3 consecutive CTDs for the first time, I NEVER crash. So I was very excited about that and promptly said, I wont fly until this is fixed.
Over the past few days I’ve flown several FSEconomy missions in British Columbia, enjoyed the sunset in my home of San Diego, and explored Stryn, Norway (diagonally due to the heavy crosswind!), while tinkering around with graphics settings. One very cool thing I noticed is it now tells me what planes are being flown by other online players even when it’s not a plane I have myself (such as the Strike Eagle and DC-6), as opposed to simply saying “Generic” like before.
Nothing yet, but thinking through the ILS tutorial videos I have watched yesterday and continue learning VFR for airliner flights, continue learning how to handle and program the FMC-computer and do ILS landings with the Airbus - in a few hours when I have time
Awesome screenshots of course will follow!
What did i do in MFS today?
Nothing! Because the game is broken!
After giving my young trainee his next flight lesson in the C152 (he’s a natural!) for some fun we fired up the A32NX, which I’ve been trying out in prep for his request.
To my disgust and despite problems with the mouse misbehaving the little **** pulled off an absolute greaser and parked it correctly on stand too! All done manually with no autopilot input at all! 
Methinks a challenge coming up here! 
Went to Niagra Falls with the 172 float plane , landed between the falls and the bridge, put down rudders, turn and took these:
Pretty sad the 1st falls looked like they were frozen and the horseshoe falls just look like they were painted on my a pre schooler.
You should try some touch and goes with the 172 floatplane on Sodus Bay NY area take off from Williamson Sodus and head nor east
I was flying along the East Coast yesterday heading south look for all those ufo’s that the navy boys were yapping about on the History Channel, as I was taking off for my last run I discovered these:
See then hovering there about the 11 oclock. And a couple of seconds later they just woosh disappeared from sight. LOL
Animated water, with some new particle effects perhaps, would be great. I wonder if anyone in the community is working on such a thing?
In one of the Q and A’s they said they were going to improve the weather vastly, so I would think that once they can get the sim to run for everyone that they will start with the rest of the visual upgrades in the future.
I just wish they would add the ground scenery like there predecessors and and competition have light poles radio towers roads that arent green and the list goes on and on and on…
There are some freeware packs for that on https://flightsim.to.
https://flightsim.to/file/2605/we-love-vfr-region-1
https://flightsim.to/file/16674/we-love-vfr-region-2
Thanks but it should be here in the 1st place was the point I was trying to make, remember when people were whining about night time lighting not looking right, so they just randomly added more lights to make it better. Which made it worse for some of us. Fly lightpost level down a road and night and enjoy the 70’s disco light show ;p
Downloaded and re-installed MSFS for the umpteenth time.
Tried out the new Aviat Husky! Pretty fun. Flew from Portland-Hillsboro (KHIO) out partway to Mt Hood, then past Hood River up to the Columbia and landed at The Dalles (KDLS).
Using customized version of KHIO which fixes the runways and taxiways from:
Taking off from KHIO:
Heading east toward Mt Hood:
Enjoying the forest moon of Endor:
Passing Mt Hood on the west side:
Following Hood River towards the Columbia River:
Turning around to approach runway 31 at KDLS:
Parked next to the gas truck. Safe! 
Nice little bush plane, and the avionics are legible and usable. I like it!
Enjoying the Cessna 172 with skis in Alaska.
And that landing was so much fun, that thing was first going uphill and gliding back down after coming to a halt… 
Impressive landing gear physics - just like real snow!
Precise inspection inside the hangar where it´s warm and cozy…
This weather is maybe a little bit too harsh, back to live weather - I just wanted to see some snow in Alaska first.
I am not sure if I can ever enjoy another flight sim after enjoying THIS graphics and shader and lighting quality…
This weather formation looks kinda dangerous, better land and build up the tent now on the foot of that mountain instead of higher up.
The cool-looking snow landing gear looks PERFECT with all these steel-ropes and stuff.
The Cessna 172 is normally not equipped for icing conditions, but this is a special version with windshield defroster.
Getting ready for landing.
The first snow landing with impressive snow effects!
And after gliding uphill for some time and braking, the Cessna glides back downhill again a few meters PERFECT realism these skis, real gliding effects and also downhill-gliding (backwards or forwards) possible.
