Took some time out to properly calibrate controls for the FSR500 the did some ILS & RNAV work at one of my local airports (EGCC) with the occasional crosswind. Much better know I understand the G1000 so I can fix problems or mistakes en-route and quickly!
So much better today. So love the FSR500.
Neil.
I took off and landed c160 (second try) from KEB. Of course no one was there to witness! Pretty new to msfs so I’m pretty stoked!
Never had a day like today, didn’t realize the servers were struggling. Not as much as me and I recorded the entire thing too. I felt like if my pilot could have gotten out of the plane and gave it a kick, it would have. Such trouble getting off the ground at first, the first part of the flight was an attempt to go see the Pyramid Of The Sun, it seems that the forces of the pyramid were working against me. Once I got to the spot, the pyramid wasn’t even there, it was some building instead.
So I looked at my list, I got a few pyramids and a few churches to check out.. First church on the list… Westminster Abbey, this is where I noticed the servers were struggling, the church looked dilapidated. At first, I didn’t know if it was my current weather system or what was going on till I have seen here on flightsimulator.com about the servers having issues. Video at the bottom of the pictures
Spent a lot of time trying to make sense of the forums. I’m trying to increase my trust level from new being zero and hoping that helps.
TBM 930 from EGLC (London City) to EBLG (Liege)
Controlled by Beyond ATC, went very smoothly (no headset and microphone after previous debacle)
Clouds were first looking really bad, but later on they looked really good!
LEMD Barajas, Madrid - LFPG Charles-de-Gaulie, IniBuilds A320 V2. It was almost a perfect flight (or at least beautiful) except she did not capture the ILS and there were no AI traffic in the airport of arrival + TCAS was screaming all the flight like a mad and too late to react. I planned the flight in the world map and then copied it into SimBrief to generate, so, there were A lot of DCTs and as a result (if I am correct) the ATC was instructing me to descend in time except when I as already on the STAR (on STAR I did not wait, just was descending according to the plan on MCDU and the ATC, by the way, was not too late, but enough to make me above the glide slop 
) There were 4-5 moments when the Sim was freezing for 30-40 seconds. slight stutters on approach/landing.
traffic - the ATC was always late to my taste - 4 or 2 miles for a head-to head traffic is too late to report them that I see this traffic, and why the TCAS alerts me about the threat that passed already and is on my 6 going away?
Approaching
Gate
Leg Four of Hammerfest to Cape Town, ESNN Sundsvall to ESSB Broma (Stockholm)
I started this leg yesterday with clear skies and a new livery (thanks to @dubnewt2648.) However, two things turned this into a nightmare - a weird sound issue where my HMD kept switching outputs and the Bing/Server issue - so I only completed a third of the flight.
New livery in good conditions
Todays (re)flight started in 100% cloud cover at ESNN and heavy rain but eventually cleared to sparse rain clouds.
Passing Sundsvall:
For the first time I had a massive loss of manifold pressure whilst over the water, no idications of anything wrong but a steady and continual loss of pressure. Then I remembered carburetor icing being a factor with the A2A Comanche and fumbled for the carb heat - everything went back to normal once I’d got that sorted. Interesting though as I’d assumed that would take some very icy and cold conditions but, pic below, it was 10c OAT and fairly clear but for some patchy rain. Love the Comanche and hugely impressed with A2A!
Carb icing under these conditions
A quick flight from Brussels Charleroi (EBCI) to London City (EGLC) in VR in the Longitude using BeyondATC
I was a bit worried about BATC as it not yet have a VR screen, but luckily it got all my responds, so there was no need to click answers, which would have been rather impossible in VR.
Unfortunately landing was so bad, that video record was confiscated by the authorities so it will not be uploaded 
In my new H130, on a prominence (can’t decide whether it’s a hill or a mountain) overlooking the Rhône valley in Switzerland.
You might think I could have improved my landing spot a bit, but trust me, that … whatever is pointier than it looks.
You can just about make out Sion Airport in the distance if you’re seeing the image at full resolution and you squint hard enough. That’s where I took off from…
… and that’s where I returned.
Not quite on the H but not intolerable for a first session.
I’ve been thinking about buying BATC as I’d like to use (well, learn to be truthful) the correct responses. Without a VR panel at the moment and not knowing the correct terminology my thoughts were I could set it to auto respond/co pilot respond and start to learn them whilst we wait for VR implementation.
As a VR user, who obviously knows the responses required, have you any thoughts on my thinking? Good idea or hold off until VR is included?
Thanks
What an interesting day… Nubian Pyramids (nope), Tikal (nope) finally gave up on the pyramids and went back to churches first stop: Sacré-Cœur, Paris
Started with a virtual weekend away from Liverpool (EGGP) to Cornwall - Newquay (EGQH) in the FSR500 - tricky weather but a nice flight overall.
Spent a couple of hours fixing some broadband issues (bad cable, finally sorted), once sorted went for a pootle around London - nothing but photogrammetry issues…
Some sort of woodpecker attacking buildings in the London docklands…
Cheers, Neil.
I think they are having server problems, when I originally started the game myself it took a long time to boot up, which is unlike the game. I know they had server issues yesterday, the folks here at FlightSimulator.com posted about it.
Stall spin recovery around KROC in the default x Cub
WOW, I certainly hope Microsoft fixes these servers soon, this is getting sad. I may have to take some time away from flying for a bit.
Decided to check out: Notre-Dame de Paris
Remember back in 2019 the fire gutted a good portion of it?. Well, it turns out I crashed into an invisible object (check video)
This hangar is big no sound is heard, and out of the roof
