I tried to take the Vision Jet from Catalina (KAVX) to Big Bear (L35), but three seconds before touchdown my cat jumped on the power button long enough to shut down the computer. 
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It’s snizzeling (snow drizzling) outside, but in the sim, it’s a balmy 81F and I’m headed down to Turks-Caicos!
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A brief summary of the last couple of days:
LHBP EGHI
EGHI BIKF
EGHI BIKF
KORF CYQB
BIKF FLKK
LDDU LEBL
MKJS TFFR
TAPA TTPP
TTPP TNCA
SYCJ LIRF
SCEL SBPA
FACT LIRF
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Completed Day 1 Leg 1 of a NatGeo inspired World Tour.
Washington DC (KDCA) to Lima (SPJC).
Ground Power needed to enter the long flight plan into the flight management computer.
Several aircraft queued up this early in the morning (5AM)
Looks like we are a little to close to that Delta flight.
Finally over Peru.
A bit of a hard landing (-212 fpm) but we made it in safely. But I still logged a note for maintenance. We got a trans pacific flight planned tomorrow. Can’t have any issues on that leg.
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I had a really satisfying and yet terrifying flight to end the day: Saint Louis (KSTL) to Armstrong New Orleans (KMSY)
It was satisfying because I hat ATC for most of the flight and the guy acting as Houson control awe inspiring. He managed a constant stream of clearances, taxi and approach duties as well as doing his own job as control. I salute you!
And it was terrifying because as soon as I lifted off the runway at St Louis I started to have terrible stutters. Assuming it was some windows update downloading in the bacground or something I went on with the flight hoping it will end by the time I’m on approach. Of course it did not, I had to land with stutters as bad as 1fps, or even land. Miraculously I managed to put the HondaJet down without the game deciding I broke it. I parked, quit the game, restarted the computer, restarted MSFS and realised it was some MSFS update 
I quite often wish I had the money to buy better hardware, but I doubt the latest gamer CPU/GPU could withstand the game trying to change itself while running…
Once the update was complete I did a test flight at Telluride (KTEX) and it seemed normal.
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Checking out the newly updated TBM, from Aspen to Denver.
Then, one last flight in the (terrible) Bell 407 before I pick up the 206 from Cowan Simulation in the morning. Denver to Centennial.
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Took the Albatros further down in Mexico from Oaxaca (MMOX) to Teran (MMTB) navigating on VOR to VOR
Also I flew from Innsbruck (LOWI) to Graz (LOWG)
I was too quick to say last night that the stutters were temporary, it was back during the whole Austrian flight. Tried turning off photogrammetry and tweaking terrain level of detail, but neither helped 
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Yesterday afternoon I redid my aborted flight from Catalina to Big Bear after figuring out how to protect my power button from the cats. Got some lovely sunset lighting!
The Vision jet climbs very nicely compared to a little old Cessna. Hopping over Orange County (and the KSNA and KLAX airspaces) at 10,500 ft; the old WWII-era blimp hangars at former MCAS Tustin are visible at center bottom:
The ‘Uluru’ livery is really pretty from this angle, looks like a bird. 
Approaching sunset as we approach the mountains. Somewhere over Riverside County, with Orange County and the Pacific Ocean behind us.
Coming in over Big Bear Lake towards L35…
And parked before nightfall. 
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Gorgeous shots on those trips! The in-terminal one gives it such an air-travelly vibe. Also your use of the real liveries for AI traffic really makes a difference.
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This is Bleriot’s mission of Calais to Dover. These latter two Bleriot’s fly half the speed of the Gnome I flew across in last week and a much more difficult to fly. Very difficult to keep any kind of a course. It is almost a war trying to hold a course, constant constant corrections, +/- 10 degrees at times. The rudder controls the direction. I can imagine Bleriot’s delight when he saw the white cliffs of Dover, 10-15 minutes of nothing but sea and the dread of flying up the North Sea having been slowly blown off course.
The first thing I thought of after the delight of seeing the white cliffs was where can I dump the plane…give me a nice green field - anywhere near!
The plane is rolling a lot of the time so landing is probably the most dangerous time.
Farewell Bleriot, I’m in the Curtiss Jenny next.
**It would appear, that in reality, Bleriot flew the ‘Anzani’ over the channel. This had a top speed of about 28-29 knots making it very susceptible to wind (lawnmower engine!). Chavez flew over the Alps in the ‘Gnome’ variant with an engine twice as powerful, top speed about 50 knots….so he could get some altitude. The engine was overpowered for the airframe and probably caused the disintegration of the aircraft on landing, killing him.
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Day 2 Leg 2 of the NatGeo World Tour. Lima (SPJC) to Easter Island (SCIP).
Climbing out of Lima.
Nothing much out here over the pacific.
It’s so lush and green here on Easter Island. Winds were not a factor on the landing as anticipated.
This 787 is getting ready for the long haul back to the South American mainland.
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I decided to turn on live aircraft, was wondering why I had the option off for ages, had CTDs on loading screen after clicking fly now, during in flight, then after ending flight heading to the menu
oh well, back to live flight switched to off then
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Some browsing these forums returned with the seemingly senseless solution to the stutters: Delete community folder content (nothing but Navigraph in there for me) then reinstall it. It makes aboslutely no sense to me, yet IT WORKED 
I did some test flights, even turned photogrammetry back on and the stutters were gone, so it was time to do some actual flying:
Graz (LOWG) to Zürich (LSZH) in the HA420 HondaJet:
As usual, destination ATC logged off before I got there, which was kind of a luck this time, as I made an awful landing. I recorded the flight, but even if it uploads in a few hours, watch the landing with your seat belts on 
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Nice pics! Did you try deleting your rolling cache? That can help.
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Some nice sights on my flight from CYZT-CAU8, in the mighty C172 with WB-Sim. Also using the Return to Misty Moorings scenery, highly recommended! Once I arrived, I encountered a weird bug when landing, where it seemed to just “run aground” anywhere. I thought maybe I actually had run aground, so I slewed back up and tried a few touch and go’s but no luck. I dropped the wheels and then it drove in water as it does on land. So, I decided to hop into my Wilga and take a few touch and go’s. Didn’t experience the same thing, but now I’m definitely going to take Wilga on the next few hops between seaplane bases, as I zigzag my way up to Alaska.
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Well, I wanted to fly, but instead I’m here waiting, waiting, waiting, and wondering why MSFS download servers can only manage 250 KB/sec download speeds. When I can always download from Steam at my full ISP speed of 4 MB/sec.
Didn’t even get the option to choose what modules to download.
See y’all next week when I might have time again to fly, or whatever.
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Flew the PMDG 737 700 as southwest from Fort Lauderdale to Orlando
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