Flight has been paused due to Real Life™. Here’s my current location:
I hope to conclude this leg once the kiddos are in bed, but, until then, here’s some hold music while you wait for the flight to resume:
Getting close!
Good thing, too, I’m doing the math in my head, and I’ve burned a lot more fuel than CPS planned I would. Here’s to hoping that there’s enough safety margin to get us down safely!
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Yay Concorde X!
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If you hold down ‘shift’ really hard then it doesn’t help at all, other than just to imagine it’s the windpipe of the person who designed FSX’s memory model. 
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So did Windows notify you that a solution was available? LOL
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And here we see the primary reasons I have stopped flying FSX.
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To be fair, I completely blame Flight Sim Labs for this. Their ConcordeX product has had a ton of issues with it from the start. Their story is “bad FSX code + complex Concorde = blargh” but I don’t see the same level of complaints with products like PDMG’s 737 or other complex aircraft. A lot of their issues seem to be programming 101 - memory leaks, failing to initialize variables, etc. A common “solution” thrown around on their forums to is fly another flight first, exit it, then fly Concorde.
Rubbish.
I saved not too long before this crash but am rage quit at the moment.
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Some unholy combination of FlyInside, TacPack, and Milviz products has completely and totally knackered my FSX install. As In multiple wipes and clean installs and something lingers and crashes it every time I reload the game.
I give FSX a wide berth and grovel to Lockheed for my TacPack needs.
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So I spent most of my morning trying to figure out the CIVA, why with a hot and running aircraft it showed a whole different warmed up coordinate then if I’d manually calculate it. It’s not explained very well in the manual so I presumed I screwed up. Did some different numbers from a review of it, and it looked all okay… Hmm.
So, I went ahead, punched in a few waypoints from Skyvector(hoorah, correct coordinates by default!). And aligned the CIVA with manually added coordinates. As you can see I am happily navigating down the airway to the first waypoint. So yeah, so far so good.
One thing that buggers me, the distance shown in Skyvector is quite different then that shown on the CIVA… Lets hope I have enough fuel. Note that this is just a test flight, updated my 737 recently and the pushback is now broken with the SASL panel showing the wrong version number. So a reinstall is in order anyway.
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All programmed, and running hot!
Activated the INS, it’s way smoother in intercepting then the VOR mode.
Goodbye Mexico!
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First signs of bad weather on the WX radar.
The left display window of the CIVA is showing the desired track to the nexy waypoint(current flying from 4 to 5, as shown in the lower window). The right display window shows the status(1 = navigation), the alignment precision(9, worst) and the desired precision before beginning the fligh(4). The precision was 0(highest) but has drifted for obvious reasons; This has no big impact on navigation since the route barely varies in heading. Once I get closer to land I can use 2 DME equipped beacons to realign the INS.
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@TheAlmightySnark lot of nice buttons, what are they for anyway!? 
(edit: I can see some explenations, nice 
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So I am also on my way South now. Unloaded my cargo at Campbell River, BC, Canada. Toped-up the fuel tanks of my C172, took some swimming suite and next stop is Arcata, CA, USA (the swimming suite is necessary in case I screw up the ILS approach to runway 32 - my first virtual ILS approach btw) 
Found some good resources for airports with charts if anybody interested
CYBL 5:20 AM
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Let me know if you have any questions when it comes to operating the 732! It’s a wonderful aircraft!
Also, are you going south in a cessna?! That’s going tot take you months!
Almost there, started a little early on my descent, now back on VOR navigation again as I approach Panama airspace.
