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Spookster's Mew Gull adventure

Leg 9: YPDN to YBCV

Penultimate leg, to Charleville. Not a great deal to see on this leg, so I'm setting off in the night for a daylight arrival, and giving myself enough daylight left for possibly flying on to Melbourne.

Departing now, for YBCV.
 
3h 30mins - overhead Mount Isa, a city in the middle of the outback. Over half way to Charleville...

5h 30 mins - the Charleville NDB has popped up. About 70nm to run.
 
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Spookster67 said:
Well I'll have to re-fly it - launching again from YPDN.
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Ouch I know the feeling Martin! :(

Try this: Go into FSUIPC Options and Settings/Miscellaneous and check the box "Keep FS sync'd to real time"

Each time I had that happen to me the error failure message log pointed to the weather.DLL

My theory is that sometimes the FS clock and the computer clocks, over a long period of time, get ofset enouigh that when you're in a particular "local weather zone" and Jeppesen updates does or doesn't detect that you're actually the same zone that the computer crashs and loads into your default flight. I've noticed others in various message boards complaining about lockups after around five to six hours of flight.

I'm no guru, just saying that was the last thing I changed that seemed to make the difference.

I hope this helps.

Fred
 
1h 2mins - over Bourke (NDB BKE). Blue skies, gentle tailwind, and a lot of outback...

2h 12mins - passing Griffith. Still got a tailwind. About 1 hour to run.

My time for this leg in the 2009 race was 3:15. Maybe I can get just under that...
 
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