Hi Everybody,
My back is bugging me (actually woke me again) so I took a pain pill. While waiting for the pill to kick in I did some additional night lighting edit work.
Landing in Los Angeles
While most sceneries focus on airports and cities, scenery viewed from aloft reveals features that are often overlooked.
Africa is usually depicted as deserts and tropical forests, but it is geologically diverse. Its most active tectonic feature is the Eastern Rift System that forms lakes and mountains extending thousands of kilometers from Lebanon in the Middle East to Mozambique in southern Africa.
Africa's Rift Valley from FL300
Two plates have broken from the main African plate. One has become Madagascar, an island off Africa’s east coast. More of eastern Africa is expected to break away eventually like Madagascar did millions of years ago.
Mozambique volcanoes from 5,000 feet
The Western Rift is bordered by some of Africa’s highest mountains. The Virunga Mountains is a chain of volcanoes where Rwanda, Congo, and Uganda meet. Its peaks are among Africa’s highest: The highest is Karisimbi at 14,7897 feet (4,507 meters). Nyiragongo is 11,358 feet (3,462 meters), and Nyamuragira is 1,049 feet (3.063 meters), and Sabyinyo is 11,923 feet.
Zimbabwe from 15,000 feet
Mount Kilimanjaro of Hemingway fame is Africa’s highest peak at 19,341 feet (5,895 meters). It is a dormant volcano with three distinct cones. Its youngest rocks are almost half a million years old. Its height gives it five climatic zones from bush lands, through rain forests, to arctic.
Mount Kilimanjaro from FL350
Rift Valley has some of the world’s largest inland waters: Lake Tanganyika is 4,820 feet (1,470 meters) deep. It is also the world’s longest fresh-water lake.
Lake Tanganyika from above Bujumbura Burindi
The prominence of these features is readily visible in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
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Departure from KLGA, La Guardia, bridges control mission.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aéroport_LaGuardia_de_New_York
Vertical take-off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge
https://store.flightsim.com/pizzagalli.ch-_bymfg_97-0-1.html
Hope I haven't sent you on too much of a "wild goose chase", but when similar symptoms occurred with another (old) application I performed a re-install and the problems went away!
I'm guessing there was some kind of DLL or OCX registration that got "broke" during an update and needed to be reinstated.
I'm familiar with using regsvr32 from an elevated Command Prompt to register files, if I know which file is required, unfortunately there wasn't any indication in the error message as to which module was causing the problem.
These things happen 😉
Very nice Boeing 757 Icelandair (100 Years Independence Livery) TF-ISX landing ,taxi and takeoff at Alicante Elche Airport (ALC) with ATC audio included runway 10
As usual, they did release an update today which includes:
"In case you missed it, we recently announced that the full release of Sim Update 15 (SU_15) will be slightly delayed from its earlier targeted release date of March 26. It’s important that we take the time to get it right, and after careful consideration, the team concluded that SU_15 isn’t quite ready yet. We’re now targeting a release for some time in April (exact date TBD)."