Well, i've had a bit of a break from the tour, but have just done leg 29, from Juneau to Vancouver, having discovered a nice lua script that appears to dramatically reduce the performance impact of clouds on XPlane 11. The visuals aren't perfect now, with a few odd-looking breaks in the clouds when looking directly downwards on an external camera, but i can put up with that in return for the removal of the periodic and dramatic dip in fps that i was getting with the default XP cloud settings. If you are interested, the free download in question can be found at
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/f ... view-68744.
As for the flight from Alaska down into Canada, that went very well, but i had a bit of flight plan adjusting to do, after i had switched from a planned landing at 26L to 26R and accidentally reinserted duplicate approach waypoints. That meant that i had to delete the second visits to those waypoints, but that didn't take too long and the landing was a text-book, albeit lazy, auto-land and i timed my reverse thrust and braking to leave the runway at a high speed exit, about half way down the runway, cleaning up the flaps, speedbrakes as i left.
I also switched to taxi lights from TO and turned off the landing lights, although i'm not sure if that is the thing to do, but i am sure that an expert will let me know.
This aircraft really is a joy to fly in VR, although i might need to load Simbrief into the EFB and plan the flight from within the cockpit, to reduce the need to remove the headset even more. I already have the moving maps in the cockpit, via Navigraph's Charts Cloud, so I will probably be able to get into the cockpit before startup and then not need to remove the headset until arriving at the gate at the other end.