User blog:Solowing106/My flight

So, here it is.

I was taking a very important test, and I finished somewhat early. I had taken out a piece of paper pre-test to entertain myself if I finished early. Looking at a map of the world at night, I had an idea.

So I drew out a flight plan for the google earth's flight simulator. (Yes it does have one, accessable by pressing ALT+CTRL+A) The flight plan was to take off at Tokyo's international airport (I forget the name,) in an F-16, then fly across Japan to Seoul-Incheon International airport in South Korea, land there, then proceed due South to Taiwan-Taoyuan (I think that's the spelling, anyway) Int'l Airport in Taipei, land there, then go Southwest to Tan Son Nhat In'tl Airport in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The longest flight I had ever done in an F-16 was from Tucson Int'l Airport to Los Angeles with frequent fuel/rest stops, and that was a four hundred mile trip. With this one beinf in the neighborhood of 3000 miles, I found out that it was equal to taking off from Los Angeles, going across America, then landing in the midatlantic.

I started in Tokyo. I took off from the airport and headed in the direction of Seoul-Incheon. The only problem was, my computer was unbelievably slow and stopped every five seconds. I got up to a max alt. of 47000 feet and dropped to 45000. By then, the Google Earth was not responding, and so I had to wait on it for a time. Control of the plane eventually came back. I was headed for Fukushima. I checked a map and found out that I was heading due north, instead of west. I course corrected and flew smoothly for five minutes. The computer became unresponsive again, and I waited. When control came back, the plane was at an altitude of 4000 ft. I tried to save it, but with the speed gained in the dive, the F-16 crashed by the time I was able to get my hand on the mouse.

So, after that, I measured my distance and found out that I had travelled ~300 mi.

Any tips?