I have some huge performance issues with this plane since SU3 which have nothing to with the performance degradation mentioned earlier. For this test I just took off at an empty airport (MKS LSZH) and flew out in a straight line over the alps.
Baseline performance on the runway is borderline for my perf target of 80FPS, but still reasonable considering the scenery and city around it.
Once I take off it becomes problematic then. It starts stuttering hugely and dropping, but only intermittently. The lowest I have seen was below 20 FPS with FG! And it always show in huge spikes in Main Thread, Manipulators and CoherentGT. I already tried clearing WASM, but to no avail.