That's pretty much it. When it happened in the A310 it started the moment the batteries are pressed but because i dont fly the A310 much i never bothered to report. Also, I have been doing night or early morning ops in this present A300 so i it meets your second criteria. I will do a day flight to see if i get those dips to my frame time that i reported above. Thank you for going further and locating that spike in CoherentGTdraw .. maybe the devs can do something with that additional information to identify possible causes.