Did you know you had a notch of flaps out at all times, even when in auto climb?
Why were you blacking out so heavily in seemingly easy moves? You shouldn't be blacking out that much unless you're trying to pull back on stick at 650mph. That, or your input setup needs serious tweaking!
Were you running fraps directly while in flight? Did you get much slow-down, warping, hitches, etc? Most folks record film, then use fraps when playing the film back. You lose things like text buffer, blackouts, etc, but you don't ruin the gameplay if you cause a slowdown, and that way you can figure out what you want ahead of time (you can review the film) before committing time and effort into running fraps
