While in flight,  pulled the plug on the modem,  rebooted computer,   launched ah3   
it acutally said i exceeded 5 minutes flight time,    and no.. i was not away from the network for 5 minutes,   less than that.
afterwards......   I  fly at  700meg task manager memory...  climb a bomber strat run,  things start to go bonkers,  and my task manager shows  AH3  at  900 meg memory.
Looks like this is going to be an ongoing thing of memory leaks?