Toying with getting this. Read a few of the threads and the feast sounds good. However the one question I can’t see is how reliable the save game is? Specifically on the big jets is the FMC/FMS saving the flight plan and autopilot data. This was still an issue in MSFS last time I played and even FSX with the beloved Level D 767, last night tried resuming a long haul flight with a complex plan that took 20 mins to input and it was all gone. If XP12 avoids this issue I will buy it in a heartbeat.

really really depends on the aircraft, in default aircraft saving .sit files works pretty nicely, the more an author overrides default systems the less gets saved. Think some aircraft bring that back somewhat with custom saves, but no idea who or to what extent (I say based on seeing the odd complaint certain aspects I would not expect to work at all only partially working).

Edited March 6, 20233 yr by mSparks

My limited input if I save a flight it basically stuffs the sim loading if I elect to go straight back into the saved flight! The load function on the sim just hangs. Curiously if I do not save a flight and choose to go back to the place I left off, all the radio frequencies navaid and instrument settings (course cursor and heading) are all there and ready to go, even if I changed aircraft. As a result I do not save flights anymore the one thing I liked about XPlane was the speed with which it loads for me, less than 45 secs from initial start up and then about 45secs to load a flight once aircraft and location is chosen. getting the blue whirly death signal did it for me with saved flights!

As for the FMS thing, I am still stuck with the useless non programmable LR FMS or have aircraft that do not have one! Not much help I know!

Edited March 6, 20233 yr by coastaldriver

Okay... It is a bit of a conundrum as only being able to spend 45 - 60 minutes at a time on the PC am reliant on the FMS and autopilot resuming "as is".

Will ponder things a bit more, in the meantime probably try the demo see if my potato PC can actually run it.

Have not tried it yet in xp12, but apparently both the Zibo 738x and the toliss 319 can save flight/configuration states.

7 hours ago, Elvensmith said:

Okay... It is a bit of a conundrum as only being able to spend 45 - 60 minutes at a time on the PC am reliant on the FMS and autopilot resuming "as is".

Will ponder things a bit more, in the meantime probably try the demo see if my potato PC can actually run it.

If you want to fly airliners, can only do so for an hour at best, forget about it. I have never seen an add-on that actually resumes where you left it while airborne. Systems and FMS stuff may be saved if the aircraft is set up for it, but you'll be spawned on the ground at the closest airport to your last position by X-Plane. So it's either GA or helicopters for you.

 

6 hours ago, cagarini said:

Have not tried it yet in xp12, but apparently both the Zibo 738x and the toliss 319 can save flight/configuration states.

Zibo's load/save logic is still broken in XP12.

57 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

but you'll be spawned on the ground at the closest airport to your last position by X-Plane

You can

File->save flight-> save as a .sit file

That will let you "more or less" start from where you left off, albeit "slightly messy", e.g. starting with the gear down (probably my bug) and without the AP engaged/low engine rpm etc.

but managable.

e.g. over the weekend I was using this to test VNAV descent without having to waste ages getting up there and close to descent

 

Thanks guys. Currently playing around with the demo. Any suggestions how to overcome the rather blurry text textures in the cockpit (running at full 4K resolution)?

13 minutes ago, Elvensmith said:

Thanks guys. Currently playing around with the demo. Any suggestions how to overcome the rather blurry text textures in the cockpit (running at full 4K resolution)?

Go to Graphics Settings.  Set "FSR Supersampling" to OFF.  This will force X-Plane to render the sim at full native resolution, at the expense of performance.

Edited March 8, 20233 yr by GoranM

Have an upvote, Goran. Many thanks.

I can attest the Toliss A319's save feature works. Except when the pushback cart rolled my plane over.  Saving the game and reloading it I was still on my tail. 🙂

On 3/6/2023 at 9:55 PM, mSparks said:

e.g. starting with the gear down (probably my bug)

I fixed that one finally.

code firing setting "set gear handle up" rather than "move gear handle up", first just moved the handle, second actually ensured the gear was up, subtle little issues like that are the worst tbh.