How do people manage failures on long range flights?I've always wanted to use the random failure generator, but on long range flights I run the computer on autopilot, only coming back for step climbs and landing. Is there any way of getting the sim to pause when a failure is generated?

Just turn on failures for the time you are sitting there, and then turn them off when you leave, then back on when you return. Someone else here suggested flipping a coin to decide if he wanted to activate the failures on a given flight. I really like that idea. Maybe leaving on the failures would make it interesting to actually sit for the flight. This will give you something (real-world) to do like checking times, burns, cross-checking instruments, possible diversion alternates, drift-downs, NATS and PACOTS position reports, time estimates, SLOP procedures, etc.Although, I do all of this stuff even without any failures turn on. Just in case.Robert Williams

Just turn on failures for the time you are sitting there, and then turn them off when you leave, then back on when you return. Someone else here suggested flipping a coin to decide if he wanted to activate the failures on a given flight. I really like that idea. Maybe leaving on the failures would make it interesting to actually sit for the flight. This will give you something (real-world) to do like checking times, burns, cross-checking instruments, possible diversion alternates, drift-downs, NATS and PACOTS position reports, time estimates, SLOP procedures, etc.Although, I do all of this stuff even without any failures turn on. Just in case.Robert Williams

The good thing about the MD11 failures is the fact that there are so many, so the chances of a major fault is very slim. I set them to the lowest rate and even on ultra longhaul flight's chances are you will only get a bleed air fault or problem with one of the packs.