Has anyone had success with starting a fsuipc autosave flight with the T7?  The only plane that works for me is level-d 763.  When I tried to do an auto-save with the t7, everything loaded just fine except the no power, engines nor fmc was running as it was during the flight.  This also happens with my iFly 737. Only my 763 has the aircraft as it was.  So I end up crashing before I can get anything started.  So auto-save is useless.

There should be a 777 panel state saved whenever FSX is saved, but the problem seems to be that the sim for some reason won't initialize the saved panel state when loading a flight. Perhaps it's something to do with simconnect?

 

Try loading the flight, pause, reset flight, pause again, and manually load the panel state through the FMC. Hopefully you'll see the initialization countdown timer now when you unpause FSX. Enter slew mode during initialization, and exit slew mode once initialization is complete.

 

By the way do you have FS2Crew?

 

 

Has anyone had success with starting a fsuipc autosave flight with the T7? The only plane that works for me is level-d 763. When I tried to do an auto-save with the t7, everything loaded just fine except the no power, engines nor fmc was running as it was during the flight. This also happens with my iFly 737. Only my 763 has the aircraft as it was. So I end up crashing before I can get anything started. So auto-save is useless.

 

Hi, John K,

 

When I load a T7 autosave file (saved by a registered version of FSUIPC) the correct panel state is loaded, including engine, autopilot and CDU route w/ next waypoint.  This is so even though my default panel state is engines off, parked w/ external power, doors open.

 

So here are some suggestions.

 

Check in the ... Flight Simulator X\PMDG\PMDG 777X\PanelState folder and see if there  are three files corresponding to the time and date of the Autosave file you are trying to load. 

 

Their names should end with

...FLT.0.rte

              (may have a different number than 0 and may not exist if no flight plan was loaded in the saved flight)

...FLT.fmc

...FLT.sav

 

These are the panel state files that are loaded when you select the Autosave flight in the normal FSX Flights>Load function.

 

If they are missing completely, or they do not have the endings as above, pretty sure the panel state will not load.  Instead you will get your default startup panel state.  I am guessing that if they are missing or do not have the correct endings, maybe you have an older copy of FSUIPC.Try updating.  

 

If the files are there but do not have the correct endings, you can also try renaming them so they end as above.  See if the proper panel state then loads correctly. 

 

Mike

Mine works fine.

 

 

Mine works fine.

Hi, Daveo,

 

So does mine -- except that situation files that FS-Recorder saves at the beginning of a recorded flight don't get loaded, and don't get saved with the right file name endings to the PMDG T7 panelstate folder. 

 

However a number of people are reporting this issue.  I am guessing that people for whom saving or autosaving a flight doesn't work, may have FSX installed in the programs or programs(x86) folder and that folder's permissions are restricting the correct files from being saved in the PMDG folder (which is a subfolder of FSX, and thus inside the Programs folder, unlike the location for normal saved situation files).  Just a guess.

 

Mike

The autosave files from fsuipc4 are in my flight simulator x files folder in my documents folder on my c:\ drive.  But pmdg autosaved  file are in my fsx folder on my d:\ drive.  When I go to restart a flight, the only auto save files are in the flight sim x folder.  That's the folder that fsx created when I installed fsx.  So, do I have to start pmdg and get the autosave from the fmc?  Because, It's not available from the load a flight in fsx.

The autosave files from fsuipc4 are in my flight simulator x files folder in my documents folder on my c:\ drive. But pmdg autosaved file are in my fsx folder on my d:\ drive. When I go to restart a flight, the only auto save files are in the flight sim x folder. That's the folder that fsx created when I installed fsx. So, do I have to start pmdg and get the autosave from the fmc? Because, It's not available from the load a flight in fsx.

 

Hi, John,

 

If it's working properly, all you need to do is load the normal autosave flight using the normal FSX load flight function.  Just be sure to do that from the opening FSX window displaying the default Ultralite/Friday Harbor default flight.  The PMDG files should be automatically loaded, even though you are only seeing the entry in the usual FS X folder. 

 

At least one person who was having a problem with this did not have his FSX set to "run as administrator."  PMDG Support (and I) advised him to try this and when he did it got fixed.  So if yours is not set that way, see if that fixes the problem.  Take a look at this thread, especially second to last post:

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/427803-cannot-load-a-saved-flight/

 

 

On the other hand, I discovered that mine is not set to "run as administrator," and when I changed it to "run as administrator" the files stopped loading properly.  So I unchecked "run..." and everything is working correctly again. 

 

Like you, he also had his FSX on a separate drive, but that doesn't seem to have been the problem.

 

The alternative workaround is to load the flight the normal way, then go into the FMC and load the panel state with the same exact name as the regular saved file name.  But you may need to do the following: load the flight (will bring up the flight with a T7 as autosave saved it), switch to a default Cessna, then switch back to the T7 you want and then load the panel state.  Otherwise strange things may happen when you load the panel state.  So try "run as admin" first -- check it if it's unchecked, or try unchecking it if it is checked.

 

Mike

I do run as administrator.  But if I load the last autosave, the t7 panel is dark and can't load the autosave from the fmc.  It just starts falling from the sky.

 

 

I do run as administrator. But if I load the last autosave, the t7 panel is dark and can't load the autosave from the fmc. It just starts falling from the sky.

 

Hi, John,

 

Two things:

 

1) try UNchecking "run as administrator" and see if that helps -- my system works better that way, particularly on the load a saved flight issue.  Also, be sure you really are running as administrator -- someone else with this issue thought he was but it turned out he wasn't.

 

2) if you hold down the menu button on the CDU by holding down the normal (left) mouse button, it should come to life after 20-30 seconds.  When I am reloading a flight, I put it in slew mode for the PMDG count-down, so the plane doesn't go anywhere until everything is set up properly.  You might have to wait for the countdown to finish before holding down the menu button will work.  But it would be better to just get it to load a saved flight so you don't have to then load a saved panel state.

 

Mike

Was this issue ever resolved?

Was this issue ever resolved?

This is a year old thread.... please if you have a specific problem start that in a new thread. For example, "I cannot load a saved flight."  Autosave is not a PMDG or FSX feature, I think that is in the FSUIPC realm but not sure regardless I'd like to help out but don't know how.

Was this issue ever resolved?

Once in awhile if it doesn't reload properly just reload it again while it is still running from the initial load and everything runs fine.