I know there are many here who do longer distance flights in the sim and who sit there for hour apon hour flying in a straight line over miles and miles of water.For me thats a mindless occupation as is letting the aircraft fly on autopilot and coming back to the sim every hour or so to check all is still in order.I know you can go into options and speed up the rate by 2x or 4x etc but this hardly makes the flight seamless or natural feeling.I am surprised there isnt a utility that allows you to manage the flight before you go as this would suit people like me who are only interested in the departure and arrival phases plus a few other bits and hence avoid longer flights.What I had in mind was an interface which shows a map of your route and the waypoints as well as top of climb and descent points.You would then highlight areas of the route between points which you want sped up and assign by how much.You could have normal speed over geographical points of interest or before waypoints, level changes or turning points.Starting the flight and all this would happen automatically and in a seamless fashion.Anyone else like me who gets bored stiff at FL360 with the next turning point 250 miles away?Peter

What happens when your engine fails at 4x speed during a long leg? ;-) Speed acceleration is just not simulation in my book. Jump to "Top of Descent" is different though. I believe PIC767 had this feature.

Okay if you remember how they dealt with time lapses in films? There would be a scene and a clock a momentary blackening of the screen and the same scene only the clock had moved on three hours and the sky outside maybe a window had moved to sunset.I fly business jets and props in my working life and reality long legs are bad enough with real sky, real clouds real scenery. Look at the dme slowly ticking down and often I wish my jet could do 1500 kts :-)That is with a real co-pilot to talk to, crossword puzzles etc.For me reality or no reality mindless sitting in front of a screen isnt a reality that appeals to me.OK all to their own but I am sure there are many like me who would appreciate such a utility.Peter

Well,i am thoroughly enjoying updating my ins,plugging in the next 9 waypoints,sorting the arrival,watching fuelburn,flippin switches,etc.must be because i'm not a real pilot.i'm just gonna fly those 10 hour legs,planning those is far more gratifying and relaxed as a 1 hour hop,for me.so,that utility would not find it's way on my computer.i do believe others might like it though.cheersJP.

Donny AKA ShalomarFly 2 ROCKS!!!SAR 3 (search and rescue) has a "time jump" feature. You take off from base and have the option to enter it, then you are a few miles from the rescue site. This is mainly due to limited scenery, and if you try to fly all the way on most missions time jump is forced.As long as fuel planning was still necessary, and perhaps you came out of the "jump" early to a malfunction if it occurs, I'd be into it. Prefferably activated at cruise altitide, and options like coming out if terrain at your altitude within X distance or maybe the option to come out on ATC contact or when your range with fuel on board falls below certain parameters. Maybe I'm making it too complicated...I would much rather have native, specific support for turboprops, helicopter flight dynamics and realistic reverse/beta than this utility though.

Hi guys; I dont use it, but isn't that what "slew" mode is for? DN

No - I can see Peter's point of view. Whilst in the 'time lapse' phase everything would progress as if actually flown i.e. fuel would burn off, weather would change, time would elapse and the time of day would move on, the only difference being it would occur 'simulated' over a short period of time. In slew mode - nothing other than location changes.Andy b

I'm with JP on this. my sentiments exactly.

Any FMC will give you the ETA and fuel remaining at TOD (the PROG page I think does this), so these two variables could be set and then the a/c slewed- one option that I've tried before.Bruce.

Double post- sorry,.

Senior moment at this time, so I am not certain I have the name right, but if I remember correctly, the addon program going back a few FS versions called ProFlight did just about what you describe. With a few modifications it still worked up through FS2002, but noone has been successful with FS2004 to my knowledge. I personally preferred their ATC (Voice) routine as well. Not quite as realistic as VatSim, but good IMHO. Sure do miss that program.Happy flying:RTH

>What happens when your engine fails at 4x speed during a long>leg? ;-) Speed acceleration is just not simulation in my book.>Jump to "Top of Descent" is different though. I believe PIC767>had this feature.I don't think so - maybe pause at T/D, but jump to? That would create all sorts of issues with fuel management etc...

The MSCFS series had exactly this sort of thing to keep it interesting. A bit 'arcadey' but makes it less boring. It also makes more flights possible if you just don't have the time for a real-time Trans-Atlantic (or in CFS's case: cross-channel) flight.It would be handy if you could hit time jump and it came out automaticaly for pre-determined events eg T/D, T/C, ATC interaction req'd, failure activated, bandits in the area.I can't say I'd use it much myself, but I beleive it would broaden the market for FS10.I'd also like to see FS & CFS merged, but that is another story...

JPI hope I havent come across as critical of people who do the whole flight as if it was real.That wasnt my intention as all to their own.I do nevertheless feel that there are many like me who could use a utility which would encourage us to fly more distant destinations in a way which suits our staying power :-) and time we are prepared to spend on a flight.I know you can slew or speed up but what I would want is something automatic which is seamless and where you could select areas where you may want to be at normal speed and areas where you are happy to zoom over.Peter