The Avanti I'm using is the lovely freeware Avanti by Mario Noriega. I was undertaking a flight from Keflavik, Iceland over to Blackpool (UK). I'd got to cruising altitude, navigated over a few intersections then saved the flight. Upon reloading, the aeroplane was flying normally, but the autopilot altitude setting was at zero, and the cabin pressure had failed.

 

At first I thought this may be something to do with having my default FSX flight as cold & dark. I overwrote that with a fully powered up plane and made that the default flight. I tried re-loading my saved flight  and it still had cabin pressure failure.

 

I've reloaded a 777 flight and that was fine. Though I doubt the POSKY 777 has a cabin pressurisation model built into it.

 

 

Saving a flight doesn't always save every little detail.  Coming back to a flight I have saved usually means I'm about

 

ready to overspeed, my GPS range has reset to the minimum, and my locked spot view has to be restored.

Odds are such that things like autopilot and pressurization settings for that plane don't use standard FSX variables, so there is no info about them in the saved flights.

 

I don't think you did anything wrong, nor do I believe you have a problem.

 

One tip would be to pause the sim before saving the flight.

 

When you reload the flight turn the sim rate down to 1/4 speed until you get everything reconfigured.

 

Kind of a pain yet it beats starting the flight over.

 

regards,

Joe

Thanks guys. Joe, In the first instance I did pause the flight before saving it. However, I did not slow the sim down upon reloading. I don't think that slowing the sim down would make any difference: The cabin pressure master warning was already illuminated when the flight reloaded. The combined cabin alt/baro pressure instrument had its fault light illuminated, the oxygen bottle pressure gauge was showing as being used, there was a red WARN on the multi-function indicator (monitors generator amps, bus volts & battery temp); the battery temp was showing as minus 60-odd degrees F....! The battery temp can be used to monitor cabin temp in normal flight..... so a big hole must have opened up in the cabin, not good at 40000 feet.

The reason for slowing down the sim is solely to give you a chance to reconfigure before everything goes south.

 

It won't change any of the settings, just give you a buffer to fix them before you crash.

Thanks, Joe,

 

However, everything had already gone south; I reloaded the flight and was ready to jump to 1/4 speed - the pressurisation fault was already present.

 

I have since flown the trip in its entirety - I just time-accelerated the crap out of it

 

Kind Regards,

Mark.