Does the flight recorder work?

[BigT65 7]

Does the flight recorder in P3Dv4.5 work? Every time I try to use it to record a portion of a flight then play the recording back the plane just slowly circles and descends until in hits the ground. The recording has the correct weather and scenery but the actual flight path differs significantly from what the recording shows. Does it work or am I doing it wrong?

[BigT65 7]

Has anyone else ever tried recording a flight with the flight recorder in the analysis tab? I need to know if the thing works or not, or is it me. If no one has ever tried maybe someone could give it a go and let me know what happens.

Thanks 

[Vindeballe 60]

Just tried, and mine is working fine. Puts a document in the Prepar3D v4 Files folder.

 

[FDEdev 955]

replay and flight recorder working as expected.

[BigT65 7]

Apparently mine has something wrong with it. Mine records the flight and puts the file in the Prepar3D v4 folder but when I load up the video to replay it, it loads and shows the video length but does not run. The progress bar does not come on to show the progress of the video and the time does not tick down. Also it I record the flight in the daytime then load it up to replay later that evening it loads up as if it's nighttime. 

[eslader 1,814]

To be clear, are you trying to play the video within p3d, or with some external player? Because if I remember right, the p3d flight recorder has some weird proprietary format that doesn't play nice with external players.

 

[BigT65 7]

Yes, I am running the playback while in P3D. When you go to the Help tab and then to the Analysis tab to read up on the Recorder there is a lot of information there that's in a file that apparently controls the recorder. This information is not easy to decipher. I am assuming that the average user, like me, would not have to mess with it. Is this correct? 

[FDEdev 955]

4 hours ago, BigT65 said:

I am assuming that the average user, like me, would not have to mess with it. Is this correct? 

That's correct. I never changed anything.