Anyone else seeing this?  On the flight planning screen the 3 filters at the bottom for navaids etc.  If I turned them on, plan and execute a flight, and exit the sim.  Next time I fire it up those options are turned off again.  Started noticing this since the patch.  Starting to become quite annoying.

 

edit:  I don't know about any of the other options as they've stayed where I set them and/or was happy with the defaults (not sure which actually applies), it's just the bottom 3 for navaids etc.

Edited September 23, 20205 yr by flyinion

Yeah I've seen that. Seems to have started with the last patch.

I like the sim and have been one of those who take things in great stride with every hope for a promising future, but... this is something I cannot help but have a personal rant about.  Practically everything about the flight planning section, including saving and loading flights, seems to have been done as an afterthought or maybe by an intern developer that no one cared to mentor or befriend or even go to lunch with during the workday in order to share simple software design concepts with.  It functions normally for setting a departure and destination point, with default options, and that's where it ends.  If you add a few waypoints, they sooner or later get added in bizarre orders that have you completing the flight then flying back to a waypoint halfway along the trip.  If you save a flight or flight plan intending to fly it later, details such as your starting position and aircraft settings are not saved so you have to set them again when you load the flight or plan.   If you modify the starting point such as the parking spot you start from, any waypoints you've defined on the way to the destination are wiped out, and since the starting point details are not saved as part of the plan (.pln) or flight (.flt) file, this means that every time you load a saved flight or plan it wants to start from the runway again, so you end up changing that to a parking spot on the ramp, and of course then your waypoints get erased for no reason, so you then have to re-enter all the waypoints once again in order to rebuild the flight path hopefully in the same order you wanted in the first place, and then go fly it NOW without saving because saving it is painfully counterproductive.. making the entire save/load feature even worse than just worthless, which is really an accomplishment in itself, since it's just a guaranteed source of extra/duplicate work and frustration on the part of the user... which is exactly the thing that even the most rudimentary computer programs are supposed to avoid doing.   

Whoever implemented and signed off on this section of the UI really needs to have their head examined, then do everyone a favor and get out of the software business and go beg for work at a roadside vegetable stand as a deputy assistant insect and maggot control specialist, because they surely have no interest or skill in spotting software bugs.

In my opinion.

 

Edited September 23, 20205 yr by Stoopy

Yes, I can confirm this is happening.  

37 minutes ago, Stoopy said:

  If you save a flight or flight plan intending to fly it later, details such as your starting position and aircraft settings are not saved so you have to set them again when you load the flight or plan.   If you modify the starting point such as the parking spot you start from, any waypoints you've defined on the way to the destination are wiped out, and since the starting point details are not saved as part of the plan (.pln) or flight (.flt) file, this means that every time you load a saved flight or plan it wants to start from the runway again, so you end up changing that to a parking spot on the ramp, and of course then your waypoints get erased for no reason, so you then have to re-enter all the waypoints once again in order to rebuild the flight path hopefully in the same order you wanted in the first place, and then go fly it NOW without saving because saving it is painfully counterproductive.. making the entire save/load feature even worse than just worthless, which is really an accomplishment in itself, since it's just a guaranteed source of extra/duplicate work and frustration on the part of the user... which is exactly the thing that even the most rudimentary computer programs are supposed to avoid doing.   

 

 

Have to agree on that for sure.  I gave up on importing simbrief or navigraph flights as well because of this.  I just figure out the plan in one of those, then manually build it in the sim and set my departure parking/gate.  Sometimes you can't even do that completely.  I've had a few plans where I go to add that one last waypoint, usually something just a short bit off from the flightplan line, and  it ends up adding one of those weird loops.  Usually right before a STAR when that happens but not always.

25 minutes ago, wthomas33065 said:

Yes, I can confirm this is happening.  

Thanks glad to know I'm not just imagining it or having a one off bug.