The topic title says it all.  If I have missed such a mod please point me toward it.  So frustrated!

38 minutes ago, fppilot said:

The topic title says it all.  If I have missed such a mod please point me toward it.  So frustrated!

Can you just save manually by hitting Esc, save, select file, overwrite, confirm, Esc? If you're lucky you might even get your weather settings back after reloading, but probably not. What a great save function ... not

Agreed I really miss being able to set up a saved situation to practise a procedure or if sometimes comes up and I want to save and continue later, an important feature for a simulator

You should be able to accomplish much of this with one of the flight recorder tools currently available.  I'm pretty sure that FSPlayground, at least, leaves you a usable file if the sim crashes.   I know that the free Flight Recorder does.   I've hade enough issues with Flight Control Replay that I haven't tried that with it.

In either case, some of precise details, such as cloud structure, may not be preserved, but all the key data will be and you should be able to resume your flight from where you left off.  Or any point prior.

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You should be able to accomplish much of this with one of the flight recorder tools currently available.  I'm pretty sure that FSPlayground, at least, leaves you a usable file if the sim crashes.   I know that the free Flight Recorder does.   I've hade enough issues with Flight Control Replay that I haven't tried that with it.

In either case, some of precise details, such as cloud structure, may not be preserved, but all the key data will be and you should be able to resume your flight from where you left off.  Or any point prior.

I have looked at both FSPlayground and Flight Recorder and do not see a feature like what I am referring to.  Can you explain how to accomplish successful resumption of a flight?  All I see are replay functions.

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by fppilot

I'd like to have a mod like that too! My PC frequently reboots just like that whenever I use MSFS and so I save my flight every 5 or 10 minutes: that kills immersion. I'd LOVE to see an autosave option for MSFS!!!

11 hours ago, fppilot said:

The topic title says it all.  If I have missed such a mod please point me toward it.  So frustrated!

FSUIPC 7 does autosave.

Lee

10 hours ago, Jetman67 said:

Agreed I really miss being able to set up a saved situation to practise a procedure or if sometimes comes up and I want to save and continue later, an important feature for a simulator

You can use free flight recorder for such requirements. Save, replay, continue from there,... Perfect and easy tool .

https://flightsim.to/file/8163/flight-recorder

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by kt069

5 minutes ago, Midnight Music said:

FSUIPC 7 does autosave.

With MSFS? I use an earlier version of FSUIPC with FSX but had been informed that feature was not yet implemented in the new version for MSFS.

20 minutes ago, fppilot said:

With MSFS? I use an earlier version of FSUIPC with FSX but had been informed that feature was not yet implemented in the new version for MSFS.

There is an MSFS version. It's been available for a while. It works quietly in the background and you never notice it. I haven't totally tested it yet, but it sure rescued me a many times in P3D. You can set the autosave intervals to your liking.

Lee

13 minutes ago, Midnight Music said:

There is an MSFS version. It's been available for a while. It works quietly in the background and you never notice it. I haven't totally tested it yet, but it sure rescued me a many times in P3D. You can set the autosave intervals to your liking.

Lee

Lee,
Read through the final post.  My understanding is this has not changed.

https://forum.simflight.com/topic/90378-autosave/

 

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by fppilot

1 hour ago, kt069 said:

You can use free flight recorder for such requirements. Save, replay, continue from there,... Perfect and easy tool .

Thank you. That explains it.  Nothing elsewhere about the app quite states that.  So, how much effects on sim performance? And how much SSD space do the recordings eat up (I know files like that can later be deleted)?  My serious flights average just over 2 hours, with some lasting as long as 3.5 to 4 hours.  I presume a recording during a longer flight can be stopped at some point and a new one started.  Is that also the case?

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by fppilot

1 hour ago, fppilot said:

Thank you. That explains it.  Nothing elsewhere about the app quite states that.  So, how much effects on sim performance? And how much SSD space do the recordings eat up (I know files like that can later be deleted)?  My serious flights average just over 2 hours, with some lasting as long as 3.5 to 4 hours.  I presume a recording during a longer flight can be stopped at some point and a new one started.  Is that also the case?

You are welcome.

No fps effect on the sim. This is a standalone very light app.

I never record all the flight. Just record the departure and the approach. That are the stages I am interested, only. And about 10 minutes recording takes just  5-6 MB space, which is very fine. 

You can record your flight in any stage you want and save them with differen names. Additionally, you can replay your flight with similar class aircraft instead of the original. For example, you record A320, you can use the same replay for B737. (Any aircraft which have about the similar size, especially the height)

This free app is way way better than the payware ones. Just download it and try.

Happy flying.

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by kt069

I use FSPlayground and it has some sort of autosave function. I haven't been able to figure out how frequently it saves though. All I know is it generated some autosave files during flights and saved them on my PC

Otherwise, FSPlayground will record the flight and you can jump backwards to any point at any time. However, I haven't tested whether it retains the flight recording in the event of a CTD.

Edited March 30, 20215 yr by NightOfDreams