Logbook not recording flights

[trainnut 37]

I have noticed lately that the logbook does not appear any more after finishing a flight. Going into the logbook manually, the departure and arrival airport show as the same and no time is recorded against the flight.

Any ideas??

Kev

[Ohmsquare 101]

Do you have Developer Mode turned on? As far as I know, it prevents flight time logging.

[trainnut 37]

23 hours ago, Ohmsquare said:

Do you have Developer Mode turned on? As far as I know, it prevents flight time logging.

Thats a good thought. I do turn developer mode on the adjust the time as quite often the sim starts at a different time than what is selected on the flight plan. I turn developer mode off on the drop down selections but forget to turn it off in the options area. I will try it next flight.

Kev 

[Simple B 141]

You can use the weather tab in the top bar menu to change the time in flight.

[Noel 4,492]

On 7/10/2021 at 11:42 PM, trainnut said:

I have noticed lately that the logbook does not appear any more after finishing a flight. Going into the logbook manually, the departure and arrival airport show as the same and no time is recorded against the flight.

Any ideas??

Kev

It's absolutely caused by going into Dev Mode, and you don't even need to stay in Dev Mode while flying, you just need to enter Dev Mode while in any part of a flight.  I've zendesked this because a consistent cause of microstutters happens whenever the white spinning circle in the lower right part of the display appears and it's very easy to get rid of the spinner by going into Dev Mode and clearing all of the errors/warnings/messages that accrue in the Dev Mode Console, then going back out of Dev Mode.  Unfortuantely you then lose the logging of your flight in the pilot logbook.   Now if you DON'T close MSFS after completing the flight in which you cleared the console, and therefore stopped the spinner from displaying w/ its associated microstutters (subtle, but absolutely there), you can then clear the console BEFORE entering your flight, so while in the World Map for flight planning, and lose the spinner plus log this next flight.  Once you close MSFS the rituat starts anew.

[Maxis 1,859]

12 minutes ago, Noel said:

It's absolutely caused by going into Dev Mode, and you don't even need to stay in Dev Mode while flying, you just need to enter Dev Mode while in any part of a flight.  I've zendesked this because a consistent cause of microstutters happens whenever the white spinning circle in the lower right part of the display appears and it's very easy to get rid of the spinner by going into Dev Mode and clearing all of the errors/warnings/messages that accrue in the Dev Mode Console, then going back out of Dev Mode.  Unfortuantely you then lose the logging of your flight in the pilot logbook.   Now if you DON'T close MSFS after completing the flight in which you cleared the console, and therefore stopped the spinner from displaying w/ its associated microstutters (subtle, but absolutely there), you can then clear the console BEFORE entering your flight, so while in the World Map for flight planning, and lose the spinner plus log this next flight.  Once you close MSFS the rituat starts anew.

Learned this myself last night.

Went into developer mode (I rarely ever do this) last night on a SLC-SEA flight and on shutdown the Logbook pops up but nothing was there regarding the flight. The only unusual action was going into developer mode mid flight.

[NightOfDreams 370]

Disregard in game logbook and use a spreadsheet or notebook

[Noel 4,492]

25 minutes ago, NightOfDreams said:

Disregard in game logbook and use a spreadsheet or notebook

I posted this issue along w/ the innane micro-stutter inducing logging spinner, and after haranging them a few times on the same issue finally got someone's attention at Zendesk.  The first attempts appeared to be shined on as the next day they were listed as 'Solved':

Hi Noel,

We have recorded the bug you have submitted in our internal bug and issue tracker.

To understand what will happen next, visit the Zendesk Bug Reporting FAQ

Best regards,
Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Team