Officially  my log book says 476 hrs but i have mostly ran MSFS in developers mode and developers mode does not update your loogbook so add at least another 1000 hrs to that

Compared to some of you guys, I’m still a rookie! Just got the achievement.

 

 

I just passed 600 hours of playtime, but due to an ungodly number of CTDs at the end of long flights my flight hours is only 255.  Still, I have twice the time I had in FSX which just kinda blows my mind...

3 out of 4 times my flights are not even logged.  It sometimes opens the log book when you switch off the aircraft battery but most times I get nothing at the end of a flight.  How can you ensure flight time is logged in MSFS?

It should automatically log to the cloud providing you are not in developer mode.  it does not necessarily open the log book but should still log the flight.

4 hours ago, cianpars said:

That's the beauty of retirement.  You don't have work to get in the way of your flight simming.

What he said. Amen.

I am at 761 MSFS 2020 hours per my own lifetime Microsoft Excel log, which I have maintaineed since post Y2K.  I had saved copies and printouts of previous simulator logs and took the challenge to combine them in a spreadsheet.  I encourage others to do the same.

My look into the future is which 10,000 I will reach first.  Avsim posts?  Or lifetime flight simulator hours?  My Avisim posts are of course here at the left.  My total hours since 1988 stand at 9,686. I do not believe hours were logged prior to that. I started flying FS when FS was first released.  Forget which version of FS started a logbook. I have logged 57.3 hours so far this year.  2021 was 346 hours.  2022 was 347 hours. Those two years incredibly close! 

The greatest number of hours I logged in any simulator was in subLogic's Flight Assignment:ATP from 1991 to 1998 when I was immeresed in Sunair VA, the first known VA. A career advancement and long work hours tempered my hours from 1998 to 2002, and then again from 2005 to 2009  when I retired.  Did log hours in Pro Pilot and Fly during those periods.

Edited February 3, 20233 yr by fppilot

1469  Mostly commercial and medium GA's.

11 hours ago, Farlis said:

That's quite a respectable number then. I feel like I kind of started cheating when the big jetliners like the A320 or 737 were released and I went back to flying commercial routes again, like I did in P3D most of the time.

And that becomes an issue with logging hours.  A year ago I was flying twins on a schedule based on sports teams I follow.  This year those flights are with the Hjet and the block to block times are likely 50% of last years. So I am frantically flying more segments in order to keep up wth last year!  🤪

I have a PFC Cirrus II Yoke console and it has an hour gauge on it and it is currently showing 21,000 hours on it. Had it for years, I’ll have to dig up when I bought it in my records to see how many years of flightsim that is, just transitioned to MSFS from P3D5 over Xmas now that more complex airliners are coming out.

must do something wrong then 🙂

And no, I don't mean the times recovered from stall 

I have 40 hours and -994.31 as the "Lowest Altitude Flown (METERS)". How does one get -994.31?

On 2/3/2023 at 9:58 PM, bofhlusr said:

I have 40 hours and -994.31 as the "Lowest Altitude Flown (METERS)". How does one get -994.31?

IIRC the height based on mean sea level is logged, so if you fly in a canyon you can achieve negative values

4 hours ago, DAD said:

IIRC the height based on mean sea level is logged, so if you fly in a canyon you can achieve negative values

Thanks, but the thing is, I don't remember ever flying in a canyon. Does a canyon that is about 1000 meters below sea level even exist on the planet?

Edited February 5, 20233 yr by bofhlusr

Logging stopped for me many moons ago.  I'm probably pushing 2500h but stuck on 1473 or something like that.