Whoever had their hands on the technical alpha, are the turnarounds without needing to exit to the main menu possible now? Do we have all the tools to land, setup/import new flight plan and move along?

I didn't try to do that but from what I can remember you can just plan another flight form the EFB and keep going.

As long as there's a menu to import Simbrief plan in the EFB, we should be in business. Otherwise I think this would something that I'm sure Working Title could be talked into squeezing in any of the upcoming sim updates.  

Exiting to main menu is a lot faster. And the map is centered on where you last started. You can still just restart a flight too, like you could in 2020.

Everything is faster, like restarting. I don't know about the speed of doing stuff in Dev Mode like jumping to a new aircraft or location, because Dev Mode was greyed out. Dual monitors was no longer experimental.

8 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Exiting to main menu is a lot faster. And the map is centered on where you last started. You can still just restart a flight too, like you could in 2020.

so exiting to main menu doesn’t mean you’re restarting the flight now? You just invoke the menu with access to flight planner and stay in the same location?

Edited October 18, 20241 yr by Drumcode

No, exiting the menu is same as in 2020, except the map will be zoomed in at your departure airport so you don't have to type in the ICAO for departure, just click on the airport symbol to refly. But the exit to menu is very quick compared to 2020. And the flight loads 10 times faster when you click FLY.

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

No, exiting the menu is same as in 2020, except the map will be zoomed in at your departure airport so you don't have to type in the ICAO for departure, just click on the airport symbol to refly. But the exit to menu is very quick compared to 2020. And the flight loads 10 times faster when you click FLY.

I guess I'm going to have to judge this for myself. 😉

5 hours ago, Fielder said:

No, exiting the menu is same as in 2020, except the map will be zoomed in at your departure airport so you don't have to type in the ICAO for departure, just click on the airport symbol to refly. But the exit to menu is very quick compared to 2020. And the flight loads 10 times faster when you click FLY.

So do we have to repeat ourselves like in MSFS ? Or do we go directly without the extra prompt about do we want to exit ?

It still prompts and does not go directly, another mouse click is therefore necessary.

an option is to not use default maps.  That's always worked for turnaround flights in 2020.  Assume it would work just fine in 2024 if I'm understanding right. 

I'm not sure I understand this. What exactly is stopping you landing, reprogramming your route via fms /gps /vor etc and just taking off again? Just the atc? When you start a flight you don't even need to put a destination in just origin and off you go. 

I've used fshud to program new atc flight plan as default is obviously wna, but what am I missing here? Seeing as flight state saving is very poor in 2020 surely leaving the sim environment at all resets almost everything? 

I use external weather so I either program in the whole route in advance including all stops or just alt tab out and add new plan. 

Sorry if I've missed something obvious! 

 

8 hours ago, Fielder said:

It still prompts and does not go directly, another mouse click is therefore necessary.

Why can't they give us an option to turn off that ? I don't like having to repeat me