Hey there!

With a busy life with work and family I dont have that much time to play nowadays.

I still like to fly long haul routes, but lately its been quite difficult.

Before I could use the awesome "VFRmap Plugin" https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/plugin-vfrmap  to teleport myself just before TOD, but its been offline the last couple of months.

I've tried the in game teleport feature, but I just cant get it to work (added the flightplan in game and tried both direct/VOR and High/low altitude airways)

 

So question is, how does people with limited playing time do the long haul stuff?

Is there any nice teleport add-on available?

 

Cheers!

I've only done a few, but tend to do them overnight - I'll set up and takeoff an hour or so before I go to bed, get it into the cruise and then wake up an hour or so before landing to set up the approach and land it.

I don't think my other half would ever let me get away with doing one during the day.

Edited January 29, 20251 yr by Tom Wright

Sim rate. E.g. the PMDG 777 works fine with x8 sim rate, which means I can do even the longest flight within one evening session.

I still haven't tried time compression or teleporting. I just use the auto pause at TOD on the PMDG planes. Or back in the day I used this little app called "I will be back".

I suppose on PMDG at least one could also just keep saving, and then later resuming one's long hauls, except that's one thing I've been having a bit of trouble with in FS2020 recently. Up until just a few weeks ago that worked quite well though.

Starting a flight in the evening and having enough time the next morning to complete it like @Tom Wrightmentioned seems like a good idea as well

2 hours ago, EnSnellHest said:

Is there any nice teleport add-on available?

Quantum Leap, available here at the Library. Originally developed for FSX, but it works with anything between FS9 and MSFS. You need FSUIPC and navdata for the PMDG birds.

The only caveat is that you have to deal with fuel quantities and ATC clearances by yourself.

I guess it's not possible with a pause on TOD in iniBuilds A330? Or A300 for that matter. 

We need FSL and QW´s "Jump ahead" feature which worked very well in P3D

Michael Moe

I miss and APP I could use to monitor the flight and even interact with the ATC services so that we could try to keep a flight under control if for some reason we have to get away from the desktop.

I know I can use Navigraph to follow the router progress, but I mean something that would allow me to interact with the instrument panels, FMC, ATC, ...

Edited January 29, 20251 yr by jcomm

Time acceleration is the only way to go. Even in the real world it is not realistic to sit 8+ hours in the cockpit. You are on rotation and on some longer routes you even get to sleep in the crewrest area. 

I found this program that actually seems to work in regards of teleporting;

https://flightsim.to/file/3181/fspm-vfr-map

 

I've only tried it a few times, but it seems to be working fine.

You would need to maually set your fuel after teleporting though, but that is a small price to pay!

5 hours ago, Cpt_Piett said:

I guess it's not possible with a pause on TOD in iniBuilds A330? Or A300 for that matter. 

You would have to quick as even then time still passes and I think so does fuel.

Why Asobo can't provide a "proper" pause (like P3D, FSX) that pauses everything including the passage of time is beyond me - they are clever people, surely coding-wise it isn't that hard?

2 hours ago, DavidP said:

You would have to quick as even then time still passes and I think so does fuel.

Why Asobo can't provide a "proper" pause (like P3D, FSX) that pauses everything including the passage of time is beyond me - they are clever people, surely coding-wise it isn't that hard?

Hmm 🤔 I’m sure they could, I guess it’s not very high on their list.

Hitting Esc to go to menu pauses fuel burn in the A330, but not time. 

I’m using https://flightsim.to/file/3181/fspm-vfr-map as well. Works as advertised in 2020 as well as 2024 👍. 

6 hours ago, Michael Moe said:

We need FSL and QW´s "Jump ahead" feature which worked very well in P3D

Michael Moe

FSL has included the feature on their new A321 for MSFS and it works pretty well

On 1/29/2025 at 1:03 PM, jcomm said:

I miss and APP I could use to monitor the flight and even interact with the ATC services so that we could try to keep a flight under control if for some reason we have to get away from the desktop.

I know I can use Navigraph to follow the router progress, but I mean something that would allow me to interact with the instrument panels, FMC, ATC, ...

Maybe TeamViewer or something like that? The caveat is that may compromise 3D rendering...