5 hours ago, Dreamflight767 said:

Start with engines off, load flight plans & weights…

Dont bash me but maybe someone can help and the answer is easy. I seldom start cold and dark since not having the time to go through it in an attempt to also squeeze as many flights in as possible. 
so with engines Running I cannot Import my SB flight. Is there still a way? My own answer would be maybe through secondary flight plan and then making that the active one? 
did not find it in the 350 manual though and despite flying 99% in the Fenix and FBW so far I am seemingly spoiled by their easier though maybe less realistic FP Import function. 
 

in short, how can I Import my SB flight plan with Engines running?

TIA Phil

1 hour ago, Simon_C said:

12-14t kWh

That means 12.000-14.000?

Sounds incredibly high.

How many people? Energy suppliers where I live are obligated to show you how much your own consumption compares to that of the consumption of the other average households. A family of 4 according to the latest graph has a very high consumption if it goes over 4100 kWh and a normal consumption should be below 3000.

Bear in mind though that virtually no one uses AC's over here.

16 minutes ago, DAD said:

I seldom start cold and dark since not having the time to go through it in an attempt to also squeeze as many flights in as possible. 

I know you asked how you do that with engines running, and I can't answer that because I never start with engines running.

But how much time would you lose setting everything up? There is a shortcut for virtually all of it in the OIS.

Set Aircraft state to "ON APU". Import Simbrief plan. Set Weights (that's the only thing you still have to manually enter then into the FMC), import the company flightplan from simbrief, pick a Runway and SID, calculate Take Off speeds, send them to the FMC. Bam, done. 

All doable in less than 2 minutes. Then pushback and start engines, that takes another 3 minutes.

Now tell me you don't have that 5 minutes of time to do that on every new flight.

Edited March 2, 20251 yr by Farlis

12 hours ago, Simon_C said:

Why would one do that? I understand speeding up the flight, but going to bed? Leaving it on 1x? I guess I want to move to the same place - apparently power is free 😂

In 25 years of using flight sims i have never understood it either. 
Its just a bizarre thing to do. 
 

but whatever makes one happy 

5 minutes ago, roi1862 said:

In 25 years of using flight sims i have never understood it either. 
Its just a bizarre thing to do. 
 

but whatever makes one happy 

When i use speed acceleration i most often gets bad texture loading or stutters. Is this not common?

It helped disabling rolling cache

PS to developers. Look at FSL and QW for making jump ahead to waypoints functions with correct fuel calc.

Michael Moe 

 

Edited March 2, 20251 yr by Michael Moe

1 minute ago, Michael Moe said:

When i use speed acceleration i most often gets bad texture loading or stutters. Is this not common?

It helped disabling rolling cache

Michael Moe 

 

Yhh but when people are going to sleep, they are not watching the scenery anyway

8 minutes ago, roi1862 said:

Yhh but when people are going to sleep, they are not watching the scenery anyway

Its comming out of speed acceleration and it never recover stutter plus textures.

But yes strange ideer

Michael Moe 

Edited March 2, 20251 yr by Michael Moe

1 hour ago, Farlis said:

Now tell me you don't have that 5 minutes of time to do that on every new flight.

Plus taxiing. Easily 10min. Too much time for me indeed. Believe me. Wish I had more. 

1 hour ago, roi1862 said:

In 25 years of using flight sims i have never understood it either. 
Its just a bizarre thing to do. 
 

but whatever makes one happy 

What is so bizarre about people who want to do flights realistic as possible but not find it bizarre where people buy long haul airliners and attempt to do 10+hrs flights and and try to accomplish it in 2 hrs. That works both ways.

2 hours ago, Farlis said:

That means 12.000-14.000?

Sounds incredibly high.

How many people? Energy suppliers where I live are obligated to show you how much your own consumption compares to that of the consumption of the other average households. A family of 4 according to the latest graph has a very high consumption if it goes over 4100 kWh and a normal consumption should be below 3000.

Bear in mind though that virtually no one uses AC's over here.

Yes. Household of 4. And yes, we are talking about 12,000-14,000 kWh per year.

3000-4000 is realistic if you have no power drains except the bare basics at home and you go about power very meticulously, AND you have some other kind of heating/cooling. I am also heating/cooling my home cinema when needed with an A/C, no other way, since in the cellar.

No one in the world can remain on 4000kWh per year with what I've said we have. Besides, my hybrid is cheaper than our gasoline car, at least running monthly costs.

But... we digress, this is highly off topic. I didn't want to go into such discussion.

I just wanted to know what is so attractive about running the sim 1x over night 🙂

Edited March 2, 20251 yr by Simon_C

1 hour ago, Michael Moe said:

When i use speed acceleration i most often gets bad texture loading or stutters. Is this not common?

Somewhat, yes. Not terrible though. But I can always drop to 1x if I want to admire the scenery.

9 minutes ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

where people buy long haul airliners and attempt to do 10+hrs flights and and try to accomplish it in 2 hrs.

Well... I see it way less weird than running the sim while sleeping and throwing money away for some psychological satisfaction. I even accelerate flights in continental Europe, which are 4-5hrs IRL, because I sometimes don't have a time in the evening, so I can shorten the flight to 2hrs gate-to-gate.

Same as DAD... I also sometimes wish I had more time.

After sorting everything out I've flown this plane 4 times from cold and dark ILS and it is superb. Without any problems. My new favorite commercial plane. Superb.

20 minutes ago, Simon_C said:

Well... I see it way less weird than running the sim while sleeping and throwing money away for some psychological satisfaction.

 

Well its my money isn't it and I find it weird that it is any of your concern. Just leave it at that. BTW I don't sleep during long hauls like I said earlier.

Edited March 2, 20251 yr by JBDB-MD80

If four decades in the world of flight simulation has taught me one thing, it's that every flight simmer is different. Some like short haul, and others like long haul. Some like time acceleration. Others wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Some like flying low and slow to enjoy the scenery. Others like cruising at 37000 feet whilst doing the laundry. Some like hands on "stick and rudder" flying, whilst others like to switch on the autopilot and have everything given to them on a plate

At the end of the day, it does not matter how we choose to enjoy flight simulation. What matters is that we enjoy it.

5 minutes ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

Well its my money isn't it and I find it weird that it is any of your concern. Just leave it at that.

I really don't care how you spend your money. But, although very small piece of the pie, using power for nothing in today's world is my eyes everything but responsible from the green perspective.

Edited March 2, 20251 yr by Simon_C

I love short haul with long haul planes. 

So I really love to go from KPDX to KSEA with the A350. Can't be arsed to bother about real life flights.