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I stay mostly in the cockpit as well, but the occasional switch outside and maybe I'm not picky enough, but I've not noticed anything to complain about 🤷‍♂️

Maybe because it's in the cloud and 2020 isn't, I've never messed with it, but you could experiment with keeping some area local and see if it made a difference.

SLC sounded interesting, but then I looked at it and its all about passengers, I would have hoped it was about "cargo" carriers... Oh well 🙃

Ha, you reminded me. I did my IRL flight training in 2017, bought a Cherokee 180 and soloed in it. When I flew with my instructor he ALWAYS insisted in keeping the door cracked (since it was on his side) all the way from my hangar to the runway, it wasn't fully closed until we finally taxi'ed onto the runway. Only needed in the height of the summer. 😁

I agree, the 350 is awesome, unfortunately also a bit too much for my meagre system added to which it's not cargo, so I don't fly it much. As a virtual cargo pilot the 757 and 767 are at the top of my list. I also love the FF planes but will quickly buy this for 2024 if it doesn't bomb on release!

Yes, for instance check out this overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEPN2DsVKsk&t=86s The narrator is a bit slow, you need to go about half way through to see the cargo details. It's mind blowing how much detail is model'ed !

I will give this a try. Like you, I've always felt the lack of a missing "infrastructure", maybe this will help. It could be even more, for instance, with the true cargo details provided by the FF 777 (which is in XP12 but hey... :) I'd like to see exact specifications of what is loaded and where in the plane, maybe its asking too much, but that seems interesting to me. Thanks for sharing what you did!

So...if one does this then does the "pause at top of descent" of the various aircraft that offer it automatically use this? I had no idea this was available, very nice!

If you have some deep love for that aircraft what about the XP12 option, don't own it but FlyJSim is well regarded? Flying XP12 is certainly a much nicer environment than P3D, lol.

There is no good answer, the whole career feature is so broken, you end up having to "game" it in the various ways being described, which ruins immersion... so what's even the point, at least that's way I feel about it. It's really unfortunate, I really would love to see something that worked 😞

I do have it, but am away from my PC, are you sure it's not down in the pocket of the door, that's where I recall it being? I'll double check in an hour or so...

Nice to know that SI works, but of course it will cost you, and not a little, so the question is just "how" irritating this really is to you 🙂

I found this support article for smartCARs, don't suppose you are using that?? We'd need to get PMDG to comment on what is happening internally that the plane is toggling this. Still, this is interesting... https://support.tfdidesign.com/support/solutions/articles/62000236066-persistent-paused-unpaused-log-spam-with-pmdg-777-in-microsoft-flight-simulator-2024 The corresponding PMDG thread, I don't really see an answer: https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-2024-products-discussion/pmdg-777/general-discussion-aa/359377-fs2024-involuntary-pauses-when-using-777s-both-772er-and-77f

Another couple questions, when you unpaused it was anything wrong that you needed to correct? And, what was the origin-destination, I might try to reproduce your problem, I do have the 777 🙂

I wonder if it's something like a protective pause, if I remember correctly the A350 also has a setting where more than just a TOD can cause it to pause, this is actually a good thing because if you are sleeping and something happens that would, say, take the plane off course, wouldn't you rather have it pause waiting for hands-on intervention? I'm only speculating here, but you might look thru all the sim settings for the plane, or go ask on the PMDG forums for that matter. Do let us know what you find out!