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Is There a Way to Open a Saved Flight -- Directly?


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Sounds silly, I know. But the Welcome screen has no ESC option! As far as I can tell, the only way to open a saved flight is to create a new one and load it; only then does the sim give you an ESC option, so you can search for and load the flight you wanted to begin with.

 

It takes me about 5 minutes from boot-up to flight, and the extra step takes another three minutes.

 

Am I missing something? Or are the people who designed this thing really that obtuse?

 

BTW, in both FSX and P3D the opening screen had a "Load" tab, permitting you to go straight to any saved scenario. Given that this bright idea has been in MS FlightSim for at least 20 years, I have to wonder what kind of perverse mind would decide to eliminate it in the new product. But, as I say, I may be missing something.

 

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Mac, yes you're missing pressing the spacebar in the world map screen which is for Load OR Save flightplan.

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When you launch the sim and it’s on the start page.. (with no option to load a flightJ

simply press the world map and the option to load appears :)

 

 

Edit: you beat me to it Tim

 

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Later discovery: If you're in Windowed mode, you can't see that!

 

I can & I run in windowed mode. You may have to drag the bottom of the window up/down. Also I have the taskbar set to automatically hide so it’s not in the way.

 

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Steve

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If you double-click in the white bar at the top, the window will resize to fit your screen and any text displayed along the bottom of the screen will be visible.

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Sounds silly, I know. But the Welcome screen has no ESC option! As far as I can tell, the only way to open a saved flight is to create a new one and load it; only then does the sim give you an ESC option, so you can search for and load the flight you wanted to begin with.

 

It takes me about 5 minutes from boot-up to flight, and the extra step takes another three minutes.

 

Am I missing something? Or are the people who designed this thing really that obtuse?

 

BTW, in both FSX and P3D the opening screen had a "Load" tab, permitting you to go straight to any saved scenario. Given that this bright idea has been in MS FlightSim for at least 20 years, I have to wonder what kind of perverse mind would decide to eliminate it in the new product. But, as I say, I may be missing something.

 

Mac6737

 

They're not obtuse. just stupid!

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Obtuse = "Shawshank Redemption" :)

 

Wonder if there is a start line parameter like -fastlaunch to open a saved flight?

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