OK. I think I've Had it.

I'm coming up on 2 months now. I have had ONE normal flight -- that is, with no bugs, errors, anomalies, etc.

 

Tonight, I left Exeter (EGTE) in the Baron. Sudden loss of control. Paused a few minutes, and was able to resume. Successfully engaged AP on NAV and ALT.

 

Lookin' good. Then I paused and went into the drop-down menu to alter the clouds. On return, TOTAL LOSS OF CONTROL! Plane headed straight up for the moon. It did respond to extreme pressure on joystick and, oddly, steady nose-down pressure on tab trim. Eventually regained control, but could never again engage AP successfully.

 

Back to P3D, until they get this thing flying right and publish a real manual.

 

(Maybe I'll cool off by morning.)

 

Mac6737

Don’t use Active Pause? Go into the optionns menu and set up keys for conventional pause on and off.

I just use the esc key, then when Im ready to fly again I hit resume button... AD

Don’t use Active Pause? Go into the optionns menu and set up keys for conventional pause on and off.

 

Vern and Amberdog,

 

Well, I've been using Active Pause with no apparent problems until this week.

 

Using the ESC key would be nice, except you forget that when you ESC to pause, you're looking at the Home Page, and cannot manipulate your controls, or pull down the in-flight menu.

 

Finally, I noticed early on that the old P key did not work; took me a while to realize that Active Pause is different from Pause in FSX, where it freezes the screen and turns off the sound. So I thought my Pause/Break key was defective, and I assigned Active Pause to the P key. Are you telling me there's a "conventional pause" like the old one in FSX? I don't think so.

 

Mac6737

Yep, if you open the Controls settings page and search for "pause" it's there but not assigned.

You need to assign "p" for pause, and "Ctrl+p" for un-pause, then Save the settings.

Isn't there a 'TOGGLE PAUSE' - say there is.

 

What was wrong with - P = pause -->> P again = un-pause

 

What we don't need is more keys to press - 3 keys to enable and dis-able 1 function (???)...

 

Is it just me or...

OK...inquiring minds...

 

So this is what I found;

 

Under 'Controls/keyboard' (make sure 'Filter' is "All").

 

'MISCELLANEOUS';

- "SET PAUSE OFF"

- "SET PAUSE ON"

2 separate settings - 2 separate keys can be set...

 

'MENU';

- "TOGGLE ACTIVE PAUSE" - default key = PAUSE

- "TOGGLE PAUSE" - default key = ESC

 

So there it is. 'Set' keys under 'MISCELLANEOUS', or default settings under 'MENU' with "TOGGLE".

Yep, if you open the Controls settings page and search for "pause" it's there but not assigned.

You need to assign "p" for pause, and "Ctrl+p" for un-pause, then Save the settings.

 

That worked for me!

 

Also, as a result, I finally found my neighborhood, and a very "rough" estimation of what my house looks like in MSFS

Worked for me thanks

OK...inquiring minds...

 

So this is what I found;

 

Under 'Controls/keyboard' (make sure 'Filter' is "All").

 

'MISCELLANEOUS';

- "SET PAUSE OFF"

- "SET PAUSE ON"

2 separate settings - 2 separate keys can be set...

 

'MENU';

- "TOGGLE ACTIVE PAUSE" - default key = PAUSE

- "TOGGLE PAUSE" - default key = ESC

 

So there it is. 'Set' keys under 'MISCELLANEOUS', or default settings under 'MENU' with "TOGGLE".

 

Thanks for your efforts.

 

I changed "TOGGLE ACTIVE PAUSE" to the Pause/Break key. It does nothing, so maybe that key really is defective on my keyboard.

 

Then I did what you said under MISC, and SET PAUSE ON = p, PAUSE OFF = CTRL + p.

 

I don't believe I saw any difference between that "Pause" and "Active Pause." Motor keeps going.

 

Mac6737

Thanks for your efforts.

 

I changed "TOGGLE ACTIVE PAUSE" to the Pause/Break key. It does nothing, so maybe that key really is defective on my keyboard.

 

Then I did what you said under MISC, and SET PAUSE ON = p, PAUSE OFF = CTRL + p.

 

I don't believe I saw any difference between that "Pause" and "Active Pause." Motor keeps going.

 

Mac6737

 

The motor sound does keep going, but the Pause did work for me.

I understand your complete frustration... My advice walk away for a few days, I've had three weeks of more crashes than flights.... I did some upgrades and now it all seems to work OK.... my only problem now are MS software bugs..... and those days are numbered as the team work there way through them....

Just a thought here, but has anyone experiencing these problems "optimized" their Windows 10 by removing "un-necessary" apps as recommended by some online "expert"?

Some of these "un-necessary" apps are actually necessary to MSFS, so you're much better off with a "vanilla" Windows 10 than an "optimized" Windows 10.