It does actually, at least up to a point. Glass cockpit displays etc work fine. Other buttons can be pressed too, but don’t change position or register until you unpause. Nonetheless it does work.
See a couple of other posts on this topic:
I agree it looks a bit rubbish. However, more importantly, it encourages people to use Active Pause which I really hope eveyone knows is NOT the way to pause the game in order to be able to do anything useful (programme FMS, use the drone, go to the bathroom) and come back and find your plane in one piece. The way to do that is SET PAUSE ON and SET PAUSE OFF.
See this post for details. Active pause should be banned:
Other than that, the update is working brilliantly for me.
OK, give the 1/4 rate a go. I find it more than adequate. You can also mix and match. So slow time down, then press SET PAUSE ON [NOT active pause]. Look around the instruments, decide what you want to do etc. press SET PAUSE OFF, game still running at 1/4 speed - make the instrument chnages. SET PAUSE ON again, fly the drone around, do whatever you want, decide to chage more instruments, press SET PAUSE OFF make those changes, return to normal speed etc. You get the idea. It is pretty flexible! …