I have had many long haul flights ruined when my internet temporarily goes out for a short while over night, however when the internet comes back the sim remains in the pause menu until you have to manually unpause it.
This issue has ruined many long haul flights for me and the community because a slight internet drop overnight will cause the entire sim to be paused when you check up on it the next time, drastically pushing back TOD times.
I request that the sim should automatically unpause when internet connection is resumed. If we weren’t in the pause menu state to begin with, why should it go and STAY in the pause menu state after internet connection is resumed?
Edit: It seems like the community wants this to be an optional feature and not default. I’m perfectly fine with this as long my suggestion is added, and if others don’t want it as default that’s okay too.
OP and I discussed this on the MSFS discord and I suggested that, if implemented, this feature should absolutely be toggleable and off by default. I would be afraid that the following scenario could happen:
line up on final approach
lose internet, sim pauses
step away while the network connection is down
internet is restored while still away, sim automatically un-pauses
plane eats ground
sadness ensues
Making this a configurable “Automatically Resume Flights After Connection Re-established” toggle would be the best way to meet everyone’s needs.
100% this. I’m not going to vote for this wish in its current state because this sort of function needs to be optional. I see no reason to let the sim run for hours on end If I’m not at the controls. If my net drops, I may step away for a few minutes just in case it comes right back, but that’s it. I would need the sim to remain paused so I don’t come back to some unintended aero/acro-batics (yay for crashes being disabled).
If the wish is updated to making an optional toggle, then it will get my vote. Alternatively, consider having an offline fallback that lets you keep flying with limited functions and auto-gen scenery.
For a bit of context, OP is regularly flying ultra long haul flights overnight while they’re asleep, usually leveraging aircraft’s “pause at top of descent” feature. In this example though, it seemed to pause when connection was lost early in the flight, so when they woke up the majority of the flying that was meant to occur overnight did not.
Hey, I had the same problem, but I found a workaround for it.
You can set up a Vjoy device and assign one of the buttons in the MSFS control settings to “Set pause off”.
Then you can write a script for the program “AutoHotkey” to press that button at whatever interval you want. Every second, minute or whatever you want.
I’m not gonna add any script in here, because i don’t know if it’s allowed to post scripts here, but it’s pretty easy. It does NOT do anything to MSFS itself, it just automatically presses that button on that Vjoy device
So when the pause menu is active, AutoHotkey is pressing that button and will close it, so that the flight can contiune.