After a flight, hitting the ESC key, I always see [Enter] VALIDATE next to the other menu items, to the right of Main Menu. What the heck does the validate button do anyway?
Along the bottom of the screen? Isnāt it just telling you how to navigate the menus with your keyboard?
Yes, hitting the [Enter] key would Validate. Validate what?.. is the question.
Validate your menu selection?
Probably lost in translation, just like āset up your experienceā which I think should be saying āpreparing your experienceā.
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I agree, the function/purpose of this VALIDATE button is undocumented and doesnāt appear to do anything. I think it got left there by mistake.
I hit it anywayā¦ like the press any key buttonā¦
Itās an odd terminology to meā¦ Maybe itās a translation thing. When I see validate I think Iām causing a process to āvalidateā some information I entered and return a result. Not that Iām validating my own choice.
I was hoping it was to validate your flight and confirm it to the log. If you donāt validate, itās not a valid flight and wonāt be logged!?!?
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This ^ At least thats what I thought it did, it will go away pretty quick if you dont press validate, so Im guessing that it writes to log book anyway.
When the sim first came out you would get it after every flight (did not matter how you ended the flight), it was supposed to trigger entries in the log book. Now it works sometimes!
I never had to press it was just a pop up.
Perhaps a moderator could step in and explain how this button works in the sim?
After you taxi to your gate, you use the option to validate your parking 
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Iād also be curious as to what this button does. It does nothing as far as I can tell, but Iād still like to know its purpose.
Totally this. Asobo clearly intend it to mean āconfirmā, but it just doesnāt.
Baffling that MS allowed it to be released without this stuff being corrected.
It just means āConfirm Selection.ā For instance, when ending a flight, you normally hit Esc, then click the option on screen. But if you look at the bottom, you can also hit End, at which point the āValidateā option appears so that you can confirm your choice.
In my experience, it validates files (such as in the community folder).
In my case, playing around with Ai traffic models, if you make a change in the community folder (adding a new model plane for example), you get the āValidateā option when you start the game. When you validate, the game make new duplicate files/folders (appended with a ā.CVT_ā extension with cvt.nzz files inside). These files appear to be compressed version of the source.
EDIT Should add, the process of validation also appears to put these files into the content management/update system when you check the content manager.
Then it should say that, just bad translationā¦
Well, translation or not, it really does mean all the same - validate is to confirm, as confirm is to validate. It is the same meaning either way. I think the larger issue is - whatās it doing there? Is it necessary, or perhaps something that was intended for another purpose.
I only get the āvalidateā option if I donāt complete a flight, as I usually do with an engine shutdown.