Let me get disclaimers out of the way first. I am not an avid flight simmer or modder, but I was so astonished MS could release a flight sim without the ability to save and load in progress flights I have been tinkering a bit with it and made an interesting discovery that I havent seen mentioned o…

Saving a .flt after “Start Flight” has never been possible in FS2020 or FS2024. You can only save/load a Flight Plan, .pln, before starting a flight.

Strange that some people get this to work and others not, wonder what the difference is ? I just tested this again, chose free flight, select depart cardiff airport, sat on runway I just select save/load–>save to PC in the EFB and then type cardif1.flt in the Windows file dialogue and it saves it …

Good that you mentioned 2. My hunch is that this setting makes the difference.

I wasn’t aware that you couldn’t save flights. If I went from NYC to Paris it would take a while.

I did a bit more testing on this on my Win10 machine Option 2 having the windows folder option to show file name extensions turned off as an experiemnt made no difference. I could still save a *.flt file, it is 19k in size and stores the flight data. if you save with no filename extension or a fi…

[image] Geoffw1234: So I still dont know why some folks cant get this to work, maybe they are on Win11, I cant test that theory though. What flight data is stored? When I follow your procedure, there is no flight data.

I cant seem to find a way to attach a file in this forum so apologies for long text file contents. ▶ Click the arrow to expand and see the Contents of the FLT File Moderator Edit: @Geoffw1234 : I’ve turned the contents of the file into a Summary item to minimize the length of the post. …

When you say you get no flight data, are you running Win10 or Win11 ?

Please tell us what you are describing as Flight data. I can see the .flt file that I created. Sitting in the Longitude, the FMS is blank. There is no flight data.

FS2024: Might have got in progess save/load flights working on PC?

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