Fuel consumed during pause

[LeadedDust18891]

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Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?

No

Have you disabled/removed all your mods and addons?

NA

Brief description of the issue:

When sim is paused, fuel continues to be consumed. When I un-pause, aircraft engines are shut down.

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

NA

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Pause sim in either “menu” or “active” pause. Leave paused for a few hours and when you return, airplane fuel will be empty.

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

NA

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

Current - not a beta tester

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[Speed1994]

This is not a bug. It is working as intended!

Active pause continues to simulate the plane flying but stops it from moving. Another example of this is when you are climbing and active pause, your airspeed will continue to drop and then when you unpause, you will instantly stall.

There are keybindings called ‘set pause on’ and ‘set pause off’ that you can assign to buttons in the settings. This will ‘properly pause’ the game.

Edit: See this wishlist item discussion
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/toggle-pause-binding-not-active-pause/373924/3

[Tossy64]

OP said it also happens with the Menu pause.

[Speed1994]

I believe menu pause also behaves like an active pause. If you want a proper pause you have to do this:

@Speed1994

There are keybindings called ‘set pause on’ and ‘set pause off’ that you can assign to buttons in the settings. This will ‘properly pause’ the game.

Then you can open the menu afterwards if you wish.

[Liaram]

This is not a bug. It is working as intended!

What is the purpose of that behavior? When is it useful?

[LeadedDust18891]

Great question! The entire purpose to “pause” something is for it to temporarily stop functioning. I mean if you pause a movie, it doesn’t keep playing in the background only to skip ahead after un-pausing.

[Speed1994]

@Liaram

What is the purpose of that behavior? When is it useful?

Unknown and unknown, I’m not fan of it and don’t use it because of the negative reasons listed in this thread.

@LeadedDust18891

The entire purpose to “pause” something is for it to temporarily stop functioning. I mean if you pause a movie, it doesn’t keep playing in the background only to skip ahead after un-pausing.

Exactly!

[EdamllamaB]

It is MEANT to allow you to do things like change settings while the plane stops mid-air but effectively keeps flying. In practice it is actually pretty useless.

[MichaMMA]

may be makes sense to mention that Guide:

[HOW-TO] How to actually PAUSE the sim!

(Guide updated 15 September 2020 with permission of OP) You have perhaps heard that MSFS has an active pause feature but what about the traditional FSX style regular pause? There are three kinds of pauses: Active pause (default key: PAUSE): this freezes the plane but everything else goes on… which may end in disaster quickly: only use this when in level flight and to make a small adjustment to something (which may be hard to do while flying). It is not advised for taking screenshots or usin…

[N316TS]

Hi there,
Indeed, this is a deliberate choice by the developers. Instead of closing this out, I’m going to move it to Community Support for others to see.

In addition to the Wishlist topic suggested by Speed1994, you may also want to look at this one (feel free to vote for both if you would like – they’re not duplicates):

Please let us have a pause mode that actually freezes time

Currently, none of the pause mode (active pause, pause on/off, menu pause) freezes time. It just keep your aircraft in position but time ticks on. I’m thinking ahead to a point when we will be flying long haul on airliner addons and when we will be using the useful “pause at top of descent” feature many such addons provide. I would like to be able to come back a few hours later and still land the plane at it’s intended arrival time. With the current implementation of pauses, however, time will…

[OracularTripod7]

Active pause is pretty useless. FSX pause actually paused the simulation (including time) while allowing us to interact with the plane, I have no idea why this isn’t in this sim.

[ionic81]

All pause mode consuming fuel, can’t do a real long flight

[pia51]

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

YES

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with A310

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[HawgDawg4Life]

that is the dumbest ■■■■ I have ever heard of. So Im flying a long flight, my child cuts their finger off. I gotta say to my wife, sure, we can take him to the hospital just let me finish this flight first. lol
No, this is not a real example.

[Speed1994]

You also have the option of pressing ESC (escape) to properly pause the game.

If your child cuts their finger off and you’re worried about losing your progress on your flight, your priorities might be a bit wrong lol

[HawgDawg4Life]

Im glad my bad example caught your attention. but the same can be said for diarrhea, or the cops knocking at your door, or cooking dinner while on a 6.5 hour flight. Im glad my point was made. Just an FYI, my kids are in their 30’s, so if they cut their finger off, they are on their own. lol. Ill come visit, but not if im in the middle of a flight.

[Speed1994]

@HawgDawg4Life

but the same can be said for diarrhea, or the cops knocking at your door, or cooking dinner while on a 6.5 hour flight.

@Speed1994

You also have the option of pressing ESC (escape) to properly pause the game.

[HawgDawg4Life]

You are obviously missing the point. Why the F should EVERYONE have to find this out the hard way? Are you suggesting that fuel should continue to be used in active pause?

[Speed1994]

I’m not missing the point.

The fact of the matter is that it was an intentional design decision by Asobo.

There is a how-to guide about working around it here https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-how-to-actually-pause-the-sim/143817

If you read my posts in this topic you will see that I am not a fan of Active Pause.

There is a Wishlist topic about this too https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/please-let-us-have-a-pause-mode-that-actually-freezes-time/171916
I voted for this wish a long time ago.