Global Time Not Progressing at the Increased Sim Rate

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:white_check_mark: SIM INFORMATION

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  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024: MSFS 2024

  • Version Build Number (Where do I locate that?): 1.1.7.0

  • Game Platform (Example: Steam, Xbox, MS Store): XBox (Series X)

:white_check_mark: ISSUE DESCRIPTION

  1. Description of the issue: Give a brief description of the issue:

When increasing sim rate in MSFS 2024, time advances more quickly for the plane and pilot, but moves at the same rate globally. This functionality is bugged because increasing the sim rate should accelerate the rate at which global time moves, as was the case in MSFS 2020.

For longer-distance flights, most flight sim enthusiasts will increase the simulation rate in the cruise phase, allowing them to arrive at waypoints, fixes, and destinations in a shorter real-world time but at the same expected sim-time they would otherwise. For example, if it is 1700 UTC in-sim and my next fix is 40 minutes away, increasing sim rate to double should allow me to arrive at the fix at 1740 UTC sim-time after only 20 real-world minutes have elapsed.

This is how increased sim rate behaves in MSFS 2020. In MSFS 2024, increasing sim rate is bugged: global time does not progress at the increased sim rate. This creates all sorts of problems for the proper simulation of flight navigation, which requires a pilot to arrive at geographic fixes at specific times during the flight.

  1. Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? No add-ons installed.

:white_check_mark: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you? (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)
Consistently

:white_check_mark: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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As can be seen in the video clip above, one can observe the issue by pulling up the EFB and selecting the stopwatch. When the stopwatch is started and the sim rate is increased, time on the stopwatch moves at an increased rate. However, global time shown on the aircraft’s clock continues to move at the real-world rate rather than at the increased sim rate.

:white_check_mark: YOUR SETTINGS

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  1. What peripherals are you using, if relevant: Standard-issue Xbox controller.

  2. [PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

  3. [PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? N/A

  4. [PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? N/A

  5. [PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? N/A

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I doubt this issue is limited to the Longitude but who knows maybe it is.
When you adjust sim rate the world time moves faster but the flight time clock stays at 1X.

(I just checked this is is in all airplanes)

Example video here: I am using 4X but and you can see world time is going fast but flight clock is still 1X.

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So crucial for long haul flights. This needs fixing!!

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I find when I use simrate the world clock stops at that time and doesnt move forward at all.

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I can confirm too. I did several flight with A330 at up to x8 simrate and clocks time stay at 1x as well as the fuel flow… So I landed with a lot more fuel than predicted. Annoying for long haul flight…

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

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• Issue still present on version 1.1.9.0

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Oh gosh that is even worse then I thought. I didn’t know fuel was also impatced.
That is total garbage.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• Same issue and it’s a problem because the way to know which rate you’re using is by looking at the clock. If the clock doesn’t progress quicker there is no way to get back to standard sim rate.

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Ok I did a long flight and played with Sim Rate…

I went from the USA to London England in the Longitude and total flight time should be about six hours. The airplane clock was about 2 hours total … (match real time clock) and the world time also only moved 2 hours.
But my fuel burn was right for the 6 hour flight (so that is good).

But the SIM game rate is broken!

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Why after all this time is there still no way to display the sim rate?

After going to 4X and back to 1X it feels like it is running slower than 1X.

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At least all inibuilds Airbus (A310, A320, A330) are affected by this bug as well - and have been in MSFS2020. Clocks and fuel flow do not take sim rate into account. In you use a higher sim rate on long haul, you will have an overweight landing.
This has been reported and logged three years ago, but still no change.
B787 and other Working Title aircraft are not affected and give correct time and fuel with higher sim rate.

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Not only that - changing the sim rate settings sometimes makes it impossible to go back to 1x. Its either too slow or too fast. The fact there is no option to reset to 1.0 and that the current sim rate is not displayed for a moment when you engage it is beyond my comprehension.

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Isn’t it a matter of decreasing the sim rate by the same amount you increased it to get back to 1? And if it’s not displayed how would you know it isn’t back to 1?
But yeah that’s a huge bummer that the actual time doesn’t increase as sim-rate work very well with the A330, even at 4x.

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This issue is impacting the Longitude in FS 2024 and I thought the longitude was now a working titles airplane.

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In other versions of FS when it is working. The world clock will show time and you can just look closely at that and see when your back to 1X time. The problem is now that world time is NOT moving in this simulator correctly or the airplane time is not working correctly.

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I use this from FS20, it does work in FS24

https://flightsim.to/file/16358/shift-z-stats

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

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Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged

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

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• Sim rate works with some planes, but fuel consumption and in game global time don’t change.

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Exact same issue as OP, sim rate accelerates but not time accordingly (unlike MSFS2020)

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