If the simulator recognizes my engine is stopped and my avionics are down and my AC or DC battery main power is off, it normally lets me know that it thinks the flight is over by popping up the log book.
I have turned all the Master switches off, after turning off the engine, the plane seems cold and dark, I don’t think this thing has an APU or something else that does not appear on the dash board and yet the flight doesn’t seem to be recognized as “over”. Is this a bug or did I miss out on something? I super love ths plane and it’s big fun to fly and I wish I knew what it was I’m doing wrong.
Shut off fuel supply (lower left just under your seat). Usually cutting off fuel regardless of what else you’ve turned off is enough to trigger the Logbook.
If you come off the runway you trigger “announce clear of runway” - when you shut down your flight ends.
If you drift back onto the runway, (cross the runway etc) this then triggers “you want to take off again” and once that happens you don’t get the log book and need to ESC - Return to Main Menu.
Actually all you need to do in the case of uncontrolled fields is to make sure you’re in one of the defined ramp spots. Use Little Nav Map to zoom in to the field and see the green spots.
That works, but you don’t need to do it. If you land at an airfield, taxi off to one side, and watch the ATC window for the option to announce you are clear of the runway, you can shut down right there, no where near parking. It will still log correctly.
The other issue is where you then taxi across another runway, or back on to the one you just came off, and if the ATC window changes once more, you may then have logging issues.
I’ve not tried doing that, then heading for a parking spot. That may be quicker than taking off only to reset the Objectives flow if you want your flight to log correctly.
There is actually a dialogue option to “announce clear of runway” even if you accidentally stray back onto the runway and trigger the take off objective’s.
Seems they missed a line of code that would insert an argument to end flight.
I land in people’s front yards, back fields, roads etc and always after I kill the engine then the avionics the log book will popup. Now If I get back in the air and finish the flight it doesnt always log at the next stop, but thats what I have little nav map for right? ;p
Very valid point. I have landed on airstrips that do not actually exist in MSFS, although they DO exist in real life. Just an opening in the trees out in the mountains as far as MSFS is concerned. Land, park, shutdown, logbook.
I have been called for supper and quickly plopped down at the most convenient location, shutdown, logbook.
I am not sure that the system really cares where are when you shut down. As long as you park and shut down you will get a landing entry in the log. It may just read “vicinity” but it will be there.
You can even just fly into the side of a mountain and get a log entry. You will be short on landing side of the ledger but it will be logged.
This doesn’t trigger the objectives reset though. As far as the objectives are concerned you are not heading back to a runway. You are simply in between airports.
It’s when you trigger the objectives reset that the logic gets itself in a bind and won’t end the flight.
Could be the case for sure.
Honestly, I have never opened the objectives window. Having never paid any attention to it, I cannot comment on it’s logic, or lack of it.
I admit I have had a couple trips where the sim didn’t want to pop the log after shutdown so I just hit ESC and quit to the menu. Not like Transport is going to want to review my logbook for accuracy.
