I was eager to begin my Cessna 172 trip around the world but, I can’t seem to find a way of saving my flight ? Any ideas please ? msfs-2024
you can’t save your flight
2020 had the option, but it didn’t work
in 2024 they removed it completely
aparently they don’t think its necessary
Well then what use is it ?
Can the C172 import SimBrief flight plans?
My FSR500 can import them into its own EFB.
Do short flights so you don’t need to save the game mid-flight.
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this is one of the quandries with msfs
i use it because i think the scenery is unbeatable
but the devs are.. well.. they have their way of doing things
a proper (functional!) save/resume feature has been asked for since years ago
it has fallen on deaf ears
i dont understand it, but that’s how it is
How am I supposed to remember where I was in the middle of Mongolia ?
i fully understand
and i’m sorry you hit a brick wall inmediately after buying it, since i told you that 2024 is mostly good for bush flying, i figured the save/resume (which bothers me a lot) was mostly an airliner thing
I’m using a spreadsheet to track my round-the-world flight. You might take a look at Volanta…a third-party software that can track flights. I think the free version might do what you are looking for.
I highly recommend ending each session at an airport and just restarting from that point on the ground.
If you must start midflight or in the middle of nowhere, a tool like LittleNavMap, which is totally free, will let you easily copy your current latitude and longitude. You can then paste that into the search bar on the Flight Simulator World Map and then set your altitude there as well.
FS24 is still unstable enough that you might want to do this to resume a flight after a crash to desktop, rather than doing the entire flight over.
Personal Comments and Observation
Many ways to work around this.
Use an External Electronic Flight Bag utility like Little Nav Map which can trace your route while flying. You can make a note of the Lat/Long Coordinates where you stopped the flying session and start in-flight from there.
Plan your trip realistically. I don’t intend to be sitting down for longer than two hours. My rear and my real life don’t give me more time than that for this hobby continuously in a given day. So plan out in advance for smaller, real world segments. It’s also more enjoyable that way. Instead of being focused on chewing up miles, you can actually enjoy what’s happening around you.
Just some suggestions.
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I highly recommend LittleNavMap. It connects to MSFS, draws a trail in the air as it follows your aircraft, and can make flight plans exactly like what you’re asking about.
In your case for Mongolia, the workflow would be:
- Run LittleNavMap while you are flying
- Decide to quit your flight
- Look at and make note of where your aircraft trail is
- Quit your flight
- Before resuming play, open LittleNavMap, make a new flight plan
- Right-click on the end of your aircraft trail and “Add to Flight Plan”
- Choose one or two more points in the direction you were heading, doing the same right-click action
- Save the Flight Plan to your computer
- Open MSFS Free Flight
- Open the EFB
- Load the Flight Plan off your computer
- Resume flying
- Go wherever you want, just when you’re done, pay attention to the aircraft trail
- Rinse and Repeat
You may find you get hooked on LittleNavMap. It’s really amazing in its depth, if you explore it. But it’s also easy to set up and use if you just want simplicity.
Little Nav Nap with navconnect will show you on the map your whole trip to date.
Oh, I couldn’t be bothered with all that faff. I just want to jump back in and continue. I have lots of flights going on in the world.
I just find it unbelievable a save feature isn’t there. So not for me. I got a refund and continue my journey up the Kamchatkan Peninsula in my 172 on MSFS 2020 (which I find ultra stable and pretty enough). Happy flights. 
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Did not work. Pasting the LNM coordinates into “Search Location” (at upper left of World Map screen) gives me two choices in lower left corner of screen: “Edit text field” and “Validate”. Click on “Validate”, that box then becomes “Select”, clicking that then I get “Set as departure”. But the departure location is always just the center of the map display, not the coordinates in Search Location.
I can confirm, and this appears to be some kind of regression in the latest version. Pasting coordinates with the default Little Navmap degrees, minutes, seconds formatting such as: 14° 45’ 52.45" S 70° 2’ 45.76" W does not work.
You can change the Little Navmap units preferences to use “latitude longitude with sign” which turns the above into something like: -15.11736 -69.69088
That works when put into the search bar. What’s weird is that the search result is formatted in degrees, seconds, and minutes almost exactly like what you’d paste with the default formatting from Little Navmap. Probably just some mundane string parsing bug.
Unfortunately I don’t see an option to edit the altitude now unless I’m missing it.