Is there a way to conceal or disable the spinning icon in flight?

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That looks like an autosave or loading icon.

I believe it is, but it’s very bothersome. I was hoping there was a way to hide it similar to the mod that hides the pop-out menus at the top.

The spinner is related to network traffic (downloading data/uploading data (likely multiplayer, and/or analytics)). There is no in-sim default way to disable it, I don’t know about mods.

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I find it bothersome as well.

I spent some time a while back trying to analyse what causes it and noticed that it appears independent of whether online services are on or off. I think disk use can also trigger it. (It appears when creating a new rolling cache file).

I filed a zendesk ticket about the issue in October 2020 and received this reply:

Thanks for contacting Microsoft Flight Simulator Support today.

It looks like that what you are experiencing is a known issue - the circle is just showing that scenery is being loaded in.

Kind regards,
Microsoft Flight Simulator Support Team

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