Keyboard stroke Active Pause

[ChiefLettuce827]

Is there a keyboard stroke for Toggle Active Pause ??

[Emilio19711108]

Hi!. Just press the Pause key.

[cianpars]

Mine is “P”. I can’t remember if that was default or whether I bound my “P” key to it in the keyboard profile.

[JoachimJoeS]

Have a look at this 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…

from the Pilots Guides section of this forum.

[ChiefLettuce827]

@Emilio19711108

Hi!. Just press the Pause key.

And where is that on my keyboard ??

[Emilio19711108]

In a standard keboard, is this key…

[ChiefLettuce827]

Here is my keyboard. Doesn’t seem to be a Pause key. so I have bound the RHS Plus/Minus keys instead.

[ChiefLettuce827]

Thanks…That works

[JoachimJoeS]

Glad you got it working - the pause keyboard button is not used in most application anymore and is not so obvious it’s there - so it’s handy to bind to and use, MSFS used this as a default key here - the actual pause button on the keyboard comes from the older PC days, where you used this button to break, hold a process or BIOS that the computer was executing.

And like with your keyboard; it’s a function key, that’s not available on all keyboards.

[meh1951]

Guess you’ll have to map a key to active pause

[ChiefLettuce827]

Yes that is what I did, and it works OK.