I hate that logbook times arent recorded in Developer mode in MSFS. I do some really great flights and I cannot log them. It looks like I have extremely low flight time, when I have tons in reality on MSFS.
So⊠A thought. What about a setting that says âFlight Time in Dev Modeâ. And perhaps a second feature that says âLog this flight time as a flightâ so that its not thrown away. Another words, and option to show a flight that you feel is a legitimate flight, and being able to save it âinâ Developer mode.
Iâm all for it. Often forget to switch off dev mode until Iâm in the air. Also use the Volocopter to fly from my house to the airport and then switch to another plane. Itâs annoying to have to go back to the main menu and reload a new flight.
But I sort of understand the logic behind it, since you can âcheatâ and can alter the results of i.e. a landing challenge by switching to a different plane.
In regular flight you can only cheat yourself basically.
Maybe they could bind the logbook to the plane switch in the air. So as long as you switch planes while stationary on the ground you wonât lose the logbook.
Or they could make it possible to change planes without dev mode as long as youâre parked cold and dark on the ground and not on a runway.
Good point but itâs easy to solve. Just donât allow entry into challenges if you are in dev mode. A simple pop up to remind you to switch should do the trick.
The question here is, why are you flying in Developer mode? I would think you only use developer mode when you are âdeveloping somethingâ or doing some benchmarking purposes, or testing something. When youâre not doing development activities, and doing actual flying. Just turn it off.
I donât know how you can forget to switch off Dev mode, it has a very obtrusive menu showing at the top of the screen. Even if you forget to turn it off from your previous session, when opening MSFS the first time, the dev menu is the first thing that sticks out on the screen before you even start a flight. So it should be easily noticeable.
Iâm not talking about the toolbar that appears when you hover the mouse. Iâm talking about the Dev mode menu thatâs always visible all the time when dev mode is on. At least for me itâs always there and will never disappear unless I go to the Options and Turn off the Dev mode, which will remove the bar entirely.
I mean I do a lot of stuff in Dev mode too, but I never really forget to turn it off because the top menu is always there and itâs so glaringly obvious. When Iâm finished with what Iâm doing in dev mode, I always turn it off when Iâm done. And if I need to open it, then I turn on Dev mode, do my thing, and when Iâm done, I turn it off.
Log time where? The profile? Thatâs never going to happen as that is tied to achievement progress and using DevMode could effectively allow cheats/unfair advantage when logging for an achievement.
As far as I can recall flights made with DevMode on still get logged in the LogbookâŠjust not the profile (which is where the flight hours are recorded)
Yes, this is essentially true. But it seems that in modern gaming âAchievementsâ are a very popular mechanic and it seems that many may consider their completion important. Thus, cheating which results in unfair progress in an achievement system is not just cheating yourself.
This thread reminds me of a famous quote, just wish I could remember the author and exact wordingâŠ
âPilots record their time in the air with such detail and precision itâs as if time spent in any other pursuit simply isnât worth noting.â
Whoever said it, itâs true.
If the time counts towards any kind of achievement, why not just block dev mode time from counting towards that, but keep all the other logging data? I find it kind of strange that it doesnât even log the three most recently visited airports in dev mode. That would be handy now and then.
If thereâs an achievement for tabbing out to 3DS Max and completely forgetting that FS is running in the background for 2 hours, with 37 airplanes piled up on the taxiway behind me⊠I should have that one 20x over by now. They could call it the âHey dude, the lightâs green now you know.â achievement.
I want to go one step further. If you are in Development mode and the current project is an Aircraft, log the hours and add a new column as âExperimentalâ.
Test Pilots donât stop logging hours when they fly an âExperimentalâ aircraft, why should we?
