Hopefully the team looks into this issue as it’s pretty significant and has the potential to completely ruin a flight session if you find yourself in this situation. Navigraph support looked into it and indicated that the issue wasn’t within their ability to correct. Here was their response.
Thank you for the clarification!
Upon further investigation… welp! This seems to be completely out of our control. Seems like this started happening at the same time that Asobo decided to completely reset the panels when closed.
Basically, if you have a field focused and then close the panel before the field is unfocused, you can no longer return the focus to the simulator - even if you open the panel again and do all the things you’d usually do to return the focus. This seems to come down to the fact that this just creates an “all-new” panel that knows nothing about its now-destroyed predecessor.
I am really sorry but there seems to be nothing we can do here, we don’t have any influence over the development of the simulator. However, you can rest assured that this is equally annoying to us as well - so if you see some panel in the wild that seems to be able to do this successfully, please let us know and we’ll be more than happy to be proven wrong and fix this!
Kind Regards,
Malte