My flight occasionally switches to the options page

[jimimac5947]

After I have been flying for awhile maybe 30 mins and I haven’t touched any controls my flight switches to the options page I am able to resume the flight with no issue but can’t understand why this happens any help please

[NixonRedgrave]

Is this your issue?

Look over this thread:

Xbox controller pauses long haul flights

What follows below is a bug and not a feature, which MS / Asobo needs to sort out for their Xbox MSFS users. It stops the enjoyment of any long flight. The xbox controller stops the running of the simulation when presumably the controller battery saving feature times out. This cause the simulation to stop and does not restart until a human intervenes. This means a flight longer than 5 - 10 minutes will terminate/pause unless the controller is being played with. Long haul flights over the atl…

[jimimac5947]

Yes that was the problem thank you for the link much appreciated