It’s not the first time it happened to me, but I had forgotten it.
Curiosly it was under the skies of Austria both times, even though I don’t use to fly over there…
I was flying a really delightful flight over the alps when I had to stop to make spome errands and I paused the flight using the pause button in the toolbar.
After an hour or more, I went back to my flight and, surprise! fuel tanks were zeroed, the time had elapsed and engine had flamed out…
I made all my efforts and I found a beautiful valley to land, but not flat enough, so I killed myself and also Heidi and her goats in the landing attempt!}
So, What do you understand by a “pause”?
Just a mere stop in the air while everything else, (engine, consommables, time) keeps going on just the same?
Why not a more usual concept of pause freezing everything, like the old VHS when pushing the “pause” button??
I incline by the latter and I believe many other virtual pilots too…
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Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered: Just start an engine, tank half-fuelled, pause and go doing anything for a couple of hours or so, then go back and check what has happened.
The ‘Pause’ in the Tools Bar is an ‘active pause’ that stops the plane but not the simulation world, it’s for setting your coms, crs, etc and not mess up you simulation state too much
To actually Pause the - whole - Game, you hit the familiar Escape, and that will pause the whole game until you Resume.
There is also another Pause in the ‘developer’ menus, I think I remember, a full pause but within the cockpit, thus the classic pause that you thought you entered but you did not.
The other thing that pause/resume tends to do is sync your virtual cockpit with your controls. Not a major issue you might think, but if you have started on a runway, with the engines running, and had previously left your physical mixture control lever in the low setting, the virtual equivalent will stay high until you either move it or resume from a pause.
On the bright side, it can create a bit of excitement and it should prompt a better check of controls before you take off next time.
Assign the P-key to pause the Sim and Ctrl+P to unpause. Now you can easily adjust everything you want or take a break without advancing the physics of the flight.
