Hello everyone,
I think this is my first message here, so I come up with this proposition for MSFS.
Before starting, I know that this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, you might say that this is a Useless waste of resources or anything, and that has nothing to do in a Flight Sim, I understand that people got different point of view, but please, just see it through my eyes.
I wish to have a « Persistent Online Mode », in a way that you have your plane flying even when the simulator is not running.
I Know, I Know, you may say « That is useless, this is a Flight Sim etc » or for any reason you may have, but please, keep reading, maybe you might agree on some points.
I fly Airliners mostly, now waiting for Long Haulers, but my need for the Persistent Online Mode also applies for Medium Hauls, which even more people uses.
Who never had a CTD while flying, or just after setting up your flight in CDU/FMC/MCDU ? Who never had a short lived Power Outage few hours/minutes before Descent? Who never had to reboot the PC because the Sim, or another app was making problems? Or who is wishing to be able to do a Long Haul but unable to do so because the PC can’t run Games for too long?
About Long Hauler, you may know, once cruising, what are you doing? Just like Real Pilots, you are watching your systems from afar while doing something else, right?
My memories from FSX, to give you an idea, I did WSSS-KEWR 3 Times, 18h of flight, leaving PC running all night while sleeping, with FSX preventing PC to « sleep » so Bright bedroom all night, wishing I could stop the PC and restart next morning, which would also allow to reset the PC, close back running apps and so, having Optimal PC resources for Arrival.
For Long Haul I do during daytime, I wish I could stop the sim when cruising just to save PC performances and be able to use other apps and Software
When I do Long Hauls, when Cruising, I just spend the whole flight wishing for the sim to not Crash (Well, Less than before, I now have a Better PC and Asobo did an Amazing on MSFS performances), nor having a power outage (those happens quite often where I live).
Others people would probably want to make a Long Haul while they are at work/school, so not at home to monitor what happen on their PC, I had that deception to come back after a long day at School, to a Turned Off PC after a Local (House only) Power outage… while I expected to have at least 3 hours of flight left, so far enough to prepare descent and landing.
I understand that people flying on Networks like VATSim, IVAO etc, are against thing as we need to be constantly online for ATC, but not everyone are, I am not into network. But people who want to long Long Haulers on Volanta, SimToolKitPro, Projectfly would be happy to do them without worrying for a Sim/PC crash or Power Outage, even for people with weaker PC, who can’t run MSFS more than few hours before it starts overheating.
For the Best, I would suggest to Possibility to Turn On/Off the Persistence Mode, as people who are doing VFR without AutoPilot might not me interested. Or for many other reason that even Me, I would need the Persistent mode disabled when I’m just wandering around.
I think I’m done; sorry if there are weirdly made sentences or even typos, I’m French.
I wish you all Happy Flights and safe Landings!
Regards, SkyLane