What I am looking for is a system like FS-Recorder (FSX), that effectively record the users input to the sim, and the state of instruments, and then allow the plane to be flow again from those recordings.
This would meet the “I want to view the plane while it is flying” need, as well as provide a way to fly a plane in MSFS in a repeatable way, that can be shared between users (TESTERS).
It becomes a TEST script. – Something that is so very much needed for those testing MSFS, and trying to reproduce bugs, in a consistent and repeatable way.
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Imagine that I fly a plane in MSFS and record it … and at some point it causes a CTD.
If play back that recording, flying the plane again, and it consistently does a CTD at the same point of the flight.
I send that “Recorded script” to others, and some CTD, some don’t.
We all change the plane, and fly again, and nobody has a CTD.
We all go back to the original plane, and now fly without real weather.
Nobody now gets a CTD.
Look how much detailed Debug info this has “reliably” generated.
Asobo flies with this “recorded script” – reproduce exactly what the users have found, and because they are running in a debug development environment, can see the cause, and fix it.
A decent SCRIPT recording system is a MUST for MSFS, for both users, 3rd party developers, and Asobo.