Have you seen this topic, is it the same issue?
Do you have the same issue if you follow the OPâs steps to reproduce it?
YES
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NOTHING TO ADD. ITâS BEEN AN ONGOING ISSUE FOR A LONG TIME.
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Saving should save everything, including flight plan, state of all avionics in the aircraft, etc. EVERYTHING.
Loading a save should restore EVERYTHING in the game, including all settings in the aircraft, and the state of the game world (except âreal timeâ online things) to EXACTLY what they were at the moment the game was saved.
Anything less than this, is not a âsaveâ at all, just a defective product that MS should be ashamed of and immediately fix.
For example, I recently had to run an errand in real life, so I saved my flight (which took 30 minutes of configuring to get set up properly in the A310).
When I got back home, I loaded the game, and everything in the plane was black, no power, no thrust. It fell right out of the sky. WTF guys.
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Iâm just the messenger.
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The lack of a working save and resume is the biggest frustration in this game and been an issue since day 1 . Amazed nothing has been done about it.
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This fault is crazy! I have written to Zendesk about it and am not convinced that they are going to fix it any time soon! I am now going to DM Asobo since even FS 4 did not have this problem! Another issue is that slew mode doesnât alter the altitude head up display!
âBout the closest thing to a work-around is to set up your flight plan in LNM and then use it to create a pseudo âbush tripâ in Bushtrip Injector.
At least that way when you resume youâll still have your FP, (although your plane will be at a different altitude and all your AP settings will be pooched 
)
What Iâve always done is, if I want to leave a flight halfway, I simply close it.
When I want to resume the flight later, I just start a new flight (with a flightplan to the same destination) but starting where I left off. When the flight starts, I enter Slew Mode and adjust altitude, fuel etc and carry on.
Yes, itâs a bit of a faff, and itâs not perfect (the weather might not be the same) but it works.
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I understand the issues. I attempted to fly a plan from Honolulu to Guam in a A320, but when I reopened a saved flight, the plan was gone from the FMC. Then I would have to adjust the altitude again. Even if I did reenter the plan into the FMC, it still seems fuzzy to see if I am on the correct flight plan.
No one should have to âdevelopâ a flight to make it work after reloading a saved flight in lieu of a long haul. The game should already be developed and should not be the job of the end user.
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When a flight is saved and subsequently loaded can the current configuration of the aircraft please be saved/loaded, i.e.:
The flight plan
The throttle position
The auto pilot settings
EtcâŠ
In other words load the flight exactly as it was when saved. I appreciate the live weather cannot be saved.
Thank you
This is the point this feature does not work
PMDG state saving is excellant the only aircraft I know that works well.
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Yes,
this is typical example about fantastic PMDG functionality! Then with this example is more clear that save/load flights is somehow more depended to specific aircraft and its settings. It is looks like devs system know how with cooperation with Asobo in my opinion. My flights with Seneca are saved ok but some settings are missing if I good remember. Good to have this load functionality to continue my flight after some crash of sim and similar situations. I need set FPL again and set some freq but it is +/- ok to me, our luck is that this functional is still ok.
I know this is an old thread, but encountered this today. Been flying for over 2 hours, had to leave the house for a few hours so saved my flight, now reloaded and while everything is there (plane in the right position, height etc), the flightplan is empty, no NAV data (pink line), so Iâm flying âblindâ now or need to input the whole FP manually. Still not fixed??? (btw, saved locally since saving to cloud has its own issues with the menu bar disappearing after load).
The re-loading of a .pln (or flight plan) seems to be currently unavailable.
A .flt file (saved flight) does not include the flight plan. As of now, it appears one needs to start again from before âFly Nowâ to create a flight plan.
Also see this thread about loading .pln after fly now.
It use to be possible to re-load a .pln file and even request ATC clearance for a new/different flight plan (by loading a .pln file) while airborne.
You donât mention which plane you are using. I tried it with the A310 yesterday and it failed miserably too. The flight plan was gone as well as all other settings. I had to manually fly the plane but it is a handful to keep straight and level, as well as the a/p disconnected beeping continuously. I gave up.
For most aircraft the flight plan is in the .flt file and there is a pointer to the .pln file. The .flt file only works correctly as long as no intervening flights are started. The .flt file is mainly to restart a flight while flying or after flight completion.
The problem is that the A310 (and others) cannot load into the FMS a .pln created by the World Map by design. So the flight plan has to be restored from the original source. If the flight plan was entered manually into the FMS, it is not saved in the .flt file. AFAIK there is no way to save entered FMS data so it needs to be manually re-entered.
There are 2 types of .flt files.
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Create a Plan in the World Map.
Donât click FLY.
Save that Plan. A .pln and a .flt file is saved.
The .flt and .pln file has the saved Plan in it.
The Plan is available to the VFR Map and ATC.
Some planes will automatically load the Plan into the FMS like the
C172 1000. For the CJ4, click EXEC on the FMC.
Others will not.
This .flt file can be loaded at any time anywhere.
But restarts the Plan. -
A saved .flt after you click FLY and leave the World Map.
The position of the plane is saved.
A Plan and everything else is not saved.
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A must have for long flights.
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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OPâs steps to reproduce it?
Yes
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There used to be a workaround involving saving a flight plan as a .plan flight, then before doing anything else (like Fly Now) save from the same screen a .flt file. Then again without doing anything else, exit the game, navigate to find the folder where these files were saved, opening .flt file you just saved into a text editor like Windows NotePad, looking through it to locate the line:
SaveOriginalFilePlan=False
Then change the value at the end of that line to True
then save that file back where you opened it from.
At this point you restart the game load that doctored .flt file and Fly Now and youâd have your original flight plan restored
The details no longer matter BECAUSE THE LATEST UPDATE BROKE THE WORK AROUND WITHOUT FIXING THE ORIGINAL PROBLEM.!!!
Itâs almost comical, but please Microsoft stop trying to fix things! Let us roll back to SU9 or something and leave us our work arounds
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