Saving Flights CTD? Need Advice

I’m a returning person to MSFS’s and I was wondering how the save feature works. I have played MSFS since the first one was released so I’m no stranger to the game. Although, with MS going silent for years after FSX, I switched to X Plane. I’m back and loving MSFS 2020, but I saved a flight just as always did in previous versions, and when I got back on MSFS last night and went to open the save file, CTD instantly. I as always searched the forums with little success. I did catch wind that CTD when opening saved flights is a known problem. I also learned that opening saved flights in MSFS 2020 is not the same as FSX where it starts you off in the same location with all in flight settings retained, with the exception of the weather. I hear the save flight is pretty much a wash in MSFS 2020 as it is like the save flight in X Plane. Open the flight and presto you are in a cold and dark plane that has become a glider. The CTD is another thing that baffles me as well.

That’s not really correct. I save regularly and pick up the saved flights later. Position, time, weather, speed, fuel and so on are all retained and you can pick up where you left off.
A few things are not saved, at least not in the Bonanza I’m flying at the moment: when I save during autopilot flight, the autopilot is turned off after re-loading the flight. Strangely enough the pitot heat if off most of the time and the fuel selector switch position is (sometimes??) not saved.
I have never had a CTD when loading a saved flight even though I almost relatively often have CTDs in flight - but that could be due to my old GPU.

Does the flight plan save? I have heard say that it doesn’t

Yes, works fine for me. But at the moment I only use VFR flight plans created in Little NavMap.

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I got mine to work finally. I read through several help comments and learned that the save files need to be in all caps. I did this and it worked. I not really sure if that was the fix or not?

I tried saving a flight this morning and wanted to view my flight, but upon opening the save location, there was nothing there. I’ll have to give the ALL CAPS a try.

That is weird. I never use ALL CAPS in my save flights, My last ones were called ch1.flt and ch2.flt because I was flying around in the Chicago area.
Standard path is directly in the “Microsoft Flight Simulator” top directory. I alway saved them there and never had any trouble finding them there again.

Did you check if the location you wanted to save them to isn’t read-only?

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