Can also confirm it seems related to Live Weather vs Weather Preset.
Loading the flight is only possible if livewether and livetraffic are disabled. Once the flight is loaded, reactivating it works.
Steam version. At least it does for me.
Something’s broken.
Great bit of detective work, thanks. Flights load up as normal on XboxS.
I’m glad some of you are seeing improvements, but also curious about those who don’t, and if/what effect the weather preset has. Sooo, I did some more tests… Keep in mind that I’m doing this on a Xbox Series S, which is the weakest hardware capable of running the sim. Any potential hardware related bottlenecks might very well be exaggerated on my system.
With that said, here is the new test. Airport: LPPT, gate 126, Aircraft: C172. I did them in the order they are presented in the table this time, starting with Live weather/Live traffic → AI traffic → Traffic off, and so on. After two tests with Live weather I changed to the clear skies preset, and did them all again.
| Weather | Live Traffic | AI Traffic | Traffic Off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live | 28 sec | 1:11 min | 3:23 min |
| Live | 27 sec | 4:09 min | 3:16 min |
| Preset | 28 sec | 3:53 min | 2:58 min |
| Preset | 27 sec | 3:34 min | 2:44 min |
It’s a small sample size, so it’s difficult to say whether weather had any significant impact. The biggest factor, for me, remains having Live traffic enabled.
The idiotic “Back on Track” monstrosity bit me when attempting a takeoff in the Blackbird PC-6 (dunno why…) and I clicked Restart to restart the flight, rather than continue from some arbitrary altitude over the field.
Anyhow, I’ve been stuck on this indefinitely:
So it is affecting the ability to restart a flight, as well as starting a fresh flight.
Yeah, trying to “Restart” a flight rather than ending the flight and going back to the sim menu first results in this situation. I waited up to 10 minutes before having to quit the sim via the Task Manager.
That is what I ended up doing, too – killing it via Task Manager.
First time to spawn in to airport works fine. If I go back to main menu and spawn in again the bottom right wheel just keeps spinning round and round and cannot spawn in.
Have a similar problem, it works on the first flight but consistently freezes on second flight?!
Have you checked you are on live weather?
The issue, at least for me, is if I use a preset to start a flight or select one in free flight, when you end flight and try to start another one it hangs if you are still on a weether preset. Switching back to live weather seems to clear it, and the flight starts. Then change your weather preset once in free flight, if you wish. But you’ll have to repeat the same process if you end flight again.
Same problem to me.
Before the 1.3.25.0, I can enter in the morning or afternoon, the problem only met at night.
But now, it only has chance to enter the flight successfully. That’s a ridiculous game, a game cannot make sure based entering.
I don’t know what’s wrong with them, why they cannot give an option for offline like 2020
yes here the same, clicked Restart to restart the flight is broken
In free flight everything is fine loading the first flight. But exiting to free flight and trying to start a new flight the loading screen hangs forever. Only way to stop is to pres escape. Solution is to restart the whole simulator. Takes time. wasn’t a problem before.
But have you tried following what @Sonicviz wrote a few posts above?!
Seems that this is affecting more and more people. Ie I didnt have this until the most recent SU2 update, now first flight after starting up simulator loads up fine, any subsequent loads just result in infinite top down loading screen…
Exact same scenario here! First time very fast, second time up to 10minutes
why there is no loading progress bar for MFS 2024 , is it something we can expect to have soon with Sim Update 2 ?? loading time is a pain and crazy to undrestand when it is sometimes fast ( when startuing directly on the runway instaed of a parking spot) or when zoominh out the map befaore starting a flight … really hope that Asobo is working on this type of issue to save time and optimize loading time consistent…
Can also report that this is still reliably broken even with the newest beta patch. First load always works fine now, no matter the settings, but the second flight is always broken for me. If I have live time on, it will stall in loading, while with a shifted date it loads in less than 10 secs.
Still behaving the same way for beta 1.4.11.0. Just another tiny tidbit I noticed today, when it works I can immediately see my aircraft appearing on the loading screen, but it never shows up when it stalls. See below for me trying to load into the exact same gate twice.
Not Working:
Working:
Well spotted. I think that is a HUGE clue. 
