Thanks, I just tried it and was able to restore my flight where I was parked in a field, engines stopped and the toolbar + weather is available! Interestingly, being parked in a field somewhere, the FirstFlightState was “FLIGHT_CRUISE”.
So, in summary, to restore my flight in which I am parked in a field, I had to make the following changes to the .FLT file:
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To restore the full Toolbar including Weather, replace the [Weather] section with:
[Weather]
UseLiveWeather=True
WeatherCanBeLive=True -
To ensure cold start, in the [FreeFlight] section, set the FirstFlightState to PREFLIGHT_PUSHBACK:
[FreeFlight]
FirstFlightState=PREFLIGHT_PUSHBACK
If you want to change date or time, use the Weather menu from the toolbar and switch to a pre-set, change the date and then switch back to Live Weather.
Here’s my flight BEFORE the save:
And here’s the flight re-loaded today, showing the Toolbar:
