Is there a possibility to save while in flight?

[ohlsample]

Hi all!

When I bought FS 2004 a played it for a while running through the flight school. When I was finished it became boring really fast - until
discovering FSPassengers. But now I've a little problem:

I very much like long distance flights, mostly with the builtin 777. A little while ago - I played for 6 hours - I've been to the toilet. The AP was
set on 41.000 feet, 260 KIAS. When I came back there was an error in the speed control - the autopilot did go into a stall... I got the plane
down to gain speed again, flying all the rest to my destination by hand. I got a lot of penalty points then (dive of death, stalling and so on).
So my Question is:

Is there a possibility to create a savegame while in a flight? Maybe to the cost of extra penalty points when loading one? How can I
achieve that?

Thanks in advance!

[WBHoenig]

Trust me, Dan tried, but he tried many methods and none of them worked for everyone. So for now, the answer is not about realism, per se (although
many people would rather there be no save method because of this), but just that it is impossible.

[Wally]

Next time when going to the toilet.. try pausing the game to avoid such 'problems'...

[Scotty_1991]

Haha Lol, True

[ohlsample]

Thanks for your answers! Is pausing the game not as unrealistic as saving? ;-) Best would be the copilot to cry: Hey Captain, hurry up -
seems to be a problem in here!

Okay, understood it is not possible - but do you have any idea, how it is possible that there are "automated" procedures in the cockpit?
E.g. both engines get a cutoff, or speed control disables itself, or "Nav" on the autopilot disables? I enabled the failure display to see if it
FSP generated - it says: No failures. I expect FSUIPC to be the problem, cause those errors are since I installed 3.7.0.9.
But the errors are not very often, but I swear to have neither done anything in the cockpit nor on the input devices.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Dutch64]

Is that on every plane? Do you have the battery option checked in fsuipc?

[ohlsample]

Thanks for answering, Dutch!

First question: I don't know... I'm only using the 777 yet (until I can buy a 747). Your second questions is alerting me: Yes, I have the
option set, to 20. I'm mostly starting cold and dark (only Nav lights) until all passengers are aboard in random realtime. So mostly my
battery became empty. Could that be a problem?

Thanks again for your help!

[Dutch64]

Might be it, there is a setting in fsuipc which prevents dying of the battery, i think it should be set to 0

[ohlsample]

Okay, I'll try, also the description reads to set in either 0 for infinite life or extend life by factor. I thought 20 to be enough, especially in flight
when the engines are running... Hm, don't know. I think I'll contact Pete Dowson to ask.

Thanks for or your help!

[Ceemosp]

Hello Richard

Sometimes the plane goes into a stall on AP when you fly close to the limits of your flight envelope (heavy AC, high altitude). When you set
autospeed to a high cruise speed the plane may be capable of maintaining it with a certain dose of headwind. If the autopilot now
changes the course (to go to the next wpt) this wind may now have changed to tailwind and thus the TAS will change but your autopilot
responds to IAS settings.
Two things will happen next:

1. The AP will increase thrust to counter this but it may not be sufficient as you are too high for the weight and speed (flight envelope)
2. The aircraft will slow down as the altitude-hold of the AP will try to maintain the set FL.

The result: The plane will pitch up more and more and finally drop into a stall !

This can happen anytime there is a major change in windspeed/direction and the aircraft is not 'supervised' and - YES - it has happened
to me before

Greetz Carsten

[Langston Williams]

You could always make your computer /labtop hibernate