Add Pause at TOD or Support for this Feature

[Shanks16]

Hello ini!  I've been tuning into the streams and youtube videos and so far have not seen this feature.  Could you please add a pause at top of descent feature as an option?  For many like myself, life sometimes has to get in the way of my wonderful flight sim passion 😁, so this is a big deal on long haul aircraft like the A300 and the very exciting upcoming A350.  

Or if this isn't in the works, then can we just be sure that the aircraft won't do strange things when paused so outside applications can pause the sim?  Looking forward to both the A300 and even more so the A350!!!

[cgn_pilot]

Good point! I would appreciate it :)

[Simon Stühlinger]

Yeah,i ask Captain Canada in his stream yesterday. I missed this option. 😞 Olease think about it. For the Simmers that have  kids,  its a must have

[cgn_pilot]

Maybe we get an answer from support/dev  team👍😃

[Deleted Account]

We will see what we can do 🙂

FWIW, I didn't have any issues when pausing the aircraft during testing.

[FailCold]

+1 on this feature request, I use it really frequently to set a flight going and leave in cruise, then can come back and descend and land at my convenience :)

[cgn_pilot]

56 minutes ago, Nico - Gumby said:

We will see what we can do 🙂

FWIW, I didn't have any issues when pausing the aircraft during testing.

Thanks Nico! 🙂

[iniBuilds]

We will at Pause at T/D in a future update. 

[Shanks16]

Excellent to hear it will be supported in a future update, and great to hear the plane plays nice with pausing already! I use TOD Calculator when an airplane doesn’t have a native feature, but the built in option is always more accurate 🙂. 

[kerbo]

20 hours ago, Nico - Gumby said:

We will see what we can do 🙂

FWIW, I didn't have any issues when pausing the aircraft during testing.

may you also add some sort of indication of current sim rate. On the EFB or something.

[Alexander Probst]

This works well in the meantime: https://flightsim.to/file/19348/tod-calculator-pause (pulls the flight plan with calculated TOD from Sinbrief)

[Airbumps]

Defintly another vote for this feature - very useful on longer haul aircraft!

[Simon Stühlinger]

any news on it? i'm waiting for so long

[richboy2307]

There is no update at this time, other than that Time Acceleration / Pause at TOD and other such QoL features are planned for a future update. As discussed on the Discord and other forum posts:

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It is under consideration. Additionally, to manage expectations, it isn't a minor fix that can be delivered in the short-term.

We understand why people request it, and the importance of such features would only grow with projects like A350 and A380, so we would like to incorporate such features and possibly roll them back into projects like the A300 eventually. We appreciate your understanding.

Thanks!