15-02-2006, 03:42 PM
I do that too. I'm a pilot for British Airways Virtual. I love it, it's very realistic and it has got a great ACARS system.
I fly Boeing 747-400 everyday so my virtual job consist of flying 12 hr a day. Sometimes i depart the morning and arrive at evening so i get to cruise
altitude then have breakfast and watch some sitcoms and comedies at tv. Then go back to cockpit and browse internet etc... I have lunch same way. I
arrive at evening either before or after dinner having done all the stuff i usually do while FMC was flying programmed route and I was monitoring.
Other times it's more tough. I live in Italy but I enjoy living my virtual career in Los Angeles. So that when i start a duty week I depart LAX, the
flight is usually scheduled after 0000z, like 0135 or 0445 depends on which flight. In italy it's either very late or very early as it is 2 am or 5
am. I usually am sleeping at that time but can cope with staying awake all these hours by resting couple, simulating the restroom. Then when I go back
to my PC everything is fine and the plane is perfectly flying. All my worry is if something happens all of a sudden, like a failure, a FS bug, a
electric blackout or a simple system blackout. I am scared of waking up and finding my plane crashed or the pc off. I would like a autosave module
really much as ACARS does have a recover option, it saves automatically the state to recover it if a crash occurs like pc shuts down or FS crahses to
desktop. Obviously nothing for unattended failures but it's great. I had couple of FS crashes and while ACARS recovered perfectly i lost FsPax state,
that was sad, but it's ok as i only use it for ambience and not for managing or keeping my log. I have all that stuff using MS Office.
The idea of the system hibarnation is really great. If you need to turn the pc off and go somewhere all of a sudden... If you need to go to bed but
dont want to loose flight moments and let the chance of a failure occurs while you sleep.... If you need to save and recharge the battery of your
laptop when u are away from direct current... and many other reasons... You simply hibarnate the state of the pc with FS still on, paused.... It takes
a bit of time to restore, depending on how powerful your pc is and how many things u left on. A good advice would be closing al the stuff you can
re-open later without problems and also setting all possible clutter options like display on FS to reduce the workload of the pc when re-opening the
application....
Other than that it is a great idea and I used it couple of times before FsPax. But though it will work fine with FsPax, it's like pausing the
simulator...
;-)
I fly Boeing 747-400 everyday so my virtual job consist of flying 12 hr a day. Sometimes i depart the morning and arrive at evening so i get to cruise
altitude then have breakfast and watch some sitcoms and comedies at tv. Then go back to cockpit and browse internet etc... I have lunch same way. I
arrive at evening either before or after dinner having done all the stuff i usually do while FMC was flying programmed route and I was monitoring.
Other times it's more tough. I live in Italy but I enjoy living my virtual career in Los Angeles. So that when i start a duty week I depart LAX, the
flight is usually scheduled after 0000z, like 0135 or 0445 depends on which flight. In italy it's either very late or very early as it is 2 am or 5
am. I usually am sleeping at that time but can cope with staying awake all these hours by resting couple, simulating the restroom. Then when I go back
to my PC everything is fine and the plane is perfectly flying. All my worry is if something happens all of a sudden, like a failure, a FS bug, a
electric blackout or a simple system blackout. I am scared of waking up and finding my plane crashed or the pc off. I would like a autosave module
really much as ACARS does have a recover option, it saves automatically the state to recover it if a crash occurs like pc shuts down or FS crahses to
desktop. Obviously nothing for unattended failures but it's great. I had couple of FS crashes and while ACARS recovered perfectly i lost FsPax state,
that was sad, but it's ok as i only use it for ambience and not for managing or keeping my log. I have all that stuff using MS Office.
The idea of the system hibarnation is really great. If you need to turn the pc off and go somewhere all of a sudden... If you need to go to bed but
dont want to loose flight moments and let the chance of a failure occurs while you sleep.... If you need to save and recharge the battery of your
laptop when u are away from direct current... and many other reasons... You simply hibarnate the state of the pc with FS still on, paused.... It takes
a bit of time to restore, depending on how powerful your pc is and how many things u left on. A good advice would be closing al the stuff you can
re-open later without problems and also setting all possible clutter options like display on FS to reduce the workload of the pc when re-opening the
application....
Other than that it is a great idea and I used it couple of times before FsPax. But though it will work fine with FsPax, it's like pausing the
simulator...
;-)
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