Oh, right. I forgot about that. I should probably turn off the cabin, but I would never do it. I love virtual cabins (don't ask me why, I just do. Maybe it's because when I'm bored during a long flight, I walk around it), so I never disable them...

...and then I complain about my FPS! 

Seriously, this sounds like mother nature's nightmare to me.
Each to their own of course, but please be aware that 'energy costs' has at least two meanings, a financial and an ecological one.

So if the thing doesn't fold proteins over night or something, the ecological aspect will thank you if you e.g. use time compression, save, turn off and continue later, with you actually sitting in front of your hobby.  
Hobbies are important, so nobody speaks of leaving them for the sake of energy saving, but with the compression working and also the panel state save (works well on the 767), you won't miss a thing.
I'm also flying online in this config if the skies a rarely populated and/or ATC allows.

FSX capable systems aren't energy savers, expect some 250+ watts on an i7 + GTX4xx config, without the screen turned on!. FSX running doesn't mean that the components idle or get anywhere close to power safe states.
8 hours of sleep give you some 2 kilowatt-hours each day you do this. Three times a week and/or longer sleeps easily sum up 'nicely' just for the sake of not saving a flight.

Glad to read this, Brian. And of course, you took it just the right way, as a reminder, not as some 'OMG, don't do this!' text.

I found the CS planes to be sensible with time compression from 'time to time'  , but they don't officially support this though. But 2x always works, 4x often and 8x is a bit touchy then.
Panel state save on the 767 is a no-brainer, works fine for example. 727, from reports, not though.

BrianG wrote on Jul 27^th, 2011 at 1:03am:


How do you do step climbs when you are asleep?

Michael Cubine

Markoz wrote on Jul 27^th, 2011 at 1:52pm:

I will forward this to Boeing, Mark. I think I saw some rw Captains complaining there too. 

Do you guys not use ATC (I at least know what Mark thinks about that feature!)? I have to be constantly watching the screen in case ATC wants me to tune another frequency or something. If you don't acknowledge, they terminate you route. Tough crowd. 

BrianG wrote on Jul 27^th, 2011 at 1:03am:


boeing247 wrote: Do you guys not use ATC (I at least know what Mark thinks about that feature!)? I have to be constantly watching the screen in case ATC wants me to tune another frequency or something. If you don't acknowledge, they terminate you route. Tough crowd.

But don't make sense to me. Since I read a LOU post in another topic, I have the same doubt. How do you guys deal with ATC messages if you are flying (and sleeping !!!) during a IFR long haul flight? I think the better way when you are tired is to save the game, go to the bed to sleep, and restart it when you can. I usually do it without any kind of problem. But before restarting a B-767/757 saved flight [FLY NOW!]  and don't lose some flight data,e.g. payload, I go to [FREE FLIGHT > CURRENT AIRCRAFT > 1 CHANGE...] , and I change the flight number. It works fine for me. No flight data will be lost.

boeing247 wrote on Jul 27^th, 2011 at 8:05pm:


boeing247

I don't use any ATC. I am my own controller. FSX ATC is a joke and I don't like the computer generated transmissions in RadarContact2. Plus it is just another addon with the possiblities of createing more problems.

Michael Cubine