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DVA4604
Captain, B757-200

Joined on June 20 2007
Century Club
Online Century Club

"Reach for the skies"
Norwalk, CT

138 legs, 210.3 hours
122 legs, 187.8 hours online
96 legs, 130.5 hours ACARS
5 legs, 12.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 16 2007 01:18 ET by Scott Bonito

Stupid question I'm sure but with longer haul flights, you can pause and come back to them later right?

Scott Bonito (DVA4604)

DVA1320
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM

Joined on August 29 2003
Online Six Century Club
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Flying Colonel
Three Million Mile Club

Arlington, VA USA

1,752 legs, 7,042.0 hours
610 legs, 2,627.6 hours online
272 legs, 966.9 hours ACARS
5 legs, 12.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 16 2007 06:47 ET by Daniel Ward

You are flying the aircraft. Sometimes you have to do it based on what is going on in the real world around you. I highly recommend that you don't pause in the midst of an online flight Vatsim tends to be a bit touchy about it. If you must pause during an online flight you should disconnect first. Otherwise you might get the ire of the online supervisor and be suspended.

DVA3119
First Officer, A350-900

Joined on May 08 2006
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Everett 250 Club
Million Mile Club
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Sioux Falls, SD USA

665 legs, 2,625.6 hours
321 legs, 908.9 hours online
619 legs, 2,500.8 hours ACARS
6 legs, 17.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 16 2007 12:46 ET by Justin Taylor

Some payware a/c have a function called "pause at top of descent" built into them. It operates based on your flightplan and when selected it will automatically pause FS when your a/c reaches the the top of your descent profile. Also there are freeware ways of getting the same result

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=24428

Justin Taylor

First Officer, A350-900

Posted onPost created on July 16 2007 14:04 ET by Daniel Ward

For the PMDG 744 you have to use the pause button. Putting it in half simulator rate really messes up it's nav function. It gets lost after you do that. I've learned that on eht hardway a few times...

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