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Saved Flights in Missions

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If you are working on a mission and save the flight enroute, to avoid having to start from the beginning of the mission each time, FSX will save an spb file with the saved flights in My Documents\Flight Simulator X folder. That spb file will not reflect changes you have made in the mission after having saved the flight....therefore starting from that saved position won't do you any good if you are checking out new changes to your mission. Perhaps everyone but me already knew this!
 
Surely not - I think it's good that you pointed that out here. :)

It took me some time to figure that for myself... :o
 
What does work is to save regular flights at the points where you wish to start from. Open those flights, then the Object Placement Tool, and it will load the most recent xml file.
 
What we meant is that if you want to test your mission, you have to start at the beginning each time you changed the xml.
 
You are absolutely correct. It sure is a pain for a long mission. But using the regular flight, and then opening the Objects Placer Tool, you can slew...and not have to start at the beginning to get to the place where you are working.
It helps a little.
 
Another time saver you can impliment is to have abbreviated objects. What I mean is that, if you have a number of long audio files that play, for testing, you could use a placeholder audio, say just the filename so that you know the proper file WILL play once it's in there.

Also, if you use timer triggers, you can set them artificially low to quickly bypass what might otherwise be long periods of time. One of my mission variables is being placed on a ground hold anywhere from 5-15 minutes. For testing purposes, I have this set to 5 seconds; just enough to know that the delay works but not the full delay time. It does help to speed things along.
 
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