Pausing Your Sim

As long as you’re flying offline and don’t do anything to interrupt the operation of ACARS (smartCARS | Bellerophon), you may pause your flight and resume it at any time afterwards without penalty. If you’re flying online in a simulated, real-world environment, though, the Controllers at PilotEdge, VATSIM and IVAO will not likely be as accommodating. They typically do not allow flights to be paused.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MICROSOFT® FLIGHT SIMULATOR 2020 USERS:  Pausing a flight while underway in a simulator is expected to stop the clock in smartCARS; however, it does not do that. Instead, the flight clock continues to run in smartCARS – the length of the pause is added to the overall flight time. For that reason, pausing in this Sim is not permitted.