I’ve been plagued with this since March.
I typed into Google,”Microsoft flight simulator 2024 just will not start any flight”
The top link it displayed sent me to the main forums at flightsimulator.com.
The title of it was: “Stuck after clicking fly now Microsoft flight simulator – 2024”
These were some of the suggestions
Don’t press fly now with your mouse use the keyboard commands using left control + Enter
Remove any mods you have in the community folder
Remove the last scenery, aircraft or repaint livery you have installed
Rename your community folder and let Microsoft flight simulator 2024 rebuild an empty one
Delete your rolling cache
Use the Microsoft flight simulator layout generator to update the layout,json for every file, both scenery and livery in your community folder
Before flight switch to the windowed mode
Turn off photo filter mode in the Nvidia app
Turn off photogrammetry
Zoom in and wait 30 seconds then set terrain LOD to 10 before you click fly now
Set off screen terrain pre-caching to low
One person said the fix for me was selecting a starting spot then zoom out to see the entire world then click the fly now button
I personally did it the opposite way, I spun the globe and zoom down into the Pacific Ocean until I couldn’t go down anymore work X 1 for me, but it has not worked since
Unplug all USB ports, except for your mouse and keyboard, however, they may be the problem too
Don’t plan a flight between 2 payware airports plan between default ones only
I’ve been off work for the last four days and I’ve only had 3 flights tried to fly at least 15 to 20 times
I’ve tried some of these suggestions and I appreciate folks trying to help, but some of these things are just too much trouble to fool with!
As my brother was always quoting a Star Trek episode, “don’t explain it to me just make it go!” Grrrrrrrr
- Don
