AP+ Issue – Complete aircraft disappearance and flight-time loss after 2–3 hours unless you log back in

Version Information

26.1

Device Information

iPad Pro (11-inch) — 3rd generation

Description

AP+ Bug Report – Aircraft Disappears and Flight Time Is Lost After 2–3 Hours Without Logging In

I am reporting a consistent and fully repeatable issue with AP+.

What Happens

After logging off, the aircraft continues flying normally in the simulator and follows the correct flight plan exactly as expected.

However, after approximately 2–3 hours, if you do not log back in to refresh the session, tracking stops completely.

This results in two major problems:

  1. Complete Aircraft Disappearance
    • The aircraft disappears from the multiplayer map
    • Other users cannot see you at all
    • You do not appear on Infinite Tracker
    • No live tracking data exists

The aircraft essentially becomes a ghost/off-radar plane. It is still flying in the simulator, but on the network it does not exist.

  1. Flight Time Loss
    • Flight time stops recording entirely
    • The hours flown during that period are permanently lost
    • No flight path is recorded for that segment

What Happens When You Log Back In

When you log back in:
• The aircraft instantly reappears
• It is positioned exactly where it should be along the correct route
• The flight path resumes normally

However, the missing hours of flight time are not recovered.

Other users and Infinite Tracker will then show a straight line instead of the actual route flown during the disappearance period, even though the aircraft followed the correct flight plan the entire time.

Consistency

This is not an occasional issue.
It happens every single time for me and my friend after the 2–3 hour mark and is fully repeatable.

Other users have also pointed this out to me. One user specifically noticed the exact point when the aircraft disappears after logging off, and when I tested it myself, their observation was completely accurate.

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Yes @IFflyer facing same issues since a week ! It needs to be addressed on urgent Basis.

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Hello! Yes that post you referred me to is actually my post that I made a few days ago, the moderators asked me to address it in the open beta section. @Jaxx

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I’ve instructed him to post here, so all good :wink:

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Oops, my bad! Sorry for referring to other posts!

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Definitely can vouch for this. I have been facing the same issue for last 7-8 days for each of my medium to long haul flights, my flight times pauses at aorund 03:07 hrs and disappears from the radar as well, I hope this issue gets fixed ASAP

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I have noticed this issue as well for at least one
week now; did not dwell too much into that issue. But every time I checked on Infinite View
my flight it wasn’t there and so I logged-in in IF…

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Just noticed this morning that I have had the same problem too. It causes the following when loading up my flight on InfiniteInfo:

Essentially the flight has “stayed on course” in the sim but was untraceable by any means, including loading into the game and any flight trackers.

It has also messed with the flight time for me, but instead of losing hours, it has transferred a bunch of them from the “AP+” count to the “Manual” count. As far as I can tell, the hours are still “correct” as a total count, but tbh I’m not convinced it could not have dropped some time.

Same here! Just a straight line. Poor SimBrief, making all those waypoints for nothing! :smiling_face_with_tear:

Hello! I’ve experienced the same issue twice now, it was resolved, but since yesterday it started happening again. Both the flight time loss and the disappearance.

Could this please be checked again? My flight disappeared from InfiniteInfo, and when I logged back on IF, I definitely lost about 13 minutes of flight time. Even when I play the playback graphs on InfiniteInfo, those 13 minutes were not recorded. The flight just jumps from the last known position to where it was when I logged back into Infinite Flight.

If you have an infiniteinfo subscription, kindly check my current flight playback to see that jump. Kuwaiti 127.

Update : My friend’s plane also disappeared from the radar. @PilotAdnan-IFSA trying to contact him to log in, cuz he’s gonna loose flight time.

We pushed a server update that partially has to do with this, 20 minutes ago.
So I wouldn’t worry too much about that.

In other cases of flight time issues - it’s being looked at.

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Thank You!

Note that flight time is not being lost right now. It just affects visibility on multiplayer servers

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That’s better, hope it’s the case cuz I’m pretty sure I did loose some time, it’s showing 15 mins less than it should.

Is it being worked on?

Check this out :

My flight disappeared again for about 15 mins unfortunately.

Flight time wasn’t added, it’s giving me 1:30 when it should be around 2hrs 10mins, since I took off at 17:36 local time, it’s 19:50 now.

Looks like loss of flight time to me.

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I just checked back in after the server update, and to my surprise, my flight time was recorded correctly for my entire flight! Not sure what the issue is, and we shall see how it fares after my current flight is up, but hopefully this will fix it.

yes, i faced that issue last week, and now the only problem is the app closing after 20-40 minutes after take off or log in.

I believe the flight time issue is back, but is only worse.

Been flying for almost 3 hours, apparently only 26 mins of flight time was recorded, which is only the manual flight time. My AP+ flight time is not logging at all.

Can we get this checked?

On infinite info, my plane literally freezes to last known location after each log off.

On infinite info it says paused after log off.

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See here:

https://community.infiniteflight.com/t/ap-server-issues/1168172

It’s being looked into, but since it’s the weekend, it’s unlikely that anything will be done until Monday.

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