Where I Left It 2.0 – Your Own Hangar: Persistent Aircraft, Live Map & Flight Book

Park it, leave it, come back to it.

This is something I’ve wanted for ages for immersion. If I fly my Cessna to an airfield, park it askew at the end of the field and shut the sim down, then when I relaunch I don’t want to start in a pre-determined slot. I want my aircraft to be exactly where I left it.

So I made exactly that. Wherever you leave your aircraft, the next time you load into it, it’s teleported straight back to where you left it.

Then I thought: I don’t just fly a Cessna. When I swap into the DC-3, I want to see where my Cessna is. So I added that too. Wherever you leave an aircraft is where you’ll see it in the world, whatever you’re flying. Park a DC-3 on a taxiway and hop into the Fenix, and your DC-3 will still be sitting on that taxiway.

Version 2.0 goes further: your aircraft now live in your own hangar. Give them names, see them all on a map, keep a Flight Book of every flight, and get reminded when they’re due for maintenance.

🎥 Watch the video explaining exactly how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZzuFBjK6CE

What’s new in 2.0

🛩️ Your own hangar. Acquire the aircraft you want to keep. Only those are saved, parked and logged. Your existing saved aircraft are already in it.
🏷️ Name your aircraft. Call your Cub “Betsy” and that’s how it shows up everywhere.
🗺️ A map of your fleet. All your aircraft on the sim’s own map, right in the EFB. Browse them one by one and the map jumps to each.
📒 Flight Book. Flight time, engine time, landings, distance and a flight history with departure and arrival airports, plus your own notes for each aircraft.
✈️ Always logging. Flights are recorded by the in-sim module, even with the tablet closed.
🔧 Maintenance reminders. Set an interval in engine hours and the aircraft is flagged when it’s due.
⛽ Fuel and payload. Fuel left in each tank is put back when you return. Payload restore is optional.
💾 Backups. Export your whole hangar to a file, restore it, or share it with a friend.
🔔 What’s new. A changelog inside the app.

Features

Resume where you parked. Load into one of your aircraft and you’re put straight back at its parking spot, facing the same way, with the fuel you left it with.

Your parked fleet in the world. Your other aircraft appear where you left them, cold and dark with engines off and lights out.

They’re still there when you get back. Parked aircraft despawn when you fly away, to save performance (the distance is customisable), and reappear when you return. Fly a 3-hour trip, come back, and the aircraft you parked earlier is still waiting.

A hangar that feels like yours. Acquire an aircraft, give it a name, a tag (Favourite, Needs fuel, Maintenance due, In storage, Project) and its history so far. Bought a “used” aircraft with 1,500 hours on it? Enter them.

A map of your aircraft. See your whole fleet on the sim’s terrain map, with arrows showing which way each one is parked. Click one to select it.

Flight Book for every airframe. Hours, landings, flights, distance flown, notes, and a history of your latest 100 flights with the airports you flew between.

Routine maintenance. Set “every 50 engine hours” and you’ll be told when it’s due, both on the aircraft and when you climb in.

Works great with cockpit-state persistence. For aircraft that save their own switch states, you now get both location and cockpit state back.

Multiple aircraft, multiple liveries. Aircraft are saved by tail number, or by model and livery, so different airframes of the same type each keep their own spot.

Fly this. Pick any parked aircraft and the app tells you exactly what to load. When you spawn in, you’re put right at its spot.

Built into the EFB. No external app to run. Everything is on the tablet, and the in-sim module works in the background from the moment the sim starts.

Control everything from the EFB app

• Auto-save on a timer, save when you shut the engines down, or save manually
• Teleport automatically, ask first, or do nothing
• Only restore if the saved spot is within 10 nm, 50 nm, or anywhere, so if you deliberately start at another airport it won’t drag you back
• Show parked aircraft within 5, 25 or 100 nm, or everywhere
• Restore fuel levels and payload (each can be switched on or off)
• Show or hide your whole parked fleet with one click

Installation

1. Extract the community-whereileftit folder into your Community folder. If you’re updating, replace the old folder. Your saved aircraft and settings are kept.
2. Start a flight, open the EFB tablet, and open Where I Left It once so it can set itself up.
3. That’s it. From then on it works in the background.

How to use it

1. Acquire your first aircraft
Load into an aircraft and open Where I Left It on the EFB. At the top it says “You’re in … not in your hangar yet”. Press Acquire. Give it a name if you like, a tag, and its history so far (leave everything at 0 for a brand-new aircraft). Press Acquire aircraft and it’s in your hangar.

2. Fly, park and leave it
Fly wherever you like, park, and shut the engines down. The position is saved automatically. To save at any time, press Save at the top of the app.

3. Come back to it
Next time, load a flight in the same aircraft at that airfield. Any parking spot or runway is fine. Once the flight starts, you’re moved straight back to where you parked. In walkaround mode, press Ctrl + C to jump into the cockpit.
If you set “When loading a saved aircraft” to “Ask me”, a prompt appears in the app instead. Choose Teleport there or Stay here.

4. Build your fleet
Acquire any other aircraft the same way. Each one is remembered separately. Fly a different aircraft, and the others appear parked where you left them, as long as they’re within the distance you’ve chosen in Settings.

5. Use the map
The map shows your aircraft around you. Use ‹ and › under the map to go through your aircraft, and the map jumps to each one. My aircraft brings you back to the one you’re in. Show all, My position and + / − are on the map itself.

6. Switch to a parked aircraft
Select the aircraft and press Fly this. The app tells you exactly which aircraft and livery to choose. Go back to the main menu, select it, and start a flight at that airfield. You’ll spawn right at its parking spot, with no prompt.

7. Check its Flight Book
Press Flight Book to see its hours, landings, flights, distance and flight history, and to write notes. Press Edit details to change its name, tag, totals or maintenance interval. When maintenance is due, press Maintenance done after you’ve “serviced” it.

8. Manage your aircraft

• Go back: teleports you to your current aircraft’s saved spot. Handy if you’ve taxied away and want to reset.
• Hide / Show: removes one parked aircraft from the world without deleting it.
• Tag and Sort: label aircraft and sort them by last saved, last flown, nearest or name.
• Remove: takes an aircraft and its Flight Book out of your hangar (you’ll be asked to confirm).

9. Make it yours
The Settings, Backup and Diagnostics buttons are at the bottom of the app. Settings controls how restoring works, when it auto-saves, fuel and payload, and how far away parked aircraft are shown. Backup saves your whole hangar to a file.

Tip: if something isn’t working, open Diagnostics at the bottom of the app and take a screenshot. It shows exactly what the add-on is doing and is the most useful thing to include when you report a problem.

Sim limitations

These come from the sim and its SDK or are bugs in third-party aircraft. I hope the developers will let me improve them in future.

• You can’t jump straight into another parked aircraft. You need to go back to the main menu, select that aircraft and spawn in, and it’s then teleported back to where you left it. The app’s “Fly this” button tells you exactly what to pick.
• Walkaround mode: the character can’t be teleported. When you spawn at the airfield your aircraft is moved, but you’ll need to press Ctrl + C to get into the cockpit and join it.
• Parked aircraft appear in their default state. Doors, covers and switches aren’t restored on parked aircraft; the sim only lets add-ons spawn the model and livery.
• Tail-number decals may not show on parked aircraft, because MSFS 2024 doesn’t reliably apply registrations to spawned aircraft.
• The map uses the sim’s own map, which zooms out to about continent size, so aircraft on the other side of the world won’t all fit in one view.
• Payload restore works, but the sim’s own payload screen doesn’t show weights changed by add-ons. This is an MSFS bug, and the aircraft’s actual weight is correct.
• Each parked aircraft costs a little performance. Lower the range or hide aircraft you don’t need to see.
• Taog’s helicopters don’t appear to listen to a shutdown command, so their rotors are always spinning. Taog will need to fix this for it to work correctly. All default helicopters in the sim work fine :-)
• Carenado C182 seems to be missing the AI model, so it doesn’t appear.

Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment with the aircraft you were using and a screenshot of the Diagnostics section in the app.