Extract text from Flight Simulator saved games (FSSAVE)
To convert FSSAVE saved games to another format, you need Flight Simulator or other Game software.
To convert other file formats to the "Flight Simulator Save File" file type, you need software like Flight Simulator or a similar tool.
The .FSSAVE file is a proprietary game save data file created by Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX). It stores the exact state of an active flight, including aircraft coordinates, altitude, fuel levels, autopilot settings, and environmental weather parameters. These files exist solely to let virtual pilots save their progress and resume their flight later within the FSX engine.
The main disadvantage of the .FSSAVE format is its highly specialized, closed ecosystem. It is completely unreadable without an installed copy of the specific Microsoft game. You cannot open it in standard text editors, and it is strictly incompatible with other flight simulation platforms like X-Plane or Prepar3D. Users sometimes wish to extract flight telemetry or share flight plans across different software, but standard online converters fail entirely because the file relies on internal memory structures unique to the FSX game engine.
Converting an .FSSAVE file to standard document formats like PDF or CSV is generally impossible. Because this is a closed, proprietary format, traditional conversion tools cannot parse the coordinate data. We can inspect the raw file contents to extract embedded text, flight paths, or metadata. If our analysis detects a supported underlying text string or paired configuration format, viewing or partial data extraction may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your FSSAVE file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert FSSAVE file to , you can use Flight Simulator or similar software from the "Game State Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to FSSAVE, try Flight Simulator or another comparable tool in the "Game State Storage" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our FSSAVE converter.