Originally Posted by
AreOut
why would Zaharie want to "hide" the plane and yet at the same time leave the coordinates in his computer? ...
The flight sim data is probably the most misunderstood/misrepresented piece of evidence relating to the disappearance.
The notion that waypoints/routes/flights were left on or deleted from the Captain's home flight simulator data is one of those misrepresentations. Nothing related to the flight simulator session from 2 February 2014 was manually saved or manually deleted. Each of the recovered files from that session had been automatically created by the flight sim program in the background at certain times during the session, and each was then simply overwritten by the program when the next one was auto-generated. It is highly unlikely that the operator was even aware of the background auto-generation function.