Stanley777 Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Hi everyone, I recently purchased and loaded a very instructive package from Perfect Flight (Ultimate King Air 350). Part of that package was to have the user start the aircraft from its cold and dark state. This was fine, but now that I am back to my free flights I am over starting up cold and dark (been there, done that). I would rather go back to starting flights with the engines already up and running. The problem is that now all my aircraft -- not just the Beechcraft King Air -- always start cold and dark. Could someone please tell me how to restore the situation that it had been. I recall that an option existed to have flights start with the engines running. Now that I am looking for that option, I cannot seem to find it. Thank you. Stanley Intel Core i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | Dell U2717D monitor | Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X Total available graphics memory: 24534 MB; Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB; System video memory: 0 MB; Shared system memory: 16342 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclegreg Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Stanley, I think all you have to do is pick an aircraft, start it, move it to an active runway and THEN save that flight. End the flight, close and restart FSX and see what happens. I believe FSX will remember those settings for any aircraft at any airport. Let us know if that works. Good luck. unclegreg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miatamariner Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Very easy. Load your default aircraft at your airport of choice. Start the engines. Let them settle out to idle rpm and then save the aircraft as your default flight. Close FSX. When you reload FSX, select the aircraft you wish to fly with, execute FSX and the aircraft you have just selected will load with the engines running. Keep in mind that when you select an aircraft as your default aircraft, all existing settings such as autopilot, lights, etc., will be saved as well in the default aircraft, so whatever those settings you have selected, will appear in the new aircraft you have just selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Even easier......go into your FSX.cfg and look for the line Situation=(it will have a description). Make it just Situation= and save that. Start FSX and all aircraft and flights will begin with engines running. Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley777 Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Hi Mr Zippy and everyone else, OK. I just edited the fsx.cfg file -- which makes me nervous, but I did it. So far, so good. I have not yet done thorough testing, so I will keep a lookout. Thank you. Stanley Intel Core i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 | Dell U2717D monitor | Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X Total available graphics memory: 24534 MB; Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB; System video memory: 0 MB; Shared system memory: 16342 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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