What: The start (when starting a flight) values for fuel and payload can be set to a user defined default within the game interface (no manipulating aircraft.cfg).
Why: Most planes have weight for pilot and co-pilot set as default as well as 50% fuel load that is decided by the sim. I want to be able to - without entering the aircraft.cfg that isn’t available for certain planes anyway - set a different standard value with which a given plane is loaded into flight. In 99% of all cases I do not assume to have a co-pilot so having to set the weight for it to 0 is an extra step that should not be necessary.
How it could be implemented: A button in the preflight loadout menu allows to set a certain loadout as standard for the selected plane. Starting a new flight will then always start with this values. Another button sets it back to the default as it is now. The values can be written into the aircraft state config and then be read from there like it is done with the engine hour clocks.
Benefits: Simulating a solo flight in a plane that has pilot and co-pilot set as weights changes the expected flight behaviour of the plane unless one takes out the weight for co-pilot. When doing the majority of the flights as solo-flight then always taking out that unwanted co-pilot weight is a cumbersome extra step. Same for when doing the majority of flights in any different setting than the fixed values by sim and aircraft.cfg.