Please please please! Can we make it so when choosing a departure location it defaults to a parking location vs run way?
By doing so i think we solve for two problems:
-i would think when many start the sim they are wanting to do so from a parking spot
-for those who load up and walk away and minimizing the sim and immersion breaker of players sitting on the runway for minutes of them inspecting or walking away while others are taxing and wanting to take off. I know not all players abide by the rules when it comes to this but let’s be honest for the majority starting on the run way they are not hitting fully throttle and taking off as soon as the sim starts.
While defaulting obviously we still still want the option to select a runway this would just help minimize the instances of players sitting on runways or us having to always pick a parking space after departure airports are selected.
Thank you for your consideration 
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I was just about to make a post about this but then noticed you’d beaten me to it. Yes I totally agree, default position when choosing a departure should not start you on the runway.
Several times now I’ve found myself sitting at the hold short waiting to see if the guy “parked” on the runway is actually going to take off. First time I must have sat there for 10 minutes. Now I just taxi around anyone who’s clearly just sitting on the runway. You’d think common courtesy would prevent folks from doing this in a multiplayer simulation but… nope.
Another solution to this might be to make player aircraft invisible when they first spawn into the World. And then not until they release the parking brake or something do they appear to the rest of us. Probably no need to do this when in group mode but when flying in the general population, don’t make people visible if they spawned on a runway until they are actually taking off. Or perhaps better yet, not until they’ve departed the airspace?