Used to be, I could select a parking spot for the flight to originate from, and the aircraft would always be on that parking spot, cold and dark, ready for me to crank it up and taxi to the runway end for the flight. But it seems like lately, when I click on the yellow Fly banner, I always pop into the airplane already lined up on the runway, engine humming happily, configured for the takeoff.
I’m a real-life pilot and flight instructor, and I’ve never popped into an airplane sitting on the numbers with the engine running before flying it. How do I make the sim go back to starting every flight cold and dark in a parking space?
That still works for me. On the map, I select the airport, select the parking spot to start from and I show up there cold and dark. Make sure when you click the parking spot, you select set as departure and double check the top of the screen to make sure the box under the airport shows the parking spot you picked.
Yep, I saw all the posts on this topic and tried all the steps recommended. But no matter what I do, I cannot get the airplane to start cold and dark in the selected parking spot. That’s why I posted my own question.
It looks like this has been a problem for some folks for a while now. Any suggestion that a solution might be out one day?
And my new muscle car is resting on her parking space nice and quiet and cold, as usual. Looks like the cold and dark feature was not removed
Maybe it depends on which airport you start, if a slot is registered as cold and dark hangar or parking area or ready to taxi.
Could that have something to do with the assistance settings that seem to reset for some folks on their own ?
Cold and Dark still works for me, as long as the parking spot is the last selection made.
And in my case the sim does retain all assistance settings….so just a guess on my part.
I spoke too soon. By going slowly and carefully through all the steps listed, I was indeed able get the airplane to consistently spawn in a cold and dark condition on a selected parking space. But, wow, ya get one little thing out of sequence, and running engine on the runway, here I come. I will have to develop a preflight checklist worthy of…well, a real-life preflight.
I have all the assistance settings turned off. Don’t need 'em.
I only use flight routings I have developed myself outside the sim because I find the in-sim flight planner to be worse than useless. I’ve been an Instrument-Instructor for almost 30 years. I think I know how to do it. The steps involved in getting the flight plan into a usable form are not overly complicated, just tedious.
So I can use workarounds (many thanks to those who posted them) to get the sim to operate as intended. And idea about when it’ll be fixed?
This was not to question your no doubt stellar abilities that would put Bob Hoover to shame…it was a reference to something that other users have reported.
MSFS resets these settings on it own, without user input. And suddenly you HAVE some or all assitance settings to goofball beginner like the rest of us mere earthlings
I knew that. I’m just saying I can’t know if the sim is changing the assistance settings because I have them turned all the way off. I was stating the how and why, not playing the arrogant, know-it-all card. Sorry if you took it that way.
I may know more about real-life flying than many on here, but in terms of making the sim function properly I’m a noob. Always will be, I think.
