Hi all
How can I skip the preflight walkaround when starting cold and dark?
I don’t have the time and nerves to waste 5 minutes before every flighttest with the walkaround.
I know I can just directly hop into the cockpit, but then the chocks, pitot cover, etc. are still there.
Is there a command in the EFB or just a button/command that could be mapped to just have the walkaround done (pitot cover, chocks, etc removes all at once) or at least much faster?
Thanks a lot
I just saw in another thread that this got bug logged and so I too voted for the ability to start without a walk around.
Looks like there is no option to disable it at that time, see existing wish: Start flight without walkaround (MSFS2024)
It just gets worse. After all the frustration of actually trying to get into this sim, there is now this idiotic engine cover/walkaround thing, or more precisely this idiotic situation where you can’t disable it. It’s Catch 22, you have to mess about finding click spots but the mouse function is screwed so if you’ve been lucky enough to actually get into the sim you still can’t play it! Could this launch have been any more infuriating if they’d tried! Decision made, I’m not going near it for six months and wasting any more time…back to 2020 which is now in a really good spot - why didn’t they just continue to refine 2020?
Walkaround not being optional is sheer idiocy and is made worse by the apalling camera/mouse interaction.
Or perhaps they couldn’t dedicate the resources to make the change, and will do so at a later date.
I would love to believe that but why not include the option when initiating the design?
Obviously the designers thought it was ‘realistic’ but failed to realise that this ‘feature’ becomes really tedious and does not necessarily represent real life, as far as the removal of covers is concerned anyway.
Fortunately, the aircraft I fly the most in the sim have their own EFB which can remove covers/chocks from the cockpit. IRL, covers are only used on airliners when in storage as the aircraft is in a hanger when not in the air and gets towed out when rostered for duty, any covers being removed and certified by the ground crew/engineers.
My own GA aircraft also goes into a hanger between flights and the walkaround/sequential checks usually done then and just before engine start. There are no covers to remove.
I think they shall allow us to tell the copilot to do it for us (just like he/she could go through the checklists in 2020)
The mandatory walkaround is annoying for when you just have an hour to kill and want to start your flight. You could start in the runway but it’s just not the same. MSFS2024 should make this optional. Doing the same stupid mandatory walkaround time after time is an important reason not to fly the standard planes anymore in MSFS2024.
Yes,
I can’t skip the walkaround.
But, anyway, I couldn’t do it even if I wanted, because I can’t remove with the mouse wheels chocks, pitot cover, etc. (the screen freezes).
I have to start always on the runway. After years and years of starting cold and dark!
Greetings
The only way is to bypass the walkaround nonsense and select one of the runways at your departure airport as your start point. However, that will also default to having the engine running and all the avionics on. So, it’s all or nothing.
The worst part for me is how so many of the GA planes lack working click spots to even remove the chalks. The click spots that exist activate the check tires option vice the chalks!
So for me, even after the overly tedious preflight walkaround, I could not taxi out of the parking spot due to the chalks stubbornly remaining in place!
Others on another thread have shared binding 'Take control of character" and using that to enter a non-24 airplane. This works with a few FF/LL like the MU-2, V35B, and T207. And it should work with any 3rd party add ons that are 24 compatible but not 24 feature ready, i.e., walk arounds. Now I can start cold and dark, hit a key, get in and start up as in 2020. Thanks to anyone who called out this binding above or elsewhere, a real find if one flies such aircraft!
Adding the Black Square Velocity XL to my cold & dark list of 24 compatible aircraft. Flew a complete cross country and found that most things worked, enough anyway for daytime VFR.
Hello, I have been playing MSFS for a couple of years and have figured out that if you are on Xbox like me, the button combination to enter the cockpit from walkaround mode is Lb Band the same time.