I have aircraft with modelled wear and save states, and they get in conflict while spawning on a runway in the HOT state. Many airports do not have ramps or parking spots, you can only spawn on runways.
One workaround I’ve found is deleting the hot start file from the aircraft (or renaming the cold start after duplication), so that it forces it to start cold, but it’s a semi-permanent solution.
I see no apparent way to spawn COLD on a runway, is that so?
As of today there is no such option into msfs-2020, see related wish: Cold & Dark Start-up on a runway, water runway, and helipads.
Maybe modes exist , if so hopefully some users can indicate them.
See also: Runways Starts Cold and Dark!
There is a way to do it, but you have to do it for each individual plane and you need to be willing to edit files.
Note: these files can be opened in Notepad, or preferably, Notepad++.
Dig into the aircraft package until you see the list of *.flt files. Make a backup copy of the runway.flt for safety. Open the apron.flt and copy the entire text. Then open the runway.flt, delete everything, and paste in the contents of the apron.flt file.
Just remember, this is not a one-time option. In that plane, you’ll start cold and dark on every runway. This means if you run in multi-player, you’re going to urine off a bunch of other people when you make them wait while you get everything fired up.