Park my plane cold and dark

[SpindlySpark275]

Not sure why you’re back on the runway, but I described a workaround to get the cold and dark state when loading your flight here:

Save A/C and Position

I was in the same situation. I saved a flight in cold and dark and after loading, the engine was running again. I guess the panel / aircraft state isn’t saved correctly… I just had a look at the FLT file that the sim generates. Everything seems to be saved correctly (e.g. the avionics switch is off). But when I load the flight, the switch is on. Seems to be a problem with loading rather than saving. I found the solution: In the FLT file, there’s a section that looks like this: [FreeFlight]…