please, is useless, why do we need to hit a key if we already started the sim? run the sim wait to hit a key after hit a key wait to load the UI make everything so slow…

Voted please-remove-press-any-key-to-start remove it…

I agree, definitely get rid of it.

How is it? Have you removed “any key” and the same boring melody?

I could live with the ‘Press Any Key…’ business if it started loading in the background.

This PLEASE!! I’m already skipping those same four logos that used to pop up every time the game starts, but extra slowdowns are not needed. Also discovered ALT-F4 works great to quit, rather than: ESC, Main Menu ? Yes, wait… wait… wait… MAIN, Exit to Desktop, ARE YOU SURE, Yes… Wait wait wait exi…

I just came up with a workaround for this. I remembered an old program I used to use to simulate keypresses called AutoHotkey, so I just poked around until I found a way to automatically press the Space key after MSFS loads. Here’s a step by step: Download & install AutoHotkey (it’s freeware) …

That works great. Now I only need to know where the icon is located at so I can have a link on my desktop to that that doesn’t look ugly.

Just make a shortcut to the bat-file..

That’s not been my experience. When I have done alt+ f4, it just gets me out to Windows. There is no confirmation question, and it does not reflect your flight in the logbook if you bug out from the cockpit before ESC.

That “Hit any key” screen is the proverbial screen door on a submarine. It’s absolutely useless and poor UX design. Removing this should be as simple as removing / altering a line of code. PLEASE get rid of that useless screen.