Toggle to disable contextual engine-start hints

User Support Hub User Interface & Activities
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:The previous MSFS2020 toggles (User Experience, Notifications, In-Flight Tips, Checklist Assistance, Cockpit Prompts) no longer exist, and the new SU4 Assistance menu does not provide any way to disable contextual engine-start hints such as “Press X to start engine” or “Increase throttle to taxi.” This is extremely annoying to those of us who have no need of such “assistance”.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Every time.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Go to Assistances (sic) menu

  2. Look for a toggle for In-Flight Tips (also, Checklist Assistance or Cockpit Prompts)

  3. Fail to find it.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using: Warthog stick and TQ.

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? Dev Mode, no changes.

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12? DX12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? Windows 11 Pro, i7-11700KF CPU, 32 Gb RAM

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring.

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I am not seeing contextual engine-start hints such as “Press X to start engine” or “Increase throttle to taxi.” in FS2024. Could you provide screenshots ?

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Hello,

I think you can find what you’re looking for under Assistances, “Piloting and control notifications” :

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Sure — herewith a screenshot of the pesky thing.

Piloting Assistance window
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AhhHA! — I thought I had searched all through Assistance(s), but I had somehow completely missed that one, in Visual. Anyway, it’s now off, so hopefully the nuisance will disappear.

I’ll just have to wait and see whether it ever returns (it’s that old thing about the difficulty of proving a negative, I guess…).

Huge thanks!

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Moved to User Support Hub since guidance how to remove those messages have been provided