how to change the startup airplane and airport?

[jakegazzard]

how do i change the startup airplane and airport? also, is there a setting to start airplanes cold, without the engine running? Thanks

[spotlope]

how do i change the startup airplane and airport? also, is there a setting to start airplanes cold, without the engine running? Thanks

It's pretty simple. Set up a flight in FS with the plane you want parked at the airport you want to start from. Cut the engine, switch everything off, and save the flight (the ";" key). When you give the saved flight a name, there's a tick box to make this the default flight. Check it. Done!

[jakegazzard]

Thankyou!!!

[spotlope]

You're welcome. Another cool trick is that you can start up FSX in any flight situation you like. Go to your "My Documents" folder, and open the "Flight Simulator X Files" subfolder. Locate a flight file (*.FLT) and right-click on it and choose "Open with", then click "Browse" to locate your fsx.exe file and click OK. Once you've done that, you can boot FSX directly into a given flight by double-clicking that FLT file.