Hy all,how i can set the Cold & Dark configuration on the 737NG???Is there the possibility to do that?Thanks for the great works ... is one of the best product that i've saw !!!!Thanks a lotStefano Pirovano- Italy -

Yes, you can do it ;-) Load up a flight with the default cessna. Then turn the magnetos off, and the red master switches to 'off'. Then, load up the PMDG 737NG, and open up the pedestal panel. Move the fuel levers to 'cutoff' and your good to go :)

Pretty sad you have to go to another aircraft's panel to configure this aircraft.Lee Hetherington (KBED)

Oh yes, very very very sad, especially considering how 'configuring' the NG with another aircraft takes so much time, effort, and is so confusing :-roll

I'm not quite sure how a sarcastic response helps anyone, although it may massage your ego.I suggest that a better response would be something along the lines of ... ' Yes, it would have been more complete to include a saved situation with a C+D aircraft in the same fashion as the RFP742 or most PSS aircraft. However, it is a sensible course of action to have a default aircraft as the default startup situation and then configuration only takes 2 or 3 seconds.' There... that doesn't #### people off so much and might actually help someone.Cheers,

My ego needs massaging. My doctor suggest thrice daily sarcastic responses, to be taken at regular intervals throughout the day ;-)In the words of Sherman Potter, M*A*S*H 4077, 'everyone's a comedian'.Seriously, perhaps I will use your non-irritating response in the future, when the situation warrents it.

In my opinion, in an add-on of this quality and expense, it ought to be self-contained. Operating the electricals on the overhead panel ought to do the Right Thing with respect to FS's notion of electricals. One should not have to manipulate magnetos to operate a 737. I'm am hoping the patch will address this issue.No, it isn't a show-stopper, and it certainly wouldn't stop me from flying it, but it is hardly "standard-setting" behavior. The fact is it is easy to fix if PMDG cares to fix it.Lee Hetherington (KBED)

Lee-I think you misunderstand the point of Fred's post. It doesn't matter what airplane you use- you can shut it down and save the scenario. If you use that scenario to launch the PMDG airplane- you'll have a Cold/Dark airplane.Fred chose the cessna most likely because it is the easiest airplane to shut down, so when explaining it to somebody who might not have as clear an understanding as you/me, he picked something easy to explain.What/Where you flying around KBED, Lee? I started my aviation career there when I was 15 cleaning bugs from the windshields of Cessna's at Patriot Aviation... Worked for "The Ghoul" over at Executive Aviation for awhile before moving to Beech East (is it named differently now?) when I wanted to work around bigger airplanes. That was a great way to make summer job money when I was a kid. Learned alot about airplanes....I haven't been through there is some time- although my folks still live right up the street...

I did my PP-ASEL training at Executive over the past year and am still renting 172s there. I'm not sure what/where Beech East is, but perhaps it became Signature?KBED always keeps you on your toes. You never know when they're going to give you a 360 on downwind, a 270 turn to final, S-turns, #6 to land with traffic on both downwinds, bizjets, 727s, 737s, you name it... I'm glad I trained there.Lee Hetherington (KBED)

Lee-I also contribute to all the traffic at KBED. I'm the flight opsmanager at Key Air in Oxford CT. KOXC. If you're in the area stopin say hi. I'll give ya the grand tour of our 3 G-v's, 3 G-iv's, 3 g-III's, 2 g-II's, 2 hawker 800's, 3 hawker 700's and the worst airplane ever built- sorry you fs faithful, a lear 45! Dave Colavecchio