Hi Gents,This is not a bug (begin breathing again) ;-) Rather a feature that, in my opinion, would be of enormous benefit.With 767PIC (sorry I know the references must become annoying...) when you save a flight, not only the location and basic configurations (e.g. engines running) are stored. Panel settings such as the position of light switches, bleed valves etc; FMC data such as Route and Transition Altitude; and MCP windows' values for instance the MCP altitude are all saved with the flight.I may be the only one(?), but when I load a flight with 737TNG such settings are not restored. The MCP ALT defers to 10,000ft, speed window to 100 if memory serves; FMC data is all reset; and switches on the overhead - for example RECIRC fans, Bleed/ISOL valves - are not as they were upon saving.Assuming I'm not alone in this (though possible I am...) am I *really* the only person who values, even relies* on such a feature? *(Autosave is practically useless since the FMC RTE and everything else mentioned above is reset/lost).I'd be interested to hear what your take on this is (PMDG); please note this is not a criticism, rather a request/question.Otherwise, please allow me to join the plethora of other users in the "take as long as you want with the patch" camp. Your updates - and your lack of sleep are much appreciated :-doh.Warm regards,Alex Rowep.s. Incidentally, I like the inflight engine restart logic - pull the fire handle and the engine shuts down, you can even discharge the fire bottles. The engines can then happily be restarted by switching the starter to FLT so long as the respective FUEL CUTOFF valve are switched *OFF* :-lol Trust M$ didn't implement a way of being unable to restart an engine after a fire - nice workaround you found, though.

That would be a great feature. To my knowledge, no other add-on besides 767PIC has managed this feat of saving its full state in a .flt file during a normal FS save. I don't know how they did it. It must be some dark secret; it isn't in any panel SDK I have seen.Lee Hetherington (KBED)

That would be a good thing. At least as far as the switches goes. I do think however that the MCP will default to certain values at startup even in the real plane, and my guess is that the FMC will be empty when starting up from cold and dark. Then again you may want to save the panel powered up as?Lee, Espen Fjordbakkens excellent F50 freeware panel has this feature as well, as far as I know, though with some minor flaws ;-) Check it out here: http://home.c2i.net/fokker50/index.htmCheers, :-beerchug (time to call it a day, or friday evening ;-))

It is more an issue if you want to suspend a flight in the air and return to it at a later time. Having the MCP/FMC reset itself to power-on state isn't what you want in that situation.Lee Hetherington (KBED)

:-) I guess not! I get the point!

DF FS2000 version had that as far I remember. Then later they drop the feature.Jos