I start on the active 99% of the time.

I even start in Spot Plane view mode and do an airplane walk around! :) Then it's the full engine start up, run up and taxi to takeoff, flight, landing, parking and shut down. Then, once I am parked and cooling down I save the flight - I do this for each individual aircraft that I fly - I only fly GA currently. Then next time I want to start at an airport I already have a plane at I load up back in the parking spot I shut down in and have to go through the startup again and perhaps top off my tanks before heading out once more

I start cold and dark, and have my co-pilot perform powerup. I log into dispatch, and contact ATC to get my clearance, while the co-pilot works the overheads, the panels, and checks flight controls. After both the mobile and static cargo are loaded, I tell my co-pilot to retract the gateway, and perform pushback and startup. That starts the ETE clock which ticks away until I park at my dispatch-assigned spot and let everyone deplane while we work the shutdown and secure. 99% ontime performance. Taxiing's just part of the service.

Start at the gate, program the fmc, taxi to the active and take off. Usually, with AI I'll just reset it before I get to the runway so that I don't have to wait. After takeoff, usually after passing 10k I'll crank on the time acceleration until I'm on final. Then I land, and SOMETIMES I'll taxi to the gate/parking and shut down, other times I'll just stop on the taxiway and shut down, then turn off the game.

Maybe 30%-40% of all my flights start with "cold and dark", including taxiing to the runway.

I was wondering how many of you did the whole bit, you know, taxi to the runway, take off, taxi off the runway to the gate or parking?

Good question. I'm afraid I'm not very realistic. Usually I'll go out to the aircraft sitting on the runway with engines running, kick the skipper out and take over. Then more often than not I'll get out immediately after I've landed without even bothering to taxi to the gates. And I've even been known to get bored in mid-flight and just bail out. I have this ability to freefall into another aircraft flying close by.. BUT, I've done a few trips from start to finish properly and it is quite satisfying. Ian

Almost always Gate to gate, cold and dark, Real Time and Weather. An "as real as it gets" GA pilot Tom

99% of my flights are always online, so i am doing the whole thing ... cant seem to enjoy flying offline even when i test a new aircraft..;)

Why do you ask?

I was wondering how many of you did the whole bit, you know, taxi to the runway, take off, taxi off the runway to the gate or parking?

Depends on what I am going to do.If I just want to spend 30 minutes flying approaches with say the NGX, then I will start from the active runways with the plane already loaded and ready to go and dial in my freq's, config the a/c, and go. In this case I dont need to spend the extra time to taxi from a gate.If I am testing something like a new ADE file, addition of AI, or a new scenery that I just bought then I will just load the flight to the active and go from there and just fly around checking out the new additions.If I am going to do a whole flight, presumably with an airliners, then I will start at the gate and do the whole shebang as it would be done in real life.It just really depends on how much time I have and what I am going to do. 90% of the time it would be an airline flight starting from the gate though.

Almost always Gate to gate, cold and dark, Real Time and Weather. An "as real as it gets" GA pilot Tom

Same here. Like I used to IRL. I miss those days.

I only fly online and starting anywhere but at the ramp is basically a ban-able offense

Almost always Gate to gate, cold and dark, Real Time and Weather. An "as real as it gets" GA pilot Tom

Same - even the name Tom

Nah , but I think it is time to start a taxi from the ramp.

Absolutely. I try to start at the proper gate for the airline, do a real world flight and taxi. Strange as it seems taxiing in FS is I think a lot more difficult than in real world, more difficult to control speed and turning especially if you don't have Track IR is a challenge. Mark.