Hello everyone, My knowledge of the workings of the cfg.file are limited in some respect, so I am looking for some help in changing the default altitude from 10,000ft. to zero, this would make a big difference for me. Many thanks in advance for assistance. richard welsh.

This is not a cfg thing. You can save a situation after changing the MCP alt to zero though and use that.

Hi Peter, Thanks for your suggestion which I tried and does work but the process involved takes longer than winding down the alt. from 10,000 to zero, which I think you will agree, but I am looking for a permanent setting of zero for the default which might be available elsewhere in the cfg.file or elsewhere in PMDG files. richard welsh.

Just a question, why do you want it set to 0? It is so unreal...

Richard: how I understand it, if you save a situation with 0 on MCP and load that, MCP will stay on 0.or am I mistaken here?

That is right, the altitude will be saved, however, normally noone will set it to 0 as the last setting before landing is the missed approach, then, it remains at that setting until the next pilot is setting the new cruise altitude.

Hi Peter, I think you are slightly, because in order to resurrect the stored panel state you have to go to the FMC panel state section and scroll for your stored panel and execute it but when you have exited the sim altogether the panel state will disappear the next time you load the sim again. I hope I am right saying this. richard welsh.

Hi All, This is becoming a Saga, I wish I had kept my mouth shut. To cut a long story short, I have acquired an Addon Voice controlled co-pilot ( similar to FS2crew but better) but when loading a flight and requesting the co-pilot to set Alt. at 6000ft he automatically thinks the alt. setting is at zero, so with the default set at 10,000ft the alt. setting becomes 16.000ft, I think you will begin to see the picture, however if the default is zero I am on a winner. The bottomline is I may haveto wind down the alt. to zero and start from there. Round of applause please. richard welsh.

Oh. Is that the one who called the fs2crew guy a bad programmer for waiting for SDK?richard I checked in with a friend who has the NGX active (I only "loaned" the visual model so I can repaint, but plan on buying it next week with my pay coming in) and he confirms - when you save a flight and then load it, even after quitting FSX, the airplane will load with saved state, including MCP alt. He also says that you can save panel state itself without saving the whole flight situation.

There is a section in the FMC that lets you save, load and the default (when loading) panel state. Save the panel state with MCP altitude at 0, set that panel state as your default, and you've done.

Hi All, This is becoming a Saga, I wish I had kept my mouth shut. To cut a long story short, I have acquired an Addon Voice controlled co-pilot ( similar to FS2crew but better) but when loading a flight and requesting the co-pilot to set Alt. at 6000ft he automatically thinks the alt. setting is at zero, so with the default set at 10,000ft the alt. setting becomes 16.000ft, I think you will begin to see the picture, however if the default is zero I am on a winner. The bottomline is I may haveto wind down the alt. to zero and start from there. Round of applause please. richard welsh.

there nothing better than fscrew2 for the ngx