Pardon me if this has already been addressed here before, but searching has turned up no answers. I have a lot of nice payware GA prop aircraft from the likes of Aerosoft, FSD, RealAir, and Flight1, and I like to always start my flights with a cold cockpit. I always start FS2004 with the default Cessna 182, cold and magnetos off, however, when I then proceed to load a payware GA prop aircraft, the payware aircraft nearly always loads with the magnetos/starter set to both/on. Why is this? The default Cessna 182's magnetos are off, but the payware GA prop aircraft loads with the magnetos on. Is there a way I can configure the payware aircraft to load with the magnetos defaulted to off?I realize it's a minor point, but FS2004 is all about the wonderful details, right?Thanks.-- WaltFlying FS9.1 at 1600x1200x32Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHzWindows XP Pro SP2512MB PC800 RDRAM,8100128MB ATI Radeon 9600 ProCATALYST Windows XP 3.10 video driverDirectX 9.0bViewSonic P95f+ 19 inch Ultrabrite CRT MonitorSound Blaster Audigy2 ZSCreative I-Trigue 2.1 3300 SpeakersMS ForceFeedback 2 joystick

You must set the cold cockpit they way you want then save the file. Now when you start FS2004 and it goes to your default Cessna you must select the saved file from the dropdown menu to load the plane and not the select airplane option menu. This will load your plane the way you set the cold cockpit from the saved file.hope this helps

Thanks for the tip, Jim!Yep, that works--saving the payware aircraft to its own flight ensures that the magnetos are off for that aircraft when you load the flight. I wonder why? I've examined the resulting *.FLT file and can't find any magneto-type setting that's different from my default Cessna flight file. Must be something in how FS2004 handles how it loads aircraft. I wish it wouldn't do that, because I prefer to fly from where I last landed, so my startup flights are location-specific as opposed to aircraft-specific.BTW, another thing I've noticed is that some payware aircraft make the assumption that a "cold and dark" cockpit means that the avionics switch is already turned on, hence there is no avionics switch on the payware aircraft's panel. I assume this is because the realworld payware aircraft modeled doesn't have an avionics switch?-- Walt