I'd like to know if the default can  occur at an airport with the aircraft sitting on the runway---as all other sims.

tc

You mean can you spawn on the runway with the aircraft ready to go?  If that's the question then yes, just select your airport and runway voila!  You will be spawned on the runway fully configured.

I meant the sim starts at the runway at a designated airport. In all the other sims, we can create and save  a default start up. When you start the sim, the aircraft is automatically placed on the runway of your choice airport-- ready to go.

tc

I suspect the best you can do is save a FLT file for your favourite aircraft, time of day, weather and runway.

There MIGHT be a way to have tthe game autoload that FLT file but I do not have a clue how you would go about that.

No there isn’t.

10 hours ago, flyforever said:

I meant the sim starts at the runway at a designated airport. In all the other sims, we can create and save  a default start up. When you start the sim, the aircraft is automatically placed on the runway of your choice airport-- ready to go.

tc

it takes less than 20 sec to set it up that way right now, i really cant see any problem there.

What really annoys me, and it would be such an easy fix, when you select dep/arr airports, it never selects the current active runways. I have to zoom in and wait for the traffic plane icons to appear and set my runways accordingly. What an oversight. 

1 hour ago, Colonel X said:

What really annoys me, and it would be such an easy fix, when you select dep/arr airports, it never selects the current active runways. I have to zoom in and wait for the traffic plane icons to appear and set my runways accordingly. What an oversight. 

Can’t you just base it on wind direction?

9 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Can’t you just base it on wind direction?

Sometimes, but when the wind is low and you aren't familiar with the airport operations, that won't work. And why does the sim ignore wind direction when selecting the runways? It's an easy fix.

If you set it up as IFR then the Arrival sets it up as Approach instead of a runway, then ATC controls what runway you use. You can change it afterwards.

3 hours ago, Colonel X said:

Sometimes, but when the wind is low and you aren't familiar with the airport operations, that won't work. And why does the sim ignore wind direction when selecting the runways? It's an easy fix.

I get the impression with non-live weather it allocates a runway then builds the weather around it as you can select a runway and the wind seems to always be just slightly off straight down the selected runway.

Live weather seems a bit more erratic.

15 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

I suspect the best you can do is save a FLT file for your favourite aircraft, time of day, weather and runway.

There MIGHT be a way to have tthe game autoload that FLT file but I do not have a clue how you would go about that.

.flt files are to save flights in progress.  .pln files are flight plans.  If you save a flight plan as a .flt you really don't get anything because the flight hasn't started.

Think of it this way.  If I'm saving it before I hit "Fly Now", I'm saving a .pln file.  If I'm saving after I hit "Fly Now" I'm saving a .flt file.