You are now able to click anywhere on the globe in the free flight menu and rather being forced to start 1500 ft above ground you can choose to spawn on the ground in either a cold and dark or ready to taxi state.

It allows a half way situation between full walkaround and starting on runway as you can click on an airport parking spot and choose ready to taxi state.

 

Correction: you cannot click a marked parking spot but can choose a location nearby

edit: by marked parking spot I mean the small white dots around an airport. You cannot choose the custom option I describe at these locations. 

Edited November 23, 20241 yr by boez
Extra info

Cool, thanks for pointing this out!

Spawning at an arbitrary location seems really useful for helicopters and bush flying.

Thank you very much for this information. Will give it a go as soon as I'm back at the computer again. This suggestion really would help me and others greatly.

This info of the OP is unclear. Which map? The globe or tablet? What is a marked spot, you mean a labeled airport?

5 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

What is a marked spot

The spot on the map where you click with your mouse

What they still haven't implemented is the toggle on the Heliports they wanted to change that has your helicopter spawn with running engines if you chose it as a starting point.

17 minutes ago, VeryBumpy said:

This info of the OP is unclear. Which map? The globe or tablet? What is a marked spot, you mean a labeled airport?

I’ve added extra info to my OP

2 hours ago, boez said:

you can choose to spawn on the ground in either a cold and dark or ready to taxi state.

It will indeed locate you on the ground, however, the aircraft has its gear up and the nose pointing in a 45 degrees angle to the sky. At least it does this with the Airbus A321. 

2 hours ago, hvw said:

At least it does this with the Airbus A321. 

I didn’t test all aircraft but you should report that as a bug as it’s a feature of the sim that’s not working with that aircraft…

Edited November 23, 20241 yr by boez

Thanks for the tip I gave this a quick go and it works 👍

1 hour ago, boez said:

report that as a bug as it’s a feature of the sim

Where did you read that this is a feature of the sim? I doubt if it was one by design. Anyway, it was a nice find of yours, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. (As many, many other features of this sim don't work for me 🙂 )

 

I am using FStarter24 and can start anywhere at any airport, in Cold and Dark or ready to go.

8 minutes ago, hvw said:

Where did you read that this is a feature of the sim? I doubt if it was one by design

Because it’s an option in the drop down box when you click somewhere on the globe. Options available are: Airborne / on ground cold & dark / on ground ready to taxi

Looks like a designed feature to me!

That's a great feature that removes one of the things that frustrated me in 2020. 

1 hour ago, boez said:

Because it’s an option in the drop down box when you click somewhere on the globe. Options available are: Airborne / on ground cold & dark / on ground ready to taxi

Looks like a designed feature to me!

I don't see the one in Bold, all I get is Airbourne, On Ground Shut Down, On Ground Ready For Take Off