Robau777

Thanks for all your help and suggestions. I found that the problem was with my throttle quadrant, some how it had got out of sink and would not bring the engines back to idle even though the levers were right back. Re calibrated and now all is good. Regards Rob

Thank guys for your help so far but I think I should change my user name to Capt Dummy. Okay, I am flying in the Trike over Friday Harbour, engine purring away and enjoying the scenery and have put the big tick in the default flight box as suggested, but I would like to be sitting in the 737 at gate 40 YBBN with the aircraft powered by the APU. So in FSX I moved the Trike from flying over Friday Harbour to gate 40 and shut down the engine, went to the change aircraft panel in FSX to load the 737 and it loads at gate 40, that's fine but while waiting for the 737 initialization to finish, the 737s engines have spooled up from displaying zero to enough power to send me rocketing through the terminal building, across the car park and ending up in some field, so while this " journey of a life time" is going on, I am madly on the breaks and shutting down the engines to stop. Help please. Rob

Okay, please be patient with me. Aircraft I know, my career spanned from the Constellation thru to the 747, computers, I know how to turn them on and off. Firstly, where do I go to post my full name and then I will do my best to give you as much information as I can about my problem. Thank you

I tried as suggested then shut down my FSX, came back later in the day to do a flight and the sim once again did what my original problem is. I just about give up.

Hi to all. I am trying to set up the following so that when FSX loads, I start all my PMDG 737 NGX flights this way. I wish to have the aircraft parked at YBBN (Brisbane Intl, Australia) Gate 40, with the APU running. In real life you would call it a transit stop. I position the aircraft at gate 40 and go through the shut down procedure by the tutorial until the aircraft is being powered with the APU, all goes fine with that, so now my aircraft is in transit at the gate. I bring up FSX to save the situation, enter a name, tick default flight and save and shut down my flight sim. The next time I go into flight sim my 737 is at YBBN, Gate 40 as I had planned, but instead of the aircraft just sitting there and powered by the APU as I had planned, the park brake is off, I had left it on, and both engines start to spool up, I had shut them down as per procedure, including fuel pumps with just the one fuel pump running for the APU, and an annoying beep....beep....beep. So, what am I doing wrong or what am I not doing. Thanks for any help. Kindest regards Rob