I have noticed a couple minor issues that happen to me on occasion. When I go into a flight, it use to be that I would have full fuel tanks and the engine would already be started. A few times the sim started doing the opposite. The engine wouldn't be running and the tanks would be empty. It does that every flight now. Obviously the engine start thing is no problem; I don't mind going through the start up procedure at all. But the fuel thing is a pain. How can I make it start me out with full tanks like it use to? Also, is there any way to keep it from going into a default flight on start up?

Those are a couple of the many aircraft status items that are saved in your default flight. They are then applied to any aircraft when you create a free flight. (They do not effect any flights that you load from your saved flights. For those you would have to load the flight, make the changes and resave.)

Set up or load a flight, click fly now and then set the aircraft controls as you prefer. Select save flight and put a check next to 'make this the default flight' in the save flight window before saving.

Dave