I hate this... I know it's been posted before... I've done searches for Dark and Quiet , Cold and Dark, Cold & Dark, Cold Dark... and got no matches.

How do I get my aircraft to load up Cold and Dark?

Fozzer wrote on Nov 25^th, 2009 at 2:07pm:


This method works well, but one word of caution from my experience: If you mostly fly default/non-complicated add-on aircraft, this will work like a charm, but if like me you fly a lot of complex (and high-priced) payware, I'd suggest utilizing the Cold/Dark setting for each specific aircraft. The former method tends to mess some things up...

The "cold and dark", or C&D, start-up is dependent on the user-saved default flight, which can be found in the FS9.cfg file on the line Situation=.

So why not have two FS9.cfg files, one for  C&D and one for warm and lit.

Simple to do. Make a copy of your FS9.exe and rename it FS9_C&D.exe. Have a desktop shortcut for each one.

If you want to fly complex addons that require the stock default flight you use FS9.exe which has the default C172@KSEA as it's default flight.

If you want to start C&D you use FS9_C&D.exe which has as it's default flight one saved as described above.

Granted, if you want to get out of your 747 and fly your Cherokee to your private field you may have to re-start the sim.

The possibilities of what can be done with multiple FS9.exe files (and their associated .cfg files) is enormous.

Say you want to have an FS9.cfg with joystick settings specific to helicopters that differs from what you want for fixed wing. Make a FS9_helo.exe and set the .cfg up the way you want.

Or you can have seperate FS9.exe and .cfg setups for different TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=??.

I don't want to wander too far off thread, just to show some possibilities.

cheers,
Joe

If you fly certain aircrafts such as the PMDG 737, or CAPTAIN SIM 757/767, all high quality high priced software that do NOT seem to come with a cold and dark setting to start up, this is what I do.


I first select my airport, gate etc, and load up by default.
Next, while at the ramp, press "alt - > aircraft - > select aircraft". Then, choose the default Cessna 172. Once you've loaded the C172, you need to do three things. 1, turn the magnetos into the "off" position. 2, pull the mixture full lean (all the way out), and 3, Turn the master battery off. After doing that, go to "alt->aircraft->select aircraft and select your airplane that you wanted cold and dark, and WALA its sitting at the gate cold and dark. It may be a pain in the you know what, but thats what I have to do when I load aircraft that do not have a cold and dark feature.

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Westover Field. Amador County. Jackson. Cal.

Airfield

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