Engine Defaults

[Lamplighter]

Does anyone know how I can change the default engine status.
At the moment when a Free flight is started the engines are running .Is there anyway that this can be changed to having the engines in a  shut down status on opening the flight .This then enables me to do the start up as part of my realistic experience.

[brett]

There are many posts here on this same subject. You can save a flight with all systems shutdown and use it as your default startup flight but I would advise against this because I have read that this has caused problems with some machines.
What might be a better idea is to save a bunch of free flights with your "go to" aircraft in their cold and dark state and use/load them for your daily simming needs. JMO and others might disagree. 

[Lamplighter]

Thank you for your suggestion .It seems the only way to go.