What constitutes a "cold start?"
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I've spent a bunch of time in the sim today flying the Starship, all in one continuous go. I did one flight, landed, powered down, went back out for a practice approach, powered down, and then back out for one longer circular route.
Each flight has ended in a compete shut down of everything, including the batteries, and has even been left for a spell while I walked away.
After each power down, after returning and powering her back up, I would not get the CDU messages expected after a "cold start," and my original flight plan was still in the FMS, along with every checklist I had completed.
How does one reset all of that? Normally it might not be a big deal to clear the flight plan, however I'm an FSUIPC user and there's the CTD bug when clearing flight plans, so I had to manually clear everything except the last two, then overwrite them and enter everything.
I would have thought once everything was completely powered off there wouldn't be any persistence.
Bug or user error?
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I looked into this yesterday. Right now, the only way to trigger a cold start is by loading a new flight, or by selecting "Reboot System" on the CDU's "FMSSFP" screen (a real debugging screen from the aircraft). What I just added for you is that the MFD checklists will now be cleared when you trigger this reboot system feature. Have fun!
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The flight plan and CDU state is definitely not lost, and I can attest to that from first hand experience. I'm not sure about the checklists, though. You wouldn't want them to wipe from a momentary loss of power, so they might be on a timer.
