We need a new menu apply button that does a save of the current configuration in the manor that closing the simulator does now when it writes out to auto save files.
Often, we make a change in the 3.5 system and then we should then close the sim so that the save files are written after the change. If we don't close before a flight, we have an opportunity to lose our current changes if the simulator crashes.
A new "Apply Changes" menu option could be created to force the save right then when the button is pushed to that we don't have to go thru the motions of shutting down the sim after a change to make sure they are saved, and then restarting the sim for our flight.
--opinions? I will send this idea to Devel-ML if opinions agree.
Ray