Can you set ac to load a particular car setup each time?

I have started to play with car setups and was wondering if I have to load my new setup manually each time I choose the car - or can I set it up, to load automatically?

 

Sadly it's not possible although I think that would be a good thing.
netKar Pro went one step further by leaving the car exactly as you left it setup, fuel and tyre wise... which I like even more because that's how it works in real life: you finish a race, load the car on the truck and go home, after 2 weeks you show up at the track again, the car didn't magically revert to a "default" setup while sitting in the truck
The problem with that is that it quickly becomes messy when you do a car update, perhaps change some setup ranges or things like that and the software still goes and loads an old state that is not "valid" anymore. With netKar I've also seen instances of corrupted saves.
I ended up giving up on the idea in the latest versions of netKar PRO and we decided to keep the behavior for AC because it makes support much easier as we always know the car loads up in a "valid" state.

 

Interestingly, that is exactly what happens with my A2A Simulations Piper Cherokee 180 in Lockheed Martin Prepar3D (my flight simulator).

 

OK. Thanks for explaining it. I will deal with it - just have to remember to load the setup...

 

Thinking out loud here:
I usually only fiddle with camber, fuel and aero and have almost no track specific setups, so I always make one in "general" and save it as "race". Is it not possible to load only the changes made on default rather than a whole setup with all its values? This way, if something in a car changes (which, by the way, doesn't happen too often I guess), it is usually not affected by loading the setup changes.

I'd much rather have AC load my generic setup by default and break it once a year because of an update, than having to manually load one myself. But perhaps I'm just being lazy

 

Also I often save some sort of basic setup in the general folder, and far as I know AC also saves the last used unsaved setup as "last" in there. So it smells like the feature is already half way there..

I would love to have a possibility to automatically load a "user made default setup" on session start.

Excuse me for kicking this around for a while, but this inspires me...
Maybe this 'general setup folder' could be used for it? In example one could save a setup there and name it "default" to let the game know that's the one user wants to be loaded for starters... That way you could still use the "last" setup, or revert back to factory default if needed. And you could still keep saving other setups in the general folder too.

Hmm...

 

This sounds like a workable idea. Combined with a way to delete setups it would be quite useful for us that like to fiddle with setups.