My new share-o-plane has a PilotAware fitted on a cigarette lighter adaptor.
Saves messing with a usb battery like my previous rental setup, but being switched on with the avionics master means that it isn’t ready for use for a couple of minutes after startup.
I’ve got quite used to the engine start and off blocks logging, but this requires starting the flight before the engine is started.
Is there any way to start a flight using my iPad’s location services and then switch to the PilotAware once that has booted?
It should have finished booting by the time runup checks are completed...

Have I got a setting in the wrong place somewhere then?
If I try to start a flight using pilotaware and the pilotaware isn’t ready it gives me the “no position has been received for some time” error and then shuts down the flight.

(Edit: just tried to start a flight without my paw in range and noticed it may be no connection to device warning that popped up - will do a quick experiment later today)

I’d have to check but I don’t believe it even creates a log for that session.