although in my opinion it is not the best situation as the changing cursor can cause some trouble in all the cockpit knobs and switches.
Which is why, in the other thread I linked, I suggested to find a position/size for the GSX menu that would interfere as little as possible.
Or, of course, you can always close it from the toolbar, which is a "real" close, but you need to be aware of the side effects, which are:
- If GSX needs to pop-up a menu in the middle of a service ( for example when you called Pushback, and later on, GSX will ask for a direction ), it won't show up, because closing the toolbar menu will kill the menu code, so the menu will be dead until it's later reopened.
- You'll lose any text notifications either, for the same reasons, for as long the menu is closed.
- You won't be able to bring it back with the hotkey, for the same reason.