Disabling player control and/or GUI for landing gear AND altering default state.

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Good day folks.

Does anyone know if there's a way to both disable player control of landing gear state and have them retracted by default? Simply being able to disable the GUI would be enough to keep me happy.

I ask because I made a nice set of pontoons by rescaling the large landing gear, but it's only pontoon-like when the gear is retracted, obviously. Removing the gear module reference is the easiest way to disable player control, but that locks the gear in the default (deployed) configuration. On the other hand I can set the default state to retracted using the gear module, however that enables player control of gear state/GUI.

I'm hopeful because I see that other part modules allow something akin to: allowManualControl = False

So, who's going to ruin this rare bout of optimism?

*facepalm*