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VHEBN:
Hi Umberto, I have noticed that GSX loads pallets on a 90 degree angle to the normal angle of pallet being loaded into an aeroplane.

Normally, unless you work for Menzies Aviation - Excellence in crashing into the plane where the pallets are towed the same direction as in GSX, the pallets are towed by the tug facing long ways. When it's loaded onto the loader, it is rotated 90 degrees, so that the long side of the pallet is always loaded into the aircraft on a 90 degree angle to the direction of the aircraft. This allows pallets to fit through aircraft cargo doors, which currently in GSX they do not.

Please see attached screenshots.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/304906290399019008/885494250958102608/unknown.png

virtuali:

--- Quote from: VHEBN on September 09, 2021, 02:08:27 pm --- the long side of the pallet is always loaded into the aircraft on a 90 degree angle to the direction of the aircraft.
--- End quote ---

These guys are loading the long side of the pallet aligned to the plane direction:




These guys, instead, are loading at 90 degrees but, when the pallet is on the door, they slant it about 45 degrees to let it pass it through the door, so it will end up in the cargo bay with the long side lined with the airplane direction.




--- Quote ---This allows pallets to fit through aircraft cargo doors, which currently in GSX they do not.
--- End quote ---

So the real issue is not the overall direction used by GSX, which is not wrong, and it is used in real world, if the long side of the pallet fits the door but, instead, the fact GSX MIGHT be improved to take into consideration both the pallet length and the door size and perhaps doing that kind of maneuver seen in the MD-11 video, if the pallet won't fit the door through its longer side.

VHEBN:
bruzzy, in ALL those videos, they're loading onto a main deck in a widebody. This is a different story as the main deck on widebody freighters are designed to load 2 pallets next to each other. In my screenshot I'm clearly not using a freighter with a main deck cargo hold. I'm pretty sure that no passenger aircraft loads like that.

If you wanted to maintain pallets loading the way they did then potentially you could have it only like that for main deck loading? The only issue would then be that narrow body freighters ie A321 P2F load the main deck in the same direction as the cargo hold on any other containerised passenger aircraft.

virtuali:
Are you sure you can't fix it with the airplane customization and, for example, prevent the larger pallets to be used in the smaller cargo doors for that particular airplane ?

VHEBN:
Most probably, but the aircraft are designed to be able to fit these pallets in real life, just on a 90 degree angle to the way they're currently handled in GSX.

I'm no expert in what aircraft everyone flies in their sim but I'd be willing to say more people are flying PAX aircraft capable of loading pallets in the lower hold than people flying freighters with main cargo decks.

Most every passenger flight has freight loaded, generally on pallets, not AKE, as they're faster to load. This was especially evident last year with the freight transport issues caused by the reduction in passenger flights.

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