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Jetway menu automatically opened up by GSX when boarding/deboarding?

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stefangr:
I have noticed that when boarding / deboarding is requested and jetways are not connected yet, GSX opens up its menu automatically and selects menu item #6 for jetways, so the jetway selection is showing up (when it has SODE jetways).

I was wondering if that was invented in a GSX update not long time ago? I did not notice that before, and it looks my automation script is a bit irritated by that :)

Seen @EDDF/Gate A19 (Mega Airport Frankfurt V2.0 professional) with P3Dv5.2 and GSX Level 2.

Thanks
Stefan

virtuali:
GSX never automatically opens up its menu.

The airplane you are using, instead, is doing that as part of its own GSX integration so, if you made another automation yourself, you shouldn't use the one provided with the airplane, because they will surely conflict or, adapt your automation script for when you use that airplane, and not doing something the airplane is already doing itself.

stefangr:
I think I have not been precise enough. I am using Project Airbus, no Addon which has any GSX automation, and also my script has been stopped before testing. And obviously it's not about opening up the menu from scratch, just showing up menu within a "workflow":

Let's say I am starting fresh at LSZH/A42, no jetway nor anything else docked, opening up GSX menu by keyboard

I then select "1" = Request deboarding

Afterwards GSX is opening up the menu to select the operator, I will select "1" for the GSX default choice

After this the menu "Select jetways" is showing up to select the jetway to operate.

I was just wondering if that menu "select jetways" was always showing up at this stage or if this was introduced only recently. Maybe I cannot remember because I normally operate the jetways with menu item 6 before I start deboarding or boarding.

Thanks
Stefan

Captain Kevin:
Yes, if you request de-boarding or boarding and the jetway isn't attached, it pops the menu up. This isn't new, it's always done this.

virtuali:

--- Quote from: stefangr on September 28, 2021, 06:57:07 pm ---I was just wondering if that menu "select jetways" was always showing up at this stage or if this was introduced only recently. Maybe I cannot remember because I normally operate the jetways with menu item 6 before I start deboarding or boarding.
--- End quote ---

That menu has been there since GSX Level 2 came out, in 2018.

If you are doing your own automation script, you cannot assume the jetway selection menu will always there, no matter what, because:

- If the gate doesn't have SODE jetways, the menu will always by skipped, since GSX doesn't control non-SODE jetways.

- If the gate doesn't have ANY jetways, the menu will also skipped, for obvious reasons.

- If the gate DOES have SODE jetways, but only one will solve to only one door, the menu will also skipped, because it won't make any sense asking the user which jetway should go to which door, when there's only one possible answer.

- If the gate has multiple SODE jetways, it will first ask which jetway you want to dock to which door first and then, if other jetways solve to more than one of the *remaining* doors, a SECOND menu will ask which jetway should dock to which of these doors. This might even go down to a 3rd menu, if even after assigning the first two jetways, the remaining ones will have more than a possible choice.

So, basically, I really think you shouldn't try to automate jetway selection with a script, considering GSX has way better information ( from the SODE API ) about which jetways will work on which door.

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