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No fuel truck animations PMDG 737

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bcm652:
Help me understand this. Doesn't a Boeing 737 wing sit at the same height regardless of airport apron.
The wings on the default 737's in FSX are all the same height and fuel trucks have no problem getting under them, and create a very cool animation.
I would have thought that all 737's are created equal regardless of the sim.

virtuali:

--- Quote from: bcm652 on November 20, 2023, 07:08:22 pm ---The wings on the default 737's in FSX are all the same height and fuel trucks have no problem getting under them, and create a very cool animation.
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If you mean you see the Platformed hydrant vehicle in FSX/P3D, it's not because the airplane or the wing is different, it's because we "cheated" and, in order to make you SEE the "cool animation", we moved the refueling point in the GSX internal database for the PMDG 737 a bit on the outside, so it stays slightly above 3.40 meters, triggering the crewed truck. The 737 is really a borderline case, we couldn't do something like that with an MD80, for example.

In MSFS, we want to make it right, and do an even "cooler" animation, with the crew unrolling the large cable sprocket and using (or not) a ladder depending if they can reach or not the fuel point.

adsm88:
Thank you for the reply Umberto. Looking forward to all these improvements

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