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Aircraft Start Unit

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booforty:
My request was more of a "Visual" air start unit rather than a "functioning" one.   Visually it would look great parked up near the nose of the aircraft - it could be an option if you want it to appear or not?

mroschk:
Hello,

sorry for the late answer.

But i also mean only a visual APU, not a working one.
Also there are very often use a ASU ( Air Start Unit ) to provide Air Pressure to start the Engines.
Also as a visual future...

Both would be very nice !!

Matthias

cowings1588:

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--- Quote from: mroschk on February 13, 2013, 11:15:48 pm ---i think the standard boeing has a APU build in...
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That's exactly what I've said: FSX has introduced an APU system, but nobody except the default 737 use it, and nobody will want a GSX feature that works only with 1 default airplane.

And, it would be very tricky supporting each 3rd party airplane, since each one have its own way to simulate the APU, it's way more complex than reading custom doors with XML variables, because there are surely tied to an XML variable (so we can put an XML expression to test it), but the APU doesn't need to, so it's likely an in-memory variable that should be accessed by reverse-engineering the gauges, which would stop working as soon as the developer releases an upgrade. We could basically do it only for the very few airplanes that have an SDK, like the PMDG which, incidentally, already has its own visible APU vehicle, so it wouldn't make sense to add a new one in GSX.

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One of those kind of things that works great only in Real Life Airplane world..  Besides it sucks having to get that big Airstart Unit going.. We Ramp agents hate it infact when an Airplane calls for it because means more work & more trouble & hassle turning a flight, when have to deal with an Airstart.. Thankfully only select few airplanes need it.. Like it better when Airplanes APU is working..  :)

nsksleeper:
Hello together,

my question is if it's possible to simulate an airstart. Means with PMDG to start Nr. 1 engine at the gate and then get a pushback, because GSX says i have to cutoff engines to get P/B

virtuali:

--- Quote from: nsksleeper on September 02, 2013, 10:36:14 am ---my question is if it's possible to simulate an airstart. Means with PMDG to start Nr. 1 engine at the gate and then get a pushback, because GSX says i have to cutoff engines to get P/B
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This has been asked several times on the forum: no, GSX doesn't allow this yet. We should add explicit support for it, as well explicit support for starting with one engine only, on specific planes.

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