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Products Support => GSX Support FSX/P3D => Topic started by: RandyC on May 14, 2021, 05:31:26 am

Title: How do I tell GSX not to use jetway for vintage prop airliners? Connie, DC6, DC7
Post by: RandyC on May 14, 2021, 05:31:26 am

Hi.  I'm sorry if this has already been asked and answered, but if it has, I couldn't figure out what words to use to search for it.

I have created a gsx.cfg for my A2A Connie.  I have it using the embedded air stairs, so no problems there.  The problem I'm having is the passengers only work if I'm at a gate with no jetway.  If there's a jetway, I get no bus for the passengers and no bus for the crews.  The only thing that works is the baggage cart and conveyer belt.
My question is how do I tell GSX to ignore the jetway with this particular aircraft?  To use the services as if there were no jetway there at all?  I also want to get my DC-6s, DC-7s, to all work this way, but I can't find what I need to put in the GSX.cfg to get the results I'm looking for.  Help, please?   Thank you in advance.

I guess the better way to put this is how do I tell GSX this aircraft can't use a jetway?

Title: Re: How do I tell GSX not to use jetway for vintage prop airliners? Connie, DC6, DC7
Post by: virtuali on May 24, 2021, 09:50:10 pm

There isn't a way to tell a gate doesn't have jetway *just* for a specific set of airplanes, we would have to add this feature.

Title: Re: How do I tell GSX not to use jetway for vintage prop airliners? Connie, DC6, DC7
Post by: RandyC on May 27, 2021, 01:26:49 am

Thanks so much for your reply.

I do hope you'll consider adding a parameter in, for example, the individual aircraft's GSX.cfg that will tell the airport gate that this aircraft can't use a jetway, so it would have access to either the GSX Air Stairs or use of the aircrafts' own embedded stair case, despite the presence of a jetway at that gate.

That way, it wouldn't just look better for use with classic prop liners, but also for Dash 8 series turboprops and executive and other regional jets that just can't match up to a jetway.

More and more airports don't have many parking spaces without jetways, except in GA ramp areas, nowhere near airline boarding areas.

Thanks for your work! :D