Identifying appropriate airport gates

[Richard McDonald Woods]

Hi Umberto!

Does GSX have sufficient data to be able to display/print a list of available airport gates for a specified airlines aircraft?

Such a list would be very valuable when trying to determine how to taxi in.

Cheers, Richard

[virtuali]

Does GSX have sufficient data to be able to display/print a list of available airport gates for a specified airlines aircraft?

Right now, it only checks if gate size is suitable to your airplane (indicating "too small" if otherwise) and if it's available or not (AI presence).

I'm not sure how it could be improved if it checked for the airline codes too. Surely, it shouldn't filter out non-matching parkings, because that airline code might not even be there. The only thing that might be useful, would be adding just a text indication of the preferred parkings.

[alfke]

Would it be possible to show which gates have jetways?

[socili]

some scenery work with only "small" parking positions, so i had some problem finding a gate for my A320 even it would fit. it would be nice if we can have GSX-Service for every position regardless of the size.

[virtuali]

it would be nice if we can have GSX-Service for every position regardless of the size.

This feature has always been there, have a look at the GSX manual, Page 24, the explanation of the "Max allowed wingspan" parameter of the parking customization page.

[socili]

RTFM 
thx for the info, will have a look.

[jenstt]

Right now, it only checks if gate size is suitable to your airplane (indicating "too small" if otherwise) and if it's available or not (AI presence).

I'm not sure how it could be improved if it checked for the airline codes too. Surely, it shouldn't filter out non-matching parkings, because that airline code might not even be there. The only thing that might be useful, would be adding just a text indication of the preferred parkings.

Would it be possible to implement that? Adding a text indication to the preferred parking for the livery you're flying.. Or just display the airline codes next to the gate Numbers if that would be too difficult?

[virtuali]

Would it be possible to implement that? Adding a text indication to the preferred parking for the livery you're flying.. Or just display the airline codes next to the gate Numbers if that would be too difficult?

Displaying the airline codes won't work very well, because that string can be up to 255 characters in length, and there's just not enough space on the menu, and it will look very bad too.

We'll have a look if it would be possible to just put some kind of flag, if the atc_airline_code of your own airplane matches the atc_airline_codes of the parking.

Of course, your own airplane MUST have an atc_airline_code to begin with...and that's not always the case, because is not a mandatory parameter, many 3rd party airplane developers just forget to add it, or put the livery name in the description, or the airplane title, which is not very realiable for matching, since it's not a code ( ex. different developers might use "Delta", "Delta Airlines" or "Delta Air Lines" ).

[jenstt]

I think most of the liveries use like the 'UAL' and 'RYR' alike codes.. And if not we can always manually add them to the planes? Even manually adding them would make things alot easier because afterwards we would find an appropriate gate everywhere.. (As the airport airline data is correct in general for AI traffic)