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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #165 on: July 27, 2021, 11:22:02 am »
When a parking position has 2 or 3 jetways and after arrival and engines shut down, it only shows up one option for docking, what could be wrong?

Nothing is wrong, GSX will always shows only the jetways that can solve that particular combination of airplane, doors, jetway model and parking positions.

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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #166 on: July 27, 2021, 02:27:50 pm »
When a parking position has 2 or 3 jetways and after arrival and engines shut down, it only shows up one option for docking, what could be wrong?

Nothing is wrong, GSX will always shows only the jetways that can solve that particular combination of airplane, doors, jetway model and parking positions.

I'm afraid to inform that's not quite the case, the only option of jetway that is being offered for selection is one of them that is not the most suitable for the plane type and position. Then, what happens is that the selected jetway crashes over another one (which in turn is the most suitable, since it's closer to the plane and unobstructed).
Also, I've seen several cases where a multiple selection of jetways is made available for the user to choose.

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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #167 on: July 27, 2021, 02:38:22 pm »
I'm afraid to inform that's not quite the case, the only option of jetway that is being offered for selection is one of them that is not the most suitable for the plane type and position. Then, what happens is that the selected jetway crashes over another one (which in turn is the most suitable, since it's closer to the plane and unobstructed).

Sorry, but I can only repeat and confirm that nothing is "wrong" with GSX, but you must understand how it works.

First, about the jetways crossing into each other. This can only happen if you use the automatic servicing option, which will auto-dock jetways or, if you dock them manually, if you cross them intentionally.

GSX cannot possibly know in advance if jetways might cross into each other, that's why they might cross if you use auto-docking and it won't prevent you do cross them. As explained in other threads when asked about this, to prevent jetways to cross, you should configure one jetway that would only solve on ONE door, and another jetway that would only solve on ANOTHER door.

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Also, I've seen several cases where a multiple selection of jetways is made available for the user to choose.

That's normal and it's also normal you won't always see this. GSX will only show a menu with jetways that will solve depending on that particular combination of airplane, doors, jetway model and parking positions. And, if there's only ONE jetway that would solve to ONE door, it will even SKIP the menu because, of course, it would be silly to offer a menu with only 1 choice.

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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #168 on: July 27, 2021, 02:55:43 pm »
Anyway, I wasn't the one who set it up, I don't even know how to do that (hence why I asked at first). I got this from one of these websites that provide GSX jetways replacements for those bad Ctrl+J ones.  Now, regarding the selection, again I don't know what happens, but in this case the selection menu is being shown and with only one option.
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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #169 on: July 27, 2021, 03:09:53 pm »
Now, regarding the selection, again I don't know what happens, but in this case the selection menu is being shown and with only one option.

I'm not 100% sure but, it's possible the menu will be skipped only if there's one choice for the operator, but it will still show if there's only one choice for the jetways.

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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #170 on: November 04, 2021, 12:31:12 am »
Hello Umberto,
i have two airports who has both sode jetways (I get them work - docking and undocking) with the standard sode keycommands (Tab-S) but not with the gsx menu. I have the GSX2, the airports are EDDC (Justsim) and lqsa (MK)
How can i:
1. How can i controll this jetways with gsx?
2. How can i change the livery of this jetways?

Best regards for your help

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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #171 on: November 04, 2021, 11:52:59 am »
i have two airports who has both sode jetways (I get them work - docking and undocking) with the standard sode keycommands (Tab-S) but not with the gsx menu.

The issue of 3rd party jetways usable only from SODE must be fixed by the scenery developer, as explained here:

http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,24745.msg163878.html#msg163878

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2. How can i change the livery of this jetways?

You can't change anything in a 3rd party jetway added with SODE.

To be able to change the model or the livery, they must be GSX jetways so, you must first remove the jetways the scenery came with, by removing their XML file in the C:\ProgramData\12bpilot\XML folder, and then add GSX jetways on each gate using the GSX editor.

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Re: GSX Level 2 TUTORIAL - Replace Jetways on a 3rd party airport.
« Reply #172 on: Today at 08:20:02 pm »
I am currently trying to replace the jetways that came with FSDT Zürich with the ones that comes with GSX2. The issue I have is the old FSDT jetways still shown even after beeing excluded with the proper procedure. From the GSX manual, I tried to increase the exclude radius from 1.0 meter to bigger number (I tried 50 meters), and after recompiling the exclude file, the old jetways is still showing ? Should I keep tyring to increase the exclude radius until it works or is there a more fundamental problem here ?