Author Topic: Pushback direction  (Read 5043 times)

mroschk

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Pushback direction
« on: August 07, 2013, 03:07:20 pm »
Hello,

i want to ask if we can Change the text when selecting the pushback direction?

During my work for DHL the Pilots ask us for pushback with the "Facing" Option.
So they never ask's me a "Tail" direction.
So... in GSX we have to chose the Tail direction which makes me always confuse.

Can we Change thin in "Nose left" and "Nose right"?

 The Airplane can never go backwards itself, so the Tail direction makes no sense for me.

Pls can you Change this?

Thanks
flusie

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Re: Pushback direction
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2013, 12:35:31 pm »
Can we Change thin in "Nose left" and "Nose right"?

There's no need to change this, since the indication of where the Nose will go it's already there in the message.

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The Airplane can never go backwards itself, so the Tail direction makes no sense for me.

The indication doesn't have any relationship to the direction the airplane is moving. It's only meant to describe the final position the airplane will be at the end of the pushback.

The GSX indication is made like that, in order to suit BOTH users accustomed to the FSX default standard of referring to Left/Right as being the direction the tail will go AND users accustomed to the standard of Left/Right being the airplane facing, so the message clearly indicates both, in order to make it impossible to both kind of users to misunderstand it.

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Re: Pushback direction
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2013, 08:39:44 am »
As i know so far, in europe you say "facing" but americans says "tail"

other countries other language
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Re: Pushback direction
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2013, 11:29:46 am »
As i know so far, in europe you say "facing" but americans says "tail"

There's a reason why we have *both* indications in the message...