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aceridgey

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[Feedback] - Pax Boarding and Baggage loading separate?
« on: December 22, 2022, 10:35:51 pm »
Hi there,

Why doesn't baggage loading and passenger loading happen simultaneously?

I am in the CRJ and baggage was loaded without pax and when complete boarding passengers.

On this subject; can we have a toggle option to not disconnect the jetbridge the moment boarding is finished? Instead linking it to the request p/s?
In the real world, we keep the jetbridge on until all paperwork etc and this can be some time after the last pax has boarded.

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Re: [Feedback] - Pax Boarding and Baggage loading separate?
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2022, 09:37:29 am »
Why doesn't baggage loading and passenger loading happen simultaneously?

I am in the CRJ and baggage was loaded without pax and when complete boarding passengers.

Because you are on a CRJ, which loads bags from the left side, so it's completely normal you can't load passengers at the same time, because the loaders will interfere with the passenger bus.

The vast majority of airplanes, that loads baggage from the right, loads passenger and cargo at the same time.

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Re: [Feedback] - Pax Boarding and Baggage loading separate?
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2022, 09:53:21 am »
There is no reason why you can't load the baggage and passengers at the same time. They're not conflicting so not sure the logic is correct here.

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Re: [Feedback] - Pax Boarding and Baggage loading separate?
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2022, 10:12:23 am »
There is no reason why you can't load the baggage and passengers at the same time. They're not conflicting so not sure the logic is correct here.

Fact that bus and the loaders are on the same side is precisely the reason why you can't load the baggage and passengers at the same time.

Time to arrive for the bus is not always the same so, even if you don't see a conflict now, it doesn't mean there might not be one in a different situation, that's why in this case ( cargo doors on the left ), passengers and cargo is not done at the same time, to be sure this will never happen.

As explained so many times in the past, GSX vehicles are not completely aware of each other at any time, because this would not just put lots of strain over Simconnect and the sim ( every vehicle should monitor the current position of all the others, continuously ), but doing this would introduce a whole new class of issues, like deadlocks of vehicles yelding to each other on the apron, which are very difficult to solve and already plague the default AI system, so we prefer to just skip the whole issue altogether, meaning some service cannot be performed at the same time, for example in this specific case when the loaders are on the same side as the passengers.

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Re: [Feedback] - Pax Boarding and Baggage loading separate?
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2022, 10:19:24 am »
Ok thanks for your perspective.

Could you comment on the second part of my opening lmessage too regarding the jetbridge disconnects.

Kind regards