What is the probabilty of seeing a LOCAL service vehicle at start-up in regionJ?

[argaeus]

Hi.

I have been using GSX for a while now (like more than 8 months) and I have never "ever" seen a local branded service vehicle in any of the Turkish airports at start-up. All I see are EL-AL, Air Arabia, Emirates, Newrest, Saudia and numerous other North African and Middle Eastern brands but NEVER a Turkish brand.

Is it all that hard to localize the service vehicles based on Country codes (for better immersion) or at least reduce the size of Regions like J, E and D which seems to cover more than all others added so that the chances are increased if LT is not deliberatley blocked ?

Do you have any plans to localize these vehicles based on country codes?

Regards.

[Captain Kevin]

If you've got any companies for specific countries that you'd like to see added in, I'm sure they'd like to know about it.

[argaeus]

Well, if you read my first sentence again, I am sure you will understand what I was asking about.

All local (Turkish) brands are already added to GSX Pro, I have no problems with that, it is just that they have NEVER EVER showed up around my aircraft even though I start MSFS 2020 minimum 10 times every day as I am still working on scenery projects of many local airports.

I guess it is clear now.

Regards.

[Captain Kevin]

It wasn't clear to me that they had already been added to GSX.

[virtuali]

If you are referring to non-GSX vehicles, those that wanders around the airport and service AIs or your airplane if you don't use GSX, which are called Living World and Airport Services, we surely have Turkish vehicles correctly assigned by-airport, using the Airport Services files.

Of course, that assumes you haven't disabled them (perhaps to speed up loading times), because if you have, their assignment will be less accurate "by region"  instead of "by airport" and, as you can see from the map included in the manual you quoted, Turkey is in the overall J region, so you'll get a random selection of all sort of middle-eastern operators, which are many, so your change to see Turkish vehicles will be lower, just because there are many other operators to compete against.

Now, there's the notable exception of LTFM. Since there's no LTFM in the default MSFS scenery, we don't have a custom Airport Services file for it, so *there* you will ALWAYS get the less accurate "by region" operator selection for ground vehicles not operated by GSX.

[argaeus]

Hi Umberto,

Thanks for your detailed reply.

So if I understand you correctly, LTFM (which is not included in base sim) will have no chance of getting local vehicles if you don't start GSX after you start up your sim - which I do and see all available assigned vehicles selected in its profile file. That is what I thought as well but wanted a confirmation from your side. It was confirmed by Captain Canada in one of his videos that LTFM is included in MSFS 2024 so this problem will hopefully be solved in future.

My question was about GSX vehicles not appearing at start-up in other local airports, namely LTFE, LTBS, LTBJ and LTFJ and I know about in-sim service vehicles because I add service vehicle network myself in my scenery projects around the airport and around parking areas on aprons.

I only selected "Exclude 3rd party" airports to avoid seeing jetways overlapping the ones in custom sceneries without removing them or misplacing the jetways creating a very unrealistic scene in front of the cockpit. If there is any additional "disable" option other than the one mentioned here, I must have missed it. As I do not know where it is, I assume I have not disabled it. I will download the manual again and check carefully.

Best regards.
Hayri.