Dear Umberto,
To begin with, let me thank you for delivering awesome software for our beloved MFS.
I am your longtime customer (GSX is my 10th product from you) and have always been more than happy with the quality of your stuff.
Now on to GSX. I have recently switched from FS9 to FSX (after almost ten years of happy simming with FS2004). The main reason was Majestic Q400 I was patiently awaiting for many years.
One of the extra things I did because of my switch was buying GSX. I loved it from the videos and knew I will purchase it as soon as I move to FSX. I have been using the other ground services addon in FS9 for many years and it also is a great product, but yours is a bit different and with the support of all airports (lack of which is your competition's largest disadvantage) it seems a must have.
Now finally to my problem. After purchasing Q400 (and then GSX) I am flying nothing else and it will probably be so for some time to come.
As you well know (I have read your post in another thread refering to MJC Q400), there are some problems with interaction between Q400 and GSX.
From my observation they are as follows:
1. marshallers sometimes do not know the aircraft's position on arrival (sometimes their signals stop me in the right place, at other time they don't know where I am - the MJC micro-bouncing is the reason, I'd guess?)*
* Question: can this problem be scenery/AFCAD related?
2. engines cannot be started during the pushback process3. Sometimes when the luggage cart and the bus are already gone (after boarding), I request pushback but I get the info to
wait until other processes are finished....So I wait and wait and... finally have to reset the menu and request the pushback again. What could be the problem here?
4. luggage loaders and buses make some strange driving movements (e.g. the luggage cart sometimes eats its own tail - see the screenshot below)
Note: I did apply the 3D configurator (to make sure my aircraft is properly configured) but it did not seem to influence this behaviour.
Of course luggage and cargo loaders cannot be used in general since you currently don't support the left side cargo bays (I very much hope to see it soon implemented in GSX!).
But since the trolley is waiting there and it starts driving, the movement can be observed anyway.
I admit I am pretty new in GSX (I did read the manual and forum threads first) and have no experience with using other aircraft with GSX.
So I am not sure how much of the above is the problem of MJC Q400, how much (if any) is a quirk of GSX itself and how much is just my lack of knowledge of GSX. I would be grateful if you could tell me.
I would also love to hear if there is a co-operation currently going on behind scenes between you and the Majestic team (I hope i is not a problem to ask).
I guess it is there, as GSX pushback actually is nicely working (except for the proper engine startup sequence) unlike the other addon's pushback.
I am aware MJC Q400 is an innovative aircraft product as it is built much outside of FSX and that unfortunately causes some quirks.
All the best Umberto and thank you in advance for your reply,
Rafal
