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Developer's Backdoor => GSX Backdoor => Topic started by: Paul Humphries on February 06, 2012, 11:19:01 pm
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I have already commented on how good GSX is. (AES R.I.P)
Possible suggestions to the developers and meant with the greatest of respect.
1. For larger aircraft like the 747 is possible to have more buses / baggage units turn up (come and go) to represent larger numbers of passengers?
2. AES has de-icing units could this be added at some point?
Will possibly think of more this as time goes by, but thanks for reading in advance anyhow.
Paul.
:)
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Yes, both suggestions have been discussed already, and we'll surely appear in an updgrade. We already had de-icers in sceneries (es. Zurich, in Winter only), we just need to remodel them to look better for GSX.
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Fantastic!!
;D
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I loved the AES de-icing function though it seems it will look better with GSX. I was wondering if somehow a certain airport could be edited so that you could only be de-iced at the allocated spots they have?
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Take a look at the deicing arrangements the developer has for his Simaddon airports. Very sophisticated. Depending on the situation, one can have multiple units working on the same aircraft. Really looks good.
Jack F.
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How about a military version for military air bases and even a carrier version with hand signals etc. 8)
BTW ref vehicles for baggage should base it on aircrafts capacity and realistic load/unload times. ;D
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Hi there,
Figured I'd add to this thread rather than starting a new one. Here are a few things I would like to see:
1. Container loaders for larger aircraft? It'd be much more realistic than hooking up a small belt loader in front of those large doors on some of the bigger heavies.
2. So far, I've noticed that the belt loaders only go to the rear baggage compartments of the various aircraft I've tried with GSX. For aircraft like the 737, A319/320, and larger, most ground crews would field an extra loader of some sort to make turns and departures go by quicker.
3. De-ice trucks of course. Ideally, with real-world driving patterns for gate sprays that are associated to a particular truck type.
4. The pushback procedure seems to prompt me, the user, to select a direction and push right away before the towbar and tractor are hooked up. It would be really nice to have the towbar and tractor hooked up, and then a separate command to initiate the pushback. This would make the procedure seem a little more realistic.
5. Wands for the wing walker (most airlines and contractors I know of require wands for these guys). At the very least, it would be nice if the wing walker can pull such wands out during the final marshal.
6. Wing walkers for arrival (having the eyes of the marshaller is great, but most companies have extra people watching the wings as well when a plane comes into an equipment dense gate)
7. Not sure if this would be too complex, but most ground handling companies and airlines also have wing walkers (two of them) stand and walk near the wings of the aircraft to make sure the wings won't bang into anything. It'd be nice to see something similar.
8. Make the baggage inside the baggage carts appear more laying flat or stacked.
That's it for now. Some of these suggestions come from personal experience working on the ramp of a busy airport. I can offer a few more suggestions on de-icing and how people and equipment typically move around. Some of which probably isn't plausible in FSX, but thought I'd throw that depending on how GSX develops further :)
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I agree, GSX is amazing tom me (even though I only have the demo) hower container loaders, as i am sure you have already thought about) would be the icing on the cake for me on gsx. :)
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Note to virtuali.
Hope this post is possibly used to help you develop what is already an outstanding FSX add-on.
It should not be taken as ungrateful so and so's LOL
I'm sure you can take on some of the suggestions and I know many you can't.
If GSX never changed you still have a very happy customer not only with the product but the after sales support too!
Salute ^^
Paul :)
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gsx also needs options to just request the baggage carts instead of the passengers boarding with the people doing the baggage, i know when you in a aircraft you still see people doing bags but they started that way before people start board.
also i think when you open gsx the stairs should automatically come to the plane because without stairs being how are the pilots going to get into the plane? or atleast make an option.
also the fuel truck need more models, when i call it up for the 738 at EGNX a small shell truck comes to my plane which wouild only fill like a quarter of my plane up and in real life at east midlands they have big shell trucks like this one http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=shell+fueling+truck&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1366&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=q1-LzGfvFL5SwM:&imgrefurl=http://www.truck-photos.net/picture/number5101.asp&docid=Ml-xKxiqh_MdLM&imgurl=http://truck-photos.net.s3.amazonaws.com/5101.jpg&w=735&h=551&ei=xec4T7rqGoyb8gPR99zPAg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=188&vpy=316&dur=31&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=147&ty=76&sig=117727180881177706772&page=1&tbnh=149&tbnw=199&start=0&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0
also what would be a good expansion which when i was at palma when my jet2 came in i was in the window just next to the stand and seen people with jet2 jackets on, that would be a good update.
i think you should make more people to do more operations so like say when te fuel truck arrives and starts fueling you should make it so the person gets out the truck and put the fuel pipe in the wing. but i think you should make more people do more stuff even if there just standing around it would still look good and more realistic.
also make an engineer that just walks around the plane lol.
Blake
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also i think when you open gsx the stairs should automatically come to the plane because without stairs being how are the pilots going to get into the plane? or atleast make an option.
This was made on purpose, in order to allow to be used together with AES to allow users having both products decide what to use at each parking, hoping that AES will be updated to do the same.
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would you be able to make an option in the installer to tick if we use aes or not?
Blake
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would you be able to make an option in the installer to tick if we use aes or not?
It's much better this way, so you won't have to re-run the installer each time you change your mind about what you want to use.
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thank, so could i have an update to whats going to be added to gsx?
Blake
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There are many discussions about what will be added in the next days/weeks/monts. However, here's a short list:
- A new parking editor, with the ability to customize all vehicles starting positions and place the FSDT Docking systems on every airport, all graphically inside FSX
- An airplane editor to customized the door locations for any 3rd party airplane without having to wait for it to be supported by GSX
- De-icers and front/rear pallet loaders, and water/lavatory vehicles too.
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sounds good, has cargo operations been discussed?
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I have said it before and I will say it again, MILITARY GSX. The ability to unlaod and load military gargo aircraft. Some huge all terrain fork lifts carrying heavy oversized deployment pallets to and from the C130 for example.
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Some of you are starting to sound like parrots, asking the same things over and over. ;D
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i must agree everyone need to just be patient i am sure they will get to your requests in time, they can only do so much so fast, and by asking for the same thing multiple times isnt going to make it happen any faster, so please be patient and i am sure they will get to your ideas as soon as they can. Once again great product just as it is thank you for your great work. ;D
Brendan
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There are many discussions about what will be added in the next days/weeks/monts. However, here's a short list:
- A new parking editor, with the ability to customize all vehicles starting positions and place the FSDT Docking systems on every airport, all graphically inside FSX
- An airplane editor to customized the door locations for any 3rd party airplane without having to wait for it to be supported by GSX
- De-icers and front/rear pallet loaders, and water/lavatory vehicles too.
I was going to suggest water/lavatory vehicles, but didn't think it would be plausible given the fact that the ports are in so many different locations of each aircraft. This is great :D
I like the sound of a parking editor too!
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I think it would be cool with actual people boarding the plane :)
Would this be able to happen?
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I think it would be cool with actual people boarding the plane :)
Discussed countless of other times already in the forum, and of course in the manual too. I believe everybody agrees that "it would be cool"...
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I say Emergency Vehicles!! lolz
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I say Emergency Vehicles!! lolz
Second that!
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Really enjoying GSX, the best FSX product out there by a mile!
In terms of future enhancements my wish list would be:
1. After deboarding, the option to be towed to remote parking, if the next flight is not for some time. Then the option to be towed back to a vacant gate when ready for the next flight for catering, fuel and boarding.
2. Medical emergency option. An ambulance meets the aircraft at that gate prior to normal deboarding commences. Possibly the ambulance then takes the patient to a nearby paramedic helicopter (maybe a bit too ambitious!)
3. Technical fault, emergency landing. On landing, fire and emergency vehicles meet the aircraft when it vacates the runway to check it over and then escorts the aircraft to a gate or remote parking for further checks and deboarding. Option for the aircraft to be towed to a maintenance area or hangar for fault repair before next flight.
Keep up the great work FSDT :-)
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A simple request, could GSX tell you which gate you are at, to make it easier to edit only that gate.
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A simple request, could GSX tell you which gate you are at, to make it easier to edit only that gate.
The editor already automatically does this, the parking to be edited, by default, is the only you are at, and is listed too. The latest update will also allow you to edit other parking positions without moving so, you are getting both options.
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A taxi to go to my hotel... :D :D ;D
Regards,
Richard Portier
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as i posted in another thread:
Cleaning Services - You can call them after deboarding and/or before the new catering trucks are coming..every airliner use the cleaners (well ryanair not Cheesy)..
you could add a car and a truck-vehicle and maybe 2,3 animated humans who walking into the plane by using the back stairs/truck..and coming out with for example full plastic bags Cheesy how about that
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How about VIP vehicles that can pull up to us biz jet fliers?
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I agree with tuiflyX3 cleaning services is an excellent idea but if is not possible or you have higher priorities i understand, and whilst i am here I'd like to say well done on a truely revolutionary product for fsx !!!! :) cheers Josh
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Next update will be the scenery editor:
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=6544.0
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Cool thank you , I no you must be sick of this question and everyone asks it but in future weeks/months/years do yo think you would do an add on for passengers to walk to the busses , I just wondered if it's possible and if the option was on the 'cards' . Sorry to be annoying because I no this question is asked a lot but don't think I have actually seen an ansew, Josh ;D
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Sorry to be annoying because I no this question is asked a lot but don't think I have actually seen an answer
It has been answered too many times, even on the *manual* itself. It's surely something we are keeping very clear in mind as a much wanted feature so, we'll surely get to it, sooner or later.
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Ok sorry and thanks, keep up the great work :D cheers Josh
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Would it be possible to add something to the airport editor which has the ability to select military or civil services
where if you checked military, it would override the afcad parking codes for that position and display the mil services and vice versa
if you checked civil it would rely on the parking codes
the method of this madness, is as theres a lot of joint civil and mil airfields and the creators of the afcads dont always set the parking type let alone parking codes
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The ability to choose the tug you want, I dont like the towbarless tug, just dont like it, and I get stuck with it a lot... and the ability to choose whose handling you, so you always get the company you want.
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... and the ability to choose whose handling you, so you always get the company you want.
Or even cooler, if it doesn't already do this, would be to automatically select the handler based on the aircraft's currently selected ATC callsign or livery.
Or for the custom sceneries (if it doesn't already work like this), selecting the handlers based on the companies that actually serve that specific parking spot.
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Or even cooler, if it doesn't already do this, would be to automatically select the handler based on the aircraft's currently selected ATC callsign or livery.
This has been explained countless times on the forum already: it's just wrong to select the handling based on the *user* airplane. The handling is *airport* based, if we selected the handler based on the user airplane, it would lead to absurd situations like international flights with their own handlers on foreign airports, such an Alitalia airplane served by an Alitalia ground crew at JFK...
Instead, the airplane cargo pallets brands ARE based on the airplane atc_airline_codes in the aircraft.cfg (assuming the airplane you use HAS one), because they should be based on your own airline. If your airplane doesn't have an atc_airline_codes in its aircraft.cfg file, then GSX will revert to the atc_airline_codes in the scenery, which is better than nothing, but it might lead to deboarded pallets on arrival of a different brand than the one that were boarded on departure.
Or for the custom sceneries (if it doesn't already work like this), selecting the handlers based on the companies that actually serve that specific parking spot.
It's already doing this, but reading the atc_airlines_codes for that parking spot in the scenery AFCAD. Ok, maybe we could add an override in the Scenery customization feature, for those sceneries with wrong/missing airline codes.
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Being a GA Charter simmer of types, I really would hope to see a hand cart (luggage cart pushed by hand type) instead of a tug and tow cart for loading and unloading planes as a feature option to be able to select which type via parking spot. Or in addition perhaps one of those John Deere Gators thingys.
It would also be great to the way I enjoy GSX is I could have a marshaller that is a simple non-uniformed person instead of an airline dressed type. This would be for small fields and a simple plaid shirt and no ear proctection or safety vest would be great. Same with the rest of the crew.