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Reinhold Tholen

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EDDK Gate Error
« on: October 24, 2019, 01:18:37 pm »
Prepar 3D v4.5   4.5.13.32097
Cologne-Bonn Professional v1.0.2.5
PMDG 777-200LR  1.10.8886
GSX 2.6.0.0

Order no. xxxxxx

After selecting the aircraft and airport in Cold and Dark
mode. I set the parking position to EDDK B23, which is Heavy.

After pressing the keys CTRL+F12 I got the error message
This Parking Position is to small for your aircraft. Ground service not available.

The same probleme is after landing to gate B23, Follow me Car is not comming. This gate is to small.
your sincerely
Reinhold Tholen
« Last Edit: October 25, 2019, 12:48:25 pm by virtuali »

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Re: EDDK Gate Error
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2019, 12:37:36 am »
Check the parking radius of the gates you're trying to use. If it's smaller than the radius of the airplane, that's why.
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Re: EDDK Gate Error
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2019, 12:48:01 pm »
Why you posted a question on the forum you already sent by email, which has been already replied to you ? Here's a copy of the reply you already got by email:

This is not a GSX problem, of course. It's caused by the scenery AFCAD. Some developers intentionally set the parking radius too small, even if it "looks right" visually, in order to play with AI assignments and prevent some AI to get there. Of course, GSX cannot possibly know if a parking is really small, or it has been set that way for some reason, since the AFCAD is the only thing GSX will "see" so, it doesn't have any other choice than to *trust* the AFCAD.

Of course, this can be fixed without editing the scenery, and the ability to do so has been there in GSX for years, with the "Max Allowed Wingspan" parameter, explained at Page 38 of the current manual.

There's no need to do it individually. All you need to do is do a single multiple selection of all gates you KNOWN are large enough for your airplane, then click the small "airplane" icon on the right of the "Max Allowed Wingspan", and it will automatically set all the selected parkings to be accepted for your currently loaded airplane so, it's just a single operation, only the first time you'll ever use an airport.