passengers

[kdmnet]

rather than waiting for SU10 in the manual page 61 it is stated that one can set a number of passengers by inserting lines into a file, can give you a concrete example and which file we can modify please

[virtuali]

Why you think you need to wait for SU10 to set the Passenger Number ? Nothing in SU10 will have any effect on that, there are 3 different ways to have the Passenger number and are:

- By letting GSX automatically estimate it from the Payload at the moment of boarding. Page 14 of the GSX Manual explains how this calculation is made.

- By using a 3rd party airplane that has been programmed to communicate the passenger number to GSX, setting the appropriate variable. Page 61 explains how developers can control this from their own code.

- By filing a flight plan on SimBrief, which GSX will query using your SimBrief username to download it and use it to set several things, with the Passenger number being of of them. Page 60 of the manual explains in detail how this works.

[kdmnet]

basically using the 787 you answered that you had to wait for SU10 because the files are locked

[virtuali]

basically using the 787 you answered that you had to wait for SU10 because the files are locked

Fact the 787 is encrypted doesn't have any effect on GSX Estimate of the Passenger Number: the Airplane Payload is not read by the aircraft.cfg ( it's not a fixed value ), it's read through Simconnect, so it works even with encrypted planes and, even if the airplane wasn't encrypted, the passenger number would still need to be estimated, since it's not something available as a standard variable we could check.

And of course, there's always the SimBrief option.

[kdmnet]

this is because with the 787 we can not predict a cargo weight in FS2020 but only passengers per class and by reducing the weights per class we obtain a lower number of passengers which decreases the loading time.

[virtuali]

this is because with the 787 we can not predict a cargo weight in FS2020 but only passengers per class and by reducing the weights per class we obtain a lower number of passengers which decreases the loading time.

That's normal with every airplane, not related in any way to the fact is encrypted or not.

Even if we could read the aircraft.cfg, the payloads stations there don't have an unique way to be surely identified as Passenger, Luggage or Cargo, a station can be anywhere from a single passenger, to an entire cargo bay so, regardless if the airplane is encrypted or not, the estimate will always be imprecise.