This parking is isolated - again!

[FOD]

After several days trying, yesterday I finally had GSX working after seversl off line install attempts  and using the Univeral Uodater..
 FSDT airfields we’re installed ok and working when I shut down for the night.
Today I booted the pc to set up a flight and when it loaded at LSGG, I was told the parking slot was isolated etc etc. I tried the updater again with no change.
So again my GSX is useless.
Appreciate your problems but if this version cannot be fixed and as asked before, could we not have copies of an earlier version for P3D users
Grateful for any help

[Papacoach]

It appears that couatl/gsx is not seeing/reading ini files correctly, but I can't find a common cause. If you remove/delete the ini files the gates/parking will reappear. But you'll lose any airport customization you've done! You'll need to start over with customization.

Hopefully there is a better solution coming.

[FOD]

Only one ini file in the addon manager - for FDDT LSGG. I deleted that but it made no difference  - still getting the isolated parking error!
After all the years using GSX, I do have sympathy for Umberto - something has obviously gone seriously wrong with the MSFS launch. A pity we do not have a separate downloaded for P3D only.

[smiley]

Guys have had the same problem, with airports where I have the isolated gate issue,  uninstalling and reinstalling the scenery has fixed the issue for me.

Hope this helps. I know not ideal solution but try this.


Cheers miles

[liamr685]

Guys have had the same problem, with airports where I have the isolated gate issue,  uninstalling and reinstalling the scenery has fixed the issue for me.

Hope this helps. I know not ideal solution but try this.


Cheers miles

Annoyingly any of the fixes other people have used, don’t work for others, which is weird.

I’ve tried removing the INI files, and doing a reinstall of scenery, yet the bug still persists.

[FOD]

The problem is that it covers all scenery airfields  -  default or add-on so you cannot just reinstall one. .  After several hours yesterday, I found it working ok, then this morning, it suddenly started again giving me that error - so I’m now back to square one.
Oh for a copy of the files before this updare ……….

[tonyg59]

Hi Everyone,

I believe I have found the root cause of all our GSX gate/parking space grief since the update
of the new GSX, for all us P3Dv4/v5 users.

I too was suffering with some airports reporting no available gate/parking available for GSX to use
and when checking the GSX customise airport option it would only return 0 or 1 parking/gate in the list.

After a day of testing and investigation on P3Dv5 I have narrowed down the problem to be a missing entry
from the .ini files that are used by GSX to determine the available gates/parking for a given airport.
That is why some have reported that if they removed the .ini files it solved the problem. A little too
drastic for my taste as you would end up with all your user config's for each airport being lost !!

Let me explain my finding's right or wrong, but it fixed it for me and may provide help for Umberto to fix
the cause. Some of the airports I use worked OK but many didn't. It appears that a change
has been made in the new GSX that requires a mandatory entry in the .ini against every gate/parking section otherwise GSX does
not read the file. This entry is as follows if missing.

parkingsystem = 0    <--  add this to each (gate/parking) entry (if missing) in affected airport scenery .ini file.

0 is for "no parking system" but it may be another value depending on what's configured as long as the entry exist with a value.
it will work. You can change this from within GSX once a entry is added to the .ini file to reflect the correct type of parking system.

Please note that there may be .ini files in the scenery it self provided by the author which contains the parking/gates.
Each entry must contain the above line as well. Also note that if modified by GSX in the past a .ini file will exist under
AppData/Roaming/virtuali/GSX for that airport change this as well. Be aware to back these changes up otherwise if the scenery is updated
or reinstalled they may be over written.

Here is an example modified entry only add to parking and gate sections NOT general:

--------Original entry

[parking 508]
pushback_pos = 52.45213212 -1.753793889 -34.26481628
radiusleft = 25.0
pushbacklabels = Nose Right/Tail Left (LEFT)|Nose Left/Tail Right (RIGHT)
loadertype = 3 3
disablemarshaller = 0
radiusright = 25.0
hasjetway = 0
nopassengerstairs = 0
pushback = 2
maxwingspan = 38.0
nopassengerbus = 0

[gate 80]
pushback_pos = 52.45565599 -1.736573393 -0.5985565186
radiusleft = 16.0
baggage_loader_front_pos = 52.45585525 -1.736686094 100.4014435
pushbacklabels = Nose Right/Tail Left (LEFT)|Nose Left/Tail Right (RIGHT)
loadertype = 1 1
stairs_front_pos = 52.45557146 -1.736458785 10.40144348
disablemarshaller = 1
radiusright = 12.8
baggage_loader_rear_pos = 52.45601709 -1.73633374 -122.5985565
hasjetway = 0
nopassengerstairs = 0
pushback = 3
maxwingspan = 32.0
stairs_rear_pos = 52.45573911 -1.736000719 -124.5985565
nopassengerbus = 0

------- Modded working entry

[parking 508]
parkingsystem = 0
pushback_pos = 52.45213212 -1.753793889 -34.26481628
radiusleft = 25.0
pushbacklabels = Nose Right/Tail Left (LEFT)|Nose Left/Tail Right (RIGHT)
loadertype = 3 3
disablemarshaller = 0
radiusright = 25.0
hasjetway = 0
nopassengerstairs = 0
pushback = 2
maxwingspan = 38.0
nopassengerbus = 0

[gate 80]
parkingsystem = 0
pushback_pos = 52.45565599 -1.736573393 -0.5985565186
radiusleft = 16.0
baggage_loader_front_pos = 52.45585525 -1.736686094 100.4014435
pushbacklabels = Nose Right/Tail Left (LEFT)|Nose Left/Tail Right (RIGHT)
loadertype = 1 1
stairs_front_pos = 52.45557146 -1.736458785 10.40144348
disablemarshaller = 1
radiusright = 12.8
baggage_loader_rear_pos = 52.45601709 -1.73633374 -122.5985565
hasjetway = 0
nopassengerstairs = 0
pushback = 3
maxwingspan = 32.0
stairs_rear_pos = 52.45573911 -1.736000719 -124.5985565
nopassengerbus = 0

Hope this Workaround help's some of you also get up and running again.

Tony

[FOD]

Interesting option but afraid did not solve my problems which I have isolated to one group of add-on airfields - other such as default and FSDT developed airfields are ok.
My group is about 10 UK2000 airfields which were developed before about 2019 - all were ok with previous GSX versions - since the update they all  are unuseable.

[Pete Dowson]

I've applied the recent update for GSX and my other FSDT products, and successfully used it for an LFPG departure.

But, like the original post in this thread, on arrival at LSGG, I can't find a gate which isn't declared by GSX as being "isolated", so it refuses to provide any services. This is very odd, especially considering the LSGG scenery I have is by DreamTeam and was seemingly updated at the same time.

I don't have any user modifications to taxiways or gate properties at this airport.

Surely this must be a bug -- so why has Umberto, or at least an FSDT support person not chipped in yet?

Pete Dowson

[mwyatt]

Hi, P3D v4.5.14.34698. Win 11 Build 22622.
I also have a problem at Heathrow EGLL, UK2000 scenery.
After the latest update I have only 1 parking slot available.
Tried, deleting the relevant INI file from Roaming/Virtuali/Gsx, made no difference.
Tried, adding ParkingSystem = 0 to the file, made no difference.
Reverting to a saved GSX/AddonManager from 10 days ago makes it work again.
Is there a fix for this remaining problem ??
Other than this problem, the recent fixes seem to be working.
Good work by the team at FSDT so far !!
Best regards, Martin.

[FOD]

Just to show how difficult it must be for Umberto and the team -

I have 10 UK2000 airports:

One is the new EGGW 2020 HD - works perfectly in all gsx versions
Two - EGNM and EGCC now work after I changed the AFCAD to one of the options available
The remaining 7 all refuse to read the AFCAD - altho’ showing it correctly in GSX - whatever changes I make.

All of course read the AFCAD correctly using a pre-update version of GSX …….

[joergalv]

...
parkingsystem = 0    <--  add this to each (gate/parking) entry (if missing) in affected airport scenery .ini file.
..

Thanks Tony!  Great find! This worked for me in FSDT LSGG.

[captaintango27]

Just gonna throw my issue airport into the mix so others can possibly double check as well. I got SunSkyJet KPHL no longer working. Worked perfectly before, just flew there in April and had no issues with GSX, and now getting the same error as everyone else... "This parking is isolated."

[Ray Proudfoot]

I'm glad I found this topic. Running P3Dv5.3 HF2 and with GSX not updated for several weeks (and Chicago installed a couple of years ago) I cannot use any services at FSDT KORDV2. The Isolated message appears at many gates.

I'll monitor this topic and hopefully a fix can be found.

[Maxje121]

Hi everyone,

This morning I received a messages in P3D v4 that a update was available. I run the update and now GSX is not working again.

It`s not loading at all, even when I`m trying to re-load GSX in P3D it`s not responding.

Please GSX, try to fix this asap!

Best regards,

Max

Quick update: All FSDT airport are not loading as well. Just checked at KCLT and KLAX but I only see black shadows were buildings should be standing