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Parking for Smallest GA Aircraft

Postby pb321 » Sun Oct 24, 2021 3:44 am

The smallest parking for aircraft currently assumes a 7.5 meter park position radius. However, a Cessna 150 has a wing span of 33' 4", requiring a park position radius of just over 5 meters. A Cessna 172 has a wing span of 36' 1", requiring a park position radius of just short about 5.5 meters. So the radii of both of these quite common aircraft are significantly less than the smallest park position radius allowed. This becomes a problem when making airport groundnets with GA parking positions. Often "T" parking positions are spaced closely for such aircraft and they are in rows of aircraft oriented 180 degrees from each other. This makes it impossible to place the aircraft precisely on the "Ts" without completely disregarding the actual airport layout. Shouldn't we allow a smaller park position radius for such aircraft parking positions?
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Re: Parking for Smallest GA Aircraft

Postby BecOzIcan » Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:28 am

Support for GA is limited given we do not expect shared groundnets to include more than a handfull of them.

GA traffic is designed for use by individual user on their own machine only.

Practically, with FG Airports you can still place small parpos in the intended position, ignore the overlapping radii errors then save and export the groundnet to your local scenery folder.
From there, you can simply modify the xml content (either manually with notepad++ or with taxidraw) to set the desired radus for each of the GA gate, to the value your custom traffic file uses.

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