Hello guys,
in this topic I would like to exchange opinions and ideas about different ways of a more realistic ground and airport experience, and about better turnaround experience, especially for airliner pilots.
What we do have are the animated jetways. Actually I never got them to work, but this might be a problem of me myself.
A thing many airliners have are several ground services. In another topic, we discussed how to do aircraft independent ground services.
In my opinion, what we already have is a great platform to further development of better airport experience.
- We can work to get aircraft independent ground services. This would in the first step need an aircraft independent dialog, where to toggle the different services.
Then, we should define specified spots, where the services approach the different doors. This would require to define e.g. the passenger doors as an approach
spot for passenger stairs, and the cargo and service doors as an approach spot for baggage loader and catering trucks.
The principle should be the same as the jetway feature.
- These independent ground services should also have a certain functionality, so that you can organize the refueling process via the ground service menu, or you can't activate the external power of a plane when the external power is not connected to the aircraft. This is actually working in the 737-800, so it's definitely possible. Maybe some actions should be demanded from the pilot, e.g. "open passenger door"
- To make the experience even more realistic, the processes should take a certain amount of time, so e.g. boarding takes some minutes in a mid-sized airliner, or the catering and cargo loading takes certain minutes. To achieve as much reality as possible, several messages should be displayed, and perhaps even heard, just like "Ready for Boarding" or "Boarding completed".
- The ground vehicles should be animated, so that they approach the aircraft, and e.g. the catering vehicle moves up.
- Animated jetways should be a feature that every new designed airport have. And the functionality should be added to every airliner in FG.
- AI Scenarios: It would really bring more life to an airport, if buses, cars, and other vehicles would drive around in an AI scenario. This could be repeatable after a
certain time.
- Realistic Turnarounds of AI aircraft: The AI aircraft should also be served by several Ground services, before they taxi to the runway and depart. Maybe the Grund service feature could be added to these aircraft as well.
This would be my ideas.
If you have any further ideas how to get things done, this would be amazing.
Kind regards,
flycanarias