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Alphanumeric Gate and Ramp numbers

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Is it possible to have alphanumeric gate and ramp numbers in ADE or FSX generally?

YBTL has (for instance) Gate 2 that the Jets park at, but a smaller Ramp at the same general location which is 2A that the turboprops park at (not with a jetway). The gate and parking locations overlap. I cannot see how to do this as yet as ADE only lets me enter numbers for the Gate/Ramp number. Is this a limit of ADE or will FSX only allow gates/ramp designations in numeric format.

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Bungo
 
Bungo said:
Is it possible to have alphanumeric gate and ramp numbers in ADE or FSX generally?

YBTL has (for instance) Gate 2 that the Jets park at, but a smaller Ramp at the same general location which is 2A that the turboprops park at (not with a jetway). The gate and parking locations overlap. I cannot see how to do this as yet as ADE only lets me enter numbers for the Gate/Ramp number. Is this a limit of ADE or will FSX only allow gates/ramp designations in numeric format.

Thanks

Bungo
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It is a limitation of FSX. In this case you would need to create each one with a different gate type. If one is a GATE type and the other a RAMP type then they can co-exist with the same number (2) but you will get an error if you have two GATES with the same number.
 
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Bungo

Like Jon says you cannot have a letter after a number (2A). You can have a Gate 2 and a Gate 2 as long as no animated Jetway exist at either Gate. You can have any combination of same Parking spot number also (RAMP 2, Gate 2, Cargo 2, Cargo 2 Cargo 2 etc.).

Many airports with Commuter parking spots such as KATL use Gate D31 Door for 3 different airplanes parked out on the ramp. My KATL has 3 Gate D31's but none have a Jetway which FSX will give a compiler error if a animated Jetway is placed at one of the duplicates.

If you remove the animated Jetway and make it a sceneryObject static type Jetway that does not move then you can have a Gate 2 for the large Jet based on a radius parking size and a Gate 2 for the smaller plane based on a smaller radius parking size.
 
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Thanks for that. I suspected as much. I can name both '2' and use Gate and ramp to define them. I just need to make sure that the bloke programming up the FTX AI pack doesn't have a Qantas jet at Gate 3 and a Qantaslink Q-400 at Ramp 3 at the same time.

Thanks

Bungo
 
You can even have Gate 3 and Gate 3 as long as no animated jetway exist for the Jet parking spot. The size of the radius for the parking spot controls what type plane parks there.
 
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