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I keep deleting my jetways!

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Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? As of late, anytime I edit an AFCAD, once I open look at it in the P3Dv4.4, my moving jeyways are gone. I'm pretty sure I've jacked up a setting in ADE 1.76.6715.14291, but I'm not sure what.

I do still have the little white Jetway icons in ADE, but nothing shows up in P3D.

Any help appreciated,
Emerson
 
Nope... no joy. I never moved my scenery complexity slider before the problems occured anyways.

It's something in the AFCAD itself. To test my theory I just rolled back to the original AFCAD that FSDreamteam provided and the gates display with no issue. (In this case I'm working with FSDreamteam's CYVR, I have the same problem with PACSim's KSLC and KRNO.)

I'll attach the AFCAD files (original and modified). Maybe someone can analyse them and see more information than I know how to look up.

Please Note: I run the sim with one of them as a .off file instead of a .bgl file. I changed them both to bgl's for forum posting ease.

Emerson
 

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It is probably the same problem as is the case in FSX. You may have moved one of the jetways over the micro exclude that removes the default jetway. This removes all jetways from the airport. To test this:

1. Load the BGL file (yes, the BGL file) into ADE.
2. In the View menu turn on Exclusions.
3. At each jetway location you will find a tiny little exclusion square. Find one(s) where the exclude is right on top of the middle of the jetway. Note which jetways they are, and where to move them to move it a bit away from the exclude (it needs to be moved very little).
DO NOT Edit this file, we are just finding out which jetway(s) need to be moved.
4. Now open your AD4 file and move those jetways just a tiny bit. Compile as usual.

Hope this helps,
 
It’s not that one or some of my jetways are missing. They are ALL gone. And when I edit the files, I’m only messing with the gate airline codes. I never touch the little jetway icons.
 
Then perhaps one of the exisitng exclude rectangles is covering a jetway. This can cause ALL jetways to disappear.
 
No joy, I don’t see any excludes over my jetways.

Remember, I haven’t edited any of my exclude boxes or gates between BGL, that work… and those that don’t work after editing gates. ALL I’m editing is the gate assignments and occasionally adding STAR runways when needed. And this has happened to several airports. It doesn’t make sense that it would possibly be and exclude box over a gate. How would that somehow happen, every time, all of a sudden? I’ve edited hundreds of my AFD files without issue, now I’m having this same problem with nearly every single time I edit an AFD. It’s just got to be something else. Take a look at my attachments, you’ll see that i haven’t added or moved any exclude boxes.

Emerson
 
I did see a couple of jetways covered by excludes. But since you are convinced it's something else we'll drop it.
 
One issue I had was bringing the jetways to the front in ade. For some reason I'm not going to try. And analyse when I did something in side the jetways I positioned were IN ade but did show in the sim. Having noted swearing didn't work I selected 3 of the 60 I had on the ap and selected bring to front , not saying it's the answer to your issue , just. A different perspective from someone who has screwed up many times
 
TG - I found the same issue in ade > FSX - I lost all of terminal 5 I created for heathrow. Went back in selected each and pulled it to the top - re complied and there were the jetways

It was just a though as it worked for me :-)
 
In that process you probably moved one or more jetways a teeny bit. That's all it takes. :)
 
In fact you are right Tom - I did move some a small amount, now you said it - reason EGLL (Real world) loves to load the gate areas with as much machinery as it can possibly get away with :tapedshut

sorry about that !
 
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