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Increasing the number of cargo aircraft.

chris

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How do I (you) increase the number of cargo aircraft assigned to your airport? My scalar is set at 1.0 and I have 12 x 50m cargo ramps. Vehicular traffic is dense enough, there are fuel trucks at half the empty parking spots! However, there is only ever one aircraft there.
I remember reading somewhere that the aircraft.cfg file needs modifying. Which one and how? I have 54 when I search :eek:
 
Surely this relates to AI flight plans?
 
Yes, of course, using TrafficDatabaseBuilder. My gates and GA ramps (42 in total) are 80% filled. This is FSX generated traffic plus my customAircraftSchedules (which accounts for six slots at 0600hrs decreasing to zero at 0800hrs then back to six at 1000hrs). I've converted all my Dash-8s to cargo only (fs10.AircraftTypes) by increasing the required ramp size to 40m so that even a gate_heavy won't handle it. I could of course, add some cargo flights manually, but I don't see why TDBB can't do it. My last airport had just four cargo ramps and occupancy was 100%.
 
Aarrgggh! The obviousity is glaring.
Open fs10.AircraftTypes.csv for editing.
Copy "B744-8a,Boeing 747-400 Paint8,505,280,400,1000,5394,11000,HARD,40,CARGO,100,yes,no"

Spawn thusly;
B744-8b,Boe...
B744-8c,Bo...
.
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Same for any other aircraft that you want to modify. However if they are not already 'CARGO' then then the respective aircraft.cfg file requires the line;
atc_parking_types=GATE,RAMP
changing to
atc_parking_types=CARGO
and spawn liberally, or at least until TDBB spits out;
: error: Unable to find available parking at VVVI for blah blah aircraft that I have in my CustomAircraftSchedules.dat

Now we're getting traffic jams, just the way I like it.
 
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