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Parking Codes

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I set a few gates to have the parking code of DAL. I went to one of my planes and edited the parking code in the aircraft.cfg file. When I go to the certain airport and request to taxi to the gate it doesn't send me to the gate with the parking code. What am I doing wrong?

-Patrick
 
It is very hard to get ATC to send you to a parking spot of your choice. FS9/FSX does not honor selecting the parking spot for the User Airplane.

You can in some cases set a parking spot that differs is size from all the rest and then edit the wingspan of the User plane in the aircraft.cfg to fit into the spot. This sometimes forces ATC to send you to a selected parking spot.

There are other tricks we use such as setting a Parking spot with XXX XXX XXX DAL.
 
Hello Patrick,
first of all sorry for my poor english. Hope you understand what I mean.
I found a way for the user aircaraft to park at a gate you want (only FS2004)

As you mentioned parking code does not work for user aircraft. Thats correct. But it will work with the "Radius" Data. So try the following:

For my example you want to land at KLAS send to Gate48 with a haevy aircraft
Using AFCAD open your KLAS file. Go to List- Parking. Next to "Parking code" you see the "Radius" Data. Find a Radius that is n o t used at this airport. Lets say 52.0 m can´t be found in the airport list. Edit Gate 48 to 52.0 m. Now you have to find an airline (parking) code that will never fly to KLAS. Lets say TSE (I think its a small carrier from Argentina). Change the Parking code of gate 48 to TSE. This makes sure that no AI Aircraft will use this gate. This step is important. If you leave this item empty AI traffic will still use Gate 48.
Now go to Tools- Aircraft Editor. Find and select your aircraft you want to use and change the Radius to 52.0 m (same as gate 48). Thats it. In most cases it works fine for me.(not always I don´t know why). Try it and let me know if it doesn´t work.
 
There is only one obsolute when it comes to parking.

That is the radius of the Parking Spot.

If the radius of the parking spot is smaller the the Model.mdl radius (FS9) or half the wingspan ft value (FSX) no plane will park in that spot.

All other values of parking are honored based on a pecking order and avalibility.

The Airline parking spot code and the Airline code in the aircraft.cfg will not stop ATC from putting a plane in that TSE spot if nothing else is available based on a pecking order after the absolute. There are other factors also that says when you show up to park, ATC is using that spot for a AI plane.

We say that parking codes do not work for user aircraft but that is not exactly true. FS9/FSX gave us a way to have our User Plane park where we want it but no one designs Airports and Flightplans with the User Plane in mind including FS9/FSX.
 
Yes Jim you are right. If there are no other parking positions available then ATC will use the TSE parking position. But if you use good AFCAD files and flightplans based on reality, I guess thiss will almost never happen.
 
Another thing not mentioned re: this issue is the simple fact that if a user so desires, the user can ignore ATC and park where he or she wants...with none of the effects that occur when cancelling an IFR flight plan for example...so no harm, no foul. :D
 
Yes Jim you are right. If there are no other parking positions available then ATC will use the TSE parking position. But if you use good AFCAD files and flightplans based on reality, I guess thiss will almost never happen.
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I agree

A lot of FP's can not be realistic and AFCAD's require a lot of overflow parking to handle all the AI Traffic that parks at night.
 
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