Aircraft Exit and Parking Assignment

[Subotai]

Hi Pete,

here is a couple of "out there" questions. No worries if that is not possible/too much hassle, but I thought I'd ask.

1) I would like to know the status of the aircraft exits (Shift-E, 1, 2 - I think there are no more than two !?), which ones are available and their open/closed status.

2) Upon landing a plane, exiting the runway and contacting ground ATC, I get assigned a parking/ramp/gate space to taxi to. Is there any way to modify this via FSUIPC and force ATC to assign me a parking spot that I patch in beforehand somehow ?

I know, especially the second one sounds nuts :roll:, but I thought I'd ask.

Thanks,

Matthias

[Pete Dowson]

1) I would like to know the status of the aircraft exits (Shift-E, 1, 2 - I think there are no more than two !?), which ones are available and their open/closed status.

You must have missed this entry in the Release Notes (first Announcement in this Forum) and in the History document:

4. The byte at offset 3367 shows doors that are open (FS2004 only). At present this only provides bit 2^0 for the main doors. If I ever find other flags I’ll add them too.

This was in version 3.212. I'm not able to find any other exit indications I'm afraid.

2) Upon landing a plane, exiting the runway and contacting ground ATC, I get assigned a parking/ramp/gate space to taxi to. Is there any way to modify this via FSUIPC and force ATC to assign me a parking spot that I patch in beforehand somehow ?

No, sorry, I know of no way at all to interact with ATC.

Regards,

Pete

[Subotai]

You must have missed this entry in the Release Notes (first Announcement in this Forum) and in the History document:

Guilty as charged. I am just using a printout of the programmer manual.

4. The byte at offset 3367 shows doors that are open (FS2004 only). At present this only provides bit 2^0 for the main doors. If I ever find other flags I’ll add them too.

Great, that's pretty good already. I guess in case of the second door you would ideally also need a flag that indicates the existence of such door, as I noticed not all planes support it.

No, sorry, I know of no way at all to interact with ATC.

Ok, I pretty much expected that answer. I think if we ever get access to ATC in general, it would open an immense potential for all kinds of add-ons.

Thanks, Pete !

P.S.: The earlier 'Save Flight' change integrated great, just as I hoped it would. :D

Matthias

[jd]

maybe you haven't heard of radar contact (http://www.jdtllc.com). no need to wait :lol:

[Subotai]

Hey jd,

this looks very interesting, I have not heard of it before.

Reading the review however it appears as if it has exactly that problem, that it doesn't integrate with the FS ATC. I will read some more reviews and maybe give it a closer look sometimes.

Unfortunately though it is not an option to address my ATC parking issue as I wouldn't want to require users of my upcoming Add-On to als have Radar Contact.

Matthias