This idea is something I have been thinking about for some time. I don't have any computer programming knowledge so maybe it is not feasible. Here it is-- In the flight sim when you want pushback, you use shift-p. I would like to see the pushback vehicle appear in front of the plane when shift-p is pressed and follow it back. It doesn't need to actually push, just APPEAR that it is. When shift-p is pressed the second time it would dissapear. Is this a possibility or not?

It sure is. And if you download the POSKY (Project Open Sky) 737-700 here on AVSIM, you can see this actually happening.Lee Steffensen

Okay what you are saying is that I have to have a heavy to do this, right? I was hoping to do it with a beechcraft or cessna 208 since I don't fly heavies.

I'm a gauge guy, not a model-maker, but from what I understand of that end of things, you're talking about adding something to the model of the aircraft; and you'll have to make your own... for each plane with which you'd want this feature.

Okay thanks

Wondering...You can create a model of a pushback car, create a gauge and insert it on the aircraft you want to have pushback, the position of the car would be by the front wheel, I guess that in each aircraft.cfg file there is something that says the front wheel X and Y position.This is my guess, isn't it possible to call a model by a gauge? just creating the pushback car like a aircraft.;) :(

I just think it would be neat to have one set up where it would appear when you clicked shift p and stay there until you clicked shift p again to stop. I don't think I could make it though.

Ideas such as this have been implimented on certain models which are available on AVSim - however limitations with FS9 have made it so we cannot dynamically encorporate them i.e. moving left and rightwards "steering" the aircraft; another impossibility was the fact that adding an independant truck which is totally seperate from the aircraft model itself. Since FSX's vehicles are more "seperated" although I am yet to explore these capabilities myself, it is a possibility that this will be implimentable at some stage.By the way, if there is an XML code written within the model, it is possible to control it with a gauge.

You see when you know nothing about programming like I do you can come up with all kinds of wild ideas. Normally I suppose pushback vehicles are only used on heavies anyway probably and I don't fly those. The largest plane I fly is the cessna caravan. I just don't care for the heavies. But, anyway, don't they need pushback too?