Since RC4 does not provide this functionality, how do you know which gate to go to after arrival?

Most airlines have their own assigned gates. For example, if you go to Heathrow, British Airways have all the best gates with a short taxi to the runway and back from it, at Charles DeGaulle, Air France have them. Low budget airlines often have the ones that are further away from the runway if they are at major airports, which is one of the reasons why they often fly to less major airports, beyond the landing fees and such.Al

Since RC4 does not provide this functionality, how do you know which gate to go to after arrival?

Take a look at the airport website - at least some of them will tell you the terminals and gates that are used by a given airline...DJ

Well, based on real life procedures and gates assignments it is a common sense. :) I was just wondering if there was a utility that would direct me to the right gate. I guess not! Will rely on charts.

Well, based on real life procedures and gates assignments it is a common sense. :) I was just wondering if there was a utility that would direct me to the right gate. I guess not! Will rely on charts.

No utility that I every heard of can do it - AFCAD2 can put that info into the AFCAD file for AI to use so it would be possible to write an analyzer to see what's there, but not everyone uses the data. It probably wouldn't be up to date anyway...DJ

Preflight in the Controller page (I think) you can assign a gate for RC to speak. This has no effect on RC selection or guidance.If you frequently visit an airport you can use a trick to 'reserve' a gate for you after finding out what gate you want. You can use an airport scenery editor to edit your preferred gate radius property to something much smaller than any AI radius so they 'won't fit' keeping AI out of it. You can still go to that gate. If that is something that interests you search or post in the FS9 or FSX forum.I recommend using the payware AFX for FSX or freeware ADE9X for both versions. AFCAD can cause problems with some newer FS9 scenery.If you have a paid registered version of FSUIPC you can set up a 'traffic zapper' button. I don't think that is available with just the RC auto registration. That assignable function will nuke any single AI in front of you if the gate is occupied. Not realistic but you can complete your parking sequence.I get FAA diagrams and charts from free resources at flightaware.com. The airport diagrams are used for taxi guidance. As Al posted many airport web sites have terminal diagrams with gate assignments.Many European airports have parking charts in their aeronautical information. I use Eurocontrol (free registration) which is a little bit tricky to navigate:http://ead-website.ead-it.com/publicuser/public/pu/login.jsp

Thank you Ron and DJ, good stuff. :)

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/335761-airport-gps-utility-to-enhance-rc4/ has some information on one add-on for taxi guidance. My comments are based on hazy recall of other posts and may not be correct.

Fs Captain do assign you a gate before departure and once you land, it will guide you to the assigned gate. It is a payware and it has much more features.http://www.fscaptain.net/ It is well worth it.