Yes, and my AES credits now lie unused. It would be nice, however, for it to control jetways. Another minor thing is that the sound loop for exiting passengers seems to play a repeating "yelp", as though someone trod on a puppy, or slapped a small child.

Indeed, the boarding/deboarding sounds are -the least I can say- annoying, but they can be stopped or modified quite easily as they're simple wavs. Haven't done it, but the more I use it the more I'm tempted :Just Kidding:

I use both. Yes, no moving jetways with GSX. For added realism, GSX forces you to know about the gate. With AES, one just pulls up to any gate and either a marshaler or automation guides you in. In GSX, one must first select the appropriate gate (size) for your aircraft. The GSX menu helps there, and it also points out which gates are busy with other aircraft and for how long.

 

Best part about these products is that we now have competition. I understand that GSX may have moving jetways in the future. Hope AES continues to improve. Best thing AES could do is change its credits-based approach.

Ok, so to turn off the annoying sounds all you have to do is delete the files? Also, can anyone answer my other question about the pushback?

 

^ This and I'll buy it today!

Ok, so to turn off the annoying sounds all you have to do is delete the files? Also, can anyone answer my other question about the pushback?

 

^ This and I'll buy it today!

 

Pushback is easy, and as said before beautifully accurate since it uses the airport's AFCAD. All you do is bring up the GSX in-game menu, select "Prepare for pushback and departure" and it will ask if you want to be pushed to the left or to the right. Easy as that!

 

Kyle

GSX includes an exception file where you can disable its features at those airports. So for the AES enabled airports, I disable GSX and AES works good. At other airports, GSX will do the work. With GSX, you have to select the gate at which you want to park and Follow-me car, if you choose to have it, will take you there. In AES, the marshaller will appear at the gate you pull into, but with GSX only at the gate you select. Also, since GSX works with the existing AFCADs at all airports, sometimes the Marshaller will be inside the buildings when the gates are very close :D

Pushback is easy, and as said before beautifully accurate since it uses the airport's AFCAD. All you do is bring up the GSX in-game menu, select "Prepare for pushback and departure" and it will ask if you want to be pushed to the left or to the right. Easy as that!

 

Kyle

I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E! Thanks Kyle. That clears up a whole lotta questions for me. What about the NGX's Pushback option on the FMC? That's not needed/used, right?

I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E! Thanks Kyle. That clears up a whole lotta questions for me. What about the NGX's Pushback option on the FMC? That's not needed/used, right?

Correct, not needed. The GSX pushback is brilliant!

Correct, not needed. The GSX pushback is brilliant!

Thanks Lukas, and about the annoying passengers sound, all you have to do is delete the WAV or make your own according to George, right? Maybe I could get sounds of passengers boarding from a YouTube video. That would be AWESOME! Does FSDT allow this?

Thanks Lukas, and about the annoying passengers sound, all you have to do is delete the WAV or make your own according to George, right? Maybe I could get sounds of passengers boarding from a YouTube video. That would be AWESOME! Does FSDT allow this?

Sorry, I've got no clue if that would work or not :) Best is to either wait for another to come in and tell you, or just try it, see if it works. I suppose it would work fine given it's just a matter of swapping wav files, but again. Not sure. GSX is worth it! It's a great piece of software!

Also, Bob Scott uploaded replcement WAVs to the AVSIM library as the default sounds are a bit mechanical.

 

I don't know if you have FS2Crew, but that add on has its own boarding sounds so I let those play and skip the boarding phase in GSX. I think there is an update somewhere to the boarding WAV as well. I cannot recall where though.

 

I'm guessing if it just calls for a wav file to play, you could rename the WAV of the youtube video to the wave that GSX calls.

There is on the forums some user submitted sounds for boarding. FSDT has no problem with you editing it. They actually in fact help people on the forums answering questions on how to do it.

 

I have done the same, I added a couple minutes of a live boarding I got off YouTube.

 

 

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I'm buying GSX right now!

 

 

 

I bought it from the "from the web" button, and I'm downloading the installer right now. Thanks everyone!

Edited June 20, 201213 yr by linux731

The pushback feature is invaluable especially out of oddly configured gates, that's the main reason why I use it.

The pushback feature is invaluable especially out of oddly configured gates, that's the main reason why I use it.

I completely agree, Alex. GSX pushback>FMC pushback.