Do any of the default airports feature jetways? An odd thing happened to me last night. I installed and was playing with the freeware FS Manager (tweaking an airplane) and set up a quick flight from Meigs to KORD to test fly the plane. (Note that I fired up MSFS 2004 from within the FS Manager program)Upon arrival at ORD, I taxied in to an airport with JETWAYS! How odd... But since I am new to FS 2004 (but am a veteran of FS 2002), I assumed maybe the 'bigger' airports had jetways (although I didnt recall seeing any at Seatle, SFO or LAX).Anyway, how cool to finally have a jetway in MSFS. Thinking it would be cooler still to fly my PMDG 737 from a gate with a jetway, I stopped the test flight KingAir (parked at the jetway), switched to my new jet, flight-planned a flight using a nearby gate as my start point, and when that was all done, I went back to the simulation ready to pushback. But... The JETWAYS WERE GONE!!! And I havn't seen them since!Any thoughts on what gives (other than I should lay off the hard stuff???) Do any of the default airports have jetways coded that I might have unlocked and cannot reaccess?? I would really like to have jetways to park at.To help you help me solve this mystery, I have turned all sliders in all possible areas up and down and the jetways have not reappeared. No-Joy.Mark

Man I read your post with the lights off and got mildly scared. Very Stephen King indeed. Are you SURE it was KORD ? I thought KORD was one of the MS default high res airports which all had jetways anyway...

Open up the learning center and you will find a list of the airports that have more detail. Look under "scenery basics".

Freaked me out too. I had to sleep with the lights on! :-)Yea... it was ORD. Odd that I cannot recreate the situation.MF

Jetways appeared in FS2004 at some airport at the high scenery density settings.There are also jetways in FS2002 - at KORD, KATL, EGLL, KLAX and KSEA which I could find in a short check. The scenery complexity slider must be at the Very High or Extremely High setting.

You will also find that FS9 did not code all same type scenery (Jetways) the same when using the Scenery Complexity Slider.At certain airports in FS9 that came with default Jetways only a certain amount will show up at the DENSE settings and the rest will show at the VERY_DENSE setting. The EXTREMLY_DENSE setting for Airports is usually additional ground support equipment (GUIDS) and Fuel Farm Tanks etc.This is not limited to Jetways but Main Airport Terminal Buildings can also be coded differently.If you were to fly to KMSP with a Scenery Complexity set to NORMAL you only get some of the Main Terminal. If you increase the Scenery Complexity to DENSE the rest of the Main Terminal now shows.FS9's current construction (unlike FS2002) uses multiple building blocks to create one large building. If you look closely at any large building you can see the seams that show where smaller buildings make up the large building. In this manner FS9 can use a basic set of small buildings in the database and build many different types of large buildings all over the world.This is one of the default short Main Terminal Buildings (Concourse C) for KMSP --------> SCENERY COMPLEXITY SETTING in FS9 Put 2 of these together end to end based on LAT/LON and the Main Terminal is now twice as long. Problem is the scenery database has one set to NORMAL and the 2nd one set to DENSE.

Reggie, Jim, et-al.Thank you for the very informative/educational replies. r/Mark