GSX level 2 - floating jetways and parkings

[antonyroma 0]

Hello! I have an issue with GSX level 2: in many default airports (for example Paris CDG, Prague, Manchester, Lisbon, Budapest, Denver) jetways and parking positions are placed 50 feets above the ground, as you can see in the picture. Follow me car works well instead. How can I fix this issue? Thank you.  

 

[pgde 571]

This issue has been discussed on the FSDT support forums.  I would check there for a solution.

[antonyroma 0]

17 minutes ago, pgde said:

This issue has been discussed on the FSDT support forums.  I would check there for a solution.

thank you

[Indy511 686]

@antonyroma
You need to run Orbx's Vector Airport Elevation Corrections. Manually disable the airports.

[antonyroma 0]

6 hours ago, Bills511 said:

@antonyroma
You need to run Orbx's Vector Airport Elevation Corrections. Manually disable the airports.

Thank you. I tried your suggestion, but disabling airport in AEC, with FsGlobal active, has adverse effect in airport elevation. It's very strange, that follow me car and other ground vehicles work well unlike jetways and parking marshallers. I hope it will be fixed soon

Edited September 23, 2018 by antonyroma

[Indy511 686]

1 hour ago, antonyroma said:

I tried your suggestion, but disabling airport in AEC, with FsGlobal active

I also have FS Global.
Is LFPG in the disabled column? Did you hit apply before exiting AEC? If so you my have another AFCAD file conflicting. My Traffic?


As you can mine looks fine.

Edited September 23, 2018 by Bills511

[antonyroma 0]

On ‎9‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 12:52 AM, Bills511 said:

I also have FS Global.
Is LFPG in the disabled column? Did you hit apply before exiting AEC? If so you my have another AFCAD file conflicting. My Traffic?


As you can mine looks fine.

 

 

Thank you for your answer. This works but disabling the airport in AEC makes this annoying plateau

 

[PeterL50 2]

On 9/23/2018 at 4:50 AM, antonyroma said:

Hello! I have an issue with GSX level 2: in many default airports (for example Paris CDG, Prague, Manchester, Lisbon, Budapest, Denver) jetways and parking positions are placed 50 feets above the ground, as you can see in the picture. Follow me car works well instead. How can I fix this issue? Thank you.  

 

 

 

GSX incleuded the feature :

Airport elevation , right at the top when you edit the airport

Edited January 8, 2019 by charliearon
Fixed eplanation of how to fix the problem

[molleh 451]

As Peter posted above, you click GSX Airport Settings from you Addons menu and on the top right you can see the airport elevation it's using to "park" the jetways and markings. If your aircraft is on the ground, you can click the little aircraft icon and it will set the jetways elevation to whatever your aircraft elevation is, which should fix it 99% of the time. You may have to go into the Couatl menu and restart/rebuild airport cache to see the changes.

[downscc 1,327]

On 9/28/2018 at 12:40 AM, antonyroma said:

This works but disabling the airport in AEC makes this annoying plateau

This is because the airport is flat and the terrain surrounding the airport is not flat.  It is very common to see this even if at some airports the step change is minor, it can be significant where terrain is sloping.  As long as we are stuck with flat airports you are going to see this.

If you use Pilots mesh then you can use their AFM tool to create gradual slopes around the flat airport to make a transition to the surrounding terrain.  I don't know of any other tools that do this.

[pelgrin21 0]

i hope this helps someone i recently installed freemesh and orbx global+vectors so it changed the airport elevations go into gsx customise parking spot at the very top right click on airport elevation it will correct that thanks.

[netshadoe 144]

Sometime, it could also be that the BGL is too big, and GSX does not scan big files (like those of Robert Caterall/Ray Smith) There is a way to make GSX scan large files by adding a line in the .ini file.

It’s the couatl.ini file in your users/yourname/appdata/roaming/virtuali/ folder.

Add these lines to the ini file typed exactly as I have here:

airportCacheOptimizeSearch=1
airportCacheMaxBGLSizeBytes=10000000

You can change the byte size to what you want...4000000 is default.

i had the same problem with a freeware KDEN, and this solved it.  Worth trying anyway!

[Iceman2 110]

Hi GSXv2 users, I just installed Aerosoft PANC & PAFA to P3Dv5. I’ve added some nice GSX aerobridges to PAFA but when returning to this airport all the aerobridges are hanging in the air. Ive set the elevation in gsx which brings them back down correctly but if I re-boot the sim or even reset and rebuild the airport cache the aerobridges are all up in the air once again.

Ive tried adding the lines as stated above in the previous post but still the same flying bridges.

Any Other fixes out there?

thx

IM

[srcooke 52]

34 minutes ago, Iceman2 said:

Any Other fixes out there?

Awaiting a fix from FSDT, an issue with ADEV5 afcads, an issue raised at the beginning of May

 

[Iceman2 110]

Ok thx for letting me know.