Permanent parker MSFS

[airlinetycoon 22]

Hi Nico,
can you take a look at the permanent parkers please. When I load an airport with permanent parkers in the airport.xml, the parkers often don't appear, if only at the first start. When I start PSXT for the second time, they do not appear. The same applies when flying to an airport. The permanent parkers are not displayed. For example my EDDM file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zs6B4qXx9dY5eViLZWuyPLeOStEAjNKJ/view?usp=sharing

 

 

[kiek 1,215]

You must have missed it in the release notes about a month ago: The permanent parking option has been removed....

With the day attribute we now have, it is not so dificult to add 7 lines (one per day) to the parking position with airline and type and real=true. Don't add the hours attribute. PSXT will then add all hours of the day automatically.

 

[airlinetycoon 22]

All right. But just to understand: with this method, placement is not guaranteed. If percentage according xml the parking positions are occupied, it can happen that these parkers are not displayed. Correct?

[kiek 1,215]

1 hour ago, airlinetycoon said:

All right. But just to understand: with this method, placement is not guaranteed. If percentage according xml the parking positions are occupied, it can happen that these parkers are not displayed. Correct?

Correct, but not very likely to happen at airport files that are not very populated, because they fit the day and the hour. Only if there are more options that fit the day and the hour, then they run the risk not to be in the random selection.... 

[airlinetycoon 22]

Hi Nico,
I tried a little bit, but unfortunately it doesn't really work. The long-term parkers never appear. Is there any way to flag these parkers as "generate always" or "generate first of all others"? Here is an excerpt from my EDDM.xml - maybe I did something wrong...

 

    <parkpos id="g901" latitude="48.348862" longitude="11.772802" heading="353.6" radius="30.0" cargo="true" ramp="true" />

    <aircraft>

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="1" />

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="2" />

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="3" />

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="4" />

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="5" />

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="6" />

        <option airline="BCS" type="A300" real="true" day="7" />

    </aircraft>

    <parkpos id="g902" latitude="48.348747" longitude="11.771682" heading="353.7" radius="38.1" cargo="true" ramp="true">

        <aircraft>

            <option airline="DLH" type="A359" real="true" day="3" hours="7,8" />

        </aircraft>

    </parkpos>

    <parkpos id="g903" latitude="48.348682" longitude="11.770673" heading="353.9" radius="39.1" cargo="true" ramp="true" />

    <aircraft>

        <option airline="FDX" type="B75F" real="true" day="5" />

        <option airline="FDX" type="B75F" real="true" day="6" />

        <option airline="FDX" type="B77L" real="true" day="1" />

        <option airline="FDX" type="B77L" real="true" day="2" />

        <option airline="FDX" type="B77L" real="true" day="3" />

        <option airline="FDX" type="B77L" real="true" day="4" />

        <option airline="FDX" type="B77L" real="true" day="7" />

    </aircraft>

 

[kiek 1,215]

1 hour ago, airlinetycoon said:

 maybe I did something wrong... 

Yes you did.... you made a syntax error, it should be > instead of /> for the positions where you added aircraft options:

<parkpos id="g901" latitude="48.348862" longitude="11.772802" heading="353.6" radius="30.0" cargo="true" ramp="true" />

must be:

<parkpos id="g901" latitude="48.348862" longitude="11.772802" heading="353.6" radius="30.0" cargo="true" ramp="true" >

 

and

 <parkpos id="g903" latitude="48.348682" longitude="11.770673" heading="353.9" radius="39.1" cargo="true" ramp="true" />

must be: 

 <parkpos id="g903" latitude="48.348682" longitude="11.770673" heading="353.9" radius="39.1" cargo="true" ramp="true" >

[airlinetycoon 22]

Works! Thank you, Nico!