23 hours ago, virtuali said:

If the Follow Me fled, it's because you were following it from too close.

With "too close" not being just a matter of distance, there's a predictive logic that takes into account the follow me location and speed against your own location and speed, and will try to guess if you are risking clashing into the follow me in the next xxxx seconds, because if we just made a dumb system based on distance only, by the time you crossed that threshold, it might be too late to brake due to the plane ground inertia, hence the usage of a predictive method, which evaluates both your speed and your acceleration so, even if you think you are reasonably far away, if your ground speed accelerates too quickly, it would trigger the car "Fleeing", while if your speed is constant, you can get closer to it.

Of course, as many things with GSX, this can be configured, so if you disable the FollowMe Disable “FLEE” option in the Settings, this whole system will be disabled.

Now, this is just the FLEE algorithm, which is always reported (if you keep the menu enabled and your verbosity is default) with a message saying the Follow me was aborted for safety reasons.

Entirely different is the Follow me going around the airplane, but not fleeing.

This is usually caused by issues with the airport layout, there might be cases where due to that, your airplane ends up *between* the next point on path to the gate and the follow me car so, instead of just passing under the airplane, it will circle around it, because we consider a "bubble" around the airplane, and it's almost impossible to sort out all cases where the best path might possibly end up in that situation due to the way the airport nodes are connected.

Thank you for the comprehensive explanation. I will try the settings next time and see if it helps.

I wasted my money on this rubbish! Yes it is rather pretty but adds severe overhead loads on the sim not to mention the extremely long loading times for MSFS with GSX enabled.

All other GSX operations just take time away from actually flying the aircraft.

Also not that the much vaunted passengers in aircraft does not work with most default MSFS aircraft or aircraft purchased in the marketplace.

I have long since uninstalled it - at least as much as is possible. (The uninstall program leaves heaps of files behind...)

Ahh, the fabulous MSFS!

If you add a ground operations program to MSFS, it will:

1. Add load to the system.

2. Delay you flying the plane until passengers and cargo are boarded.

3. May not be compatible with the 1,000's of aircraft available for MSFS.

 

10 hours ago, RobSys said:

I wasted my money on this rubbish! Yes it is rather pretty but adds severe overhead loads on the sim not to mention the extremely long loading times for MSFS with GSX enabled.

All other GSX operations just take time away from actually flying the aircraft.

Also not that the much vaunted passengers in aircraft does not work with most default MSFS aircraft or aircraft purchased in the marketplace.

I have long since uninstalled it - at least as much as is possible. (The uninstall program leaves heaps of files behind...)

I gave up on GSX a few months ago with a reinstall of Win 11 as all these years later it still would not open correctly necessitating killing Couatl and restarting it. I use Self Loading Cargo and it hijacks default pushback so that you can give commands to turn or stop that are followed immediately unlike the big delay with default and it works just great.  GSX a significant part of the time would do the strangest maneuvers like suddenly spinning 180 degrees in a spot where a simple pushback could have easily been done, its ground crew walking thru equipment, when I used the GSX command to STOP the straight pushback after say 30 feet the ground crew continues its walk back 100 feet and I told the dev about this a year ago and no fix.  I immediately checked the boxes to make sure PAX did not actually load into the plane as performance sucked and have no need to watch that happen anyway.   And the program needed updated practically every day so you have to run that laboriously long updater every time.

I had hopes after seeing the 2024 trailer with animated PAX walking down the jetway that they might include this somehow but alas not so far and it makes me wonder why they did that in the video--perhaps it will be added some time I would love to see MSFS incorporate some of the attributes of GSX natively they could do it easily. 

Edited May 30, 20251 yr by Noel

23 hours ago, Noel said:

And the program needed updated practically every day so you have to run that laboriously long updater every time.

strange i must be missing lots of  updates if there is one every day

Different people, different opinions. For me, without GSX the sim does not exist. Yes, it's become a bit convoluted over the years, but all you have to do is to read the manual.

And I just LOVE how GSX is being incorporated into Fenix, PMDG and FS2Crew. 

1 hour ago, pete_auau said:

strange i must be missing lots of  updates if there is one every day

and my updater is so easy just one click and let it do its work, no attention needed just get on with something else. Normally quite quick but today seemed to be a major update at 7.45 secs.

23 hours ago, IanHarrison said:

Normally quite quick but today seemed to be a major update at 7.45 secs.

That's funny it's always been right at 2 minutes here.

52 minutes ago, Noel said:

That's funny it's always been right at 2 minutes here.

Yes, that's about my normal, too.

On 5/30/2025 at 8:51 AM, Noel said:

had hopes after seeing the 2024 trailer with animated PAX walking down the jetway that they might include this somehow but alas not so far and it makes me wonder why they did that in the video

It does work - you have to set passengers through the EFB and there are some other things to do( have to be at a jet bridge etc) but then the animated passengers show up. It’s buggy though and not like gsx yet 
 

I tried it a while back so have forgotten the setup, but a quick forum search should get results. 

9 minutes ago, JonathanC said:

It does work - you have to set passengers through the EFB and there are some other things to do( have to be at a jet bridge etc) but then the animated passengers show up. It’s buggy though and not like gsx yet 
 

I tried it a while back so have forgotten the setup, but a quick forum search should get results. 

Woah, great good to know thanks!

I’ve used GSX for more years than I care to remember. A list of changes is published here and I decide if they’re worthwhile for me using P3D.

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/couatl_liveupdate_notes.html

It is a very comprehensive and powerful add on. The ability to fine tune parking spots and pushbacks alone makes it worthwhile.
A very immersive program and I'm a little surprised at some of the adverse comments. It's an immersion package after all. You can speed up pax loading to whatever you desire.
Yes, there is the odd glitch every now and then that may require a Couati restart.
As has been pointed out, there is always Pushback tool bar if that is all you need.