7 hours ago, Alti said:

Since the update, I've been having a problem with the PMDG737 in 2020: The pushback is complete, the push truck is long gone, but the aircraft remains stationary with its nose wheel raised. Only when I press the pedals to check flightcontrols does the nose wheel drop to the ground. Has this happened to anyone else out there?

 

1 hour ago, Speedbird 217 said:

Did one flight with the PMDG777 on MSFS2024 and had a similar issue.

No issue here was the 777-300ER, or the A350-900

Cleaning crew!  nice.   In air flight attendants next ?  

3 hours ago, Speedbird 217 said:

Did one flight with the PMDG777 on MSFS2024 and had a similar issue.

This has been an on/off issue with PMDG and gsx for a while. Since 2020 for me. I forgot the process to fix it though. I ended using the sim's default pushback because of it with this plane. 

Anyone figured how to add Google/bing to the map choices? I did ask on the fsdt forum but got a generic its in the manual 

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So, as explained at Page 124 of the manual, GSX will read the API keys from the following variables:

GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY
BING_MAPS_API_KEY

If the key are found, they'll be read and saved in the GSX settings (couatladdons.ini)” 

does one have to add the api to that couatladdons.ini file? 

The position and pushback editors are most welcome.  Amazing work Umberto and thank you!

3 hours ago, astro_liam said:

Anyone figured how to add Google/bing to the map choices? I did ask on the fsdt forum but got a generic its in the manual 

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So, as explained at Page 124 of the manual, GSX will read the API keys from the following variables:

GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY
BING_MAPS_API_KEY

If the key are found, they'll be read and saved in the GSX settings (couatladdons.ini)” 

does one have to add the api to that couatladdons.ini file? 

I haven't looked at this so could be totally wrong.. but those look like environment variables. 

Maybe you have to set environment variables. it's pretty easy, just look at a youtube video.

Only if that's what it wants though!

26 minutes ago, JonathanC said:

I haven't looked at this so could be totally wrong.. but those look like environment variables. 

Maybe you have to set environment variables. it's pretty easy, just look at a youtube video.

Only if that's what it wants though!

Oh brill thank you, I shall look into that more when I get chance. Thanks for the head start! 

7 hours ago, Sonosusto said:

This has been an on/off issue with PMDG and gsx for a while. Since 2020 for me. I forgot the process to fix it though. I ended using the sim's default pushback because of it with this plane. 

I have done hundreds of flights in the 737 and 777 across 2020 and 2024 and never had this issue until yesterday. I hope they fix it soon.

10 hours ago, astro_liam said:

Anyone figured how to add Google/bing to the map choices? I did ask on the fsdt forum but got a generic its in the manual 

My full answer was a bit more than generic:

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,33966.msg212171.html#msg212171
 

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The page in the manual that explains this is 124.

It's common practice for developers to put their API keys in Environment variables, so they won't be accidentally end up in code and, nowadays everybody uses AI-assisted coding, they won't be read by AI assistants when they are looking at your code, so placing API keys in environment variables is just the best standard practice. GSX  just use them.

So, as explained at Page 124 of the manual, GSX will read the API keys from the following variables:

GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY
BING_MAPS_API_KEY

If the key are found, they'll be read and saved in the GSX settings (couatladdons.ini)

The last sentence means that no, you don't have to manually edit the couatladdons.ini, if GSX finds any of these two Environment Variables set, it will read their value, and will store it in the couatladdons.ini as part of its settings.

 

Now a quote from the manual:

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To use Google Maps, you must provide your own Google API key, which you can obtain through Google’s Cloud Platform.

The imagery is typically very recent and of high quality, though the resolution varies by location. The GSX Map automatically recognizes the standard environment variable GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY, in case you already setup to do some development.

To use Bing Maps, you must provide your own Bing Maps API key, which can be obtained through Microsoft’s Azure platform.

The GSX Map will read Bing Maps API keys from the BING_MAPS_API_KEY environment variable.

 

3 hours ago, Speedbird 217 said:

I have done hundreds of flights in the 737 and 777 across 2020 and 2024 and never had this issue until yesterday. I hope they fix it soon.

Of course it's fixed!

It was tricky to find, because it happened ONLY with the 777-300, which we added support for months ago, so it wasn't tested much with this update. And the 777-300 had the "Raise Pushback" settings enabled by default in the GSX Internal database, while the -200LR and -200ER, have the setting to "Disabled" in the internal database. Since we added support for the -200 version more recently, testing was made mainly with the -200 and, since the default settings in these is not to raise pushback, the problem won't happen there.

Now it's fixed (just be sure you run the Live Update now), so you can freely set the "Raise Pusback" option to your liking, because it will now work either way.

First try today and couldn't get Cleaning services to LEAVE the plane...  Everything worked fine but one guy just stayed in a loop trying to pick up trash by door L2 in the 777-300.  I had to reset the position, reload GSX to start boarding as GSX was "waiting for cleaning services to finish"

I gave it about 15 minutes btw so definitely should have completed and the rest of the cleaners did leave the plane.  Just the one guy holding everything up... 

14 minutes ago, virtuali said:

Of course it's fixed!

It was tricky to find, because it happened ONLY with the 777-300, which we added support for months ago, so it wasn't tested much with this update. And the 777-300 had the "Raise Pushback" settings enabled by default in the GSX Internal database, while the -200LR and -200ER, have the setting to "Disabled" in the internal database. Since we added support for the -200 version more recently, testing was made mainly with the -200 and, since the default settings in these is not to raise pushback, the problem won't happen there.

Now it's fixed (just be sure you run the Live Update now), so you can freely set the "Raise Pusback" option to your liking, because it will now work either way.

FYI the online isn’t working this morning. See the Support channel in discord. 

Really nice job on the new features. Some people in the flightsim community say MSFS doesn't have the best airline experience, but I disagree. When GSX is working, you definitely get the best airline experience with MSFS. There just isn't an airline operations add-on out there that is close to GSX.

Edited November 22, 2025Nov 22 by abrams_tank

4 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

When GSX is working

Yeah, funny thing about that...

1 hour ago, psolk said:

I had to reset the position, reload GSX to start boarding as GSX was "waiting for cleaning services to finish"

This cannot possibly happen, because when you reset the position, it's exactly as if restarting Couatl (in fact, it's the same function), so there's no way after a restart the cleaning crew service was still active, since GSX doesn't save anything anywhere of the previous session: after a restart, everything is forgotten except *one* thing, which is the number of passengers on board.

The only possible reason why the menu was there, is the restart failed  for some reason ( so you got the latest menu from the last session), and my guess the reason might have been the same as why the cleaning crew didn't stopped to begin with: likely Simconnect congestion due to too much traffic over it or possibly the Simobject limit reached (both cause the same) because in all tests we did, (like 100 cleaning services every day), the only thing that always worked, was they all go away at the end. We had all sort of funny bugs while performing the service, but it always completed.

Edited November 22, 2025Nov 22 by virtuali