I discovered this little program on YouTube this morning, and installed it this lunchtime and I'm really excited about the rendering. It is available on flightsim.to

Flightsim.to

Apron Life - Ground Service for AI Traffic - MSFS Add-on...

✓ For Microsoft Flight Simulator: Apron Life is a desktop tool for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 that adds animated ground services to parked AI aircraft at your nearest airport. It utilizes GSX Pro and...

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by grandfred29

That looks interesting - I will have to take a look at that. Does it have much impact on performance?

On my system no, tried at ord with batc live traffic on, 50% traffic at gate.

A new update come later today and will bring more performance.

From their discord server

@everyone

**ApronLife 1.4.1 is coming later today!** ⚡

You asked for performance, and this one is all about it - **at least 40% more FPS at busy airports**. In our test at a packed EGLL the sim went from **46 to about 70 FPS**, with far fewer stutters.

🫧 **Bubble mode** (new, optional): only the aircraft around you get vehicles and people, while the rest of the airport keeps its turnarounds running in the background.

🛬 Jet bridges only on aircraft near you, plus fixes for a stutter every 5 seconds and for jet bridges redoing themselves in a loop.

Full changelog when it's out - stay tuned! ✈️

I just tested version 1.4.0 at KMCO using MSFS 2020 and BeyondATC with AIG models with AI settings of 6,4,4,3 and I'm not seeing much of a performance hit with my old system (i9-9900K, 3080 Ti at 1400p).

I think this will be great for those like me using MSFS 2020 especially with the jetways connecting to AI which BeyondATC says is only available for 2024.

I don't have GSX Pro so it's using the default vehicles, but here's a quick screenshot of KMCO with my 737-800 at the bottom. You can see jetways connected to AI in the background.

KMCO

And my ApronLife settings which I just clicked on the Medium preset at the top: ApronLife settings

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by WallysWorlds

Cool finding! Unfortunately I'm just a virtual spotter (flying only GA), so I don't own GSXPro. Would love to have this ApronLife that wouldn't required GSXPro ;)

27 minutes ago, vbazillio said:

Cool finding! Unfortunately I'm just a virtual spotter (flying only GA), so I don't own GSXPro. Would love to have this ApronLife that wouldn't required GSXPro ;)

It doesn't require GSX, it will just use it if you have it. The person who posted above you doesn't use GSX

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Tuskin38

Oups... Thank you @Tuskin38 ! First try, without GSX. Traffic injected by Say Intentions (and the new pushback tractor + Gateway Ai connected by Say Intentions). Maybe too many traffic to serve ;)

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by vbazillio

Be aware this does add extra invisible sim objects to the sim which can and will cause a slight or up to heavy performance impact.

Needs an on vs off comparison.