Airplane park-position on stand

[danielf1065]

I noticed that some planes are not “in-line” on medium stands. Is there a reason why some planes park somehow diagonal (especially the 757) ?
Maybe i am too accurate here, but it would be so nice if all planes are “in-line”.

Furthemore i raed some older DevBlogs with planes on small stands are perfectly “in-line” and not like now where they park in a circle.

I would love to see at least maybe an option for both ways for the small stands.

I know it´s only cosmetics and the game is in an early stage, but in my opinion it would be so nice to see this.

[Stu]

It is a feature that planes are not lined up as they are random

[Gerwanese]

I understand the wish for “perfectionism”, but actually for me it feels more realistic to have not all planes lined up exactly straight.

[Puma]

Indeed, IRL planes also not always line up perfectly on a stand

[danielf1065]

In my opinion, the look of not perfectly lined up airplanes is a bit weird to me, as we do not have any curved construction items. All builadble stuff is straight with no curves or angles (would love to see this like in Cities Skylines ) IRL many Airports do have terminals which are build more or less with angles and curves and the stands are adapted to the buildung (e.g Hamburg Airport).

I did not know that it is a feature. Is every plane randomly (e.g. the A320 has 6 different angles and the BAE146 has 5) or just the whole fleet (e.g. all planes have for example 8 different angles) ? That would explain why the 757 is never “lined-up” in my opinion.
Furthermore i noticed that the 757 looks a bit too big for the medium stand for me.
And what about the small stands ? maybe the player will be able to choose this option for each stand.

Don´t get me wrong, i do not want to make a huge discussion out of it, it is just my feeling while i am playing this game.

[Stu]

The old small stands looked a bit silly as there was no pushback truck required so the planes just magically reversed.

Personally I would only want the option for straight lines if a ramp agent had to push them back.

The new small stands make sense as the planes can turn under there own power.

[danielf1065]

I agree with that, but what if the small planes would be able leave the stand also with direction forward ?
I am sure it has been discussed earlier

[dewitjur]

chairs are slightly tilted differently everytime when you place one. Planes are just follwing the same.

[orb]

There was a time in past planes parked at quite ridiculous angles right after addition of some randomness to it. Now it isn’t that bad.

@Stu

The old small stands looked a bit silly as there was no pushback truck required

Well, those small planes could simply power back, if they didn’t magically turn around instead. No need for any pushback truck in such case.

[Olof]

It’s a “feature” as we don’t have any hard set points for aircraft once they’re parked, i.e. they park “organically” and reach their final position by following an estimate of a pre-defined path. However, in some cases where the FPS is low, the accuracy of that path can vary a lot. We’ve overhauled a lot of the paths for vehicles and done some changes to the stand designs for Alpha 33 so this is not something we’ll look into at this point, but rather post Alpha 33.