Hello. I am here to suggest adding a dynamic system where the planes will change gates as nessecary if there is a different gate avaliable. If I have a General Aviation parked in a gate for both, the General Aviation hogs the gate, and the commercial liner ends up waiting on the taxiway, and the flight becomes delayed. Just a nifty idea to improve the game, and I am sure you are already busy with all the bugs, so take your time implementing this. Thanks!
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That’s why i use GA specific stands and place them away from the terminal. I also found i can’t get more than 8 or 9 parked at a time, so more than that is a waste of space and money.
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Why would you even want GA flights on a commercial stand? Financially it would make no sense because of all the income you will miss. So, or you have too many commercial stand(more then contracts) or you don’t plan the flights close enough on eachother.
I agree with your idea,but for a whole other reason. To change a gate if a flight is delayed to try and save what’s left of the planning.
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Regardless, airports always have flights change stands, for whatever reason.
Even if you don’t have GA at a stand, the previous commercial flight may be delayed for instance. It would be better then for the next scheduled flight at that stand be automatically allocated another stand - or manually request another stand - rather than sit there waiting for the allocated stand to free up.
I think this is a good suggestion.
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Just a month before release, the game had automatic gate assigning system. We just needed to provide a slot to land the plane. The plane would find a free gate itself.
But, because of community demand, manual gate assignment system was introduced. There has been more than 100+ requests for the feature… BEFORE release.
And actually, manual is more realistic, the gates are usually fixed for airlines IRL. That is what the Devs aim for. They want to introduce long term gate contracts in future where Airlines are assigned gates… like IRL. This would enable the Devs to introduce Airlines staff in game (Check-In, Boarding, Crew)
or something like this:
Currently the manual assignment is useless… (automated would have worked too) but in future gate contracts would require manual assignment… so the Devs have prepared for future.
@Olof @Fredrik Have I said this right? ^ Is there something like this planned?
Also as people have said above… Commercial stands are rarely used for GA. Click on your stand and change it to either GA only or Commercial only.
But still,in case of delay, IRL the gate will be reassigned. Because time is money. Manually or automatically, don’t care that part.
IRL… the gates are rarely reassigned to another Airline’s gate… As I said manual assignment is useless at this stage.
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I agree. I also have SimAirport. I am really throwing my support to AirportCEO because it looks much better, and has more detail to the game. However, SimAirport has an option to mark a gate as a “standby gate”. You can block off certain hours that it just sits there in case another flight needs to divert from its scheduled gate to the standby gate.
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