How do you REALLY get the jetway to come to you???

mdaskalos · First Officer Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 130

Alright,

I know about [CTRL]-J.

I know about getting the plane aligned on the yellow-and-blak line. I even think I know about where to stop along the line.

In all of my landings and taxing to gates, I've gotten the Jetway to come to the aircraft exactly ONCE. The first time I tried it. I thought therefore it was a piece of cake. But I've never been able to get it to come to the plane again.

The only difference I can recall with my one success was that when it worked, the door of the jetway was facing the main exit of my aircraft.

All of the other times I pull up to the gate, the gate to which Ground Control sends me is at 90° to my aircraft (when I park it on the line).

I presume you gotta have your nose wheel on the yellow line, your rear wheels centered astride it. What do te three short lines across the main part of the yellow line signify? I presume something to do with where the main exit or nose wheel needs to be positioned.

I mean I try callng the jetway with engines already off, and still running. With the main exit closed and already open.

I'm at a loss.

mdaskalos

bawls327 · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:37 am

I press cntrl j and it works

rowcoach · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:45 pm

it might depend on what your level of building detail is. I think I've only seen one Jetway too, but I think I had my detail on high at that point.

Guest · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:59 pm

wht is a jetway?

jellrod · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:55 pm

It is that covered ramp you walk down from the terminal to board the airplane.

jellrod · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:03 pm

mdaskalos · First Officer Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 130

RadarMan · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:11 am

I don't see the jetways, but I've seen them on
screenshots from other people. Is there a way to make them visible?

- Yes, go to settings > display > scenery and change the "Scenery Complexity"
slider to Very Dense or Extremly Dense. NOTE: The jetways are only available on
medium to large default airports.

The jetways don't attach to my aircraft when I hold
<SHIFT> and press <J>, why?

- Make sure you're at the right parking spot and if you have "advanced
animations" checked in the display settings. Otherwise your videocard doesn't
support shader 2.0. Videocards like the NVIDIA 5200 (FX) and ATI 9200 series do
not support this kind of animations.

Radar

Guest · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:58 am

Guest · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:03 am

You need advanced animations ticked and enough autogen to show afew jetways.

You do not need to be on the yellow line 100%, when i park up i am more or less central with the yellow line but i dont stop my front wheel at the end of the yellow line, i go a bit further so that my exit is above the end of the yellow line.

The jetway will only work when its to the left of your aircraft, and runs sort of parallel with your aircraft.

Im more interested in getting an aircraft with airstairs for FSX.

Joske

rowcoach · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:18 pm

the new 777's by Cansim that can be downloaded here have a good gound simulation program that have airstairs. There is a Northwest Airlines as well as Air Canada. I think there may be a couple others too.

mdaskalos · First Officer Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 130

Interesting you mention the 777 rowcoach, 'cause I've figured it out:

I checked on my scenery settings and ran up what I could- still no jetway. Then I realized I was running the Wilco 777, so I went back to the default A321, and I got the jetway working.

Probably something in the plane's .CFG file that prevents the sim from knowing properly where the plane's main exit is.

jellrod · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:21 pm

A Big Thank you to Radarman.

Yes, go to settings > display > scenery and change the "Scenery Complexity"
slider to Very Dense or Extremly Dense.

That did the trick for me. Oncew I set that to Very Dense, the Jetwys appeared, CNTL+J called them to move and it all worked! Thanks again. KUDOS Razz

rowcoach · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:48 pm

what plane were you using and where? I've set the scenery to very dense, but the jet ways don't move for me yet. I have an NVIDIA FX 5500, so I don't know if that's why it isn't working. I'd like to try to redo what you did to see if it is my video card.

RadarMan · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:35 pm

Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:57 pm

Our planes have airstairs.
www.eastjetva.com

(you press shift + e + 2)
Please join up and fly for us

mdaskalos · First Officer Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 130

Forgive me for veering the thread momentarily back on topic, but I did get my problem fixed.

I had to go into the aircraft.cfg file of the add-on plane that was giving me the problem and tinker with the section marked [exits]. I changed a few values (basically, changing the values of the coordinates where FSX "finds" your main exit, and a couple of other factors), then it was just a matter of adjusting the numbers until the jetway came to the plane precisely at the location of the main exit. The first few cuts at it missed by several feet.

mdaskalos

jellrod · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:40 pm

WOuld you care to share what the add on aircraft was, as well as what the new tinkered coordinates are?

mdaskalos · First Officer Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 130

Tailhook · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:11 am

mdaskalos · First Officer Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 130

These are the final numbers I am using:

[exits]
number_of_exits=2
//exit_rate.0=0.25
exit.0 = 0.25, 68, -8.12, 8.25, 0
exit_rate.1=0.25

When the jetway comes to the plane, it's not quite centered on the door opening, but it gives room for the airplane's door itself to slide along the outside of the fuselage until fully open, without hitting the mouth of the jetway.

mdaskalos

jellrod · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:09 pm

Well, here's a new one. Everybody is having trouble getting the jetway to come to them. Yesterday I took a CRJ from Miami to Nassau VFR, and when I got to the gate there was a Jetway, so for S&Gs I called for it (CNTL+J) and it actually came and connected to the CRJ - even with the stairs from the jet lowered! Now THATS wierd. Cool, but wierd.

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:29 am

It won't work for me Sad

I've tried everything I made my settings higher and pushed ctrl J hopefully getting somewhere but the jetways won't move!!

jellrod · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:16 pm

Here is some advise from Radarman a few posts back

go to settings > display > scenery and change the "Scenery Complexity"
slider to Very Dense or Extremly Dense.

I had all the other sliders set to max, but not that one. As soon as I did, BAM! There were the jetways and they worked.

RadarMan · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:41 pm

Aldo, be patient, all the "toys" work slowly in the sim.

Radar

Guest · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:05 am

thejonathanman · Trainee Joined: Mar 31, 2007 Posts: 4

kryton213 · Trainee Joined: Sep 22, 2009 Posts: 1

Hi

Some planes do not have the jet way set up in "aircraft.cfg"
I have a 757 that has the 2nd door open just in front of the wing
and the jetway doesnt move.

can some one tell me how to get it to move? The door opens but nothing notta thing on "ctrl-j"

truckernick · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:06 am