Drunken tower and MD-80-pilot.

[Conan Edogawa]

I just arrived at gate E72 (it was a flight from Hamburg to Amsterdam), as I heard the tower saying "Pacifica 224, taxi to gate Echo72 blahdiblah".

It was quit surprising, because just one minute before that happened the guy in that tower told me to park at Echo72.

I kept on watching, until the MD-80 parked in my aircraft!

Then I made a screenshot, just for you.

http://conan1ts.co.funpic.de//Fun/DrunkenTower.jpg

Sorry..... screenshot oversized, overweight, and linked to another site.  -JB

Does sth like that happen very often in reality?

[ashaman]

Nothing new, you see... I was the first ever person to see an airplane fruit of a joint venture between Boeing and Airbus. [smiley=evil.gif]

I landed my A320 and was told to taxi to a parking. Time to shut everything off and another plane (a 737) was told to park where I was parked already. The 737 entered smoothly into my A320, giving me the honor to assist to the birth of the first ever A737... or was it a B320?

[Formula_1]

I noticed your plane is beyond the parking line. Maybe that is what triggered it. The game might have thought the parking spot was empty.

[Conan Edogawa]

Could be an explanation, but if you look at the AI-Traffic, it does (reguarly) also park beyond that line...

[Chris_F]

Yesterday taking off from Heathrow I was told to position and hold on the active despite the fact that there were two planes already conjoined in that position and hold position on that runway.  I didn't comply.  The next airplane was told to taxi to and hold short and he taxied right up my tail pipe, crashing my plane  :(  Luckily that was at the beginning of the flight, not the end so I didn't have too much invested.

[BFMF]

You're screenshot is too big. It way over the 800 x 600 limit, and the 500K file size limit

[Mobius]

Biggest...screenshot......ever......


But it is nice and crisp.

[greenhorn]

Similar problems keep occurring with me when I'm making my final approach to a runway; I get told to follow the previous plane in, problem is it takes so long to clear the runway that I get told to go around.  Either that or the plane I'm following is a Cessna doing 75kts and I'm roaring up his ass doing 150kts in a 737.  And get told to go around at last minute.  :-?

[ashaman]

Similar problems keep occurring with me when I'm making my final approach to a runway; I get told to follow the previous plane in, problem is it takes so long to clear the runway that I get told to go around.  Either that or the plane I'm following is a Cessna doing 75kts and I'm roaring up his ass doing 150kts in a 737.  And get told to go around at last minute.  :-?

That's something easy to put a patch to. When you see that you might be forced to go around because of the tower being idiotic simply enter in the time menu and put the clock 1 (one) single minute forward or backward (doesn't matter which, you choose). FS qill be forced to recalculate all the AI traffic and, more importantly, you'll be alone in final.

[Conan Edogawa]

Similar problems keep occurring with me when I'm making my final approach to a runway; I get told to follow the previous plane in, problem is it takes so long to clear the runway that I get told to go around.  Either that or the plane I'm following is a Cessna doing 75kts and I'm roaring up his ass doing 150kts in a 737.  And get told to go around at last minute.  :-?

That's something easy to put a patch to. When you see that you might be forced to go around because of the tower being idiotic simply enter in the time menu and put the clock 1 (one) single minute forward or backward (doesn't matter which, you choose). FS qill be forced to recalculate all the AI traffic and, more importantly, you'll be alone in final.

You don't even have to turn a minute! Just call the window for your time settings and press "ok".

Happy new year btw...

[Mees]

Ehm........lol?

[spiked]

try google for "AiSmooth"
keeps separation much better than default atc

[ashaman]

...keeps separation much better than default atc...

Default ATC keeps separation? Since when? :-?

Perhaps in FS25... but only maybe.

I have to try it, this AIsmooth, maybe my next long haul won't end with me cursing the life out of those fools that (mis)programmed the default ATC.

Thanks for having remembered me.

[Conan Edogawa]

Ehm........lol?

Yeah........lol!  ;D

No really! That is because FS9 doesn't save your temporary AI-flights. There gone within clicking 'Ok' of the time settings. That's why smarty FS9 has to reload the AI-flights. :-?

What I always asked myself is: Why doesn't FS9 save the current textures of the current plane as a kind of temporary file on HDD which will bedeleted when flight has ended (or within changing the planes)? It is annoying that it always has to reload the textures and so on... but I know, it's not an apple, so I cannot appreciate that much.

I heard from a tool which allows you to request for take off without being at the hold-short note. I found it (a long long time ago...) on SIMV but don't find it any more. Does anyone know where it is?