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How can I get a plane to be directed to a specific parking spot.

I have AFCAD. Created a new parking at airport. the new parking have the airline code eg: BFL for buffalo airlines.
I have added the parking indicator BFL to the plane Aircraft.cfg file. the plane is Aero commander 500.

When I land and contact ground control to taxi to parking I am allocated another parking spot. Why ? what am I missing here?

What do I need to change and which files to be able to get a specific plane to go to a specific parking spot. This thing driving me nuts..!  ;)Surely it must be possible to do..

Thanks. have a good one

Hi jb....at least as far as parking is concerned, AFCAD deals with AI planes only I'm afraid so no amount of hair tearing and gnashing of teeth is going to get you to a certain parking spot

Read through the wonderful instructions that come with AFCAD and you will eventually come across this line..and I quote....

"Note that parking codes are used for AI only and FS will not use codes to designate parking for user aircraft."

As a user (forgive the term ).....you unfortunately come under this rule.........sorry.

 ...............commoner

Or instead of requesting ground controll to taxi to a gate, you could simply not contact ground, and taxi to the gate of your choice on your own

[quote]Hi jb....

As a user (forgive the term ).....you unfortunately come under this rule.........sorry.

Or instead of requesting ground control to taxi to a gate, you could simply not contact ground, and taxi to the gate of your choice on your own

....NAUGHTY. NAUGHTY....

Or you can use Aerosoft AES which let you select the gate yourself, and you can even request a Follow me truck...the only problem, that AES doesn't know which spots are occupied by the AI, so you might end up at a gate where an AI plane stands....I don't know if the AFCAD can be tweaked on the way that the AI doesn't see a specific gate you'd like to use. It might be possible to assign a custom code, which is not existing in the reality, and then AI will not get the spot most likely....jsut an idea, I'm not an AFCAD expert

.....yes links which ai follow come in different flavours...one of which is a "closed" link........you could make the final link to a particular parking spot a closed link ending in a normal node... then it would always be free for you to use......one slight problem is that ATC wouldn't direct you or allow you to choose a route with a closed link but so long as you know the way then ..OK.
  ..commoner