Jetways How to activate them

[Liamallen86]

I am a bit stuck on how to atcivate the jetways in FSX. I have the keybord command and its assigned in the settings but nothing happing in the game it self.
Please help

[Capt.Propwash]

are your engines turned off, and parking break set? are you sitting at the correct spot ( on the "T" ) in the parking spot???

[dave3cu]

Welcome to SimV....

Try it with a default airliner. If that works, then the following might be the problem..........

Your aircraft must have a proper [Exits] section in the aircraft.cfg file. It tells the sim where to attach the jetway.

Airliners updated from FS2004 may not have the proper data in the [Exits] section. The data wasn't present in FS2004 aircraft.

You can replace the [Exits] section with one from a similar FSX default airliner. You'll probably have to edit the longitudinal, lateral and vertical positions to get the proper attach point.

The longitudinal will probably be way off. You can make a good estimate of the main exit longitudinal by looking at the longitudinal position of the nose wheel in the [Contact_points] section.

[Liamallen86]

Cheers for the advice

Iam using the default aircarft in FSX but still no joy

[idahosurge]

Under Settings-Display-Graphics tab do you have advanced animations checked?

[dave3cu]

A few thoughts......

Be at a default airport/gate. Some add-on/enhanced airports might use static jetways.

Nose wheel should be on the 'T'. To far forward and the jetway cannot extend to start it's movement.

The default keypress is [Ctrl+J], hold the Ctrl down and tap the J. Do not linger on or repeat the keypress as this could cancel the command.

[Richy0Rich]

I've had the same problem, sometimes it doesn't work, but if your correctly placed and it still doesn't work, use the push back or throttle and continue to find the right starting spot for the Jetway.