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Is there any updates regarding this topic? Additionally, I noticed aircraft departing off runway 09L, and only during COVID was this runway/direction used for landing/take-off operations. Now, 09L is only used for landings with 09R for take-offs and the occasional freighter landing on 09R.

I've just had Air China spawn at T5....

Hey, I did have additional parking on, I've set this to 0 and tried it but still, American is spawning at LHR. Air France is at T3 even though IRL, as listed, they are parked at T4. As well as Iberia and WestJet at T2... Below are the settings I have set in FSLTL. 11:42:23 Max Active VFR Aircraft (0=disabled): 0 11:42:23 Additional Airline Parked Aircraft (0=disabled / 10=max): 0 (no maximum per airport) 11:42:23 Additional GA Parked Aircraft (0=disabled / 10=max): 0 (no maximum per airport) 11:42:23 Max Radius to Inject Airborne Aircraft (25-150km): 85 11:42:23 Max Radius to Inject Ground Aircraft (10-150km): 50

Hi, I've recently been getting familiar with FSTL AI traffic but, realised at LHR, the location of where airlines are parked is somewhat realistic however, a lot is inaccurate. Let's start off with BA. Predominantly based at T5 which is depicted in-game, however, there is also BA aircraft at T3, T2, and T4 within your scenery, which is incorrect. BA does not use T4 anymore and has never used T2. At T3, BA usually always uses gates 342, 340, 336, 334, 351, and 357 for the B777-200 and sometimes the A350. BA also sometimes uses 328, 326, 351, 355, 311, 309, and also 305(L + R). Within T5, Iberia A320 neos and the occasional A330/A350 will park here. BA and Iberia are the only 2 airlines to operate from T5. However, as appointed in your scenery there is other airlines allocated slots at T5, which is incorrect. Within T5, the remote stands 596, 595, 594, 582 and 583, it is not uncommon to see airlines such as virgin, Qantas or Cathay parking their aircraft there during a long stay. More commonly though, Qantas will park their A380s or 787s on 595 or 594. This leads to the Airlines at T3. Currently, a major operator that uses T3 is Emirates who will mostly always use the 307, 305, 303, and 301 stands because this is where their lounge is situated. However in your scenery, Emirates are nowhere to be seen at T3, instead they are located at T4. Airlines that use T3 are listed below: Aeromexico American Airlines Beijing Capital Airlines Cathay (Usual park at stand 342. 340 or 336) China Airlines Delta Emirates Finnair Hainan Airlines Iran Air Japan Airlines LATAM MEA Qantas Royal Jordanian Sri Lankan Airlines Tianjin Airlines Virgin Atlantic Vistara Within T2, the following airlines are situated here: Aegean Airlines Aer Lingus Air Canada Air India ANA Asiana Airlines Austrian Avianca Brussels Airlines Croatia Airlines Egyptair Ethiopian Airlines Eurowings EVA Air Icelandair Loganair LOT Polish Airlines Lufthansa SAS Shenzen Airlines Singapore Swiss TAP Thai Airways Turkish Airlines United Airlines (The most predominant airline at T2 occupying the north side of the satellite terminal) Finally, at T4 the airlines allocated slots here are: Air Algerie Air Astana Air France Air Serbia Azerbaijan Airlines Biman Bangladesh Airlines Bulgaria Air China Eastern China Southern El Al Etihad Gulf Air Kenya Airways KLM KM Malta Airlines Korean Air Kuwait Airways Malaysian Airlines Oman Air Qatar Royal Air Maroc Royal Brunei Airlines RwandAir Saudia Tarom Tunisair Uzbekistan Airways Vietnam Airlines Vueling WestJet If these changes to the AI could be implemented that would be amazing, as it would increase the immersion on coming into land or taking of from LHR. It does seem like a killer pulling up tp T5 and there's an American Airlines aircraft sitting at the gate nearby... It would also be amazing if you could allocate the airline stands to the particular counterpart gates/stands they use IRL, and this would increase the immersion drastically.

I also think these 3 buildings (circled) have also been moved east from their original position. As the nodes (huts) are meant to be on the 573 & 572 stands. In addition, the refuelling area cover (circled bottom right) should be on the other side of that parking area, where there's is an empty gap in the through road.

Hi there, I was just looking around T5D and it seems the engineering building has been misplaced east from where it's supposed to be situated. It can be seen in the photo below with the large unoccupied area, the building in the 59X stands as well as the nodes (huts) & floodlight poles on stand. The floodlight poles continue to manifest themselves on all the 59X stands but 595. Also on stand 581, the silos that sit by the wall of the ramp coming from the tunnel are situated in the middle of it, rather than by the wall.

That’s correct, the A10 gates can be found on the ground floor, on the north west side of T5A. South of the A10 gates are the LHR connection buses to T2, T3 and T5, as well as further down south from that is the arrivals for connections to T5. On the north side of T5A, on the ground floor, the gates A4 can be found for buses to collect passengers to take to remote stands. Hence, there is no stand 504 for aircraft as it goes from 503-505. Just to point out, nothing major but the buses should be facing north instead of south which I think I saw on a stream last night. I’m gonna be waiting a while for the market place version to update 😕

It seems like there's a new aircraft model outside the t4 roundabout... Maybe this could be added to fit the emirates and Turkish models already on the airport?

I'm assuming marketplace customers wont have access to this feature?

As an extra note to @Harrier77's suggestion, stand 527 can only accept A319 (BA no longer operate A318) aircraft because with any other Airbus (A320/21), the tail will stick out into the taxiway. Thus, the ground marking on stand 527 is incorrect as it states A318,19,20

I remember people mentioning the area on the south side of T5C. This area is used to offload transfer bags via conveyer belts which can be found under the sheltered section that extrudes out from the main building. These belts (8, 4 each side) are a navy blue colour which are on the side of the building facing the aprons. Also, there are 2 yellow conveyer belts on the directly on the south side of T5C. Currently, you have parked vehicles on the north side of T5C however, there is a ULD stillage as shown in the image below. The building on the right is 1 ULD story high with a grey roof over the top. The stillage area to the west of it is a 3 story high ULD stillage with no roof. Additionally, north of T5B, there is another 3 story ULD stillage and a building which houses 2 yellow conveyer belts which in your scenery, is currently an empty space with just road markings. There is also an Iberia only ULD stillage bin to the north of T5A, near the security post. A similar ULD stillage can also be found at T5C, on the eastern side of the slope from the tunnel to enter the T5C road network. I have attached below an image that describes T5D (remote stands) best. The purple circle is where servicing machinery (baggage loaders etc) are maintained/serviced. The yellow circle is a petrol/diesel station for automotive vehicles (such as tugs or vans). The red circle is a fuel parking area for Menzies refuelling vehicles. The green circles indicate a parking area for airport winter machinery. Another point to make, there are some markings that are missing such as, red lines lining the white lines of the designated parking spots on stand, the zig-zag lines either side of every intersection clearway (the area in-between stands for aircraft emergency & servicing vehicles), hatched areas to indicate no parking at all and, the "starburst" lines that emit from the area where the jetway should be parked when not in use. Finally, I noticed that in your scenery, the fixed jetways from T5A to the moveable jetways have an incline however, in real life they do in fact have a decline down towards the "node". In addition, the east side of T5A, ground floor, is used for buses to pick up passengers from the terminal to take to remote stands which, is not clear/well represented in my opinion. I think it's these little things that will enhance the immersion of the simming experience.

I saw a post on Instagram, and it was of the small building next to T5 however, it was sort of at night so, all the lights were visible. I have attached an image below however, if you could add this improvement, that would be fantastic! For further reference, this is a link to a YT video that shows that area of the airport at night.

I was wondering if you could show some love to these areas shown below! The immersion they bring is quite important, especially when landing (and at night with all the lights!).