Incorrectly assigned airline gates for AI

[Earthplane]

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:

1. Aeromexico
2. American Airlines
3. Beijing Capital Airlines
4. Cathay (Usual park at stand 342. 340 or 336)
5. China Airlines
6. Delta
7. Emirates
8. Finnair
9. Hainan Airlines
10. Iran Air
11. Japan Airlines
12. LATAM
13. MEA
14. Qantas
15. Royal Jordanian
16. Sri Lankan Airlines
17. Tianjin Airlines
18. Virgin Atlantic
19. Vistara

Within T2, the following airlines are situated here:

1. Aegean Airlines
2. Aer Lingus
3. Air Canada
4. Air India
5. ANA
6. Asiana Airlines
7. Austrian
8. Avianca
9. Brussels Airlines
10. Croatia Airlines
11. Egyptair
12. Ethiopian Airlines
13. Eurowings
14. EVA Air
15. Icelandair
16. Loganair
17. LOT Polish Airlines
18. Lufthansa
19. SAS
20. Shenzen Airlines
21. Singapore
22. Swiss
23. TAP
24. Thai Airways
25. Turkish Airlines
26. 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:

1. Air Algerie
2. Air Astana
3. Air France
4. Air Serbia
5. Azerbaijan Airlines
6. Biman Bangladesh Airlines
7. Bulgaria Air
8. China Eastern
9. China Southern
10. El Al
11. Etihad
12. Gulf Air
13. Kenya Airways
14. KLM
15. KM Malta Airlines
16. Korean Air
17. Kuwait Airways
18. Malaysian Airlines
19. Oman Air
20. Qatar
21. Royal Air Maroc
22. Royal Brunei Airlines
23. RwandAir
24. Saudia
25. Tarom
26. Tunisair
27. Uzbekistan Airways
28. Vietnam Airlines
29. Vueling
30. 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.

[qwertyplanes]

Hi,

Do you have the 'additional parked aircraft’ setting  in FSLTL turned on? As the AFCAD has T5 set up with only BAW and IBE so there shouldn't be any American aircraft at T5 and there isn't Emirates at T4 so I have a suspicion that FSLTL may be playing a roll in this.

 

 

[Earthplane]

On 4/29/2024 at 9:57 AM, qwertyplanes said:

Hi,

Do you have the 'additional parked aircraft’ setting  in FSLTL turned on? As the AFCAD has T5 set up with only BAW and IBE so there shouldn't be any American aircraft at T5 and there isn't Emirates at T4 so I have a suspicion that FSLTL may be playing a roll in this.

 

 

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

[Earthplane]

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

[Earthplane]

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.