Determined gate position

[duholm]

Hi All

I have a problem I hope someone can help me with. I am trying to build an application that can determind when my plane is parked at the gate.

At the moment I have to turn off my engines in order for my program to detect that I am at the gate. However I would like to find the gate by comparing the position of my ATC assigned gate and compare it to my planes position.

So far I have no problem determining the planes position (I use fsuipc), but I don't know how to determined 1. the assigned gate and 2 the position of the gate.

Does anybody know how to solve this. I would appreciate the help :).

Regards
Bo

[scruffyduck]

Hi Bo

I answered your email but I am pleased you asked here. I wonder if you can use Brakes on to determine the end of your flight. That is the normal way that airlines do it for block time as I recall. Does not actually check that you are on a gate but you would not normally put the parking brakes on until the plane is parked. Alternatively how about engine shut down?