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Fuel truck behaving bad

WildLynxPilot

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I have modelled a custom fuel truck for my airport projects. It works fine and it comes rolling to you when you ask for a fuel truck on ground services. But it does not recognise parked planes - it just drives through them and it also drives through your own plane. Immersion killing...

How can I make it avoid the planes and drive correctly to me?
 
Fuel truck are oblivious of objects like parked a/c, and will happily drive right through them unless directed otherwise. By default, they follow taxiway paths, but if you want them to follow a specific route you need to give them dedicated Vehicle Paths from the parking spot to the a/c parking spots. Make sure these don't intersect with the taxiways, or the trucks will switch between them. Also, make sure the nodes on the Vehicle Paths are not too far apart, else the trucks will head off cross-country (or cross-tarmac) in search of another route.

Some discussion of the subject here: Fuel Truck Behaviour Around Parked Aircraft
 
Another problem with the fuel truck is that when it starts from its vehicle parking it will first reverse, turn 90 degrees, stop and then turn back and continue along the vehicle path. Is there any way to stop it reversing and just drive straight away from the parking?
 
WildLynxPilot said:
Another problem with the fuel truck is that when it starts from its vehicle parking it will first reverse, turn 90 degrees, stop and then turn back and continue along the vehicle path. Is there any way to stop it reversing and just drive straight away from the parking?
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Not that I know of. But if you turn the fuel truck parking spots through 180 degrees it doesn't look so odd. They then park face in, reverse out and drive away.
 
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