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The VDGS placement code will be something along the following lines:
So indeed, for every placed instance, you can define different stop distances each supporting different aircraft types. You can either use predefined aircraft type groups (e.g. ALL_SMALL) or type in the individual designators (e.g. B737, A321, etc), reflecting those ground markings of the stand.
There is a list of supported aircraft types and you can choose any subset of those for each stand position.
So there are two failure cases:
This swapping scheme will also be used for the jetways, which will also increase performance quite a bit, especially on airport with hundreds of jetways!
Code:
<SimObject Name="Stand 1A SafeDockT2">
<Placement Lat="47.18165" Lon="7.41195" Alt="14#AGL" Hdg="336.35"/>
<Model SimTitle="SafeDockT2" StaticSimTitle="SafeDockT2.Static">
<VDGS DistanceUnit="m" CaptureDistance="30.0">
<Stop Distance="12.0" AircraftTypes="ALL_SMALL;ALL_REGIONAL"/>
<Stop Distance="16.0" AircraftTypes="ALL_LARGE"/>
</VDGS>
</Model>
</SimObject>So indeed, for every placed instance, you can define different stop distances each supporting different aircraft types. You can either use predefined aircraft type groups (e.g. ALL_SMALL) or type in the individual designators (e.g. B737, A321, etc), reflecting those ground markings of the stand.
There is a list of supported aircraft types and you can choose any subset of those for each stand position.
So there are two failure cases:
- ID FAIL when the user aircraft can not be found in the list of supported aircraft
- ERROR when the user aircraft is supported, but has no associated stop distance defined in the xml
This swapping scheme will also be used for the jetways, which will also increase performance quite a bit, especially on airport with hundreds of jetways!