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Automatic DGS Marshaller or Safe Dock VDGS v1.05
Well, not every airport. As you don't want to have Marshallers and Safedock VDGS' at your rural landing strip the airport must have at least one instrument approach resulting in 6000+ airports.
It works for XP11 and XP12.
Just drop the plugin in the plugins folder and you are in automatic set-and-forget mode.
Automatic Mode
After you LAND (= some air time!) on an airport the plugin activates and searches actively for suitable ramps in the direction that you are taxiing.
Note that you MUST have your beacon on (a no-brainer with engine on, right?).
When close enough to a stand a Marshaller appears and gives appropriate guidance information. The distance to the DGS is automatically adjusted according to the pilot's eye height AGL.
With the command "Cycle DGS" bound to a key or button or through the menu you can cycle between Marshaller or VDGS as you like.
Should the DGS be hidden by wall or run over by ground traffic you can pull it forward in 2m increments with the command or menu entry "Move DGS closer by 2m".
Once parked and the beacon is off the plugin removes the DGS, docks a jetway (XP12 only!) if there is one and deactivates.
See the plugin in action in a short video (of a prerelease version) -> .
If you don't like automatic activation see "I don't like automatic mode, what can I do?" in the FAQ.
Credits:
Jonathan Harris (aka Marginal) (https://github.com/Marginal) for creating Autogate
Saso Kiselkov (https://github.com/skiselkov) for creating libacfutils
Well, not every airport. As you don't want to have Marshallers and Safedock VDGS' at your rural landing strip the airport must have at least one instrument approach resulting in 6000+ airports.
It works for XP11 and XP12.
Just drop the plugin in the plugins folder and you are in automatic set-and-forget mode.
Automatic Mode
After you LAND (= some air time!) on an airport the plugin activates and searches actively for suitable ramps in the direction that you are taxiing.
Note that you MUST have your beacon on (a no-brainer with engine on, right?).
When close enough to a stand a Marshaller appears and gives appropriate guidance information. The distance to the DGS is automatically adjusted according to the pilot's eye height AGL.
With the command "Cycle DGS" bound to a key or button or through the menu you can cycle between Marshaller or VDGS as you like.
Should the DGS be hidden by wall or run over by ground traffic you can pull it forward in 2m increments with the command or menu entry "Move DGS closer by 2m".
Once parked and the beacon is off the plugin removes the DGS, docks a jetway (XP12 only!) if there is one and deactivates.
See the plugin in action in a short video (of a prerelease version) -> .
If you don't like automatic activation see "I don't like automatic mode, what can I do?" in the FAQ.
Credits:
Jonathan Harris (aka Marginal) (https://github.com/Marginal) for creating Autogate
Saso Kiselkov (https://github.com/skiselkov) for creating libacfutils
