Simple and Nice Loading Equipment (low tech ground services)

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`Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v20 - freeware

21 mai 2021: Minor Version 20 only has a minor new function : when a SAM jetway is connected (detected by SAM jetway external power dataref), the passenger bus is hidden to avoid a collision between its 3D model and the connected SAM jetway.

Major Version 19 is an important item with bug fixes and supports JustFlight BAe-146 chocks. All users are advised to update to version 19. Corrections brought to both main and config files.

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v29
26 octobre 2021

• Minor version 29 adds some customization for the ToLiSs A340-600. Both the main script and the configuration file have changed.
• Minor version 28 has some customization for the Concorde. Both the main script and the configuration file have changed.
• Major Version 27 fixes the detection of the add-on "SAM Worldjetways XP" (there was a coding error). That should improves on many users reporting the script was not working. Both the main script and the configuration file have changed. Also added : customization for the Q400 and Saab 340 aircraft types.
• Major Version 26 fixes the detection of aircraft chocks position (there was a coding error) when the user aircraft has not been customized by XPJavelin already and as a consequence relies on the ACF definition. Only the main script has been changed.

nécessite FlyWithLua NG

Important :
Everybody should update to version 27 or greater.
Especially people who don't use the Aerosoft's SAM's animated jetways. It was the cause for getting a quarantined script. I believe to have passed a major milestone in code debugging in the version 27

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v31
10 novembre 2021

• Major Version 31 makes the marshaller more efficient when requesting an automatic determination of stand position, and use more efficiently the custom scenery stand positions (provided the user has compiled his own cache in SNLE) and the global scenery stand positions. A togable 3D arrow can indicate more blatantly the targeted stand position. A second airstair is now also available, at the moment only for the A340-600 2L door . Both the main script and the configuration file have changed.
• Minor version 30 adds some customization for the ToLiSs A340-600 converter to Freighter ("Preighter"). ONLY the main script has changed. The user config file hasn't changed since version 29.

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v38

Version 38

• - Turboboprop Metroliner added, F-15 added.
• - Catering object changed to 3m tall version instead of 4.5m.
• - All 3 LUA scripts changed and on object added.
• - Manual updated

Modified in V37

• - the file SimpleAndNiceLoadingEquipment.lua
• - two new files in a subdirectory

Features

• - arrestor cable or net barrier dynamic objects and active trapping. The nearest ILS-equipped runway-end is equipped when the user selects the Arresting system in the SNLE menu. If the user continues to fly, the barrier or cable installation jumps automatically to the new nearest runway end. Uses the ILS navaid to gather the runway course and location (Limitation : at this time, only ILS equipped runway can have it). We use the navigation data, not the scenery.

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v40c

Version 40c

It was not perfect before. Now the arrestor cable is better placed over the runways.
I recommend full fresh install.
Refreshing the parking and runways cache is mandatory (obligatoire) at first launch, format has changed in version 40b.

Version 39

• Arrestor barrier or cable now referenced to the runway end, and not the ILS any more. (heading is less accurate but all runways can be equipped). The user manually select the runway in the menu, when he is close enough of the destination airport. Due to declination change, runway names can be outdated sometimes but still correspond to an existing landing area. Refreshing the parking and runways cache is mandatory at first launch.
• Lot of structural code change went into that, I hope it will be OK for everyone.

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v48


- B727-100 and B727-200 ground handling set customized, including chocks @イオス

- SGES menu is back to hidden by default

- ASU position is repaired

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v49 (big update)

• New airstairs models created

- a variant for lower airplanes
- a variant for taller airplanes

• several vehicles reworked with reflections
• night lighting of the vehicles updated
• new animated 3D model for the active deicing services built on a MrX library asset
• updated of the MrX Belt loader model for a more accurate one
• adjusted parameters for the A350/E170/E195/MD11

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v50

• New fuel truck (3D model)
• simulator pause handled
• New ULD cart train (3D model) for freighter aircraft
• Updated bush fire (object was missing and is also redone)
• Updated ships models (Wreckage site for helicopters)
• Start of code optimisation with structural changes to pave the way into the future
• New animated passengers (3D models) actually boarding from the bus to the forward or the aft airstairs.
• Many and various 3D models and code changes.
• Automatic 18 minutes sequence if user requested.

 

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Simple and Nice Loading Equipment v51

VERSION 51 (major)

• PRM boading truck was missing. The European Union Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) legislation is intended to ensure that Persons with Reduced Mobility traveling via public transport should have equal access to travel as compared to travelers with unrestricted mobility.
• new animation and code for catering truck
• one new passenger added, and boarding loop rewritten
• passenger are avoiding the wing cone when walking to an aft boarding stairs
• structural code rework : around 780 lines less than in the previous version of the code.
• soft engine sounds (can be deactivated in the vehicles parameters file if one doesn't like it)
• new custom definitions for the A330-200 and A330-300, DH8-100, DH8C (Q300), IL-96, B777-X, B707-300
• Avro RJ handled on top of the older BAe-146s.
• second airstair added on B763 and B762 models
• PDF manual updated to follow the above changes

VERSION 50.1 (minor)

• Flight Factor A320 airstair support added
• JustFlight BAe-146 embedded airstairs toggle added in our menu

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services (low tech services)

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VERSION 54

The version 54 is a minor update to polish the product, and brings a new ground service vehicle (the rear bagage loader).

• New : added the rear belt conveyor of ULD loader, in a stand-by position near the aircraft fuselage. [User request]
• New : added Felis Boeing 747-200 door support, recently added as a model update (door opening and closing) by Felis
• [BUGFIX] Adjusted user switch to the rear airstairs for deboarding passengers, in order to prevent erroneous passengers deboarding from the center of the airplane.
• [BUGFIX] PRM truck with business jets was incorrectly displayed
• [POLISH] Minor graphical menu improvements
• [POLISH] Housekeeping and tiny small changes in the code for a better product

VERSION 53

• New : Deboarding passengers (first rough version)
• B767-200F and SF added in the aircraft configuration files
• Optional automatic stairs (page 6 of the manual), when you open the 1L door, the stairs can appear automatically. Disabled by default, it can be enabled durably in the vehicle config file or temporary in the GUI. [User request]

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services (low tech services)

Simple Ground Equipment & Services displays or hides static objects around your aircraft on the ground. Compatible with X-Plane 12.0.9, X-Plane 12.1.2. If you would like to donate 😉 Paypal A variety of ramp equipment (passengers bus, GPU, Air start unit, cones, belt loader, ULD loaders, airst...

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Version 56 (2022-09-09,)
XP11 et XP12

• startup options (in a text file), including automatically set the chocks as soon as we load our plane
• X-Plane 12 default fleet added (A330, MD82,RV10,C750,SR22,R22...)
• X-Plane 12 default ground vehicles support
• backward compatibility with X-Plane 11
• move and relocate the SGES window during the session
• Rotate MD-88 definitions improved

Version 55 (2022-08-28, major)

• Extension of the BAe-146 fine-tuning code, it allows a bagage cart to show up and drive to the aircraft
• Checked that the H125 helicopter was nicely supported
• New follow-me vehicles and EMS with increased resolution (credits in the archive)
• New bagage cart with a human character
• Adjustment to the CH-47 Chinook/H125 support to allow the Push back truck to show correctly
• New vehicles set : military fleet added for all users : fuel truck, van, jeep, airstairs
• Even if a new default military set is provided, the refinements of the military assets, which existed in SGES since the beginning, are still further possible with the X-Tridents assets, you must read the manual for that.

Don' forget to recreate the cache, if you use the marshaller or the arresting system.

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services (low tech services)

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Version 58 (2022-09-26)

• Housekeeping : cleared unimportant errors reported in the log, cleaned log outputs.
• Adding XP12 jetways control by button when chocks are set, directly in SGES
• Checked compatibility with XP12 Zibo 738
• Added compatibility with Thranda Cessna U206
• Adjusted shipwreck generation (modification of the wet terrain check logic)
• Adjusted engine sound generation (sound loop logic added)
• SGES was causing a crash to desktop at X-Plane 12 startup, solved by the introduction of a start delay of 60 seconds, then the scripts loads up.
• The runway cache generation was causing a flywithlua crash, solved by locating the new X-Plane 12 global airport definition.
• The runway cache generation was not looking for all runways on the earth, as especially seen in XP12 due to the global airport definition format, solved by reworking our data filters.
• Reincorporated a marshaller object which was missing in the archive offered for download
• Backward compatibility tested with X-Plane 11 and flywithlua 2.7
• Tested in XP12 with flywithlua 2.8.

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services (low tech services)

Simple Ground Equipment & Services displays or hides static objects around your aircraft on the ground. Compatible with X-Plane 12.0.9, X-Plane 12.1.2. If you would like to donate 😉 Paypal A variety of ramp equipment (passengers bus, GPU, Air start unit, cones, belt loader, ULD loaders, airst...

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Version 59.2 (13 nov. 2022) :

• Increased the script startup delay, necessary in XP12
• Added finer support for the REP package items for the Laminar Cessna 172 (tie-down and chocks supported)
• Added the canoe boat, when you are floating on the sea you can popup a small raft in the vicinity
• Removed chocks ON by default in the options configuration file, to avoid confusing new users why the plane is not advancing, restored chocks OFF by default

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services (low tech services)

Simple Ground Equipment & Services displays or hides static objects around your aircraft on the ground. Compatible with X-Plane 12.0.9, X-Plane 12.1.2. If you would like to donate 😉 Paypal A variety of ramp equipment (passengers bus, GPU, Air start unit, cones, belt loader, ULD loaders, airst...

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Version 60 (2022-11-28)

• Added automatic pushback in X-Plane 12 beta 14 (eases the life of GNU/Linux users because Better Pushback isn't available for XP12 now) - XP12 exclusive feature
• Added Pushback manual for SGES 60
• Added communication sounds for marshaller and automatic pushback via wav sound files (eases the life of GNU/Linux users)

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services - (low tech ground services)

Version 61 (2022-12-18) :

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• New helicopters sling load (attach and detach) controls in the User Interface (by buttons).
• Anti-ice fluid tuned for X-Plane 12 Ice
• More passengers !
• Passengers boarding and deboarding via all available stairs, ie if you can have two airstairs, passengers will use both at the same time. (Days have gone into testing this !) - Was a user request.
• Medium pushback tug has now a driver and night effects.

• A new ground vehicle has been added. Freighter aircraft have a new option in the menu. An optional forklift can be used at the tail of the aircraft. A rear loading ramp plane like the Antonov-12 and the C-130 can benefit from that.

• Automatic recognition of small aircraft as GA aircraft. Small aircraft will be offered the reduced ground service for all and not the full airliner services, even if not customized in the Aircraft option file. That avoids fiddling with config files for all the General Aviation models that can be found on earth.
• Added DC3 and C47 customization
• Checked compatibility with the Antonov-12.

• Air Start Unit position tweaked to avoid conflict with B707 / B720 engine cowlings.
• Prevent the option "Canoe" to appear in the menu when not on the sea.
• Effectiveness of "Clean" (to clean all services) and "All" (to display all services) adjusted to include chocks, but to exclude forklifts.
• Considerable regression tests and quality checks were made, version 61 is a major release.
• Flywith Lua NG+ was updated (see the download link), I advise anybody using XP12 to update FlyWithLua. Therefore the script start delay was reduced to 40 to 30 units now. But it was nevertheless kept only for compatibility with XP12 users who would still not have updated FWLNG+ to the latest version.

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services - (low tech ground services)

Version 61.7 2023-02-15 : Minor update exclusive to X-Plane 12.03

• The traffic cones have been changed in X-Plane 12.03, I had to point Simple Ground Equipment and Services to the new 3D asset. Legacy in XP11.55 and XP12.00 still compatible.
• When boarding is complete, no more repetitive audio messages about passenger boarding complete.
• Supports X-Plane 12.03 (and previous versions)

Version 61.5 2023-01-05 Bug fix

• Compatibility with Concorde V3
• Bug fix [.acf missing gear information - flywithlua gear1Zm crash]
• Bug fix [rear aircraft chocks not displayed correctly]
• Bug fix [tried to reference rear aircraft door when none defined - flywithlua crash]

Bug fix [dual passengers bus now truly only for the longest airliners]

Version 61.4 2023-01-03 Bug fix

• (Emergency option to escape the custom scenery folder in the scenery cache building. Set that in Simple_Ground_Equipment_and_Services_CONFIG_options.lua only if FlyWithLua crashes at this steps otherwise it doesn't make sense).
• Bug fix for the Airbus A321 door (ToLiSs) rear left door. Now it opens with the passengers active. Found by serendipity when tweaking Speedy Copilot for ToLiSs. Healed both scripts. Now they are vaccinated.

Version 61.3 2023-01-02 Minor update

• Adjusted passenger the deboarding path to the bus to take into account the cones, to avoid the engine of 4 engine aircraft. Switch ON and OFF the traffic cones as required to adjust the passengers path on deboarding as well as boarding.
• Adapted baggages cart to B707 derivatives
• Tuned B747-8 aft stairs and adjusted consequences on code.
• Two bus can now come at the same time for big airliners

Version 61.2 2022-12-31 Minor update

• User request to have an ULD loader in front of the Boeing 747-8F

 

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Simple Ground Equipment & Services (low tech services)

Simple Ground Equipment & Services displays or hides static objects around your aircraft on the ground. Compatible with X-Plane 12.0.9, X-Plane 12.1.2. If you would like to donate 😉 Paypal A variety of ramp equipment (passengers bus, GPU, Air start unit, cones, belt loader, ULD loaders, airst...

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Version 62 2023-03-24

Tested in XP12.04 and XP11.55

• Carrier and frigate management absolutely redone : all our location presets are now intuitively available directly in-game without opening a configuration file in a text editor.
• Dynamic carrier and frigate controls separated from the static carrier or frigate control (XP12 only).
• The manual for the boats (PDF in the documentation folder) has been fully rewritten with the current features and interface.
• For rare users with a custom scenery crashing our parking and runway cache building, the option to built the cache while skipping the custom scenery folder is now intuitively available directly in-game without opening a configuration file in a text editor. This is in the FlyWithLua drop-down menu. This is NOT the normal procedure.
• The custom scenery cache building has now a higher level of log in the X-Plane log file, authorizing to debug easily & pinpoint a problematic scenery.
• The wind direction dataref has evolved in XP12.04. If the new dataref is detected we use it, otherwise we use the legacy dataref to orient our ships into the wind.

 

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Version 62.4b 2023-04-15 important update. Recommended version.

• 62.4b passed extensive quality control (X-Plane 12.04 was used) with various aircraft types and situations over land and over sea. (Limitation: 4 engines airliners and B707 with low engine cowlings where not retested during the quality control, as it becomes increasingly difficult and time consuming to test all possible combinations).
• Some corrections all over the code. Tailoring stuff.

Version 61.8 2023-03-22, tested in X-Plane 12.04

• Adjustments for the ToLiss A320 Neo (benefiting to all potential X-Plane A20N) : aircraft set defined
• (See SGES_history.pdf for more details...)

Version 62 2023-03-24

Tested in XP12.04 and XP11.55

• Carrier and frigate management redone : all our location presets are now intuitively available directly in-game without opening a configuration file in a text editor.
• The manual for the boats (PDF in the documentation folder) has been fully rewritten with the current features and interface.
• For rare users with a custom scenery crashing our parking and runway cache building, the option to built the cache while skipping the custom scenery folder is now intuitively available directly in-game.
• The custom scenery cache building has now a higher level of log in the X-Plane log file, authorizing to debug easily & pinpoint a problematic scenery.
• (...)

Version 62.1 2023-04-01 and version 62.2 2023-04-07

• The A320 Neo rear bagage loader location adjusted
• Epic Victory added as supported aircraft
• New vehicle animations. The passenger bus plus the fuel truck, bagage cart and pushback truck will roll before disappearing instead of just disappearing.

Version 62.3 2023-04-08

• Allowing a better mix between various military and civilian assets at the same time. Allowing to mix the civilian vehicles, the default military set, and the optional military set (see the manual to unlock it) at the same time. Animations adjusted under the hood.

Version 62.4 2023-04-13 minor update

• CRJ-900 now supported, modifications for the CRJ jets by Deltawing Simulations and AD Simulation
• The Epic VIctory (added in v62.1) by Aerobask now classified as business jet, in order to get specific support vehicles