Hello. I wanted to comment a little on the use I'm making of parking_airports. Actually, every time I go to an airport, I have to go to the folder and write it down. Generally, the gate I want to use is not recognized. All that during msny preparations of my flight. Before, wherever i went, there were planes waiting at the airport. Now I have to remember to decentralize on a folder and a document. Then I thought: why don't I put 2000 airports and so I don't have to be pointing one by one, and then I thought: what is this new option for? It doesn't save work and doesn't change anything, compared to the old one. Thank you for listening to us.

sometimes old things are better, like “learn destination”. 

2 hours ago, Happytfe said:

 I wanted to comment a little on the use I'm making of parking_airports. Actually, every time I go to an airport, I have to go to the folder and write it down. Generally, the gate I want to use is not recognized.

In the old situation you always had to enter the destination. In the new situation you only have to do that for airports you have not been before. So what is your problem?

Tip: if you enter a gate in my_park_airports.txt, while you are preparing your flight, you can push the re-read button, then you will see if it is valid or not.

Maybe you should read Chapter 11, because you don't seem to know all the possibilities.

Edited October 18, 20241 yr by kiek

2 hours ago, kiek said:

In the old situation you always had to enter the destination. In the new situation you only have to do that for airports you have not been before. So what is your problem?

Tip: if you enter a gate in my_park_airports.txt, while you are preparing your flight, you can push the re-read button, then you will see if it is valid or not.

Maybe you should read Chapter 11, because you don't seem to know all the possibilities.

Thank you very much for your answer. I really read the manual. The airports where i havent been are 1.000.000. So, i suppose i need to go into that folder many times. Before, i just didnt have to do that: psxt read my flight plan and wrote itself the destination. I only had to write the gate ( if i needed). 
i apologize, i dont want to sound bad but i really dont see a good change in this option. 
anyway, thank you!

12 minutes ago, Happytfe said:

Thank you very much for your answer. I really read the manual. The airports where i havent been are 1.000.000. So, i suppose i need to go into that folder many times. Before, i just didnt have to do that: psxt read my flight plan and wrote itself the destination. I only had to write the gate ( if i needed). 
i apologize, i dont want to sound bad but i really dont see a good change in this option. 
anyway, thank you!

I think you must be exceptional. Most people fly between airports they are familiar with, and/or for witch they have a good add-on scenery. On average not more then 50 airports I'd say.

PSXT is meant for the main stream.

And don't forget, there will always be different opinions.

 

Edited October 18, 20241 yr by kiek

1 hour ago, kiek said:

I think you must be exceptional. Most people fly between airports they are familiar with, and/or for witch they have a good add-on scenery. On average not more then 50 airports I'd say.

PSXT is meant for the main stream.

And don't forget, there will always be different opinions.

 

Of course, always diffferent opinions. 
i remember i begun to ask about an option to learn the occupied parking in the airport of destination. Finally, you put it. I was happy for that. 
anyway i have solved the problem: i put a list of the 100 usual airports we could fly to, like this i forget the work of checking the .txt. 😊

 

thanks!

13 minutes ago, Happytfe said:

anyway i have solved the problem: i put a list of the 100 usual airports we could fly to,

Yes, that was my suggestion in the release notes of 8.4.0:

It may take a few minutes to create your my_park_airports.txt file with the airports you normally fly to (if not already in your third party addons), but then you never have to worry about setting destinations anymore! 

Just for fun I added the list of ALL airports of MSFS in that list (my_park_airports) via a simple text file. It works fine. I guess that's what the OP meant. Now you don't have to enter any new airports prior to flying. They're already in thet list.

13 hours ago, guntram5 said:

Just for fun I added the list of ALL airports of MSFS in that list (my_park_airports) via a simple text file. It works fine. I guess that's what the OP meant. Now you don't have to enter any new airports prior to flying. They're already in thet list.

That is not a wise thing to do. If it would have been, I would have done that myself, changed the design,  and put all airports in PSXT by default.

Note that PSXT calculates each 16 seconds the distance between the user aircraft and all of your airports in my_park_airports and puts them in order, shortest distance first... Doing this for 200 airports you will not notice but for 20.000 aiirports you may see stutters appear. Cpu's are fast, but what you are doing is a waist of cpu time.

Besides, if you want to add a reserved gate, it is more work to find the airport.

 

Edited October 20, 20241 yr by kiek

1 hour ago, kiek said:

That is not a wise thing to do. If it would have been, I would have done that myself, changed the design,  and put all airports in PSXT by default.

Note that PSXT calculates each 16 seconds the distance between the user aircraft and all of your airports in my_park_airports and puts them in order, shortest distance first... Doing this for 200 airports you will not notice but for 20.000 aiirports you may see stutters appear. Cpu's are fast, but what you are doing is a waist of cpu time.

Besides, if you want to add a reserved gate, it is more work to find the airport.

 

Perhaps, then, we have reached the starting point: it would be better if psxt read the flightplan and assigned the destination airport. It's the best "no stutter" idea.

7 minutes ago, Happytfe said:

Perhaps, then, we have reached the starting point: it would be better if psxt read the flightplan and assigned the destination airport. It's the best "no stutter" idea.

It is not easy to read a flightplan these days.  That's why I skipped that option before coming up with abandoning the concept of "destination airport". There are too many different flight plan implementations 

No this clean "destination" less approach will stay whether you like it or not. 

Go ahead! 😎