Flew from KBUF to KJFK landing on 31L. As I was taxing to gate A33 I noticed there were no parked aircraft and no aircraft ground activity so I looked at PSXT and saw that it thought I was at KEWR. I stopped the aircraft on the taxiway, restarted PSXT and then it correctly recognized I was at KJFK and populated parked and live aircraft. The interesting thing is that KLGA is closer to KJFK than is KEWR. I rarely fly into KJFK, but when I have, PSXT has never before thought I was at KEWR.

Do you have a third party airport for KJFK? If not, maybe it was your first visit to KJFK after the change in destination airport setting of PSXT. if so, KJFK was not yet in your my_parkairports.txt... Next visit it will work fine.

To prevent this one should add the airport to my_parkairports first before the flight.

 

Edited January 2, 20251 yr by kiek

I have INI KJFK and yes it was probably my first visit since the PSXT dest. change.

THat's very tricky situation now with newly implemented automatic airport detection system. Most likely you have DD KEWR and MG KLGA also installed, so I would limit airport ground parking detection down to 10nm from 20nm by default.

2 hours ago, G-YMML1 said:

THat's very tricky situation now with newly implemented automatic airport detection system. Most likely you have DD KEWR and MG KLGA also installed, so I would limit airport ground parking detection down to 10nm from 20nm by default.

In my experience it works well. PSXT will park at the airport that is closest by, it may happen only 6-8 miles from your destination when at the glide slope, but it is often still in time. 

If you dont want that for these occasional situtations, just (temporaraly) remove KEWR and KLGA from your my_park_airports.txt file. You can do that also at the last minute while approaching KJFK. Edit the file and then push the Re-read button in the UI.

Edited January 3, 20251 yr by kiek

1 hour ago, kiek said:

In my experience it works well. PSXT will park at the airport that is closest by, it may happen only 6-8 miles from your destination when at the glide slope, but it is often still in time. 

If you dont want that for these occasional situtations, just (temporaraly) remove KEWR and KLGA from your my_park_airports.txt file. You can do that also at the last minute while approaching KJFK. Edit the file and then push the Re-read button in the UI.

Nico,

Any chance to include a placeholder for exception airport into the software interface?

27 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Any chance to include a placeholder for exception airport into the software interface?

You mean to type KEWR as an exception (not to park there)?

1 hour ago, kiek said:

You mean to type KEWR as an exception (not to park there)?

Yes, but on a second thought, it seems to em that it doesn't cost an effort, since London and NY areas are the only two areas in MSFS, where major airports reproduced by 3rd party developers are so close to each other. Hence, the exceptions might be done manually, as you suggested above.

56 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Yes, but on a second thought, it seems to em that it doesn't cost an effort, since London and NY areas are the only two areas in MSFS, where major airports reproduced by 3rd party developers are so close to each other. Hence, the exceptions might be done manually, as you suggested above.

Yes and London is not really a problem. I fly regularly from Amsterdam to Heathrow, overflying  London City airport (one of my addon airports), but it switches from City to Heathrow just in time. Gatwick and Luton are too far away to cause problems.

 

I just wish we could go back to being able to specify destination so I can make sure PSXT NEVER parks traffic at any airport that is not my destination. The auto park function could still work but it would give those of us not interested a way to positively avoid it.

1 hour ago, somiller said:

I just wish we could go back to being able to specify destination so I can make sure PSXT NEVER parks traffic at any airport that is not my destination. The auto park function could still work but it would give those of us not interested a way to positively avoid it.

Both ways have pro's and con's.

I think the auto park has more benefits. Gone are the days that you forgot to set a destination, or you lost it because you turned too far away from the airport in your approach, or you forgot it when you diverted to another destination. 

The auto park also brought back fly over parking, something vfr flyers wished. If you are an airliner and you set height at 7000 ft you dont have to deal with it.

Furthermore, most airports do not have a competing big enough airport within 20 nm...

My 2 cts 😉

 

12 hours ago, somiller said:

I just wish we could go back to being able to specify destinatio

I may add that to the next version

Edited January 4, 20251 yr by kiek

Nico,

I appreciate your consideration on this issue. Maybe if you could add it back in a way that allows us to specify destination, but if no destination is set then the auto-park continues to work exactly as it does in 9.4.

Either way it's not a deal-breaker for me as I'll continue to use your superior traffic tool. There is no other option for real, live traffic. I appreciate all your efforts (for which we pay you nothing)!

1 hour ago, somiller said:

I appreciate your consideration on this issue. Maybe if you could add it back in a way that allows us to specify destination, but if no destination is set then the auto-park continues to work exactly as it does in 9.4.

That was what I was thinking. A text edit box in the UI to enter a destination.

If empty: auto park and otherwise parking at destination only.

It is now quite easy to implement, I'll just add the destination to your park airports (in memory) with a flag that it is a destination, or if it is already in your my_parkairports.txt, I'll only add the flag.  At the end of the day it will be written to your my_parkairports file too (if it was not in there before), with the destination gate where you have parked..

Edited January 4, 20251 yr by kiek

Nico,

Sounds like a brilliant idea!