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

XPJavelin · February 18, 2021

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

View File

Simple Ground Equipment & Services displays or hides static objects around your aircraft on the ground.

Tested in X-Plane 12.04 and in X-Plane 11.55

A variety of ramp equipment (passengers bus, GPU, Air start unit, cones, belt loader, ULD loaders, airstairs, PRM truck, deicing, catering, cleaning van...)
Some moving vehicles: the follow-me car, emergency services (EMS), the fuel truck, the bagage carts and the passengers bus
Active chocks that actually retain your aircraft and prevent it to move in a slope
Animated and moving passengers (thanks to the MrX assets). New in June 2022.
A simplified marshaller to better aim at your parking stand
A simple pushback system, compatible with the X-Plane 12 aircraft carrier. Automatic pushback to designated position (X-Plane 12 only). New in November 2022
Aircraft arresting systems (an arrestor cable, a net barrier or absorbing materials)
Active deicing that actually protects the airframe from X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12 ice for a period of time (available only in low temperatures)
Adaptative ground kit with slight variants for freighter, passengers aircraft, regional airplanes, business jets or general aviation, not always the same vehicles are coming.
Armed forces variant of the set, with green painted vehicles.
Any aircraft is serviceable. Moreover a customization of the ground handling is already embedded for a lot of freeware and payware aircraft models.
Trigger a distant car accident site, shipwreck, or a burning fire and for instance fly the emergency response in your helicopter.
Place the aircraft carrier and the frigate on pinpoint coordinates Renovated in March 2023
You may change our provided set of vehicles (based on MisterX and XPJavelin's creations) by any custom ground vehicle you already have in your X-Plane directories. You may also use the X-Plane default ground fleet instead.
Integration with XPJavelin's Speedy Copilot series which displays the vehicles according to the phase of flight (Speedy Copilot plugin required).

And :

Easy installation , drag the files in the FlyWithLua scripts folder, open the keyboard menu in X-Plane and attribute a key to toggle our menu. Generate the airport cache (in Plugin → FlyWithLua menu). You can further customize stuff in some configuration files but you don't have to.
Not intrusive : keep full control over the vehicles display, everything is commanded from our popup window. Plus we don't interact with your weight & balance.
Freedom : you can use all our ground services if you wish or only install the script for one among them.
A complete and detailed manual More information is expanded in several PDF manuals inside the download.
Multi-platform, since we use FlyWithLua, it works on GNU/Linux.
For X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12. The same script works in both simulators. All default airplanes and ground vehicles within X-Plane 12 are supported. New in September 2022.