Anyway to remove the standard MSFS pushback tug?

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I’m not positive, but my bet is those liveries you edited were not first in the list of liveries when you look at the plane in the Hangar?

After the first livery, (which is controlled by the order in which the aircraft.cfg’s show up in the Virtual File system, which is alphabetically by the name of the containing directory as I noted) MSFS ignores most of the aircraft.cfg values, especially those in the General section, which are meant to apply to all variations of a plane.

If it is first in the list, then it’s possibly related to an Airport_Services file in your system, which also controls this. That’s a more in depth discussion.

Edit: Oh, when you added the Services section, did you also include the [General] header above it?

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Hello,

Yeah I guess it has to do with the aircraft.cfg of the PMDG which is encrypted, and the livery cfg’s point to that encrypted one.

I checked it for the TBM 930, and therefore I can turn the small pushback on and off.

For now I will leave the topic, or somebody has a really working solution, then let me know.

Thanks for all the input.

Greetings,

Boudewijn

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Nope, it doesn’t have to be the encrypted one. You just have to change the name of the containing directory of the livery so it’s first in the list, and then fix the layout.json of the livery to reflect the new path for the files.

And I was wrong, I think, about needing the [General] tag.

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Hi.
A bit late to the party, but has anything changed within the sim that prevents this method from working?

I’m trying to do this with the ATR, change from SMALL_PUSHBACK to PUSHBACK.

I think I’m doing everything according to @FlyingsCool5650 instructions:

  1. Add 0_ to one of the ATR livery folder (in Community<lvery folder>SimObjects\Airplanes)
  2. Update paths in layout.json accordingly
  3. Add the [SERVICES] sections to the livery aircraft.cfg
[VERSION]
major = 1
minor = 0

[VARIATION]
base_container = "..\Microsoft_ATR_72_600"

[SERVICES]
PUSHBACK = 1
SMALL_PUSHBACK = 0

[FLTSIM.0]
title = "ATR 72 SAS ES-ATE"
model = ""
panel = "ES-ATE"
sound = ""
texture = "ES-ATE"
description = "The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (French: Avions de transport régional or Italian: Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed by French aerospace company Aérospatiale (now Airbus) and Italian aviation conglomerate Aeritalia (now Leonardo S.p.A.)."
wip_indicator = 2
ui_manufacturer = "ATR"
ui_type = "72-600"
ui_variation = "SAS ES-ATE"
ui_typerole = "Commercial Airliner"
ui_createdby = "Comet133"
ui_certified_ceiling = 25000
ui_max_range = 825
ui_autonomy = 4
ui_fuel_burn_rate = 130
atc_id = "ES-ATE"
atc_airline = "Scandinavian"
atc_flight_number = ""
atc_heavy = 0
atc_parking_types = "GATE,RAMP,CARGO"
atc_parking_codes = ""
isUserSelectable = 1
isAirTraffic = 0
canBeUsedByAITraffic = 0e code here

No success so far. I have also testet to do the opposite for another aircraft livery (disable PUSHBACK, enable SMALL_PUSHBACK)

The only way I have managed to control the pushback tug is in a default unencrypted aircraft native aircraft.cfg.

Any thoughts?