Yes, I think in the rush to get the sim out of the door last year, someone forgot that the stairs shouldn’t behave the same as the catering or luggage services.
Many people would like the services to stick around for longer than they do, but I imagine once the Xbox users come along, what is there now will suit them nicely… With the exception of the stairs, which should have the same behaviour as a jet bridge.
Please, Please, Please Asobo can you adjust the length of time that the Air stairs stay at your aircraft, my passengers are complaining they cant all get on board in 20 secs and it steers me away from the smaller airports with no gates, even better would be to allow the user to remove stairs whenever they like, like the gates do.
It would be cool if they would be always available as well and not dependent on the parking type or whatever causing them to appear or not to appear. I often fly from small airport without jetways and if I call the air stairs nothing happens. More user control of all of the service vehicles would be awesome.
yes I noticed that at Innsbruck and a few others, call stairs and nothing happens, even tried slewing around to see if it was a positioning bug but still didnt want to work. its like the sim doesnt recognize your at a gate or ramp parking.
You can use this addon if you’re on PC. There’s an option setting where you can set which ground service vehicle will stay in position until you manually end them.
When I request stairs to connect to the aircraft, i.e. FBW A320, they connect but then disconnect after a couple of minutes on their own, rather than asking to be disconnected…
With a jetway, once connected, they only disconnect on request.