Request for additions to Simconnect Facilities API

[MSFS 2024] Questions & Community Discussions SimConnect
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To allow us to continue to improve the traffic handling in Beyond ATC we use most of the data the facilities API provides.

One particular set of data that is missing and would be very useful to us is the airline coding for parking. Would it be possible for this to be added as a field to the TAXI_PARKING object. Whether as a just a stringv of common seperated values or as a sub type.

Secondly is the ability to trigger jetways to connect / disconnect based on the JETWAY facilities data. At the moment it only seems possible to trigger a jetway connection for the player aircraft - could this be expanded to trigger any jetway based on the JETWAY object data - perhaps the PARKING_SPOT int could be the unique trigger to a jetway toggle event?

Thanks,
Whakamole NZ
BeyondATC Dev Team

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@Arzop Hi - just wondering if you think these feature requests will ever be possible? If not we will have to look at alternative ways of at least handling the airline codes. We have tried very hard to not just do BGL read hacks or record data outside the sim - as ultimately having the data in the sim constructs helps out more than our product but we may need change that direction if these will never be considered.

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