This route represents a full day's operation at London Heathrow Airport on 2nd July 2012. T5 (BA/IB) is fully operational and T2 partly operational during reconstruction.
The route is fully AI scheduled and apart from aircraft on short finals and climb out is about monitoring complicated ground movements and keeping things going.
There are over 530 AI aircraft each with at least one rotation during the day and each aircraft is correct to type and it's airline colours for 2012 as far as possible.
All landings are on 27L (two flight paths) and spaced by an average of 90sec creating a sizeable 'stack' of aircraft waiting to land at times, particularly during the morning.
All take-offs are on 27R and spaced by 90sec creating a large cluster of aircraft around the threshold waiting for departure at times throughout the day.
Aircraft are stationed to move onto their gates/stands at start up to pick up their appropriate speed limit, otherwise their first push back from the gate will be at 40mph!
Shadows are disabled - the aircraft would cast shadows but the terminal buildings and airbridges etc would not. The weather at Heathrow is usually overcast anyway.
The trickle of early morning arrivals is set to land from game start up at 05.30 to avoid boredom whilst little is going on.
Almost everything is AI controlled but the following needs attention after a session resume (as opposed to a pause)
1. As well as conventional signalling there are areas of ATLS signalling which may require re-setting on resume - watch for stopped aircraft and action a leaving trigger.
2. Aircraft already on descent at resume will flare AFTER landing - you need to route those aircraft via the 'flare correction' TM to avoid knock on signalling problems.
Be the ground traffic controller and keep an eye on occassional signalling and aircraft malfunctions - probably caused by a shortage of processing capacity.
There is a random problem with locked junctions causing conflict between aircraft pushing back and others taxiing - usually resolved after a few minutes but not always.
Clone this route and do your own thing with it - maybe complete the new T2 and the east-side taxiways. Maybe program tugs to couple up and push back from gates etc.
Developed from Stagecoach's Heathrow2 route with aircraft produced and re-skinned by Vulcan, Papou, Rob725, nzms, cj187 and iced8383 to whom I am very grateful.
Тип: Карта