Airport Issues Part 2

[NJCurmudgeon]

I'm struggling my way through trying to get a reasonable working airport. Thanks to some suggestions from some folks on here, I've made progress, but I'm still having some frustrating issues...

1) What reasons other than the obvious would an airplane (747)/pushback tractor "train" give an error message that it can't find a route to the trackmark? The trackmark is there and the name matches where I'm telling it to go. There is indeed a clear route - there's only a short length of invisible track between where it starts and where I want it to go. There is a switch, but it is set in favor of the train. The tracks are joined (the spline moves both together). I took out all the other restrictive marks, such as directional markers that might run counter to the train. I have pretty much the same arrangement on the other side with a 737 that works fine. I am at a loss to understand why it insists on stopping and claiming it can't find a clear route! Are there other less obvious reasons I'm just missing??

2) When the pushback tractor for the 737 mentioned above is sent back to a trackmark by the gate, it only gets so close and stops, notifying that it is waiting on track clearance....there are no other vehicles or switches between it and where it needs to go! Why is it waiting?

3) I have invisible speed limits set up along the invisible tracks guiding the planes. I'm using the type where you can specify the exact mph (or kph) setting you want. While this works at slower speeds to keep the taxiing planes from banking steeply in turns and burying the inside wing under the tarmac, it doesn't seem to speed them up. None of my planes reach a high enough speed to retract the landing gear despite having speed limits in excess of the speeds needed to retract. Nothing like watching your 747 take off with the gear down and putter around the sky at a leisurely 40 mph!

 

[colourlight]

Here are a few ideas for you to pursue. Your aircraft only does 40 mph. 2 possible reasons. There is a "signal" ahead with a caution (yellow) aspect. The aircraft will fly at half the flight path speed. A lower speed limit ahead. There is a bug in 2010 in that if there is a lower speed limit somewhere ahead the train/aircraft will travel slower than it should under certain circumstances. No cure except remove or increase the offending speed limit Your aircraft won,t go to a trackmark because the fat controller won,t let it. Several possibilities. In your case it could be something like a signal, buffer stop or end of track/runway too close to the trackmark preventing the Aircraft stopping at the trackmark. Extending the invis track may solve it and moving anything else I mentioned further from the track mark. Another thing, but not in your case probably is the fat controller confused by several point switches in the route. As for can,t find a route I can,t think of anything that applies in your case. This is usually broken track or a direction marker. As an afterthought the end of any track must have a buffer stop or a signal. Try placing 2 invis signals close to each other so that one acts as a distant to the very last one.