Portal

[valbridge]

Having just created a custom airport [Gatwick] for the route I am building wanted to know if there was such a thing as an invisible portal for producing aircraft mid air. If not does anyone have suggestions on seeding aircraft aloft as opposed to on ground.

Cheers,
Val.

 

[Kennilworth]

Hi Val

Try the Un-Portal rule "kuid2:117746:1024:10" by author "sforget" and on the DLS which allows you to use a trackmark as a portal. You can have a number of un-portals on a route but they are limited to emitting a total of 99 consists and each portal will only produce its portion of emissions i.e. 1 portal can produce 99 consists, 2 portals can produce 50 each, 4 portals can produce 25 each etc.

Regards

Brian

 

[stagecoach]

The trick with aircraft is to add baseboards (5 or 6 ) out from the landing runway. Delete the 5th board so the 6th one is alone. Raise the ground on the last board about 200 and place aircraft and portals (there is an invisible portal). Place the track in one section from the edge of last baseboard to your main route. Delete all baseboards in-between the last one and your route. This gives a better view of an approaching aircraft.

 

[valbridge]

Many thanks, two good suggestions from a couple of whiz kids. All working to order and performing as I wanted, interestingly I had not before used unportal Brian. Now I see the benefit. Who would've thought airports could be so complex when introducing both International and Domestic terminals at the same airport.
Cheers,
Val.

 

[stagecoach]

I did Heathrow which has landing and take off on both runways. Most of it is automatic, as the plane enters the holding area I let TM's do the rest of the work. The plane might come down on either runway depending on how trainz diverted it. Also got emergency landing and as soon as a plane goes down that route, fire engines, Ambulance and coaches depart as a safety measure. I am at present adding the proposed third runway in the North East corner. The use of ATLS allows planes to wait for take off until the approach is clear.

 

[valbridge]

I did Heathrow which has landing and take off on both runways. Most of it is automatic, as the plane enters the holding area I let TM's do the rest of the work. The plane might come down on either runway depending on how trainz diverted it. Also got emergency landing and as soon as a plane goes down that route, fire engines, Ambulance and coaches depart as a safety measure. I am at present adding the proposed third runway in the North East corner. The use of ATLS allows planes to wait for take off until the approach is clear.

Kind of a similar approach with Gatwick. It'll not be authentic. Using one main runway for takeoff and landing. One terminal for Domestic flights the other for International. Using much of Vulcan's modules which initially confused me and took several hours to master. Have included baggage drop-off points which connect to the terminal thus making the loading/unloading of passengers and baggage interesting. Really like your idea behind emergency vehicles, although I have no clue how to do that. Frustrates me looking at the track layout for flight paths on the ground and not liking how it looks but not seeming to have a better layout idea. All in all it'll pass the test. All I have to do now is test it for 'workability'. No doubt that'll take a few goes.