A work-in-progress GSX profile for PHNL Daniel K. Inouye / Honolulu International Airport by LimaJuliet
The scenery can be found here: https://flightsim.to/file/49601/phnl-daniel-k-inouye-international-airport-honolulu
I highly recommend the scenery, it's excellent!
Please note:
- This is NOT meant to be reflective of real-world procedures at PHNL. I only started working on this profile because I noticed that the default GSX positioning was quite off for ground vehicle positions and the marshallers, while the scenery itself is great otherwise.
- All I am trying to do is make the airport more useable for myself and other GSX users, particularly those using larger aeroplanes.
- As such, I've often taken the simplest path to fixing issues, so this will not match the real-world setup of PHNL.
- Heavy gates have been customised with the Headwind A330-900neo, while medium gates have been customised with the LatinVFR A321neo.
What's included:
- Stands that have been customised so far:
- Terminal 1
- All A stands (apart from A16 which is not modelled)
- All B stands (B3 is not modelled)
- Operator has been set to Hawaiian Airlines for all Terminal 1 stands
- Terminal 2
- The scenery provides almost no heavy gates, so I've amended some gates that looked to have enough space to count as heavy instead of medium (and some smalls to mediums).
- Pushbacks (including pushing back from C1 onto taxiway Zulu)
- Cleaned up ground vehicle placements so that they don't clip into the terminal building or the scenery clutter
- Changed pushback tugs to towbarless on stands which do not have space for towbar tugs
- Custom gate passengers and walkers where possible
Limitations and issues:
- On the A gates that have a visible terminal interior, for some reason the passengers do not show up, I'm not sure why
- I've replaced the marshallers in most of the C stands and B5 with VDGS setups instead, as there's no good place to position the marshallers to be visible properly.
- Qutie a few of the heavy and medium gates bleed onto neighbouring gates which may cause issues with AI aircraft, particularly with Terminal 1.
- Gates A1 & A2 have ground elevation issues that cause GSX to terminate pushback when attempting a reasonable pushback procedure, so had to do a janky workaround.
- Some stands are not modelled in the scenery.
- I've noticed that sometimes GSX bugs out for me when specifying one type of pushback tug to be used at a stand, let me know if you experience similar issues.
- I've also noticed that sometimes the stop position I save gets reset somehow, it's something I'll have to look into when I have the time to do another pass-through.
Installation:
You can extract the 'phnl-ez7wew.ini' file to: 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\virtuali\GSX\MSFS'
OR
I would highly recommend Elevate Solution's 'Drag&Drop Installer for GSX Pro Profiles' on this site that can be found here.
Moving forward:
This is the first time I've systematically tried to work on a GSX profile, and as this is just something I will work on in my free time and when I can, progress will likely be slow.
If there are any issues with the profile in terms of functionality, let me know and I'll fix it when I can. If you have feedback regarding making the procedures align more with the real world, please only let me know if they're straightforward changes (and provide reference information if possible, I have no personal experience with PHNL). As I said earlier, this is something I'm doing for usability only, I have limited time, and I'm not particularly experienced with GSX, so anything above and beyond isn't in my interests right now. Thank you for your understanding.
Nickf123
Skybreaker author
4 months ago