"alternate stands" support

[iFlyCZ]

Hi!

Recently I started experimenting with SAM jetways at my local airport conversion project, and I stumbed across a feature that might not be that hard to implement, even though it would be in slight confilict with the "maintain docking position" jetway feature. I'm talking about a thing we have, called alternate stands. you basicaly have a 2-jetway heavy stand, but it doesn't get occupied by heavies all the time, so you basicaly "split" the stand in half.

In my example, we have stand 24. When not occupied by heavies, it's divided to stands 24A and 24B. Jetway 1 is connecting to stand 24A, jetway 2 to 24B. And when a heavy comes, it parks on 24, and jetway 2 connects to door LF1, and jetway 1 to LF2, as you can see on the images.

My idea was, that the jetway assignment could be OPTIONALY controlled by the state of safegate, or just the position of the aircraft itself.

example:

OK, the airplane's nosegear is around (set stop point for stand 24B) - for this position, activate jetway with ID 2 to connect to LF1

OK, the airplane's nosegear is around (set stop point for stand 24A) - for this position, activate jetway with ID 1 to connect to LF1

OK, the airplane's nosegear is around (set stop point for stand 24) - for this position, activate jetway with ID 2 to connect to LF1 and jetway with ID 1 to connect to LF2

[Marten@Stairport]

This is some kind of the reversed situation like here: 

So to keep things short: We won't put in any feature which will increase the complexity of either the jetway logic or the integration process until people got used to the current workflow. Your case would require pretty much the same, more complex logic stated in the other topic so nothing for a quick update.