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New: ground vehicles on the Kai Tak apron

Buses, catering trucks, baggage trains, freight trucks and a fire station now work around the parked aircraft.

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A bus and a catering truck with its box raised at the front door of a parked 747.
A bus and a catering truck at a stand.

The apron is no longer empty. Vehicles now serve the six parked aircraft, and a fire station and cargo shed stand beside the runway.

What is new

  • Buses pull up to the front door and wait, then drive back to the depot.
  • Catering trucks drive to the stand and lift their box up to the door.
  • Baggage tractors tow three loaded carts under the wing.
  • Container and box freight trucks loop around the cargo shed, and a lorry shuttles along the service road.
  • The fire station holds crash tenders and a rescue vehicle. One tender drives out to a standby point and back.
  • At night the vehicles show headlights, tail lamps and beacons.
A bus and a catering truck at the front door of a parked 747.
A bus and a catering truck at the front door of a parked 747.
A baggage tractor towing three loaded carts under the wing of a parked aircraft.
A baggage tractor towing three loaded carts under the wing of a parked aircraft.
Container trucks beside the cargo shed.
Container trucks beside the cargo shed.
Fire tenders and a rescue vehicle outside the fire station.
Fire tenders and a rescue vehicle outside the fire station.
The apron at night with tail lamps and beacons lit.
The apron at night with tail lamps and beacons lit.

What did not change

  • The vehicles run on the sim clock, so rewind and fast-forward still work.
  • The autopilot still lands in every weather preset, and flying with no input still ends in a crash.

停機坪而家唔再空蕩蕩。地勤車輛會服務六架停泊嘅飛機，跑道旁邊亦有消防局同貨倉。

有咩新嘢

  • 巴士會駛到前門等候，然後返車廠。
  • 餐飲車駛到停機位，將車箱升起到機門。
  • 行李拖車喺機翼下面拖住三架載滿行李嘅車。
  • 貨櫃車同箱式貨車喺貨倉周圍行駛，另有一部貨車喺服務道路來回。
  • 消防局有消防車同救援車，其中一部會駛去候命位置再返嚟。
  • 夜晚車輛會亮起車頭燈、尾燈同閃燈。
一架停泊嘅 747 前門旁邊有巴士同餐飲車。
一架停泊嘅 747 前門旁邊有巴士同餐飲車。
一部行李拖車拖住三架載滿行李嘅車，喺停泊飛機嘅機翼下面。
一部行李拖車拖住三架載滿行李嘅車，喺停泊飛機嘅機翼下面。
貨倉旁邊嘅貨櫃車。
貨倉旁邊嘅貨櫃車。
消防局外面嘅消防車同救援車。
消防局外面嘅消防車同救援車。
夜晚嘅停機坪，尾燈同閃燈亮起。
夜晚嘅停機坪，尾燈同閃燈亮起。

冇改嘅嘢

  • 車輛跟模擬時鐘行動，所以倒帶同快進仍然有效。
  • 自動駕駛仍然可以喺所有天氣設定下降落，完全唔操作仍然會墜毀。

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