Andersen AFB - can't place large aircraft in parking spots 150 - 159

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

 

I noticed that large aircraft (namely KC-135s) cannot be spawned in parking spots 150 - 159 at Andersen AFB, found on the ramp just to the north of runway 06L.

 

This is contrary to satellite photos of Andersen which show KC-135s parked there, and in DCS there's plenty of clearance between adjacent KC-135s (over a whole aircraft width between wingtip to wingtip).

 

 

As you can see, I'm at the bottom of the list of available parking spaces, 149 is the last one available and 150 - 159 do not appear.

 

Static KC-135s parked in parking spots 157 - 159, clearly showing that there's plenty of space (I can place another KC-135 in between 2 adjacent KC-135s, and still have room to spare):

 

 

And finally a satellite image showing KC-135s parked in the same area:

 

 

This also goes for the B-1B, B-52H, C-17 and C-130, all 4 easily fit in the same parking areas, with room to spare, it's only the B-52s that would run into issues taxiing past each other.

 

Obviously the best solution would be for a start from ground option for AI aircraft, and have the AI pathfind an appropriate route to the active runway (maybe it would also be useful if we could define runways for things like road bases), even if we have to define the route for them with a taxi waypoint or something, then if we couple that with optional unit placement restrictions (instead of enforced), and then all parking issues would be resolved forever.

 

Here a camera position overlooking the 2 ramps: -camera 10.453970 0.336106 12.896755 -cameradir 0.874645 -0.394899 0.281160

 

Incidentally next to parking spot 137 there's an erroneous TACAN antenna, IRL this is actually an ILS glideslope antenna (-camera 10.691929 0.177060 13.149259 -cameradir 0.699083 -0.412004 -0.584411).

Edited October 5, 2021 by Northstar98