Description
✈️ ApronLife — Ground Services for AI Traffic
ApronLife version 1.4.12 · MSFS 2024 & MSFS 2020 · FSLTL or AIG · BeyondATC, SayIntentions, VATSIM (or similar) · GSX Pro optional
🇬🇧 English below · 🇧🇷 Português mais abaixo
⭐ Meet ApronLife PRO — now an official BeyondATC partner
Everything in ApronLife, plus: BeyondATC integration (each turnaround ends right when the aircraft calls for its IFR clearance), real flight schedules for every parked AI aircraft, its own passengers – no GSX needed, ApronLife jet bridges that never disconnect (MSFS 2024), a full-screen airport departures board, a profile Studio, an in-sim panel, cinema mode, automatic updates and much more.
🛒 Get ApronLife PRO on the flightsim.to Store: flightsim.to/store/product/apron-life-pro
🌐 Website: apronlifepro.com · 🎬 ApronLife PRO × BeyondATC · Trailer
This free ApronLife stays free.
🇬🇧 English
🆕 Latest update – v1.4.12
- Smoother buses at remote stands: they come in along an outer lane clear of the wingtips, turn around the rear axle like a real bus, drive straight into their spot and leave straight ahead – no more circling or crossing the passenger rope lines.
- Tidier apron: the stairs leave once the buses have gone, and the wingwalkers only come out after them.
- Vehicles keep clear of the wings of AI models that report a too-small wingspan (AIG A320/A321/737 and E-Jets).
- Pushback tug now waits up to 20 minutes for the aircraft to push back.
- VATSIM / IVAO: an aircraft already at the gate when ApronLife starts begins with boarding, not deboarding.
- The ApronLife window no longer turns into a browser tab after a slow start; GSX Interactive aircraft get a second jet bridge try even when near you.
Full history: see the Changelog tab on this page.
🛬 What you will see
- Complete turnarounds for AI aircraft: GPU, fuel truck or hydrant dispenser, catering, lavatory and water trucks, belt loader and baggage tug with carts, container loaders on widebodies – in the GSX liveries of each stand or airline.
- Remote stands: stairs, buses and passengers walking between bus and aircraft.
- Jet bridges for AI traffic, with passengers walking inside once docked.
- Crew, cleaning and ground staff: pilots and cabin crew, cleaning team, wingwalkers, loadmaster, fueler, marshallers with wands at arrival and pushback, pushback tug.
- A living apron: every aircraft in a different phase, arrivals served within seconds, departures with beacon on, ops cars, de-icing in cold weather, quieter aprons at night.
- Vehicles drive on the service roads and plan their route around aircraft, jet bridges, vehicles and people.
✅ Requirements
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or 2020.
- An AI traffic injector that parks airliners at gates – Beyond ATC, SayIntentions, VATSIM, AIG or similar. ApronLife does not create traffic; it serves the traffic that is already parked.
- FSLTL or AIG models.
- GSX Pro – optional but recommended: without it you get the simulator's own vehicles; with it, also people, stairs, buses, baggage carts, container loaders and liveries.
- Windows 10/11.
📦 Installation
- ApronLife-setup.exe (recommended) – no admin rights; updating is just running the next setup (your settings are kept).
Start MSFS, load a flight at an airport with traffic, open ApronLife and press Start. Restart MSFS once after the first install (jet bridge helper package).
⚡ Performance tips
- In MSFS, Options → General → Traffic: set Airport Vehicle Density and Worker Density to 0.
- Use Bubble mode or the Light / Medium preset at big hubs.
⚠️ Known limitations
- Jet bridges depend on the scenery, and MSFS itself may undock a bridge when it is out of view or under heavy load – ApronLife re-docks it. (ApronLife PRO jet bridges in MSFS 2024 don't have this problem.)
- Jet bridges dock to an invisible helper aircraft that other traffic tools may list.
- AI aircraft doors stay closed (FSLTL and AIG models have no animated passenger doors).
🛠️ Support
Log tab → Create support package and send the zip with the airport and what happened.
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/dw3rzRc5xG · 📧 apronlifeofficial@gmail.com
ApronLife is an independent project, not affiliated with FSDreamTeam (GSX), FSLTL or AIG. It uses the models you have installed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Apron Life - Ground Service for AI Traffic
ApronLife is a free desktop tool for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 that brings airports to life: parked AI aircraft get full animated turnarounds with service vehicles, jet bridges, ground crew, cabin crew and passengers. Freighters get cargo turnarounds, widebodies get container loaders, and everything starts automatically at the airport you are at. Built for performance, with Bubble mode, lightweight jet bridges and settings for every PC. Works with Beyond ATC, SayIntentions, VATSIM and other traffic, using FSLTL or AIG aircraft models. GSX Pro is optional, but needed for people, stairs and buses.
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Version History
v1.4.12 ------- [EN] IMPROVEMENTS - Remote stands, smoother buses: each bus comes in along an outer lane, clear of the wingtips, makes one smooth curve and drives the last metres straight into its spot, without circling or crossing the passenger rope lines. It turns around its rear axle like a real bus, backs up a few metres when it ends up crooked, and leaves straight ahead before turning out. The next bus waits until the previous one has left. - Remote stands, a tidier apron: when boarding is over the stairs back away and leave once the buses have gone, and the wingwalkers waiting for an AI pushback only come out after the buses and stairs have left. FIXES - Some AI models (AIG A320/A321/737 and E-Jets, for example) report a much smaller wingspan than the real one: ApronLife now uses the real size of the type, so vehicles and buses keep clear of the wings. - GSX Interactive aircraft at a gate with the simulator's jet bridges: when the first try did not dock the bridge, the second try now also works for aircraft near you. - Pushback tug leaving before the pushback: when an aircraft turned its beacon on long before pushing back, the tug left after 5 minutes and the aircraft pushed back on its own. The tug now waits up to 20 minutes. - The ApronLife window kept opening as a browser tab instead of its own window after one slow start of Edge (for example while the simulator was loading). ApronLife now waits up to 30 s, only skips a browser after it fails twice in a row, and tries it again after 7 days. - VATSIM / IVAO (vPilot, xPilot, swift, Altitude running): an aircraft already parked when ApronLife starts is a pilot who connected at the gate and is about to leave – it now starts its turnaround at boarding and loading, instead of deboarding with the passenger count going up. An aircraft that taxis in after landing still gets the full turnaround, starting with deboarding. Online aircraft also no longer stand idle at the start waiting for their turn.
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