v1.5.6 ------ [EN] NEW - BeyondATC integration (official partner – Works with BeyondATC): with BeyondATC running, ApronLife follows BeyondATC's own schedule for BeyondATC's aircraft. Each turnaround ends right when the aircraft calls for its IFR clearance – doors closed, jet bridge retracted and ground crew clear just in time for the pushback – and an aircraft that has just landed already knows its next flight. The departures and arrivals in the Flights tab also come from BeyondATC. New "BeyondATC" card in the Flights tab (on by default); the rest of the traffic keeps the ApronLife schedule. IMPROVEMENTS - Updates now install by themselves: when ApronLife opens and a new version is available, it downloads it, installs it and opens again on the new version – no clicks needed. If ApronLife was opened by the simulator, it keeps working that way. - With BeyondATC Live Traffic: a parked aircraft taken over by a live flight that is already past its time now gets a normal turnaround (passengers, baggage) until it calls for clearance – before, it was shown at the end of boarding with nobody walking. - "Passengers walking at once" set to 0 now means no limit (before, 0 meant no walking passengers). - Busy airports (100+ aircraft): passengers near what you are looking at (the aircraft picked in the in-sim panel, the camera or your own aircraft) now appear first, and far away fewer walk at once. Before, at airports like KATL, the panel showed boarding in progress but the passengers appeared too late or not at all. - The aircraft you pick in the in-sim panel (cinematic or drone camera) always gets a busy jet bridge, even when the passenger limit is full. - With BeyondATC: when BeyondATC removes an aircraft, its vehicles leave right away; when BeyondATC restarts its traffic, the turnarounds wait for the aircraft to come back. - "Jet bridges" setting is now "Scenery jet bridges": with it off and ApronLife bridges on, only the ApronLife bridges dock (up to your limit) and the other stands are left as they are – lighter on big airports. With both off, ApronLife does not touch any jet bridge. - ApronLife jet bridges with a limit: all your ApronLife bridges now go to parked aircraft – first to aircraft with no jet bridge, then replacing the simulator's own bridge even if it is already docked. Bridges left at empty stands are moved to parked aircraft (before, at airports with overlapping stands like KATL, some stayed at empty stands). Scenery jet bridges still leave alone an aircraft whose simulator bridge is already docked. - With BeyondATC Live Traffic (or a BeyondATC aircraft with no departure time yet): the departure time is only an estimate, so the turnaround now finishes earlier – 25 min (35 on widebodies) – and the aircraft then waits for its clearance with the jet bridge and the GPU still connected. Many more aircraft now leave with the whole turnaround done. - Flights tab and in-sim panel: the "Ready" status is now "Awaiting clearance" (the aircraft is done and waiting to depart). - Flights tab, new look: BeyondATC is now a single button (Works with BeyondATC) – while BeyondATC is connected, the schedule follows the simulator clock, like BeyondATC itself, and the clock options are greyed out. The AIG folder moved to Settings. The session card got the ApronLife PRO look (also on the image you copy or save). - Flights tab: click any aircraft in the table to send the simulator camera to it (on MSFS 2020, the red arrow above it) – a "Back to the cockpit" button appears at the top. The table header and that button stay in place while you scroll, in the app and in the in-sim panel. - Flights tab and in-sim panel: click a column header to sort (click again to reverse, a third time for the default order). Aircraft with no schedule always go last, also in the default order. - Flights tab: new search box next to "Cinema mode" – type part of a callsign to show only the matching flights (on the apron, departures and arrivals); Esc clears it. - Flights tab and in-sim panel: the passengers % now counts the passengers who really walked on or off the aircraft (before, it followed the turnaround clock and could show 50% while the crew was still boarding). Before boarding starts it shows "crew boarding". - Airport board (new): a full-screen departures and arrivals board, like the screens in a real terminal – times, flight, destination, gate and status (Boarding, Final call, Gate closed, Departed, Delayed, Landed…). Opens from the Flights tab in your browser (great on a second monitor) and also on a tablet or phone on your network (network access in Settings, address + /fids). - With BeyondATC: the runway and SID BeyondATC gives each departure now show in the Flights tab, in the in-sim panel and on the airport board (e.g. "RWY 34R · LAXAS2"). - Ads per airport (ApronLife jet bridges, "Modern apron" models): in the airport profile (Studio) each airport can have its own ads folder, with as many images as you like – import them there (PNG, JPG or WEBP; best 2304 × 512) or drop them in the folder. At that airport the bridges show those images instead of the 8 from Settings, 8 at a time, changing every 10 minutes; pick an image on a stand to keep it there. Airports without a folder keep the 8 from Settings. - Jet bridge ads now change right away – no simulator restart needed (also for the 8 ads in Settings). - Jet bridge ads in Settings: your own images now keep a name – it starts as the file name and you can rename it ("Rename"). Before, every custom image showed as "your image", also in the airport profile. - Passengers: the bouncy "happy" walk is now rare (it showed up far too often). - Without GSX: a test character in everyday clothes no longer shows up as ramp agent (it was there by mistake – ApronLife's own ground crew is not out yet). - "Open with the simulator" now does what it says: off, ApronLife no longer opens with MSFS at all; on, it opens with MSFS and closes with it – and "Start the engine when ApronLife opens" decides whether the services start right away or wait for Start / the ApronLife button in the sim toolbar. Nothing changes for you after updating: if ApronLife already opened with MSFS, the option is now simply turned on. - "GSX vehicles only": the patrol cars now keep driving around the airport (GSX has no patrol cars, so before there were none at all). - If ApronLife can't reach the license server when it opens (a short internet hiccup, for example), it now shows "Connecting to the ApronLife server…" and keeps trying by itself for up to 5 minutes – no need to do anything, it opens as soon as it connects. Before, it went straight to the activation screen. Activating also tries again a couple of times before showing an error. - With BeyondATC connected (MSFS 2024): the scenery jet bridges are left to BeyondATC, which operates them itself – ApronLife only uses its own ApronLife bridges (if turned on), even with "Scenery jet bridges" on. - Remote stands, redone buses: each bus comes in along an outer lane – clear of the wingtips and of the bus already parked at the other stairs – makes one smooth curve and drives the last metres straight into its spot, without circling, spinning or crossing the passenger rope lines. It leaves straight ahead and turns out; at the rear stairs, where the wing is ahead, it first backs up a few metres. The buses of an aircraft now take turns instead of getting in each other's way, and a bus waits for people to step aside instead of driving round the aircraft. - Remote stands, a tidier apron: when boarding is over the stairs back away and leave once the buses have gone (before, they parked in the buses' lane), and the wingwalkers waiting for an AI pushback only come out after the buses and stairs have left, just inside the wingtip. - Stairs turned in the aircraft profile: passengers now walk along the stairs as turned (before they kept the straight path and walked through the steps). - With BeyondATC: the pushback tug is now left to BeyondATC too, like the jet bridges – ApronLife no longer sends its own tug to BeyondATC's aircraft. - Ready-made aircraft profiles: ApronLife now comes with tuned service positions for 12 common types (A320, A20N, A321, A21N, 737, B738, 777, B77L, A359, B788, B789, B78X) – stairs, catering, belt loaders, fuel, water and more line up better with the doors out of the box. Your own aircraft profiles are kept: whatever you adjusted stays yours, and the rest comes from the ready-made profile. Deleting a profile in the Studio brings back the ready-made one. FIXES - ApronLife could stop by itself after a few minutes at stands without a GSX passenger path when "Default jet bridge path" was turned off (1.5.4). - On the first start of the day the window could stay on the activation screen even though the license had already been confirmed – clicking Activate gave an error until ApronLife was reopened (1.5.5). - Remote stands: A320 and 737 family aircraft now always get the front and the rear stairs (each with its own bus), as intended – some AI models made ApronLife think they were smaller and they got only the front stairs. You can still choose one stair per aircraft type in the aircraft profile. - Passengers could stop at the bus door or at the foot of the stairs and stay there frozen until the end of the turnaround – two of them were waiting for each other. - Some AI models (AIG A320/A321/737, for example) report a much smaller wingspan than the real one: ApronLife now uses the real size of the type (also for AI E-Jets that only report "E195"), so vehicles and buses keep clear of the wings. - Starting at big airports with many heliports nearby (KLAX, for example): ApronLife could take a long time to start the ground services and, a couple of minutes later, restart them as if you had changed airport. It now goes straight to the airport you are at. - Aircraft profile (Studio): adjusting the front stairs also moved the rear stairs. Each stair now keeps its own adjustment – profiles you saved before stay exactly where you left them.

v1.5.4 ------ [EN] NEW - ApronLife passengers – NO GSX NEEDED (MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020): ApronLife now has its own passengers. You no longer need GSX to see people walking to and from the aircraft through the jet bridges. Dozens of different people (ages, builds, outfits): texting with the phone in both hands, carrying briefcases and shopping bags, pulling rolling suitcases (lifted by the handle on the stairs) and wearing backpacks. They keep what they are doing on the stairs and queue without walking through each other. With GSX installed you choose in Settings → People → "Passengers": ApronLife, Mixed (ApronLife + GSX) or GSX – and they also use the GSX stairs and buses at remote stands. Coming soon: our own drivers and crew. The people package (about 1 GB) is downloaded by ApronLife once, in the background, the first time you open 1.5.4 with your PRO license – the log shows the progress, and if the download stops it continues from where it stopped. Until it finishes the passengers come from GSX. When it is ready ApronLife installs it in the Community folder; restart the simulator once. - Closed baggage carts (GSX): baggage trains now also use the GSX closed cart with side curtains – about half of the trains, and all of them in rain or snow. The curtain opens only on the cart the belt loader is working on, and closes again when he moves to the next one. In the Studio (airport or aircraft profile → Vehicles → "Baggage cart") you can fix open or closed carts instead of the automatic mix. - Ground crew waiting at the stand: when an arriving aircraft turns into its stand, two ground crew are already standing by in front of the stop line, next to the marshaller, and stay until the aircraft is parked and the turnaround crew takes over. Works with any traffic (BeyondATC, FSLTL, AIG, VATSIM). IMPROVEMENTS - Jet bridges carry the whole flight: the number of passengers now matches the aircraft (a 737 MAX 8 sends about 130–190 through the bridge, not a few dozen), and the aircraft you are watching up close always has a busy bridge. - Much fewer stutters when the airport fills up: vehicles and people now appear and disappear spread over time, instead of dozens in the same instant. In our test at a busy EGLL (same scene, measured against the previous behaviour several times): the 0.1% low FPS went up about 45% and the longest stutters became about 2.5 times shorter (worst frame ≈375 ms → ≈145 ms), with the same average FPS. - Container loaders, smooth now: the containers and the loader platform are updated 4 times more often (40 instead of 10 times per second) and glide like the rest of the vehicles, instead of moving in small steps. - ApronLife now remembers, for each airport, the stands where the simulator's jet bridge never works (the bridge cannot reach the door, or the simulator never lets the bridge dock there). On your next visits, aircraft at those stands get stairs right away instead of waiting for a bridge that will not come. Every 4th visit to an airport, ApronLife reads the airport again from the simulator (in case the scenery changed) and learns the bridges again – nothing to set up. - No connection to the ApronLife server: if a firewall, antivirus or the internet blocks ApronLife, a red notice now shows in the bottom bar (hover for what to allow; click to test again) and the log says so – before, the update check failed silently and new versions were never announced. The license screen messages also mention firewalls. ApronLife retries every 10 minutes. - Free trial: when the trial cannot start on this PC (virtual machine, PC without hardware identification, no connection), ApronLife tells the license server why – only the reason and the version, no e-mail – so these cases can be fixed. - New License tab: your PRO license and the real schedule package now have their own page. The Flights tab got a clearer schedule setup: two cards to pick the clock by your traffic (real time for BeyondATC, FSLTL and live traffic; simulator time for AIG and other custom schedules), and a compact AIG folder line. The Cinema mode button has a new look. - Phone and tablet: the ApronLife window opened from another device ("Access from the network") now fits small screens — the side menu becomes a row of icons under the title, the counters sit in two columns and the tables scroll sideways. - Jet bridges already docked by another program: if ApronLife detects that a jet bridge was already connected to an aircraft by another system, it no longer interferes with it and sends the passengers through that bridge. FIXES - MSFS 2024 with BeyondATC (simulator's own aircraft models): the aircraft type was not recognised, so a 787 or 777 could get the services of a narrowbody. The type is now read correctly in MSFS 2024 as well. - The belt loader and the container loader sometimes drove over the baggage tug and its carts. They now always arrive first; the baggage train comes after they are in place at the hold. - The rear belt loader sometimes arrived with the fuel truck already under the wing and slid sideways into its spot. Now, when refuelling is on the right wing, the fuel truck comes first: belt loaders, baggage trains and catering arrive after it has left, taking turns where they don't fit together. - At a stand whose jet bridge cannot reach the door, the next aircraft now gets stairs right away. The list of those stands was also carried over to the next airport in the same session (wrong stands) – it is now per airport. - 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. - In-sim panel: the stand now shows its full name, like the Flights tab (B35, D41), instead of only the number. - Flights tab: the note "≈ = estimated time; ~ = derived from the route" showed in Portuguese with the window in another language when there were no flights yet. - 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. - VATSIM / IVAO: the Real Schedule is no longer applied to online aircraft – they are flown by real pilots, with their own times, so their turnaround is no longer stretched or squeezed to match a real-world flight. - Flights tab and in-sim panel: during deboarding, the passenger percentage now counts down (passengers still on board), like boarding counts up. - ApronLife jet bridges: when the simulator could not load them (for example right after installing, before restarting MSFS), aircraft far from you got a jet bridge that docked and retracted in the same second. Now only aircraft within the jet bridge range get one. - ApronLife jet bridges: the messages shown when the bridges can't be used now say what to do (restart MSFS once, or reinstall ApronLife PRO with the latest installer). Running ApronLife PRO from the old folder of versions 1.5.0–1.5.1, which has no ApronLife bridges, is now reported in the log.

v1.5.1 ------ [EN] NEW - Settings → General: new "Access from other devices on my network (iPad, phone)", off by default. Open the ApronLife window on a tablet or phone on the same Wi-Fi: scan the QR code or type the address shown, then the access code (requested by a user). Windows may ask once to allow ApronLife on private networks. IMPROVEMENTS - No more donation buttons in PRO – only the Discord button (and a short thank-you in the "What's new" window). - Performance tab: the old "Forward belt loader" switch is gone. In PRO the front belt loader / container loader is chosen per aircraft type in the Profile Studio (aircraft profile → Belt loaders / container loaders: Automatic, Rear only, Front and rear), with its own tug and carts; Automatic = widebodies get both, other aircraft only the rear one. - The ApronLife window now remembers its size: resize it once and it opens with that size next time (requested by a user). FIXES - AIG aircraft are now recognized by their exact type (737-800, A330-200, 777-300ER, 737 MAX 8…): AIG names its models by variant, so they were read as "B737" or "A330" – the Profile Studio's "Adjust live in the simulator" said there was no model of that type at the airport, and AIG aircraft used the profile and door positions of the wrong variant. - Antivirus alerts when ApronLife goes to the background (reported with Kaspersky, "PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic"): the tray icon and the folder and file pickers no longer start PowerShell with an encoded command, a pattern that some antivirus programs flag. Settings → General: new "Tray icon (next to the clock)", on by default – turn it off and ApronLife keeps running in the background without any tray icon (open the window again from the Start menu).