✈️ ApronLife PRO — Ground Services & Real Schedule for AI Traffic

ApronLife PRO 1.5.0 · MSFS 2024 & MSFS 2020 · FSLTL or AIG · Beyond ATC, AIG Traffic Controller, SayIntentions, VATSIM (or similar) · GSX Pro optional

Your airport, running on its real schedule. ApronLife PRO brings the apron to life around AI traffic: GSX vehicles, passengers, ground crew and jet bridges serving every parked airliner. In PRO, each aircraft follows its real-world flight, so the turnaround ends at the real pushback time. You can follow everything from a departure board inside the simulator.

ApronLife PRO is a complete, standalone program. It includes everything from the free ApronLife plus the features below. You don't need the free version installed.

⭐ What PRO adds

1. 🕒 Real Schedule: every parked AI aircraft follows its real flight. ApronLife matches the callsign against a typical-week schedule of 1,500+ airports worldwide, built from real ADS-B flight data.
2. The turnaround is timed to finish at the real pushback.
3. An aircraft that just landed is serviced until the pushback of its next flight.
4. Aircraft that are not leaving soon stay quiet, with only the GPU, until their turnaround starts.
5. The schedule is downloaded and updated every week by itself; there is nothing to install.
6. Pick the schedule clock to match your traffic: real time (BeyondATC and similar) or sim time (AIG and similar).
7. You can turn the Real Schedule off at any time to go back to random turnarounds.
8. 🛫 AIG Traffic Controller flight plans: with AIGTC running, ApronLife PRO follows the flights in your own AIG flight plans. Each parked aircraft is matched by its registration, so ApronLife knows the exact flight it arrived on, its next flight and when it leaves.
9. 📋 Flights tab: lists the aircraft on the apron and the departures for the next 3 hours.
10. For each aircraft: callsign, type, stand, from/to, next flight, a pushback countdown and the status with a progress bar.
11. Times in UTC, airport local time or any UTC offset.
12. 🖥️ In-sim panel (MSFS 2024 and 2020): an ApronLife button on the simulator toolbar opens a panel styled like an airport departures board, with flap-tile callsigns.
13. Tabs: Flights, Departures, Control and Profiles.
14. ApronLife starts from that button, like GSX.
15. One-click modes: Light / Medium / Full, Everything / Bridges only / No people, and Bubble mode.
16. 🎬 Cinematic camera & Drone view: click any aircraft in the panel and the camera flies to it and slowly orbits it, like a film shot.
17. Drone view lets you fly the camera around the aircraft from the panel.
18. "Back to the cockpit" returns you to your aircraft.
19. MSFS 2020 doesn't allow the camera move, so there an amber arrow marks the aircraft instead.
20. 🌉 ApronLife jet bridges: the scenery jet bridges near you are replaced by ApronLife bridges that dock to AI aircraft. They turn, extend to the door, close the canopy and retract before pushback, and passengers walk through them as usual.
21. They don't come off the aircraft when you move the drone camera away and back, a well-known simulator bug with the default bridges, so nearly every gate stays docked for as long as it's needed.
22. Several models: light, dark, realistic (weathered) and a detailed "Modern apron" bridge with a telescopic column, an open cab and working wheels.
23. Advertising banners on the bridge sides: 8 fictional brands, or your own images.
24. Model, banner and on/off can be set per airport and per stand.
25. The bridge package installs itself in your Community folder.
26. Your own stand and iniBuilds multi-jetway gates keep the scenery bridge (GSX / Ctrl+J). The original bridges come back when ApronLife closes.
27. MSFS 2020: first version, in testing.
28. 🛠️ Profile Studio, airport profiles: an airport map with all its stands. It also works with the simulator closed, and any airport can be read straight from the sim without flying there. Per stand you choose:
29. the ApronLife jet bridge on or off, and which model;
30. buses, fuel truck or hydrant;
31. which services happen;
32. which installed vehicle serves each one.
33. ✈️ Profile Studio, aircraft profiles (by type: A20N, B738, B77W…):
34. Which services the aircraft gets, and the vehicle model for each one.
35. Where each vehicle parks (forward, outward, height, rotation).
36. Cargo door positions, and where the jet bridge meets the door.
37. Front, rear or both stairs at remote stands.
38. Which wing it refuels from (auto uses the left wing for the airlines that do it that way).
39. 🎛️ Live adjustment in the simulator: a test aircraft with all its vehicles appears behind yours, and every slider moves the real vehicle instantly, so you can fit each vehicle to the doors by eye.
40. ⚙️ Settings and performance per airport: each airport can have its own vehicle count, people, bridges, bubble mode and so on, loaded automatically when you arrive.
41. 🔁 Sharing: airport and aircraft profiles are exported and imported as files, like GSX profiles.
42. 🧭 SimBrief integration: reads your latest flight plan and shows the flight, origin, destination, alternate (with runways) and times. Shortcuts open the airport profiles before you fly. Authorized by Navigraph.
43. 🚌 Remote stands with two stairs: front and rear stairs with two buses at the same time, each stairs with its own passenger barrier lane.
44. 🔄 Automatic updates: when a new version is out, a button appears in the window and a notice in the in-sim panel. It shows what's new and installs itself.
45. 🌍 5 languages: English, Português, Español, Français and Deutsch, in the window, the guide and the in-sim panel.

🛬 Plus everything from ApronLife

1. Complete turnarounds for AI aircraft: GPU, fuel truck or hydrant dispenser, catering (the box rises to the door), lavatory and water trucks working like in GSX, belt loaders with baggage carts (the bags really move), and container loaders with LD3 dollies on widebodies. Vehicles and staff use the GSX liveries of each stand or airline.
2. AIG cargo doors: on the AIG models with animated holds, the hold opens smoothly when the loader arrives and closes when it leaves.
3. Remote stands: stairs, buses and passengers walking between them, with GSX passenger barriers.
4. Crew and cleaning in the right order: the crew leaves, cleaners board, the new crew boards, then the passengers.
5. Passengers inside the jet bridges, following your GSX paths when there are any.
6. Ground staff: wingwalkers, loadmaster, fueler, ramp agent, and marshallers with wands for arrivals and pushback. Pushback is done with a tug.
7. Apron inspection cars patrol the aprons near you.
8. Smart routing: vehicles plan their routes around aircraft, bridges, the terminal, other vehicles and people. They queue, give way and stop for taxiing aircraft.
9. Time of day and weather: quieter aprons at night, weather outfits, and de-icing in the cold.
10. Uses your GSX profiles: passenger paths, parking systems, hydrant or truck fuelling, "no bus" stands and handling liveries.
11. Performance controls: Light / Medium / Full presets, Bubble mode, and on/off switches for every feature.
12. Works automatically at the airport nearest to you: it starts after you land and pauses when you take off.

✅ Requirements

1. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or 2020 on Windows 10/11.
2. An AI traffic injector that parks airliners at gates: Beyond ATC, AIG Traffic Controller, SayIntentions, VATSIM traffic or similar. ApronLife does not create traffic; it serves the traffic that is already parked.
3. FSLTL or AIG models for the AI traffic.
4. GSX Pro (FSDreamTeam): optional, but recommended.
5. Without GSX, ApronLife uses the simulator's own vehicles and the jet bridges.
6. With GSX you also get stairs and buses at remote stands, passengers, ground crew, marshallers, baggage carts, container loaders, hydrant dispensers and the liveries from your GSX profiles.
7. Nothing from GSX is redistributed.
8. An internet connection for the license activation and the weekly schedule updates.

🔑 Installation & license

1. Run the ApronLife PRO setup (installs for your Windows user, no admin rights).
2. On the first start, enter the e-mail you want for your license (twice) and the license key you received with your purchase. The key is tied to that e-mail on the first activation, so check the e-mail carefully. If you typed it wrong, contact support.
3. Start MSFS, load a flight at an airport with traffic, and press Start, or use the ApronLife button on the simulator toolbar.
4. One-time purchase. Each license includes up to 3 activations. "Release this PC" frees one.
5. Works offline for up to 3 days after the last license check.
6. The Real Schedule and new versions are updated through the app.

⚠️ Good to know

1. The Real Schedule follows real-world flights. Small differences can show up between your traffic injector's schedule and what ApronLife expects. Aircraft without a matching flight keep the usual random turnaround.
2. AI aircraft passenger doors stay closed: FSLTL and AIG models have no animated passenger doors.
3. Only the airport nearest to you is served. Big hubs take a minute to fill up; use Bubble mode or the Light/Medium presets there.

🛠️ Support

💬 Discord: support, airport reports and news: https://discord.gg/8vpKv2RRg3

📧 Contact: apronlifeofficial@gmail.com

Real Schedule data: adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0), VRS standing data (CC0), OurAirports (public domain), ANAC Brasil (CC BY), U.S. DOT BTS (public domain), ANAC Argentina (CC BY 4.0). The schedule built from this data is published openly under the ODbL at apronlifepro.com/open-data. Jet bridge base model: "Jetway" by vishnevsky.yaroslav (CC BY 4.0), modified by ApronLife. ApronLife is an independent project, not affiliated with FSDreamTeam (GSX), FSLTL, AIG, Navigraph or Beyond ATC; it uses the models you have installed.