Enhanced Ground Operations and ChartFox Integration for Greater Immersion

[JJChicken22]

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Hello FlyByWire team,

Thank you for your incredible work on the A320NX — it’s truly one of the best community aircraft mods available!

I’d like to suggest a set of immersive features that could significantly enhance ground operations and the overall flying experience:

ChartFox integration into the EFB, similar to Navigraph, allowing seamless in-cockpit access to charts.
Pushback tug with pre-planned route drawing, so pilots can set the taxi path ahead and focus on engine startup and systems.
Ground crew animations during pushback and gate operations, including:
Two workers walking alongside the wings.
A worker inserting and removing the bypass pin while walking with the radio cord.
Communication from ground crew via audio cues (e.g., “Bypass pin inserted,” “Parking brake set”).
More realistic ground personnel animations for baggage handling, catering trucks, and external power connections.
Marshalls guiding the aircraft into the gate with wands and hand signals after landing.
Service vehicles with liveries matching the selected airline, with options for several common liveries on ground equipment.
Passengers boarding and deboarding via jet bridge or bus, with accompanying sounds and visible animations in the background.
Fix the delayed rudder response for more realistic handling.
These improvements would add incredible realism and immersion to the flight experience, making pre-flight, pushback, and gate arrival phases more engaging and lifelike.
Thank you for considering these suggestions, and for all your hard work!

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JJChicken

[TazerXI]

Chartfox has already been discussed before: #5768. Although Chartfox has an API, from what I can gather there were issues with it that haven't been resolved.

For the other suggestions, it sounds like you want to recreate GSX, but for this specific aircraft. I cannot speak for the developers (I just tend to lurk here a lot), but considering GSX is paid, and the free version of toolbar pushback deprecated and is now paid, I imagine it would be beyond the scope of this aircraft. At the very least, if something like this were to be implemented, I'd personally rather see it as a separate project that could be used across multiple aircraft, rather than a feature for FBW aircraft.

If you want to try the free version of toolbar pushback, go ahead. However it isn't officially supported with FBW aircraft, and I've had some issues more recently with it, such as spinning around when doing pre planned pushbacks. The EFB works better.