✈️ ApronLife — Ground Services for AI Traffic

ApronLife version 1.4.11 · MSFS 2024 & MSFS 2020 · FSLTL or AIG · Beyond ATC, SayIntentions, VATSIM (or similar) · GSX Pro optional

🚀 NEW: ApronLife PRO is out!

Everything in ApronLife, plus everything we wanted next: real flight schedules (every parked AI aircraft follows its real flight time), ApronLife jet bridges that never disconnect and can show your own images (MSFS 2024), two baggage belt loaders synchronized with fuel and catering, a profile Studio with live adjustment and import/export, SimBrief integration, per-airport performance settings loaded automatically, an in-sim panel, automatic updates and much more.

🛒 Get ApronLife PRO on the flightsim.to Store: flightsim.to/store/product/apron-life-pro
🌐 Website: apronlifepro.com · 🎬 Watch the trailer

This free ApronLife stays free and keeps getting compatibility and stability updates.

🆕 Latest update – v1.4.10

• Fewer antivirus alerts: going to the background (tray icon) and the folder pickers no longer start PowerShell with an encoded command, which some antivirus programs (Kaspersky) flagged. New option Settings → General → "Tray icon".
• Baggage tugs no longer get stuck sideways next to the aircraft after the service.
• A short window after "What's new" presents ApronLife PRO.

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

1. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or 2020.
2. 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.
3. FSLTL or AIG models.
4. 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.
5. Windows 10/11.

📦 Installation

• ApronLife-x.y.z-setup.exe (recommended) – no admin rights; updating is just running the next setup (your settings are kept).
• -exe.zip – a single ApronLife.exe. -portable.zip – use it if your antivirus blocks the .exe (start with ApronLife.cmd).

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: discord.gg/8vpKv2RRg3 · 📧 apronlifeofficial@gmail.com

ApronLife is an independent project, not affiliated with FSDreamTeam (GSX), FSLTL, AIG or Beyond ATC. It uses the models you have installed.

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