On the Doors tab, the doors are grouped into Upper Deck Passenger doors, Passenger doors, Cargo doors and Service doors.
- To add a door, move the cursor over the type you wish to add and click New.
- Enter a Name for the door. The convention for passenger doors is to number them from front to back and prefixed with an ‘L’ for port (left) doors and an ‘R’ for starboard (right) doors. So port doors would be numbered L1, L2…..Ln.
- Enter the X Offset & Y Offset of the door relative to the Reference Datum. X ordinates increase towards the back of the aircraft and the Y ordinates are positive to the right of the centerline and negative to the left.
- Enter a Bearing for the door in degrees relative to the spine of the aircraft. Zero is due East.
- To delete a door, highlight it and click Delete.
- If you add a door to the wrong type, simply select the correct Type from the drop down list and the door moves.
To add a copy of a door at a different height
- Highlight the door and click New.
- Enter the Height of the door. All the other details are copied automatically from the parent.
- Finally, to omit selected door heights from boarding bridge slope calculations simply tick Ignore in slope calculations.
- To delete a door height, highlight it and click Delete.