737 Ground Handling Switcher | v1.2.2
NOTE: I have discontinued development of GHS upon release of Umberto's excellent GSX addon.
I know you guys were expecting more- I was too. all donations have been returned. Thank you deeply and sincerely for your unending support and I'll see you over on the next product I create.
Tired of boring old PMDG-branded ground handling?
permanent discord link: https://discord.gg/SEfY9BbrAV
Using this lightweight program, you can quickly switch between airline ground handling liveries (baggage carts, baggage loaders, and tractors for now) of twelve worldwide 737-700 operators! Fictional operators will be coming soon!
Installation is easy: download, unzip the folder where you like it, and run GroundHandlingSwitcher.exe whenever you want to switch airlines!
Join the discord if you have problems with liveries - we are testing with multiple awesome users to fix unforeseen issues right now, we can work on yours too!
A small number of users have persistent issues with pink and black squared textures. If you are one of them, download the repair pack and drag the Community folder contained within onto your Community folder to reset to PMDG liveries. I hope to have this fixed soon but it is difficult to track down. You can also repair your 737 install with the PMDG installer.
Features
- One-click, fast switching of airline ground handling liveries
- Real-world designs and advertisements where possible
- 12 airlines with a community-driven list
- Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, WestJet, Qantas Airways, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Ryanair, easyJet, TUI fly, Turkish Airlines, GOL Transportes Aéreos
- Clean, informative, and responsive UI with persistent settings
- Liveries are stored in space-saving formats and converted at install-time to save space
- Supports Microsoft Store game edition (Steam users please use the custom dir option!)
- ~240MB pre-packaged .exe download (20MB per airline, main file using compression)
- No compression (NC) edition is now offered for big hard drives or issues with nvcompress
- Portable file, no install. Will work on any PC with .NET.
- Constantly updated. Be sure to subscribe and check back and see if the next update is out yet.
Road to 1.3 (release: expected before 15 July 2022)
sorry for the delay. I initially expected to have this out roughly a week ago but I have been searching for a job which has taken up all of my free time between applications and interviews. Job market is rough right now in IT.
new airlines are final!
- adding community requested airlines: FDB (FlyDubai), EXS (Jet2), AAA (Ansett), AFR (Air France), AAL (American Airlines)
- adding airlines from PMDG 3.0 update fictional liveries: KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), ACA (Air Canada), BAW (British Airways), NKS (Spirit Airlines)
- custom liveries support with basic tools to make it easy to create and save your favorite airlines
- separate U.S. and EU non-airline ground services replacement (cleaning, catering, plus generic sets for loaders, carts, and tractors)
- hopefully the first collaboration with another flightsim.to creator. Contact me. We will add your donate buttons.
- stability improvements, bug fixes, UI updates - thanks to all the amazing testers helping me out to achieve this.
Backers: thank you so much, seriously. I made this for you to enjoy for free and the fact you will give me some of your hard earned money is amazing. (if you want your donation to return to anonymity, just message me)
Thomas Konditi + $5.00
Charles Megowan + $5.00
Pawel Kawalec + $10.00
If you find this program to be useful, please consider donating to support future development, which is planned to include the ability to add custom ground handling liveries, adding all real-world 737-700 operators, and covering the entire gambit of possible ground handling vehicles for each airline. Stay tuned, and thank you for using Ground Handling Switcher! (Send support messages on this page or to my profile, or our Discord. I am happy to help or implement new features)
TEXTURE CREATORS: If you have made an awesome airline ground handling livery pack, please contact me in comments or DM. We can get your pack integrated into the app with links to your donate buttons. Thanks!
2 months ago
SgtKoni
4 months ago
Lovenir
4 months ago
niwoa2010
6 months ago
Dboy531
6 months ago
Dboy531
does it work with the -800 varient
1 years ago
CrashPier7
Hey need some help here, I downloaded the mod, and placed it in my folder, and I also downloaded .NET Core, and everytime I go to launch the UI it says I still need .NET Core. Can you help me?
1 years ago
same issue here not sure how to get it to work
12 months ago
prosefson
XxMythic360X
Steam version not loading correctly
1 years ago
LKPumngg
installed the united and get purple textures and have uninstalled and reinstalled many times no fix... but everything else looks great! any fix?
2 years ago
Cooper12391
Will this work with the 737-600?
2 years ago
Richdem
Hello. Hope the job search is going well. I really enjoy this mod and I'm looking forward to the new content. Any news as to when the new update will be released?
2 years ago
hi, please see the most recent article update.
in light of GSX being released and my successful job search (which has left me with no time for simming, let alone hobby programming), I have discontinued GHS development. I really appreciate your support and I apologize that no new content will be released in the foreseeable future.
2 years ago
laertesson
SLR01
Thank you so much for creating this. I just found it, installed it and truly love it. Thank you and keep up the great work.
2 years ago
Wow, this is a such a nice comment! It’s reviews like these that keep me working on this project. Not to mention your totally unnecessary but extremely appreciated donation. Thank you so much!
2 years ago
laertesson
ipaul787
It is me again. I still have the pink vehicles and baggage loaders and I want to get rid of them. Can you please tell me what files have been altered so as I can go back to the default and remove these pink ones.
Thank you
2 years ago
Hi, removing the files will not work. As I said before. you will need to repair your 737 with PMDG’s installer.
I have also uploaded a repair pack, download it and drag the Community folder contained within onto your Community folder to reset to PMDG liveries.
I was hoping to have this solved for real but I have no way of doing so when I'm unable to reproduce it. Sorry about this. You're one of 3-4 users who has this issue.
2 years ago
laertesson
gee8ch
I had applied all of the airlines and still get PMDG marked airstairs and unmarked baggage
2 years ago
The stairs are not changed. (Yet). Baggage vehicles should be. You can try the no compression version and/or running as admin, but very few people (~5 out of ~2k unique downloads) have an issue similar to this that I still haven’t been able to track down fully.
2 years ago
laertesson
cptjjustin
I still get 'PMDG' branded airstairs when applying both Qantas and Alaska Airlines from the application.
2 years ago
Stairs are not implemented yet since it’s a niche usage on a 737, mostly jetways. (see description)
it is planned though.
2 years ago
laertesson
Dusty744