Parking at Melbourne?

 

Traffic X does include a lot of changes to a lot of airports, worldwide.  These changes improved the airports by adding extra parking spots, grouping parking spots (so the planes all park [generally] in the same airline group, setting the correct terminals for airlines where possible, adding military parking spots, etc etc etc).  You can imagine how many airports there are in the FSX world, so I doubt Just Flight would have done all of them.  Suffice to say, apart from the airports with noticable errors, I have noticed many many good and better changes at many airports.  So, all things considered, they've done a pretty damn good job.

 

As for YMML ... and the other airports in Australia and indeed the world ... the changes are a vast improvement over Traffic 2005 and indeed definately over FSX's defaults.  But, it is not all perfect.

 

The problem is not so much with the airport(s) ... but with the settings for the PLANES.  In FSX planes park based on the settings they have in their respective AIRCRAFT.CFG files. One of the settings in this file which affects where planes park is the WINGSPAN value. For the larger aircraft included in Traffic X, the default wingspan value is not always correct in the aircraft.cfg file, being smaller than it really should be. This is done to allow for the larger planes to be able to park at some of the smaller airports. However, it does have a downside in that sometimes the larger planes can end up parking in the WRONG spots at the larger major airports and can sometimes end up parking in spaces where they shouldn't be. Worse, in some cases, it results in the plane not being able to park at all and therefore not even appearing at the airport.  Getting back to your specific question, it can mean that international flights might park at the wrong terminal or even in cargo spots.

 

THANKFULLY, there is a FIX available for this ... and it is an EASY fix ...

 

... Go to the Traffic X web page (http://www.justflight.com/trafficX-home.asp) and then to the File Downloads link (specifically http://www.justflight.com/trafficX-downloads.asp). Click on the OTHER FILES category and then download the WING WIDTHS FIX done by Jon Murchison. This corrects this behaviour.  (I notice there are TWO wing width fix files, but I think they are both the same.)  I have used this download with Traffic X since Jon made it available and my airports have come alive far more better than they were with the default Traffic X installation. Planes which once never appeared at my airports, are now landing and parking at them. Airports have really come to life with international traffic more so than they already were and everything is far more realistic with this fix than it was with the default Traffic X install. And, even better, things still appear to work even at the smaller airports. Thanks Jon!  (Here's a direct link to the file in case you can't find it: Jon's wing fix file.)  This may not specifically fix the exact issue up that you described at YMML, but at least the international planes at YMML will not park at the wrong gates or in cargo areas.