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Follow the Greens in X-Plane

Follow the Greens (FTG)

Section titled “Follow the Greens (FTG)”

Follow the Greens is a trail of green taxiway centerline lights (figure below). A controller switches them on to lead you along your cleared route. You taxi by following the greens.

FTG greens in X-Plane 12
FTG Lights in X-Plane 12
  • Controller-driven and VATSIM-only - you never start it yourself.
  • Needs a published taxi network, so it is not available at every airport yet.
  • A controller starts FTG for your callsign. A request popup names them (figure below).
Follow the Greens request popup
Follow the Greens request popup

Answering a request

Section titled “Answering a request”

The popup offers up to three choices:

  • Accept - instant. Greens light on top of the airport’s own taxiway lights.
  • Accept & Reload Scenery - the clean look. The airport’s own taxi lights go dark and X-Plane reloads once (~1 min), so only the greens show.
  • Reject - decline the request.

The popup also carries the Auto-accept dropdown from the panel. Changing it applies from the next request - you still answer this one.

Greens then light along your route. You may get:

  • The whole route at once, or
  • Segments switched on ahead of you as you taxi.

The controller decides which. A dark centerline or a red stop bar means stop. The greens never light past a red bar.

Auto-accept

Section titled “Auto-accept”

In the panel’s Follow the Greens section, Auto-accept skips the popup. It is one global choice, remembered between sessions:

Option Behavior
Off (ask me) Prompt every time
Accept Instant, on top of the existing taxi lighting
Accept & Reload Scenery Darkens the airport’s lights, costing one reload the first time at each airport

While a session is active

Section titled “While a session is active”
  • An FTG ACTIVE card sits top-left (figure below). Cancel from there, or from the panel’s Follow the Greens section, at any time.
  • Tick Do not show the FTG card (cancel from here) to hide the card. Cancelling then lives in the panel.
  • Hide other traffic's FTG greens keeps only your own greens on screen.
  • If you accepted with Accept & Reload Scenery, you are prompted to Reload Scenery when the controller ends the session. That restores the original scenery.
  • Whenever the airport stays suppressed and no session is running, the panel offers Restore original lighting. You do not have to catch the end-of-session prompt. The reload takes about a minute. (A field suppressed by the launcher is restored from the launcher.)
The active-session mini card - cancel FTG any time
The active-session mini card - cancel FTG any time