ProPilot:Discussion Space

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi Brian,

Well, normally this type of crash can occur in different scenarios ... Can occur climbing, taking off, cruising, landing, etc ... So, the destination or departure airport can or can't be resposible.

We will leave it this way. Only the airplane will be dismissed, so, let's hope all of us don't crash too many of them

[EHM-0962 Zhen Yi]

just thought up an idea, it was mentioned in the email that maintenance needs to be carried out on the planes once in a while. how about allowing maintenance flights to be flown by pilots from any airport straight to a hub (eg the flight may not have to be in the timetable) when a certain amount of operating miles have been reached? and then maybe an award can be set aside for pilots who regularly do maintenance flights etc

Edit : and oh if possible please report crashes of planes and buying of new planes in the news :]

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

The first part has some logic although it means that for that plane to be available again is conditioned by if thew pilot make that fligtht or not.

The extreme case, imagine that we have only one LSZH 747, and that he is in need to go to maintenance and no one place it on LSZH. So, no one would fly it because the airplane doesnt go to maintenace.

Airplanes go to maintenance in a automatic or manual way. Automatic the the pilot makes some penalties that could bring tha airplane so damaged that it go automatically to maintence. Manually if the Fleet Manager sees that that airplane has made so much hours that his reability factor is so low and that that airplane can have failures on flight.

About report crashes on the news it is already done. There are a news section on PP (independent from the main page new ones) that will tell you that

[EHM-0962 Zhen Yi]

what i meant was that the plane would be scheduled for maintenance but could still fly (as requiring maintenance does not necessarily mean that it's spoiled, though with heightened likelyhood of failures occuring, if that is possible to implement) so that doesnt seem to be a likely problem

[EHM-1737 Brian]

wow, this keeps getting better all the time

[EHM-0962 Zhen Yi]

um...that was a suggestion, it has not been implemented/decided upon yet :$

[EHM-1358 Tim]

Were do we start at? Are hub?

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi,

Every pilot will start at his source hub. The one that you belong.
At the first 24 hours, all of us have an attribute called "Travelling mode" on. It means that a pilot can only make flights starting from the last destination point. This travelling mode is turned off after 24h, and it is turned on again everytime you make a flight.

This is made just to avoid that a pilot makes a flight from LFPG to EGLL, and after that, on the same day, makes another one from LPPT to LPPR. You have to "travel" to LPPT in 24 hours. That's the meaning of it.

[EHM-1366 Themis]

Will there be any info about money earned from each flight?
eg. # of passengers carried minus fuel and maintanance costs etc...

That way we can implement the data and find each month which hub has been the most efficient, it would add more fun! :8

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi Themis,

For now we don't have that feature implemented. Maybe on another version because that type of strategy needs to be deeply thinked (as we always do).

Regards,

[EHM-1627 Chris]

just a quick question refering to a post by someone, can the planes actually malfunction during a flight???

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi Chris,

Yes.
Failures on airplanes are based on a complex algortihm given factors like total miles flown, total passengers, days since last maintenance, etc ...

If an airplane has a failure, it can be a random failure. Electrical, Hydraulical, Engine, besides others.

Even if you have your failures turned off on fs2004/fs2002, we turn them on. The same applies to crash detection on airplanes and building, and crash due to overstress.

So, every flight is unique. You don't know what will happen. BUT, don't start thinking that everytime you fly you'll have a failure. No. Failures have a very very minimum probability to happen, even more than right now all of our airplanes are new so the reability coeficients are as higher as possible.

Regards,

[EHM-1735 Dave]

Hi, will there be flights assignments?

[EHM-1343 Jonathan]

that might be hard, but you can see where you favourite plane is, and available flights.

You will have a limited number of flights available;D

[EHM-1735 Dave]

Thanks for the reply Razza,

The reason I ask is that I cannot seem to get the AFAS system to work!!

[EHM-1737 Brian]

you're not the only one, i cant either

[EHM-0962 Zhen Yi]

the system works fine for me. did you insert the correct email address? the flights come in the form of an email so make sure that your filters allow euroharmony traffic through

[EHM-1627 Chris]

thanks bruno...this all sounds very sophicsticated...and complex...but sounds really nice to start with...although not looking forward to getting faliors ;P

[EHM-1735 Dave]

Originally posted by EHM-0962
the system works fine for me. did you insert the correct email address? the flights come in the form of an email so make sure that your filters allow euroharmony traffic through

I don't even get that far, when I try to set the parameters I get the message "error on page" in the bottom left hand corner

[EHM-1737 Brian]

yep me too

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Dave, can you please send me an email with the snapshot of it ?

Thank you.

Let's get back on topic here

[EHM-1617 Iain]

2 more days to go... Are we still on for the 17th?

[EHM-1343 Jonathan]

Yup, should be great fun
I fear there will be great demmand to fly for example, class 4/5 planes, remember, its first come first served when you want to lock a flight;D

[EHM-1735 Dave]

Originally posted by bfalcao
Dave, can you please send me an email with the snapshot of it ?

Thank you.

Let's get back on topic here

On it's way, sorry for hijacking the thread :-((

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

No problem ...