ProPilot – New Algorithm – Targets
-More online flights
-More PP flights
-A more fair system
To consider :
-PP is optional, nobody is obliged to fly on PP. EHM has much to choose, for beyond ProPilot.
-PP is a demanding challenge and does not have to be used to relax
-PP does not have to be used for pilots with little experience
-The pilot with little experience must use only the Flight Logger and verify the ACARS, to see the penalties , correct them in futures flights and only after improving its PP skills, to use the PP.
-How to have more people flying online?Giving them some bonus in PP.
-How to have more people flying with PP? I don't know.
-How to have a more fair PP System?My answer is bellow
IMHO with the new algorithm long flights vs short flights is a false question :
1 flight with 10 hours
10 x 60 = 600 minutes x 0,3 = 180
1 flight x 0,5 = 0,5
Total score = 180,5
Versus
10 flights with 1 hour each
10 x 60 = 600 minutes x 0,3 = 180
10 flights x 0,5 = 5.0
Total score = 185
The risks are different but they are balanced, the10 hours flight only has a landing, but it has many items to verify, as to avoid overspeed, take care on winds changes, climb/descend angles to control during more time, etc,etc... in the same time, in short flights more landings, bigger score. I think it is fair.
I made few long flights, only the necessary ones from the EHM Divisions and EHM World Tour, this ones without PP and I never leave the cockpit for much time.But I wanted to take a 767-300ER to the USA and I made a long flight on PP and IVAO from Zurich (LSZH) to Boston (KBOS) .
Take off from LSZH at more or less 02:00 AM and two hours later I fell in a deep sleep at the desktop and when I woke up had some penalties on PP, overspeed, stall, Maximum 4500fpm vertical speed excedeed....only fortunately I didn't crash the airplane..........Therefore to make long flights in PP without following them is an immense risk...
I was flying the LevelD 767-300ER and until today i can't understand how it happened....strong winds changes?Touch with my sleeping head on the keybord?..i don't know.......
In the current PP system If I want enter and keep me in the Top of the PP what I must do?
1 – Fly easly controlable airplanes.
2 - Fly offline with good weather, that I can select as I want, clean sky and without winds.
3 - Make many short flights, without exceeding the 250Kias and not above of 18000ft.
4 - Choose easy airfields, with long runways and ILS.
Fly with the above conditions does not have any interest for me, but sure i 'll be always on the PP's Top.........LOL
Why is the current system not fair?
-It does not consider the flight times, (more time = bigger risk)
-Considers equal flights made in airplanes of different difficulty
-Considers equal flights made in different circumstances (online versus offline)
With the current system it is possible to enter to number 1, with some minutes flying on PP and 1 or 2 flights, against others with hundreds or thousand hours of good flights.(hundreds of zero penalities flights).
What must be done to reach a more fair PP for all?
1 – To Consider the flight times and not only the number of flights.
2 – To Consider the different difficulty (complexity ) of the different airplanes.
3 - To consider different the online and offline flights
4 - The total amount of the penalties does not have to be bigger that the value of one crash.The penalties values must be review to balance with the crash value.
5 - The Popup Murray's idea, is a good ideia.(only read it, while I was posting this).And it finish the flights with the pilot far away from the cockpit.(Pilot in bed, in bathroom having a shower, in kitchen or walking the dog on the street or sleeping.....heheheheh)
And if you want a more complex PP, include penalties for take offs on wrong winds direction,touch down angle on landings, smoothest landings, hardest landings...etc...etc...
I speak on this, without problems, because the most important for me, is not the score in the PP Top 10, is important, but it is not the most important.
The important is that we must have a fair and challenging PP system that reward or punish people on the same way with similar circunstances.
A new system 'll not benefit me, but i want a new and more fair system.
At this moment I have a comfortable FAC of 82,10 and with the new system and without values correction I 'll have a score about 4000 negatives.....eheheheh.....
I fly ProPilot from the beginning and I have 5 crashes in my curriculum.(No problems with that, everybody as his own learning curve)
I rested always with the feeling that I could prevented them, and after the bad feeling that one crash provokes me,I am sick with a crash.
I always learned something new in each crash.And i remember all of them and i remember the causes that provoqued them as well.From the first until the last.
I will always fly in the PP system as much as possible, make the new algorithm, stay with the old one , but never will take off me the pleasure and the challenge to fly in the PP.
Ufff.................Forgive me for this long post, but it is only my opinion