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2008-01-18: ProPilot FAC reset
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Sounds good to me! A positive attitude :)
Now, I am not a long-hauler. And still I get every chance to mess up my start-up, take-off, climb, cruise (not much to go wrong there, I guess), descend, landing, and shut-down. So I would plee for not over doing the rewards for flight time. I agree that there should be a sort of stimulus to expose the networks to EHM callsigns for as much and long as possible, but the chance of doing something "wrong" does not increase linearly with flight time. Maybe you could cut it up into chunks of block-time with different rewards?
And: I think crashing might set you back, even in the negative, for about one flights worth of points. So if we stick to the max. 100 points reward example, then I would suggest that crashing an airplane would deduct 100 points from your thus far accumulated FAC. That leaves the possibility open to not earn any points if you do everything else wrong (besides crashing). And it puts the hand-brake on the FACs shooting off through the roof.
The main drawback of a "positive only" FAC, I think, is that your FAC will sky-rocket if you have a lot of flying time available, and you will never get to the front page of the website if you are limited to saturday afternoons only. That's why the averaging was introduced, I guess. I'm not sure where I would wanna go with that yet. I'll let it simmer for a bit and get back to you.
Cheers!
Eric-Jan
EHM-0654 Murray:
That's why I'm strangely drawn to expressing the FAC score as a percentage E-J (i.e. using 100 as the best score, then averaging the various flights scores). It's simple for everyone to understand a percentage and it's dead easy to calculate a percentage (and once we have the new flight logger, it'll be even easier).
(Sorry Bruce, it will mean no big cumulative value, but 100% speaks for itself :))
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
OK, I get your point now;)
But working up to a certain averaged percentage, you will at some point have, say, a score of 87% over the last 2500 flights (you might notice that I am exaggerating a bit). If you then get 0% for crashing a plane, or 100% for another perfect flight, your FAC won't change because of that. So the idea of a weighed average over the last 10 (25? 100?) flights sounds appealing to me. It keeps it all a bit more dynamic in the long run.
Also, the suggestion to keep an overall "career" FAC and a time-dependant FAC (a "last month score" or something) side by side could be applied here. With the career FAC being the overall average, and the month FAC being just that.
Just some thoughts...
EHM-1001 Robert:
I like the percentage based system too. I think combine it with showing the flown hours, you can still see who is addicted and how much successfull with the system ;)
EHM-1570 Bruce:
I agree with Robert, but if you introduce a percentage system then you should also in some way show the Pilots career with EuroHarmony, otherwise you cannot diferentiate between a new pilot with only a couple of succesful flights and a long serving pilot with many flying hours.
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