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Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 06, 2006, 10:17:35 am: Good morning everyone!

I have a special request for the MTs;

Next school holidays, my Spanish class is taking a trip to Peru. I, however, am staying behind :(. However, I would LOVE to be able to fly the flights the class will be taking on flight simulator, however some of the legs I want to take aren't official flights. So, here's the round robin course (beginning and ending at EGLL):

EGLL to KATL
KATL to NZAA
NZAA to SPLP (via SCEL)
------------------------------ (about a two week gap)
SPLP to NZAA (via SCEL)
NZAA to KATL
KATL to EGLL

The NZAA to SPLP via SCEL leg doesn't exist in the EuroHarmony timetable, so I was wondering if the MTs could add it? If so, thanks! If not, I understand.

I'll be flying these legs on flight simulator, in EuroHarmony aircraft or not, but I would really like to add the hours to my EHM profile, as the total flight hours will be tremendously significant.

Thanks guys! :)

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Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 06, 2006, 09:58:11 pm: Hello? Can someone help me?
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1703 Philip on May 06, 2006, 11:52:19 pm: As this is not a direct flight from a hub, it will probably never be used again. Unfortunately we have a lot of requests for timetabled flights and it would not be fair to honour one and not the rest and we simply do not have the time to add every flight that is requested. I will bring it up with Bruno next time I speak to him although I think he is busy with Real Life stuff this weekend. (Yes, we have real lives too :P )

Sorry I can't be more help.
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-0361 Karsten on May 07, 2006, 12:19:16 am: Ben, just a little piece of friendly advice. I know you don't mean anything by it or does it on purpose. But a good rule of thumb, is to give the MT at least 24 hours to answer. As Phil says, they have real life to.
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 07, 2006, 01:39:39 am: Sorry guys, I understand. Thanks anyway!
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-0948 Bruno on May 07, 2006, 02:12:38 am: Hi,

I subscribe Phil's words.
So, we cannot add them just as that, sorry.

Maybe one day if we open a new zealand hub ;) ...
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 07, 2006, 03:41:14 am: No problem guys! ;)
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 08, 2006, 06:36:02 am: Another question (which should probably be somewhat obvious), if I manually enter the departure airport/destination airport into the web PIREP, and added a comment explaining the situation, would I still be able to try for the flight hours?
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-0361 Karsten on May 08, 2006, 08:38:08 am: Of couse this is up to the MT. But I would think that the answer is no. Simply because if they gives you permission, then they have to give other people permission aswell. But as I said in the begining it's up to the MT.
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-0654 Murray on May 08, 2006, 08:38:33 am: Ben,

Given I've been working with the PIREP system, I can confirm that you'd not be able to file a non-timetable flight and be awarded the hours for it, with one very specific exception.

Event flights are on occassion not timetable flights, but we always permit web-based submission of these flights using the EHM-9999 flight number.

I should hasten to add that I am not suggesting you submit this flight in this way. In my opinion "Personal" flights such as this shouldn't count toward your VA hours. I myself fly one particular RyanAir real-world flight sometimes for fun - Stanstead-Dinard-Stanstead. Nothing to do with the VA, yet I always fly it in our B738...
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 08, 2006, 08:48:35 am: Thanks Murray for the quick response.

In the past I must admit (quite ashamed, too!!) that I have logged 'personal flights' using 9999. I thought it would be a shame making (potentially) 70 hours of flight, and not be able to log it for EHM, that's all.

Thanks again for the confirmation.
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1199 Philip on May 08, 2006, 05:11:32 pm: I think we have to accept that there are flights we wish to make outside the timetable but that when these occur they are not VA flights and consequently the hours don't get accredited in this VA. EHM offers a large number of flights and a whole bunch of different ways to enhance your flight sim experience and to some extent to give people freedom to fly anything and log it as EHM actually detracts from the whole VA thing. The forum is an active one and comments are read and do often bring about changes so discussing these issues is great but for me, if I want to hop in a VFA and make short flights from my local airfield then I understand these are not EHM hours.
Title: Custom Flights
Post by: EHM-1671 Ben on May 08, 2006, 08:29:31 pm: 'Short hops' are fine in small VFA aircraft, I do that too and don't log the hours. Sometimes I just fly circuits around airports just to fill in some time and I too understand that they don't qualify as EHM hours.

But this was a little bit more than just a short hop... this amounted to dozens of hours of flight, and so I thought I would ask. Anyway, thanks again for the help! ;)