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Post by kiwispitfire on Jan 30, 2014 19:04:42 GMT -5
Thanks Peter, some useful links there - I actualy use simbrief already for my domestic and trans-tasman flights, it's great (am still trying to figure out how PFPX is $50 better than simbrief...?). I am sure you appreciate however that I do not really want to invest much time and effort with U.S based stuff when I will never fly there again after a couple of demo flights for FS Captain. I just think you could really appreciate FS Captain more when you can really see what it adds to your usual flights that you fly. It is just a little unusual flying in a completely foreign airspace with a new add-on etc and you feel a bit lost with it all, sort of hard to explain - nevertheless I have seen enough to know it will definately add value and purpose to my flying, and being able to fly the AirNZ scheduled flights I regularly fly (aimlessly with no real purpose) with passengers and time considerations will be a nice addition. Did I read right somewhere that some economic aspects may be introduced also? I have to say that the New Zealand scenery, courtesy of ORBX, is the best in FSX!!....but I may be a little bias. Flying VFR around the South Island off your real VNC charts in A2A's amazing Spitfire can not be beat!
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Post by peter on Jan 30, 2014 19:31:33 GMT -5
Hi Kiwispitfire, PFPX is better than Simbrief, but I must agree that if you want to save some money then Simbrief is not too far behind. And yes, the NZ scenery is fantastic. I got it for Xmas and do now spend way too much time in that airspace As for your anticipation to stay out of US airspace: if you get hooked to FSCaptain that may actually change. I used to fly almost exclusively in Canada because I have a lot of good payware scenery for this country, but over the last three months (since I acquired FSCaptain and FTX GLobal) I actually fly a lot more "around". If I remember right I only did three or four test flights before I bought FSCaptain. I wasn't too much bothered by staying in the Seattle area for this time. Cheers, Peter
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Post by Travis on Feb 9, 2014 13:46:00 GMT -5
Kiwi,
Over the years, I've bantered a few suggestions around with Dutch about expanding the scope of "trial airports" but he's knocked my ideas down each & every time.
You've just given me a new idea though. No promises, but I'll float my idea over Dutch's way....
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Post by zoran on Mar 6, 2014 21:25:42 GMT -5
How about direction of flight on the admin page similar to what FSeconomy does? Reasons include continuing in one direction (round the world) or like yesterday I was trying to stay in the confines of an ORBX region
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Post by Lucas on Apr 7, 2014 1:38:05 GMT -5
Another reason to make possibility to manual TA entry before flight (in Dispatch tab foir example): yesterday I have „ALT not set to STD” penalty in Inssbruck. There is 11000 ft TA. Exactly at this altitude I set STD alt, anyway… -5 pts at the end (same penalties have in Poland where TA is 6500 ft)
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Post by peter on Apr 7, 2014 4:18:21 GMT -5
Hi Lucas,
the transition altitudes are stored in the file Transitions.cfg in the Config subdirectory of FSCaptain. LOWI and Polish airports have the entries that you mention. Maybe you have an older version of this file? If you do not have the correct entries I suggest to search for "transitions" in this forum, there is a newer version somewhere. I think it was distributed with version 1.5 as well.
It appears to me that FSCaptain checks the transition altitude when the plane passes the actual altitude (give or take a few hundred feet), not the indicated altitude. Depending on the pressure, the indicated altitude may be quite different during descent. I got penalties as well when the pressure was extremely high or low, even though I changed the altimeter at the correct indicated altitude.
CHeers, Peter
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Post by Lucas on Apr 7, 2014 15:40:56 GMT -5
Hmm, you are right...TA are correct in this file. So I don't understand why I had penalty... QNH was 1019, so not much high.
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Post by peter on Apr 7, 2014 16:32:59 GMT -5
Maybe you got it for the altimeter at the other airport?!
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Post by Lucas on Apr 8, 2014 6:57:24 GMT -5
No.
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Post by jenstt on Apr 13, 2014 12:06:31 GMT -5
Just another idea, would it be possible to link the active voicepack to the aircraft selected? That way we could have the right FA announcements with the right plane and/or livery.. (For example a B747 safety announcement in a 747 and a A320 announcement in A320 and so on..)
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Post by Barry on Apr 17, 2014 14:34:33 GMT -5
Would it be possible to exclude military bases (a check box such as used for charter flights) when generating a hub? Apparently when a hub is generated the program goes down the list of available airports alphabetically and selects any airport that meets the distance and runway length criteria. Realistically, airlines don't fly regularly scheduled passenger flights into military airfields (this is handled through charters).
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Post by Kendo on Nov 15, 2014 22:05:37 GMT -5
Hi
This may seem complicated but here it goes. Why not add a little enhancement to the schedule. As a captain you can add the option of having to get to your destination and fly a connecting flight to another destination. Therefore your on time performance would need to be perfect as you would be judged on one flight although having to fly multiple legs to complete. Going a bit further give the passengers a bigger "say" in fs captain by adding a dimension where whilst you are prepared to fly some passengers may arrive late to boarding therefore you as a captain would have to somehow deal with that. They could be delayed to you flight for a number of reasons, one could be there connecting flight was late, two check in at airport was slow, three security checks was slow, or they went to the restroom... I think it is more focused on the passengers however captains have to deal with that kind of stuff anyways.
I said it would be complicated... What are your thoughts.
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Post by Travis on Nov 16, 2014 10:56:37 GMT -5
How about direction of flight on the admin page similar to what FSeconomy does? Reasons include continuing in one direction (round the world) or like yesterday I was trying to stay in the confines of an ORBX region I've programmed Windows Forms for years (and VB forms before that ) but the way the Flight Dispatch form is generated still eludes me. This isn't the first such request that I've seen (although to be fair, you were the first to post the request), so I can't give you an ETA. But it will happen....
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Post by Travis on Nov 16, 2014 11:01:01 GMT -5
Just another idea, would it be possible to link the active voicepack to the aircraft selected? That way we could have the right FA announcements with the right plane and/or livery.. (For example a B747 safety announcement in a 747 and a A320 announcement in A320 and so on..) Nice idea, and I'm sure we could put in a little work and make such happen. But... we only have one FA actor and her availability isn't as great as it used to be. I will say that we avoid having any "airline specific" mentions in any of the voice files simply because there are so many airlines out there that it would be impossible to offer even a limited range. (Heck, I fly for three fictional airlines.)
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Post by Travis on Nov 16, 2014 11:02:15 GMT -5
Would it be possible to exclude military bases (a check box such as used for charter flights) when generating a hub? Apparently when a hub is generated the program goes down the list of available airports alphabetically and selects any airport that meets the distance and runway length criteria. Realistically, airlines don't fly regularly scheduled passenger flights into military airfields (this is handled through charters). This is actually a bug report, and as such I will add it to my list of things to investigate and fix. Thanks!!
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