Catering?

[sirsanka]

Hello,

Thanks for such great program you have developed.

I have a very easy and simple request: Can you add “Catering” in the payload section of the dispatch taking into consideration whether is snacks, meals or both?

Thanks!

[Travis]

Sirsanka,

Thank you for your kind words!

I suppose that we could create a variable weight to account for meals & liquids to display on the dispatch release, but there'd be virtually no way to model it inside the simulator.

Like water & waste tanks, this is likely something that can only be taken for granted.

Still though, at least the cabin of an aircraft in flight is a closed system....

--Mr Coffee

[sirsanka]

Thanks Travis!

[fardel]

I resume this post.
About Catering, I see thet it is integrated with GSX but only for communication with FCDU as "Catering Completed".

I do not know if this idea has already been proposed, but it would be possible, for who have GSX installed, have the service during flight inhibited if, first, has not made catering at the gate with GSX?

I hope I have not said something stupid and apologize for my bad English

Paolo

[Travis]

Hi Paolo,

First, this is not "stupid" whatsoever.

Second, your English is perfectly understandable.

Third, yes this would be easily possible. There would need to be several things to happen. First, we would give Captains an option: CATERING_REQUIRED and they would have to enable it. Next, if the Captain has a Ground Service utility that uses a interface similar to which we worked out with GSX, that Service would need to say catering was available.

Then as long as you were making a passenger flight with food service available, we would check to see if catering had been done before passenger loading starts. If not, then no service would be available, and in case of a required service you would have unhappy passengers.
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I have just today called a code freeze on version 1.7.2, but I like this idea and will include it for the next version of FSCaptain.

(Also our dispatch message about catering would change to reflect whether it was snacks or meals & snacks and that would be recorded in the post-flight version of the dispatch release. We currently note the cabin service requirements in the dispatch release before flight.)

With regards,