1.1 Beta - Selecting Commited Flight

[FS1TR]

Dutch:

A few questions that came up using the off line dispatch.

1. I had no problem creating the entire flight except for one item. I did this at 3 o'clock in the morning on January 4th. I knew that when I went into FSX I would be setting the date and time to the morning of January 3rd so that I would have a daytime flight. So I changed the date on the dispatch page to the 3rd. However, after committing the flight, the flight log tab shows the flight as of January 4th. So the date change is not sticking. My, that was a long winded way to say that.

2. OK, I accept that the flight is dated the 4th and I load FSX. When I enter the plane and bring up the FCOM, I see that I have 1 flight committed, but I don't see any way to select the committed flight. I tried clicking F4 and entering the destination I selected off line but that gave me a new manifest. By that I mean it was a different number of PAX and a different payload. So my questions are, "How do I select the committed flight?" and "Would what you tell me now work if I had changed the FSX date back to the 3rd?"

Tom

[Dutch Owen]

When you commit a flight using the Administrator the date and time don't matter. You could set the date all the way back to 1958 and it wouldn't matter!

The only thing used to "pick up" the flight is the aircraft type and airport. If you book flight 666 for a B744 at KSEA, then if you show up in a B744 at KSEA the FCOM will say "Ready to Start Flight 666 to KXYZ" right after you login. But if you are in a B734 or A332 or anything but the specific type B744 you won't see the start message.

If you don't see this message but get the regular "Dispatch Online" page, then you aren't in the right type or not at the right airport, or there's a bug.

You have to be careful if you set your date and time forward though, if you are using an airline at the highest difficulty setting ("Committed after select, canceled if elapsed"). When a flight is booked the system date and time are recorded and the flight will expire and be reassigned after the period defined in the airline definition has passed.

Hope this helps,
Dutch

[FS1TR]

OK. I found my problem. The new flight dispatch pointed out an inconsistency in my creation of the FSCaptain aircraft.cfg file.

For in-sim operations, it is only necessary that the name of the FSCaptain aircraft.cfg file be the same as the atc-model in the FSX aircraft.cfg. What you enter in the TYPE field is ignored.

For off-line operations it appears that atc-model in the FSX aircraf.cfg file is used to create the pending flight and when a flight is loaded in FSX the TYPE field in the FSCaptain aircraft.cfg is used to determine if you are in the correct aircraft.

So, the moral of the story is to be sure that both the name of and the TYPE field in the FSCaptain aircraft.cfg file are the same as the atc-model field in the FSX aircraft.cfg file.

Tom