Taxi to runway/gate, FA Calls

[manfredd]

Hi Dutch,
first off all many thanks for this great tool. I have used before fspassenger, but it don't run in Win7/64 bit, so I searched for an other program and came to this.

2 points I would have to use:

1.
On some airports are very long ways to taxi to the runway or to the gate. ETE adjusting with winds works fine. Sometimes I arrived at the scheduled time. Then I had a long way to taxi to gate and had penalty points (to late). It would be great to enter a "taxi time" for both airports, departure and approach.

2.
I'm still wondering, that the FA Call "We are beginning our descent" starts at 9000 to 8000 feet. My Cruise Altitude is most of the time FL 360 or FL 350. Is there a possibility to start the FA descent call after the TOD announcement? As example 3 Minutes later or at least by reaching the transition altitude?

Another wish: Is there a possibility to get more of the great Music? I love it!

kind regards,
Manfred

[Dutch Owen]

Hi Manfred,

On some airports are very long ways to taxi to the runway or to the gate. ETE adjusting with winds works fine. Sometimes I arrived at the scheduled time. Then I had a long way to taxi to gate and had penalty points (to late). It would be great to enter a "taxi time" for both airports, departure and approach.

The ground time at an airport is estimated by adding one minute per one thousand feet of the longest runway to the block time of the flight. If you think you might need more, increase the ETE time by whatever you think you need before you schedule your flight. You can do this in the Administrator by changing the ETE or in the FCOM by the F3=Revise option on your flight review page.

I'm still wondering, that the FA Call "We are beginning our descent" starts at 9000 to 8000 feet. My Cruise Altitude is most of the time FL 360 or FL 350. Is there a possibility to start the FA descent call after the TOD announcement? As example 3 Minutes later or at least by reaching the transition altitude?

The call there should say "We are beginning our final approach for landing" instead she says "we are beginning our descent."; I will get that changed in a future release.

Another wish: Is there a possibility to get more of the great Music? I love it!

A Google search for "Kevin Mccloud music" will turn up more!

Dutch

[manfredd]

Thanks for your answer.

The ground time at an airport is estimated by adding one minute per one thousand feet of the longest runway to the block time of the flight. If you think you might need more, increase the ETE time by whatever you think you need before you schedule your flight. You can do this in the Administrator by changing the ETE or in the FCOM by the F3=Revise option on your flight review page.

I'll try this and hope it works!

The call there should say "We are beginning our final approach for landing" instead she says "we are beginning our descent."; I will get that changed in a future release.

Sounds great. I'll wait for the release.

A Google search for "Kevin Mccloud music" will turn up more!

With Kevin Mccloud music I found no music. Google asked me to change to Kevin Macleod music - and that was right! Thank you!

Kind regards,
Manfred