You can send your pilot to professional staff training:

[fruitfly]

(of course, your company will pay for his additional education during which he will earn thousands of points) :

Simply - establish a company with a survival mission in a war zone and buy a sturdy old plane, like B25 for instance.
Transfer your pilot to it. If you start yom Baghdad, all of your flights will be nothing more than practising touch&go's - you'll be hit and
make an emergency landing. Since you'll be 'practising' in a desert, you won't crash into something.
After you earn enough points, it's time to go back home. But of course, you'll have to pay for training (reintegration bill).
Fair enough, isn't it?

[DanSteph]

excellent idea... I'm glad that you have to pay for transfer so it doesn't look
like an enormous hole and cheat...

Dan

[fruitfly]

I haven't checked and don't know if the price for reintegration depends only on the rank (C0,C1..) or maybe also on the hours or/and
points. But it would be excellent if the hours and points enter the equation, too?

[B52Drivr]

Very interesting guys, well, at least the Buff has 8 engines and can take the small arms fire <G>

Best,
Clay

[Ryanamur]

Instead of sending your pilot to Baghdad, why not just offer to purchase the minimum points/hours required for achieving the rank
desired.

The formula could be the exact same as the one used to transfer pilots from one airline to another or something like this:

C1 = 0.25M
C2 = 0.5M
C3 = 1M
C4 = 2M
C5 = 4M
C6 = 8M
C7 = 16M
C8 = 32M
C9 = 64M
C10= 128M

Yep, you read that right, for you to take a C0 to C10 would cost you a whopping 255.75M

Finally, Dan could also make it so that you could purchase the remaing hours/points that you are missing for the promotion.

For example, if you are a C0 with 6 hours and 150 points and you need 6 hours and 300 points to get promoted, you are only missing 1/4
of the requirements therefore it would cost you 0,0625M to get promoted instead of the full 0.25M

Phil

[Ryanamur]

fruitfly wrote:
(of course, your company will pay for his additional education during which he will earn thousands of points) :

Simply - establish a company with a survival mission in a war zone and buy a sturdy old plane, like B25 for instance.
Transfer your pilot to it. If you start yom Baghdad, all of your flights will be nothing more than practising touch&amp;go's - you'll be hit and
make an emergency landing. Since you'll be 'practising' in a desert, you won't crash into something.
After you earn enough points, it's time to go back home. But of course, you'll have to pay for training (reintegration bill).
Fair enough, isn't it?

Actually, you could also simply buy a really cheap C172 instead of a thougher plane. All you have to do is take-off and do a 180 for landing
once your engine is killed by small armsfire. Much cheaper then a B52... don't forget that you'll need the money to transfer your pilot in
from your real company.

Phil

[DanSteph]

but you can also set a company with $US 700mo , of course the transfert "TO" will cost you money but
the transfert "from" will not cost you anything (or at least you don't care)

Dan

[fruitfly]

That company in Iraq (we better call it school for the sake of realism) is stuffed with money. Don't worry about it. It's sole purpose is to
educate your pilots in emergencies, so you don't have to maintain its economics. They readily cover all the expences and damages on their
planes. If (when) it bancrupts, you form another one. (They have their calculus with the Ministry of education[wink-wink - we all know what
Ministry it really is] so no probs with the money here! lol)
Therefore, why risk your pilot's life in a cessna? Like Clay has said, take a multiengine plane - the bigger - the safer - the better!
Should we be able just to purchase the points? (N.B. - not the hours, you can't do that anywhere ; it's called bribe and forgery! )
Well... that would reduce this 'schooling' to making two clicks with a mouse. And that's not the point.
Beside, all such schools have what's called a 'practical exam' , no? And it does include a small risk for the pilot. Not a big one, but still ...
you don't feel just the same when you know you will have to use all your knowledge and make a controlled crash landing.
And finally, Dan wouldn't have to engage himself with more programming.
So I think it's OK like it is. The ONLY thing is that I wouldn't like to be able (like now) to earn huge amount of points. Or - a different approach
- the value of the pilot should then increase enough to discourage us from using this to extreme. (You can earn 50000 points, but you won't
have enough money to bring your pilot back which will than make it senseless)



Post Edited ( 08-10-05 20:19 )