How to tell other planes where to fly?

[civileng68]

If I buy another plane and have it flying seperately, how do I determine it's flight paths while I'm working on my own personal career?

[JayKae]

You cannot do that in FsP, there is no predetermined flightplan for your other planes, they just generate money for you regardless of any
other factors

[civileng68]

So all I need to do is buy it and it makes money?

Do I need to tell the system that it's ok to be flown or what?

[Ryanamur]

It's all done automatically.

Your fleet will only make money if the following conditions are met:

1- the flight that you flew made money
2- your pax were satisfied
3- your fleet aircraft are in good condition (no need of maintenance ie: too damaged to fly, all 25hrs/100hrs checks up to date)

Keep in mind that these are not real flights performed by your aircraft... it's only a bonus to compensate you for your good performance and for
building a successful company.

[JayKae]

You beat me to it Ryan

[JaWood]

I other words, the program multiplies your final income by 50 to simulate that there were 50 other similar flights flown by your company. This is to help you simulate running a company with many flights a day. Heaven knows you don't want to actually fly all 50 flights your company makes every day. I love flight simming, but that's getting rediculous!!



Post Edited ( 07-11-05 08:31 )

[jboweruk]

I naturally assumed if you have a small company with only 9 total planes (as I do) then the 50X multiplier was the money you set aside to
invest in other companies and stock. Hence helping (just as in real life) to keep your company afloat through the difficult times.

[Ryanamur]

No, the x50 is for the flight that you flew... you wouldn't go far if you only got $300 for a 2-hour flight... that's why that $300 is multiplied by
50 to give you a final income from that flight of : $15'000.

The fleet income then adjusts the $15'000 to generate an income from ALL the eligible aircrafts in your fleet. Dan knows the exact formula but I
believe that, for now, it looks like this

(Flight income / Aircraft weight) x Aircraft weigth of eligible flight aircraft = Fleet income

Why not multiply by the number of seats in the fleet? Because it would have been too complicated to look at all the aircraft in the world to find out
what they can carry... therefore Dan used the aircraft weight as an indicator of capacity