[closed] FsPassengers for FSX official note and Blog !

[benjaminhuff]

SpeedE: In the next 4 to 10 months. You may want to read all of the posts in this message link to find the new features and the benefits of
FSP to your Sim Flight experience.

[Atlantic Airways]

An feature from XPax wich i would love having implented:

What about givin Pax. Health from 100, and then when an hard landing is executed then a passenger (i mean if it is REALLY hard) may loose 1 point! or
if they get an decompression sickness then the Healt will drop as time goes by and so on!

And if the person is old the |-|ealth will reduced to the surtain level of |-|ealth!

Just an idea!

[DanSteph]

If you have a decompression pax healt is already taken in account, don't descend when this happen and look the
passengers list. Some will be listed as sick.

UPDATE: working on technicall stuff and small fix this is why there is not much big news.
Radio autopilot and nav stuff now depend on avionic bus instead of master avionic switch.
(radio chatter, input data by keyboard)

As said in another post now you can start a flight with heli and float aircraft without problem.

I recovered the last "special feature" of FsP (not available by SDK or simmconnect), getting turbulence value
this was the last "special" stuff of FsP 04 that was missing. (hurray)

I've got ride of almost all simconnect stuff the only feature depending of simconnect is now save/restore
flight (for no warp feature), I'll see at beta time if all my workaround are rock solid , if yes I may find another way to save/restore and
completely disable simconnect. This will be better because from what I've read simconnect is not very reliable
and the fact that there is three versions doesn't help at all. Either I stick with SP1 and simconnect is a total nonsense
as it communicate by network (slow and firewall problem) either I compile with SP2 but in this case FsPX would not work
with SP1. (which many peoples still have as SP2 is not very reliable either)

Still making my way to adapt all "special feature" to SP1/SP2/XPACK.
So, to be clear: appart RTM (original version) theorically FsPX will work on all current version: SP1,SP2 and acceleration.

Dan



Post Edited ( 03-22-08 13:05 )

[Diddlo_d]

Hey Dan,

Do we have any indication at all on an ETA for FSP FSX? All looks great and i myself can't wait for programme to be finished. Do you have a rough estimation of when it will be released?

Appreciate all of your hard work as it probably seems like a never ending task.

Matt

[LeChuck]

Hi Dan! Great Job on FsPassengers. It really give Flight Sim a new level.
I always do short haul, it´s better for me, but I found a little thing that I don´t like. When using time compression, the "flight time" computes like
if I fly the route on real time. The problem is that I really want to know what real Flight Time I have, then the only solution to me is not to use
Time Compression. So, what I ask you is:
Are there any posibilities of having two "time flight" for the pilots? So:
Flight Time: 2h 30m
Flight Time With Compression: 5h 30m
So now you can decide what time you like to get new ranks.
Bye Dan Awesome Job!

[jeffreycor]

LeChuck, you might have PS set to system time rather than flight time. I have mine on flight time and it gives me how long it would take
including compression, ie 5h flight shows up as 5h even if it only takes 1h 30m real time.

[Aksakhirn]

Hi Dan / All !!

Well it's great to see that things growing very hard & strong !!! And still so hard to wait for FSP X release !!!

Just a little question about the lot of things posted there, specially about the VIP feature : is it possible and not too hard to make the VIP
stuff avalaible when a trigger is reached ??

What I mean is that this stuff should be avalaible only after a quota of flown hours and if the company has a good enough reputation ratio.

What do you think about it ? Is it possible to do it easily and quickly ??

Also it would be great to have specials stuffs like specials services on board avalaible for vip's filghts !
But it should be stronger to make it...

Cheers to all,
See ya soon,
Good luck Dan finishing the FSX 4th Dimension !!!!



Post Edited ( 03-25-08 11:00 )

[DanSteph]

About "real" flight time I have put it in my "todo" list (no promise, if it's simple/fast to do I'll include it in pilot's information if it take longer I'll
give up)

About "VIP" I stated I'll not do it, this is to much specific and would require to much changes for something that you can do already with
only a bit of imagination and a VIP payload model.

I plan a very first alpha release (first release of incomplete software) within one week, I'll see and report how it goes. (Please don't ask
about it, I'll release only to some friends) I hope this will show if the core is good or need rework.

Cheers

Dan



Post Edited ( 03-25-08 17:50 )

[ameval]

Nice to hear so many updates keep it up!

[DanSteph]

LeChuck wrote:
Flight Time: 2h 30m
Flight Time With Compression: 5h 30m
So now you can decide what time you like to get new ranks.
Bye Dan Awesome Job!

Flight rank will not be changed at all and will remaine based on Fs's flight time.
Anyway I just tested it's possible to compute the real flight time (spend in front of your computer)
and display it in pilot information dialog. Something like:

Players's real flight time: hh:mm:ss (airborne w/o time acceleration)

How does it sound ?

Dan

[Atlantic Airways]

GReat To Hear Dan! FInally after so much waiting!

Keep up the great work!

[runibl]

Great to see good progress Dan. Hopefully the Alpha testing will go well.

[Capt. Wotan]

Flight rank will not be changed at all and will remaine based on Fs's flight time.
Anyway I just tested it's possible to compute the real flight time (spend in front of your computer)
and display it in pilot information dialog. Something like:

Players's real flight time: hh:mm:ss (airborne w/o time acceleration)

How does it sound ?

Hey Dan,

I don't post much but have been around since the begining.

Please make that option optional. I often use time compression, and I like the current system.

Thanks
Ian

[DanSteph]

Capt. Wotan wrote:
Please make that option optional. I often use time compression, and I like the current system.

I was thinking about making it optional as it "spoil" somewhat the "realism" of flight report and pilot stats.
Anyway it's just a display. No impact on rank or point or whatewer.

Dan

[Ali310]

hmm sounds good so far would be interesting to know how much time you actually spend on the PC. and if you don't use time
compression, then you get reminded of that fact and can think "yay I spend more time than I really should, but I'm not lazy" or something

and you said some close friends - something tells me I'm not one of those xD oh well. got my beer so I'm happy :P