My Fictitious Airline for FsP

[Shane Herbel]

Hi JaWood, This is exactly what is so great about FsP, There is a massive opertunity to feel like your Flight Simming actually means
something. I am glad you have taken the time to make a really nice Virtual Airline. Another thing you can do while you anticipate the
release of FsPassengers is to make sure you have the correct fuel loads for each flight. As you may or may not know with FsP you set 3
major settings before each flight being Passengers, Cargo and Fuel. Most people would say this is easy BUT as in real life these three
things are taken into strict consideration before a flight. You cannot over-load your aircraft and you must have one extra flying time in your
tanks or FsP will take this into account when it produces your flight report. So the great thing here is if I put too much fuel into my tanks
before a flight I dont leave enough room for Cargo and Passengers, and it would be a bad idea to over-load your aircraft as the
consequences could be devistating. This is why FsP is so genious.

Hers what I do,
I fly Qantas Airways from Brisbane (YBBN) to Sydney (YSSY):
I fly the 767-336 which Qantas flies in real life daily, the flying time for this flight is 55minutes (1 hour , 20 minutes including taxiing etc.)
At present I have a 86.76% popularity rating with FSP which means I have 86.76% of total seats booked on any given flight.
So at the moment I can fill the plane with Cargo (which is good money) but I can only have 209 passengers out of a possible
244 (thats until my rating gets better). This leaves my with with at 76% of full capacity. I can now fill the tanks (roughly 38% tank capacity)
to make the total aircraft weight to 100% So I have enough fuel for the flight with one extra flying time to spare but only just. When my
popularity rating gets higher and more people will buy tickets for my flights I am going to have a problem ( but a problem I am looking
forward too). I will have to either take some cargo off the plane(there goes my extra income) or I may have to have less passengers.

I can go on and on and on about the interesting things that FsP has made me deal with. ITS BEAUTIFUL...