Airline Micro Management - aka MyVA

[WBHoenig]

Will it integrate w/ FsP, or be it's own addon? An addon for and addon.

Oh and looking at the below:

I guess what Im asking, is there any functionality currently in FsPassengers other than VA
exporting that will allow me to grab and use completed flight data? Preferably a parsed
text file would be optimal. As it stands, I am just having the user enter the data from the
flight report manually.

FsP exports a RTF of the last flight report to the main FsP directory, if that helps at all.



Post Edited ( 12-14-05 04:54 )

[Sovek]

one suggestion if I may, get missions to got to random places around the world based on aircraft you have,

[JamesM]

William,

The addon will have integration with FsP, but will also stand alone as well, allowing the user to enter data manually, or from FS9 itself
However, this integration will be one of the last things on the list of things I need to do. I have been in contact with Dan, and he will help
me with getting what data I need from FsP.

Sovek,

I am planning to incorporate a Charter Flight option, that will randomly create Charter flights to choose from. There will be three types of
airline: Chartered On Call (touring/sight seeing company etc), Chartered Seasonal (vacation type airline like Air Transat), and Full
Scheduled. However, Full scheduled airlines will be able to still charter flights for special events, disaster relief, charities, etc.

Jamie

[jboweruk]

Nice, even British Airways run Charter services, their 747 trip into the Air Tattoo at Fairford here in the UK being a superb example.

[Airliner]

"I am planning on having it update the traffic bgl's with your airline's
routes in one step, so that you can see the AI in FS2k4 flying the very routes you have created."

Thief - I never should have shared that idea.

[JamesM]

Airliner,

Sorry! I didnt mean to be a theif! But it is one hell of a great idea! No worries, I give credit where credit is due!

Quote from PM from me to Airliner:
"just wanted to add, I was reading one of your posts and it gave me a great idea: When I
build the routing portion I will lean heavily on the traffic bgl, so that the user can see his
airline flying his routes in the sim.... great idea, thanks!"

I hope you don't mind If you do, let me know!

Cheers,

Jamie

[Airliner]

I was half joking, as indicated by the smiley thing. (Yeah, that thing!)

No worries. I'm still working on developing mine anyway. However, I don't think I'll be able to generate ALL the passenger loads in the
way I originally intended. I wanted to run a formula that would generate demands for all citypairs, then run preference checks for each
individual pax to search all flights possible before booking a routing. Well, I ran a test the other day to setup a file that would be the
equivalent of what I wanted to do and it crashed because it was going to be about 97GB! Ah, that won't do! Either way, mine is mostly
an airline simulation that can link to FS9. Right now I'm using all the defaults only - Airwave Airlines, PAcifica, etc and their fleets. The
traffic bgl generation is done and was VERY easy to do. The whole thing will be customizable so that anyone can use a few editors to
link the aircraft, airlines and airports in my sim to FS9. The editors were done about a week ago. The big thing is still the AI logic.

Which brings up a question - will yours be something that allows you to manage your airline and has whatever AI traffic the user has
installed? The "MyVA" kinda implies that. Anyway, mine will have all the airlines involved making decisions about what routes to fly and
when, what frequency, what aircraft, etc. Then it will ALL be fed into the flightplan generator and compiled as a traffic bgl. So everytime
you run a "turn" on the airline sim, it will update your traffic file for FS9. You might leave FS9 at KBOS and see a UA B752 from KORD
sitting on the ramp and return to find they have switched to A320's, or maybe, you'll see FL parked somewhere they didn't fly to last turn.

Well, that's enough of that. Babbling again!

[WBHoenig]

Is that the new name? MyVA? I like it.

[Nickio]

Hey James!

Im in Aviation Managment going for my degree in Embry Riddle, let me know if you need help with the technical aspects of managment.

I would like to help you with your idea, i think its great and will add a whole new world to FS04.

If you would like to work together let me know at Nick_air18@hotmail.com

Thanks.
Nick