Pilot Career Add-on for FSP

[Airliner]

Final teaser:

This the final airline list for the beta:

Lakes Aviation - Fictitious School
Advantage Aviation - School
RetroMetro - Fictitious School
White Mountain Tours - Fictitious out of Laconia, New Hampshire
Cape & Isles - Fictitious Out of New Bedford, MA
Sunshine AirTours - Fictitious out of Orlando, Sanford, Florida
Rockies Tours - Fictitious out of Denver (BJC), Colorado
AirTran Airways
Allegiant Airlines
Aloha Airlines
American Trans Air
Big Sky Airlines (commuter)
Cape Air (commuter)
Chautauqua Airlines (regional)
Colgan Air (commuter)
Comair (regional)
Commutair (commuter)
ExpressJet (regional)
Frontier Airlines
Great Lakes Airlines (commuter)
Gulfstream International Airlines (commuter)
Hawaiian airlines
Hooters Airlines
JetBlue Airways
Mesa Airlines (regional)
Midwest Airlines
Piedmont Airlines (regional)
Shuttle America (commuter)
Skywest Airlines (regional)
Song - by Delta
Southwest Airlines
Spirit Airlines
Sun Country Airlines
TED - by United
Trans States Airlines (regional)
World Airways (long haul)
Federal Express (cargo - short, medium and long haul)
Airborne Express (cargo - short and medium haul)

[jboweruk]

Sounds sweet, really gonna slow down progress through the ranks though.

[Jetflyer]

There's no way anyone's going to have 5000 hours just before flying only a A300-600 though, so why dont you make more realistic
requirements for a pilot of jets, such as 500 hours before flying an A300-600, 800 hours before flying an A330/777 and 1000 hours before
you fly a 747?

[Airliner]

I hear y'all about the hours. Three things about that. First, I did say that I didn't have the actual figures in front of me so 5000 is made up.
Second, this is why I asked if anyone has some real numbers to put them up and third, no matter what the max values are, you can
always use the difficulty adjustment to reduce those values. The goal is to have as close to reality as possible for those who want to
spend the rest of their lives in real time stuck on FS9 (Ha!) but also to have the adjustment to speed things along. For example, if it really
takes 1000 hours to fly a 747, that number can be reduced by the adjustment to 100. In the same way, a 100 hour adjustment could be
brough as low as 10, etc.

Now, on to flight plans - EDIT: Now, on to MORE flight plans.

Note: I'm making an Excel file that can be used to easily edit the plans and another for aircraft files so anyone can edit their own to their
desired setup.

[Airliner]

I just checked th numbers I have here:

A306 required hours = 500 on MEJ
B744 required hours = 1150 on MEJ (that's the highest)

So at full easy level, that would mean A306 = 50 hours MEJ; B744 = 115 hours MEJ

I think I pulled the 5000 from the cost to certify (I read somewhere that those can run anywhere from $5,000 to $35,000).

[jboweruk]

That's pretty decent mate. Go for it, sounds great.

[Jetflyer]

Excellent, it sounds promising. Now I just can't wait to see it in the downloads section!

[Jetflyer]

Have you uploaded it yet?

[42jeff]

Since you're including fictional airlines...I can get you the schedule for Sandpiper Air out of Nantucket.....

[jeffrey11190]

i WILL fly for Hooters Air!!!!!! its my DREAM!

[Airliner]

42jeff wrote:
Since you're including fictional airlines...I can get you the schedule for Sandpiper Air out of Nantucket.....

That would be awesome! I've actually been looking for that one! I loved that show!

I hope to finish up the data files tonight/this morning (overnight shift) so we'll see. I have everything with me at work including the installer
setup. The payscale grid is here so I can plug in salaries, etc. It's now just a matter of sticking enough data in there to get things going.

Yeeha! :D

[Airliner]

One quick note: I think I can very painlessly incorporate a raise setup in here as well. Meaning, if you start out with an airline making say,
35,000/year and increase in rank, you will get a pay increase with each step up.

Okay, gotta finish these plans!

[Airliner]

Update: Actually, there is no Pilot Career Addon - I made the whole thing up just to boost my post count! :O

KIDDING!

Seriously, 12 airlines to go - the plans are all done - just need to adjust salaries and requirements. I should be done in about an hour or
less, depending on how busy things get here.

This means, I may upload very soon - I'll post when I do.

If it takes longer, it may be another day, as I just upgraded my home computer to Athlon64 and need to reinstall everything clean, so I'd
have to "disk it" and finish up tomorrow night. Either way, it'll be up by Friday.

Again, I must stress this is a BETA - no bells and whistles - no pretty images and some of the features are disabled because they are
incomplete. But, at least we can give it a shake-down.

[DeCarvalho]

Can you add some Portuguese airliners like TAP, Hifly (former Air luxor), Sata ( very good with regional flights in azores)?

[Airliner]

DeCarvalho wrote:
Can you add some Portuguese airliners like TAP, Hifly (former Air luxor), Sata ( very good with regional flights in azores)?

Please read the whole thread.

Okay, I just finished the flight plans! Now, a quick instruction thing and it's off to installer-land and then UPLOAD!

If I haven't stressed it enough yet - BETA only! Please do bring comments about setup, numbers, etc. I plan on doing a full US airline
setup for the final product, with logos, plus activate the features still incomplete. I will also include SOME European, Australian, etc.
airlines but limited. I'll let others have a go at making the more detailed plans and then we can dump them altogether. I just don't have
all that much time but, I'll squeeze in what I can. Eventually, 'd like a worldwide airline database in there but that will also need the search
parameters features and the airline viewer - both of which are incomplete but inside the program already.

Give me about an hour to get it uploaded. I'll post once more after it's up.

Note: Along with domestic stuff, we can include military flights as well - patrols, cargo and refuel flights, etc. Later for that.



Post Edited ( 03-23-06 16:29 )