Question about Failures

[Jason]

I am in career mode and would like to ask a question about failure percentages, I hope i don't confuse anyone.

I have the failure settings set to 0 or none, i forget the name, but i have the percentage chance of random failures turned off in the
settings. What I need to clarify is that I STILL WANT failures, but ONLY as a result of improper aircraft treatment or maintenance. So in
career mode, if my aircraft is not 100%, say 95% for example. Does my 5% chance of failure actually apply, or is it void because my
settings in the menu have it turned off? I really don't want the possibility of random failures (yet) because I'm trying to grow to a thriving
business. But I do require (for a little bit of realism) that failures be present if I cannot maintain my aircraft.

Are my settings OK or do I need to set the settings to a minimum of 1% in order for my career mode failures to apply?

I tried a search but I suck at that so im sorry if this topic has been beaten to death.

Jason Smith

just promoted to c1, go Jason! hehe

[WBHoenig]

I think that the percentage is just for random failures. I know you can still get probs with war zones, obviously.

[Dutch64]

If you set failures off in the menu you won't get them. But you still need to do your maintenance because if not, you won't be able to fly your plane
anymore after a while.

[Jason]

Another question,

Having been a C-130 crew chief for a few years (air force) I know that things do randomly fail but seldom warrant declaring an IFE. Are all
failures (even easy) mandatory that you declare an IFE? Or can some be noticed but not declared an emergency? I have been reading,
and hopefully not to answer my own question there is text in the manual that even if the failure is minor, everything must be declared as
an emergency, where as in real life it may just be written up in the aircraft forms for the ground crew to fix after landing.

But since (based on Dutch64's reply) i won't get a chance of failure increase (assuming the setting is turned off) based on aircraft mx
required (economy mode) it is actually more realistic to set the 1% chance of random failure so that my chance of failure increases in
economy mode depending on mx actions. From my experience as a maintainer, i saw probably 20,000 total hours of flight from 10 C-
130's combined in 4 years, that 1% failure is lower than realistic (it's probably more like 3%, HOWEVER, 1% chance of failure requiring
declaration of an IFE is REALLY high. It would be more like 1 in 400 or more flights depending on the mission of the aircraft.

My experience is unique though, i was a maintainer for the AC-130H gunships and they got abused to all hell.

What are everyones random failures set to? And why? I would like as real of an environment as possible, any input is really really
appreciated!!!!

Jason

[Dutch64]

I think in real life chance of failures are 0.00001% or so. But in the sim i have it set to 2%, that way (to me) failures are unexpected and fun. But
that number will differ for everyone

[Covoxer]

I would explain it this way.
In economy mode you have 50x income/expence multiplier. Right?
It means that one flight in FsP means the same as 50 flights in reality.
So, if you set 5% failures in FsP, it would represent: 5/50=0.1% rate in reality (that means 1 failure for 1000 flights).
I think it's a bit higher but still close to real failure rates.
Setting 1% would mean 0.02% in reality that is 1 failure for 5000 flights. Nice, huh?
What do you think?

[Dynamo]

To an earlier poster;

I am not sure if you need to declare every emergency. I have had two (that I survived, I had another decompression problem - but I
overstressed on decent).

My 1st emergency was that my flaps got stuck on landing at appr (I was in a baron 58 - so not a big deal). I didn't declare, and I think I got
a warning in the debrief and was penalised - even though I considered it to be a very minor problem (flaps were suitable for landing but
were frozen - I was on short finals).

2nd failure was that one of my wheels didnt lock. I decided to declare this - and it was the right choice, but I managed to do about 3 heavy
touch and goes to fix the problem. Hence the problem resolved itself, so I probably could have made do without calling a mayday.

So for the sake of not getting penalised I declare as soon as something goes wrong.

Is there a list anywhere that tells you what consitutes and emergency and what doesn't?

Regarding not having failures on because you want to develop your business. You will get bonuses if you deal with an emergency
correctly - which is not too hard to do. Having it on 1% will give very few failures - and it makes flights more interesting.

[Stentor]

I vary my setting depending on circumstances, if I have just set up everything for a longish flight on VATSIM I turn the failures off, if I am only
doing shortish flights I set it between 1% and 5% and have had only one failure so far with the gear.
It would be good if it was related to maintainance as well, i.e you forget to do the post flight, automatically sets a failure chance of 1% which is
not resetable until the maintaince is done, forget it twice it goes to 3% three times 10% or something like that, that way you would get a real
penalty for not keeping up. Of course the cost of mx is pretty low if you start with a rich company, but for a small struggling airline, it might be
different.

It seems that there is potential to expand this aspect at least.

[Dutch64]

Stentor, not sure if this is what you mean but if the maintenance of your aircraft is not well, the chance of failures will increase...

Keep in mind that some failures only happen after a couple of hours in flight and some failures like gear and engines won't happen on fixed gear,
single engine planes So the precentage is just a percentage, a chance, not a certainty

[Jason]

Guys,

Just wanted to say that this is the best addon EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER.

Yeah so I'm going to go tweak settings a bit



Jason

[Jason]

Company setting:
-Company with economic management (you must buy aircraft)
-Fleet income: yes. (income from other aicraft you own)
-Career mode ON (pilots rank limit aircraft type)
-Recording of flight is automatic (hard "instant death" mode)
-Flight number: "SC" (ex: "SC865")
-Fixed failure percentage: no (set by option)
-Fixed failure level: No (set by option)



Here are my companies settings. Under the FsP settings I set failures to 1%. But what does set by option mean? I can't remember if I
left the failure settings unchecked or if I intentionally selected none for my company.

With "set by option" as my choice, if i were to change the failure settings in the FsP menu, does it affect my company? or am I doomed to
start over?

Also would anyone happen to know how to modify the company config file to change it if I had to?

[Covoxer]

Also would anyone happen to know how to modify the company config file to change it if I had to?

I can do this, but it is considered a cheat.
Dan can do this too of course, but he will definately not, simply because he is way too busy...
So...

[Jason]

I can do this, but it is considered a cheat.

Is it considered a cheat by FsP or by you? Because perhaps it wouldn't be a cheat if I need to edit the file to make a setting harder rather
than easier

Jason

[DBE]

FsP itself won't notice it.

Covoxer probably meant that any editing of the base databases wouln't be kosher..

[Jason]

I know that i can just create a new company and tranfer my pilot. My dilema is that I've created a company that I have grown very fond of
and am now attached somewhat lol.

This addon is too addicting.