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Hi, this question is the most asked one and with the SimBrief improvements we have in v7 this matter become critical ... Here you can find the basics about the logic and how to setup your fares/subfleets/flights properly. 1. Main Fares You can define your fares in admin/fares. These will be your main fare types, which will then be used in your subfleets or flights. The main idea here is to define only the basics, so you can change them later when needed. Think fares like the seats in your plane (or cargo space), which can be sold as tickets. They are not in flight services or extended service types like WiFi, Hot Meals, Extra Snacks, Economy Premiu…
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Image says it all Source is https://www.iata.org/en/publications/economics/fuel-monitor/ Just a reminder; You can NOT change internal units in phpvms v7, so even if you want to have fuel units displayed in KGS this will NOT change the price you should be entering in admin area. Hope this helps
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Hi, This is technically not a guide, but an overall explanation of v7 systems related to automation and why CRON is needed etc. What is CRON ? Basically CRON is the name of "Scheduled Tasks" in Linux systems. Imagine it like a person executing tasks in behalf of you, a helper or an automation. Why it is needed and important ? Well, if you want to execute every single script needed for automation then you do not need it, but most of us do not have that much free time, specially we can not be online 24/7 to click some links every single minute or at best every hour. So CRON is important because it does exactly this…
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Ok, this is the second part of my guides. I got a lot of questions about them, how to define, how to make them compatible with SimBrief, how do the real companies handle different types or configs etc. etc. And unfortunately I see some PhpVms friends having struggle with defining them. So what is it ? All airlines do have aircrafts, we call them fleets. But most of the airlines do have different types of aircrafts under their fleets, imagine like having both Airbus A320 and Boeing B737-800 at the same time flying for the same airline. Then you need some "Subfleets" to separate them during operations. And things got really messy when those aircrafts have differ…
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I think, this will be the last of my guides for v7. Below you can see the pre-defined expenses or expense categories; Subfleet Block Hour Cost Subfleet Delay Cost (per minute) Fuel Cost ( 100LL , Mogas , JetA1 ) Ground Handling Cost Pilot Salary Fare Cost Ok, but what are they ? How realistic are they or how they can be used to get something similar to real world. Well, that's the main problem Subfleet Block Hour Cost Actually this is the aircraft block hour cost, it is the cost to operate an aircraft and for ease it is defined in subfleet level (like many other things) and entered hourly b…
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I do get lots of personal messages/questions about this, "ok I installed v7 what next ?" Here you may find your answer, if not do not hesitate to ask (not personally but via forum so everyone can benefit from the answer) 0. Which version should I download and install ? Definitely NOT beta4 ! Please download and install LATEST DEVELOPMENT ( in short terms dev or latest dev) build, it is much more stable compared to beta4 and have many improvements. If you install beta4 and have some errors (you will have them for sure), the first reply to your support question will be "install latest dev". 1. How do I install v7 ? Please do check docs…
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Good day everyone, My virtual airline is doing a feasibility study and research of options for next year's migration plans. We have been using VAFS for the better part of a decade. We like phpVMS' stability, control and flexibility, in addition to being compatible with SmartCARS. However, starting the VA from scratch is out of the question, therefore migrating as much data over is a key consideration. To this end, I have searched but found no information on how to import existing PIREPs (not flight schedules) and pilot accounts into phpVMS. We have a programmer that can take VAFS PIREPs and parse them into any format, CSV or otherwise, requ…
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Hi all, I am looking at the possibility of starting a VA using phpVMS (looks really good!). Is it possible and/or productive to run the software on a Raspberry Pi 4B? I have been able to run applications on it before like Apache2, MariaDB, php, WordPress, etc etc. I am not sure though if phpVMS has any other specific machine requirements. I wouldn't expect to be hosting a huge VA or even permanent on a Pi. But somewhere to start until such time an upgrade may be needed. (EDIT: another question. how much mass storage is ideal, either RP4 or a "normal" computer? How much storage expansion could I potentially expect to use overtime with PIREPs being s…
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Hi all, We have just started an airline and went with pounds and dollars to begin with because it made everything straightforward. We're considering switching to kilograms and euros though - and wondered if anybody else has switched - and what was involved. I'm guessing we would need to take the airline offline while doing it, and run some queries to convert all of the weights, rates, etc across all of the affected tables. As I said - wondering if anybody else has already done it in the past.
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Some time ago I created my own program to bulk generate flight information (for VABase) - and have been thinking about doing the same for phpVMS - to work out for a given aircraft on a given direct route, how long it would take - which can then be used to auto-populate scheduled flights in one go (e.g. with 5 airlines, 10 fleet groups,100 aircraft, and 50 airports around the world, generate the thousands of sensible looking flights taking off and landing within sensible hours, with fairly accurate time calculations based on aircraft performance. I just wondered if anybody else has done this - to save re-inventing the wheel.
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Hello! I have setup a cargo flight with the Boeing 377, but it loses money. What is the best way or the right way to setup my cargo fleet? Thank you.
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Hello. Is it possible to add the live acars map on a page out side of the dashboard of the phpvms 7? My home page out side of the main phpvms file structure in the public_html folder, I would like it if I was able to add the acars map to the home page. Thank you for your time.
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I like the division by tabs of the downloads section but I would like to make some suggestions as to what could be done to give a sub-division of the section like Aircraft Having all the Aircraft you can download from the Virtual Airline on what amounts to one page gives rise to fragmentation as repaints get done. You can start with an A320 repaint and do other types and then come back to another A320. It would be nice to be able to have subdirectories so that you can slot your aircraft into the same place as all the other A320's. As a precursor to this many Virtual Airlines support different simulators as does PHPVMS so it seems logical to have a major tab for each…
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I have a Navigraph Simbrief API, Stasrting to build my fleet and flight schedule. Can some one explain at a high level what that workflow looks like, do I need to create things over at simbrief that match something in phpvms, what does the piloit see and what does the pilot do to interact with all that? Do they need to be logged in to Simbrief so things happen accordingly....Trying to understand how to guide my pilots but I too am lost, hard to guide 🙂 -Nacman
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When importing a flight will the flight distance be calculated during the import? I tried both a 0 in the field and also leaving it blank in the import file, but the distance was not calculated when viewing the flight on the admin page after the import. Thanks, Bryan
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Hi everyone Is there any possibility of STOP pilots doing unnecessary holdings which only purpose is to be AFK, nothing against with that, but question here is that such holding time ( in some cases of 1 & 2 hours ) are counting as flying hours which is not fare in my opinion. regards
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Can anyone help me with the Crazy Creative Premium Miles Module. I would like to display each pilot total miles on another page. Can someone help me with the snippet to call that piece of data.
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What is the correct version to download, on the gethub I'm seeing alpha1, alpha2, beta 1, 2, 3, 4?
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I have recently joined airasia virtual. AVA uses phpVMS for the tracking of flights. I'm trying to download and setup this but don't know how to do. Can anybody help me? My email is zabeed@yahoo.com. Thanks
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Is there a free acars you can use with phpvms 7 until i can afford the paid version?
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Is there anyone that can help me install Phpvms7, I'm really struggling with it.
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Hi! I am thinking to get phpVMS + Domain + Hosting + SSL for my new VA. Would anyone be interested in helping me set it all up and designing the website template?
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I tried to put this ID 109.203.107.26 on the Domain freightdogcargo.org but it wouldn't let me. Now I can't even get on vmshost.io for support ticket help. Can support put this ID to replace the current one? If done, this content can be deleted. Thanks, Tim Farrell, FDC1601 freightdogcargo.org
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The title of this question at first glance might seem a little odd, but let me explain In PHPVMS V7 there is a large scale and very useful integration with SIMBRIEF and as such the Route for a flight is often passed for example to the Acars from the simbrief OFP. Likewise when you look at the briefing for your flight level for FMC MCDU input it is there in the detail of each flight leg. So to set the question is to what value in PHPVMS V7 is having anything in the route field of a flight have with the rest of the system . Yes it gets sent to Simbrief and is used to generate the OPF but Simbrief will give you a flight plan route if there is nothing to …
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Hi! Is phpvms still in development? Seems v7 is in beta since 2020.
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Given that one of the hardest jobs in setting up a virtual airline is sorting out schedules that work well , alongside the subfleet and aircraft to fly the routes. Now if you have MSFS 2020 and the FS_TRAFFIC add-on it comes with a good set of schedules that you can copy and use with some coding to make all the data for your airline. The Departures folder can be found in the following place Community\justflight-fstraffic-module\Data\Schedules. The Arrivals folder can be found in the following placeCommunity\justflight-fstraffic-module\Data\Schedules folder\Arrivals folder An example of the schedule for EINN is attached and you can see from the d…
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Following a successful build and launch of my new PHPVMS V7 Virtual Airline Virtualairhygge. (http://virtualairhygge.com) I would personally like to thank Nabeel for creating the software in the first place and to all those who have been busy sorting out the bugs and adding value to the base package. One name however stands out from all the extra bits and pieces and we all know him as the 'DISPOSABLE HERO' . I have his theme and the basic and advanced modules and if you think that what you get in the advanced module is not worth the 50 Euros donation then you are completely wrong. Firstly he is not making the money for himself it is for helping …
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Just wondering if anyone has tweaked the Live Map icons to match certain types of aircraft? Currently, the commercial jet is shown but we operate DC3, DC6, B350, etc., and would like to display based on the actual aircraft. Thanks in advance.
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Hello Pilots, I'm trying to download the latest dev version. However, when I click to download, I get no download. Do you have any suggestions for me? Also, do you know if this software functions in today's web hosting?
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I have noticed that if you restrict pilots to aircraft by rank and by type rating, aircraft subfleet without a type rating assigned won't show up. So can you only use one of these options unless you assign type rates to every aircraft? Then you would have to assign every pilot type ratings for every aircraft. Type ratings in the US are only necessary for aircraft over 12500 if I remember correctly. Thanks for any advice.
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