I am thinking of having Hub managers competing with revenue, would it be possible to use a drop down menu to select revenue profit / loss from an individual hub?
I am thinking of having Hub managers competing with revenue, would it be possible to use a drop down menu to select revenue profit / loss from an individual hub?
This is a good idea. Iāll look into this.
How about something that will not allow a pilot to fly aircraft out of their rank privledges?
so the new guy canāt even select a 747 on day one. Perhaps canāt bid out that flight either.
Yeah, thereās some ideas of doing the tests to get to ranks and stuff. Will have to plan it though
Would it be possible to make it possible for the administration to Add and Edit Awards and prizes for people that move up a rank or for people that reach an hour milestone. Maybe a cash bonus and/or some corny trophy icons etc. displayed on a pilot awards page in their profile. Alsoā¦What if you were to have a pilot leaderboard that displays superior pilots in rank,hours,pay,miles flown,flights flown,Web activity etc. .
Here is an option to maybe add:
Pilots hours for the month for certain hubsā¦so hub managers can keep track of whos making the hours and whatnot.
This could show under a general airline stats page, with other general informationā¦could include a āshort about usā, contact us info such as airline email, total hours this is the part above divide into parts - all hours - then hub hours. As well as other information that could be usefull, almost like a stats page, would be very nice to have like the other pagesā¦
I like the awards and extra stats ideas. Iāve added them to the issue tracker
Also i was talking to you about adding a search function to the Search form so you would be able to just search by Hub. This would maybe make its a little neater to search by only hub so you can see all flights that lead into and out of this hub.
Well I got a few ideas for the system. Here they are:
Flight Assignments - You could make the systems so that admins have the ability to assign certain flights to pilots, the flights dont necessarily have to be in the schedule. For example maintaince flights for aircraft.
Percentage bar on the flight map - You could include a little percentage bar like the one on vafs on the live flight map to show how much of the flight has been completed.
Economy, Executive Class etc. - You could allow the system to have different fares on routes for the different classes and also make an auto generate function for the fares.
Aircraft Seat Configurations - Could allow the admins to make certain configurations for their aircraft when their adding an aircraft to the fleet. For example, say iām adding an A320 to my fleet. I could set the total number of seats to 150 and then 138 seats in Lovebird Economy Class and 12 seats in Executive Business Class.
Route Map - A nice route map like the one Virtual WestJet uses would be great. Heres a link to the one Virtual WestJet uses http://www.virtualwestjet.org/flash/routemap/Virtual.WestJet.RouteMap.zip Even if one this advanced couldnt be made a cool route map could be done.
Messaging system - A messaging system where Pilots could send messages to fellow pilots or admins, Admins could send messages to pilots or other admins would be great.
Flight Frequency(How often flights should be done) - Iāve asked Nabeel about this alot of times and the answer has always been the same, āThis can be done in the notesā. In my opinion that is not enough. The staff/admins should be able to tick which days flights should be done. It gives it a more official feeling especially when pilots are bidding for flights. You could also allow the pilots to Bid for flights on Certain day instead of just bidding a flight and doing it whenever.
More detail to the financial aspect - I believe you should take a leaf out of VAFs book. They simulated real world finances perfectly. With all the expences and everything, landing fees, ground handling fees etc. Also I think you should control the fuel prices so each va has an accurate, realistic fuel price just like VAFs does.
All these ideas would increase the realism in the system significantly, except for the route map, each va owner could get route maps done on their own.
The map you posted is a Flash Image, Meaning this was painstakingly created in Adobe Flash. This could never be auto generated using php,xml,msxml etc. .
Anything is possibleā¦
No. That isnt. Philosphy doesnt get you anywhere with .flaās and ActionScript. Everything else on your list is possible(to an extent), but the routemap is out of question unless you make it yourself in Flash. Also, visit the tutorials section and view Nabeels videos, He describes how to build a routemap module that uses the GoogleMap API and he also includes the files for download.
Well I got a few ideas for the system. Here they are:
Flight Assignments - You could make the systems so that admins have the ability to assign certain flights to pilots, the flights dont necessarily have to be in the schedule. For example maintaince flights for aircraft.
For now they have to be in the schedule. Not a priority
Percentage bar on the flight map - You could include a little percentage bar like the one on vafs on the live flight map to show how much of the flight has been completed.
I donāt have any data to base percentage on. FSACARS doesnāt supply it. I could fudge it, itās a possibility
Economy, Executive Class etc. - You could allow the system to have different fares on routes for the different classes and also make an auto generate function for the fares.
Aircraft Seat Configurations - Could allow the admins to make certain configurations for their aircraft when their adding an aircraft to the fleet. For example, say iām adding an A320 to my fleet. I could set the total number of seats to 150 and then 138 seats in Lovebird Economy Class and 12 seats in Executive Business Class.
Too complex. And thereās no stoppage - you can conceivably have n number of classes for y number of aircraft, or x number of flights. I said average to indicate that across all classes, tickets will be an average across all classes. Itās not a priority to drill down to that level of detail when across most VAs, itās not a requirement. Many VAs use FSPax to dictate seats and classes.
You can also indicate these stats (since thatās all they really are), on a page. In the end, the system will derive an average (as it does for many values). This doesnāt diminish the perceieved realism (maybe just to you, but this isnāt build just for you). Everyone I have asked has no problem with this (havenāt heard otherwise from anyone else either)
Route Map - A nice route map like the one Virtual WestJet uses would be great. Heres a link to the one Virtual WestJet uses http://www.virtualwestjet.org/flash/routemap/Virtual.WestJet.RouteMap.zip Even if one this advanced couldnt be made a cool route map could be done.
Thereās an EXE in that zip. Iām not going to open it. Donāt post EXE files.
Anyway, the tools are there to create a route map thatās as sophisticated as you want. You can do it through the API rather easy (watch the tuts). Iāve seen someone create a route map, using flash, completely using the API, pulling the routes and airport data (I donāt remember who did it now)
Messaging system - A messaging system where Pilots could send messages to fellow pilots or admins, Admins could send messages to pilots or other admins would be great.
Use existing forums
Flight Frequency(How often flights should be done) - Iāve asked Nabeel about this alot of times and the answer has always been the same, āThis can be done in the notesā. In my opinion that is not enough. The staff/admins should be able to tick which days flights should be done. It gives it a more official feeling especially when pilots are bidding for flights. You could also allow the pilots to Bid for flights on Certain day instead of just bidding a flight and doing it whenever.
Bid criterea are possible, but again, the complexity in creating a rules system, I donāt have the time for that. Notes are also there for a reason, you can note MTHF flights, and instruct to bid only based on certain criterea. You have the ability to accept/reject pireps for those not following rules.
Again, this doesnāt diminish any perceieved realism, just tests the ability of your members to follow rules.
More detail to the financial aspect - I believe you should take a leaf out of VAFs book. They simulated real world finances perfectly. With all the expences and everything, landing fees, ground handling fees etc. Also I think you should control the fuel prices so each va has an accurate, realistic fuel price just like VAFs does.
Central control for fuel prices is coming, as well as the load factor.
BTW, there are expenses, which you can add (monthly and per-flight, per flight can be all your landing and handling fees), and all other expenses can be drilled down (or up) to a monthly cost. If you read the docs, you can very realistically simulate real world expenses.
Taxes are planned, along with equipment purchase costs, and depreciation of value on assets. This can still be done monthly.
Features that MOST VAs wonāt use, I donāt have the time to add. Iāll check a few of those things out though. Thanks!
The map you posted is a Flash Image, Meaning this was painstakingly created in Adobe Flash. This could never be auto generated using php,xml,msxml etc. .
You can, using XML feed into Flex, to generate the flash. But overly complicated for this, and not something everyone would use.
You can interface to Yahoo Maps or some other flash-based API service though.
I agree with the expences part and the route map part but I believe all the other suggestions I made are practical. VAFs managed to do them.
VAFS is also a paid product, and Iām doing this in my limited spare time.
True
When you are looking at the schedules main page, and you click to narrow your flights.
So you got that done, now you find the flight you want. Done
Now you click on view details, and you get your info. Done
Now you click the back button to get back to the info on the schedules that you just selected but it reverts you to all of the schedules at the very beginning? Is there a way to find the schedule you want and click on details and when you hit the back button it dosent take you all the way back to a list of every single one where you have to search for the flight and airport again??? Thanks Cody
Iāll see, but since thatās loaded on the the fly, it may be tough to
Yeah, thats what i kinda figures, just thought i would let er out thereā¦ha
Now you click the back button to get back to the info on the schedules that you just selected but it reverts you to all of the schedules at the very beginning? Is there a way to find the schedule you want and click on details and when you hit the back button it dosent take you all the way back to a list of every single one where you have to search for the flight and airport again???
How about if the flight information was shown in a popup window, leaving your search page the way it isā¦ just a thought
Essentially I am happy with what there is now, so really anything else at this point is really just cream cheeseā¦
butā¦ how about keeping flights/destinations separate? So if I had a second airline, that the flights wouldnāt get too intermingled. So a pilot for one line didnāt have to get confused as to whether they were flying for one line or anotherā¦
(I can easlily work around that so it isnāt a huge thing, but it would be āniceā or maybe easierā¦)