Time Tables

General
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Anyone here ever attempted to use the time tables from Ultimate traffic for their airline?

My test site is a mirror of a real world airline who has since been taken over by another airline. I used Ultimate traffic to generate time tables for all of their flights as of 2003. Now that particular airline only had a very small number of aircraft and a very large schedule system.

I am trying to figure out how in the hell they could possibly pull off that many flights per day using 12 of one type of aircraft and 9 of another type. I know some of the routes were out sourced. The time tables I got were figured without any partner airlines though.

Was just curious if anyone has ever attempted this and if so how did you remedy the situation. I am using the exact number of aircraft they had on their fleet roster as of that date and even using real tail numbers. So it is as real as I can make it…except for the dreaded time tables. They are driving me insane trying to figure out how to get all the schedules in.

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Now i looked at that before, looked like a good idea

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Yeah it is a really good idea and that is what this V2 of Ultimate traffic was built around was VAs using the time tables.

Like I said though my only problem is having 80 or more flights a day with only 12 aircraft to do it with. I could add a whole bunch more aircraft I suppose if I feel like breaking out of the Keeping it Real idea. I know there is a way. It is just digging through the time tables and figuring out how they scheduled each aircraft. Some of the schedules are pretty easy to do. Some have 1 stop or two. Those ones are easy to track and schedule. The other ones though are a bit tough.

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How do they store schedules, is it in a ASCII format? Do you think a converter can be written for that format to the phpvms csv?

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I think Ultimate Traffic use standard traffic file rules

an example here flightplan from gainjet which runs a single 757

flightplans_gainjet.txt is the file to look at

http://flightsim.com/zview.php?cm=list&fid=146375

a converter would not be easy to make since their can be flightplans categorized by week day by day or hours which means plane repeat flightplan every xhours

Best Regards

Tom

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Are those zip files all the same format? Meaning… the files in them all are the same names/format?

Writing an importer for those should be pretty trivial, I’ll see if I can do something with it

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I may have been getting confused with http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/ thats what i was going to use to compile my schedules, yes the data would be historic but in reality it would only be a week late

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Are those zip files all the same format? Meaning… the files in them all are the same names/format?

Writing an importer for those should be pretty trivial, I’ll see if I can do something with it

Nabeel,

they problem is that most of the time the flightplan info which consists of 3 txt files (Flightplan, Airports and Aircraft) is compressed into a bgl file that can be encrypted with programms like lee swordys ttools

Best Regards

Thomas

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Yeah I have been working with this until I was blue in the face and dam, if these are actual, and the creator claims they are, then who ever did the schedules for this airline in real life was a friggin miracle worker. The only way I can think they could possibly pull it off is by dead heading and I am not so sure they would do that with fuel cost, landing fees and all.

And remember, I am talking about time tables generated using Ultimate traffic for FS9. I know the new one is updated and a bit better, but I don’t use it since I do not fly with FSX.