(comments) AirwaySim v.1.3 news, previews & info

[Jona L.]

I'm not Russian by the way.

In your profile it says "Russia" but well... Netherlands is a bit more democratic though, but you know what I mean...

[Ilyushin]

In your profile it says "Russia" but well... Netherlands is a bit more democratic though, but you know what I mean...

It is COMPLETELY irrelevant though. Freedom of speech or not, you might as well want to stop bashing complete countries, it says more about you then about them. Besides, this forum won't become a better place if you do.

But whatever, I'm done...

[Sami]

FYI, you are required to keep correct data in your user profile. The selected country affects on how we pay the VAT (= in EU or not), and if it's seen that people manipulate their true country of origin we may have to fix that to be IP address / location based with no user control...

[Ilyushin]

FYI, you are required to keep correct data in your user profile. The selected country affects on how we pay the VAT (= in EU or not), and if it's seen that people manipulate their true country of origin we may have to fix that to be IP address / location based with no user control...

I didn't intend to do so, but alright, it's edited for your sake.

And - why don't you do that then, according to IP address, if the user cannot change it anyway?

[Tujue]

Base in Moscow and Vladivostok, while home airport is at London Heathrow. I want that also
The fuel contract preview is looking nice btw

[sergio]

hello, people. i have very many planes, just hired one after another, chose what was on market, now with abt 70 units nit is difficult to remeber or figure out where i have got unused range, and whre i have got pax limitations due to route exceeding max range of plane.

i have been making small table, for abt 1,75 hr. now i am gonna figure out which schedule to move where (sami - thank you for "move schedule" option); i consider it would be great if aws could generate it automatically, or may be "my aircraft" view to be added with "actually used range" column.

call sign   modification   Max Range   Route range   unused range   shortage of range   
b-hba   747-100b/sr   1330   420   910   0   
b-hbc   747-100b/sr   1310   420   890   0   
b-hbd   747-100b/sr   1900   420   1480   0   
b-hbh   747-100b/sr   1310   420   890   0   
b-hbp   747-100b/sr   1920   1392   528   0   
b-hbs   747-100b/sr   1330   1122   208   0   
b-hbe   747-200   3960   420   3540   0   
b-hbg   747-200   5200   5206   0   6   limitation bareable
b-hbi   747-200   4830   1392   3438   0   
b-hbj   747-200   4960   3210   1750   0   
b-hbk   747-200   4900   3210   1690   0   
b-hbl   747-200   4940   3210   1730   0   
b-hbq   747-200   4520   3210   1310   0   
b-hbr   747-200   4520   3210   1310   0   
b-hbt   747-200   4480   2019   2461   0   
b-hbu   747-200   4520      4520   0   
b-hbv   747-200   4480   3210   1270   0   
b-hbz   747-200   4480   5206   0   726   (y290 c25 f10, limited to 218ppl)
b-hcd   747-200   4760   5185   0   425   (y290 c25 f10, limited to 265 pax)
b-hcf   747-200   4530   4949   0   419   (y290 c25 f10, limited to 264 pax)
b-hcx   747-200   4410   3341   1069   0   
b-hcy   747-200   4410   3341   1069   0   
b-hcz   747-200   4410   3341   1069   0   
b-had   747-200   4480   3341   1139   0   
b-hdb   747-200   4520   4127   393   0   
b-hct   747-300   4060   2265   1795   0   
b-hcu   747-300   4290   2578   1712   0   
b-hbf   747-300sr   1840   420   1420   0   
b-hbb   747sp   5530   420   5110   0   
b-hbm   747sp   5770   3210   2560   0   
b-hbn   747sp   4980   5775   0   795   (y190 c20 f10, limited to 132 pax)
b-hbo   747sp   5990   3210   2780   0   
b-hbw   747sp   5250      5250   0   
b-hbx   747sp   5550   5206   344   0   
b-hby   747sp   6700   5206   1494   0   
b-hca   747sp   6000   5185   815   0   
b-hcb   747sp   5550   5185   365   0   
b-hcc   747sp   5970   5185   785   0   
b-hce   747sp   5530   5185   345   0   
b-hcg   747sp   5440   4949   491   0   
b-hck   747sp   5990   4949   1041   0   
b-hcl   747sp   5950   4949   1001   0   
b-hcm   747sp   5680   5014   666   0   
b-hcn   747sp   5580   5014   566   0   
b-hco   747sp   5940   5014   926   0   
b-hcp   747sp   5550   5014   536   0   
b-hcq   747sp   5830   5014   816   0   
b-hcr   747sp   5700   5775   0   75   (y190 c20 f10, limited to 212 pax)
b-hcs   747sp   5920   6283   0   363   (y190 c20 f10, limited to 170 pax)
b-hcv   747sp   6770   5206   1564   0   
b-hcw   747sp   5270   5185   85   0   
b-hdc   747sp   5450   5775   0   325   (y190 c20 f10, limited to 185 pax)
b-hdd   747sp   5990   5775   215   0   
b-hde   747sp   5760   5775   0   15   (y190 c20 f10, limited to 218 pax)

[Jps]

* Aircraft lease pricing (for planes being sold by players) is updated: The minimum allowed price for aircraft on the market declines according to the age of the sale listing. Normally minimum allowed sale price is 70% of the a/c value (to prevent cheating), but if the plane is for sale longer than 25 days without anyone buying it the minimum allowed sale price will start to decline (allowing player to discount it more to attract more buyers). The final and lowest allowed price is 30% of plane value and it is obtained after ~150 days on the market. Please note that if the plane is taken off the market and put there back again the date of listing resets and so then does the price reduction factor.

Could players manipulate this so, that they put a plane for lease for as high as they can, and when no1 buys it, they can lower it to 30%, and have a friend buy it at that price just after the price was lowered?

[Sami]

That would take 4+ game months so don't know if anyone has the patience for that?

[Jps]

That would take 4+ game months so don't know if anyone has the patience for that?

Well, with 35 minute days, that's only about 4 real world days.

But, you are right, I don't think many (if any) would use it. The only instance I'd see it be used is if a large airline has ordered a lot of aircraft and wants to distribute those to a friend / other airlines in the alliance. So, he puts the aircraft for sale for 4 days, after which he can lease(sell?) them cheaply to others.

Probably small enough an issue to just ignore it...

[Talentz]

I like the new used aircraft changes in the latest v1.3 update preview.

This should make being a "leasing only" company much more viable to run.

I also like the increased leasing lengths of new aircraft. The penalty for breaking your aircraft lease early on a 15yr lease would be a small fortune so if we make fleet common more potent, at least in a general sense, someone who goes lease happy will be stuck with these aircraft for years on end. Unable to get out should things go south and thus making BK'ing down the road that much harder to get out of.



Talentz

[Curse]

Very nice. If this is not a +-0 thing, so if you can save (or lose) money to make a difference, it will be much more nice as just the 'very nice' feature to play with ^^

[Jps]

About the new fuel management feature... Will we be able to choose not to take fuel on destination airports? Meaning, that the airplane would only fuel at home airport and it would carry the fuel it needs from home to the destination and back.
I don't know how it works in real world, but I've understood that some airlines do it. And if it saves money, then why wouldn't they - but does it save? Also, this would obviously only work when the destination is closer than 0.5* the range of the plane.

[Sami]

Fuel tankering depends entirely on the fuel price at the destination & departure airfields. In most cases (talking of regular shorthaul jet operations) it is not economical to carry extra fuel since the added weight of fuel adds to fuel consumption.

Only if the fuel at destination is very expensive, it becomes cheaper to carry it from the other airport. (Like to some domestic regional airports; max ~2 hrs away.) But this depends entirely about the route pair, fuel price, weights, payload etc.

In prop operations fuel tankering was more common since there the weight penalty is smaller (less fuel needed to carry due to shorter legs and smaller fuel burn), but with turboprops the operating weights became the limiting factor first; while in jets it is usually the economics.

In any case it is a very complicated thing and by no chance will be modeled here.

[Jps]

[...]
In any case it is a very complicated thing and by no chance will be modeled here.

Ok, thanks for you thorough reply 

[d2031k]

The addition of the 'unscheduled aircraft' option and distinction between fleet sub-types is a very useful addition.

I was also amused to see an Air Egypt camel-style press release used for the example of the new press release tab

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[alexgv1]

I don't know about anybody else but I'm really liking the look of, and excited about, this enhanced View Airlines page 

[Jona L.]

I don't know about anybody else but I'm really liking the look of, and excited about, this enhanced View Airlines page 

I can't await the new Dashboard

[slither360]

I can't await (sic)the new Dashboard

I can't await connecting passengers, route based demand, and codeshares

[Ilyushin]

Great work Sami!!! Can't wait to see the completed thing in-game!

[Sami]

(6x "spam" posts removed .... This ain't a "one smiley is a good post forum".)