Personnel morale

[Ilyushin]

What is with this?
The morale of my VLA pilots is -24. Their salary is by default $6050. I raised it to $6500 and their morale changed only a little.
How else can I change their morale? It's still negative... Game is DotM.

[NorgeFly]

Did you recently fire staff? This depresses moral and it takes a long time to grow again.

[Ilyushin]

Yes, I fired about 300 Large aircraft pilots - I never even had large aircraft. Seriously, what is going on?

Ah, and I fired way more staff - very much was over 200%, for no reason. Set everything to 100% again.

[Ilyushin]

Ah just great...



Oh well, I would prefer this over going bankrupt because I was paying huge staff salaries to staff I didn't need at all.

Staff is set to automatic, by the way. I guess this should be moved to Bug reports. :/

[NorgeFly]

Not a bug... automatic staffing only hires staff and will never fire them (this is explained in the text in the settings section I believe).

[Ilyushin]

Not a bug... automatic staffing only hires staff and will never fire them (this is explained in the text in the settings section I believe).

The bug is that the automatic staff hired so much staff that most of my staff was doubled, plus I had many Large aircraft pilots, while I never had Large aircraft, only VLA.

Now I regret terminating the lease of my IL62Ms because I thought they were the cause...

[Sami]

The auto staffing hires only those people that are needed. It does not fire anyone automatically if you scale down operations.

And your airline has had 2x B727 in operation.

[Ilyushin]

The auto staffing hires only those people that are needed. It does not fire anyone automatically if you scale down operations.

And your airline has had 2x B727 in operation.

True, but does 2 727 require 100 LA pilots? I just find it very odd.

[Sami]

Earlier you said you had 300 large a/c pilots and now 100? So I'm not really completely convinced about these numbers now...

[Ilyushin]

Certainly something with 3 numbers, certainly more than 199. I just said the number without thinking too much. I do not remember exactly, sorry. I understand your confusion.

[Branmuffin]

True, but does 2 727 require 100 LA pilots? I just find it very odd.

Don't forget that flight engineers are included in the pilot staffing costs; the 727 therefore requires 3 "pilots" in the cockpit at all times as far as the game is concerned.

For example; the bare minimum to operate one 727 would be 3 'pilots' per crew.  If we consider 8-hour duty periods, flying for 20 hours out of every day requires three crews total - or 9 pilots to operate that 727 for just one day.

When we start considering the maximum 100-hour/month/pilot duty limit, we need at least 8 crews to operate a single 727 each month for 20-hours every day.  For those of you keeping score at home, we're up to 24 people so far for a single airplane.

Finally, we are only allowed to make each pilot fly 1000 hours per year (max).  That means we will need something like 7 or 8 additional crews to operate the aircraft each for 12 months out of each year.  That comes out to around 16 crews, or 48 pilots, every year.

Now we decide to operate two 727's - our staffing costs won't quite double, but they will increase even further.  And, of course our pilots are only human beings and get sick sometimes.  They also have deaths in the family, paid vacations, etc. so we must have even more pilots on standby to cover for absences.  You can see how it adds up quickly  

[ukatlantic]

Don't forget that flight engineers are included in the pilot staffing costs; the 727 therefore requires 3 "pilots" in the cockpit at all times as far as the game is concerned.

For example; the bare minimum to operate one 727 would be 3 'pilots' per crew.  If we consider 8-hour duty periods, flying for 20 hours out of every day requires three crews total - or 9 pilots to operate that 727 for just one day.

When we start considering the maximum 100-hour/month/pilot duty limit, we need at least 8 crews to operate a single 727 each month for 20-hours every day.  For those of you keeping score at home, we're up to 24 people so far for a single airplane.

Finally, we are only allowed to make each pilot fly 1000 hours per year (max).  That means we will need something like 7 or 8 additional crews to operate the aircraft each for 12 months out of each year.  That comes out to around 16 crews, or 48 pilots, every year.

Now we decide to operate two 727's - our staffing costs won't quite double, but they will increase even further.  And, of course our pilots are only human beings and get sick sometimes.  They also have deaths in the family, paid vacations, etc. so we must have even more pilots on standby to cover for absences.  You can see how it adds up quickly  

Eloquently Put!