C Checks

[yarnam]

How are you handling them? Are you trying to rotate aircraft so that there is no down time? I only have 8 aircraft right now so I can do it but I can just imagine if I had 30 or 40 aircraft it would be too much work. Are some of you large fleet operators just living with the down time?

[Runner]

In Beta games, I had 1 aircraft with no routes for every 10 or so aircraft I had. So thats 11 aircraft, one without routes. If you plan all the C checks the right way, you will (at some point) have a perfect rotation between all the aircraft, where at all times there is one which has no routes. Worked for me pretty good, and I could fly all my routes constantly. It does become a bit of a problem with the D-checks though, because of the longer duration. I had to lease used planes to take care of that.

Hope it's at least a bit clear!

Runner

[yarnam]

Yea that's what I am doing, I have a spare bird already (piece of junk) to slide into their spots as they go for C checks but I'm just thinking if you had 30 aircraft this would be a lot of work

[Dazwalsh]

i just let them C check themselves, it doesnt really make a difference i find.

although with this game (public game 1) 12 ATR's arrived together new, which meant pretty much 12 ATR's had their c checks around about the same time too, struggling to get round that one altough i do have more aircraft being delivered to take over them. but now because i have too many in the fleet i am buying the first round of them out and leasing them out.

[Firejet]

no need to do anything the plane can just not run for 14 - 20 days no real effects.

[Firejet]

PS: i first tried to get replacements to rotate in but what a pain and also after 12 c checks i just gave up just leave em it works out fine.

[Sami]

Yea, there's a feature request of having these heavy maint. checks with automated replacement aircraft. perhaps that's then included later on, hard to say.

[dazz81]

I was in the same boat during beta, I was trying to switch schedules around to cover the C checks with spare aircraft. But it is REALLY tiresome, and hence that automated feature of sub'ing aircraft for C checks was requested as sami has mentioned. I hope it can be implemented so that you can have a fleet that is larger than is actually required to cover the schedule but aircraft can be substituted as required for maintenance. I guess in real life the same aircraft does not fly the same flight every day like in AWS. In reality the individual aircraft could be used on a whole heap of different routes and could be constantly subsituted at the home base by the scheduling people. Example, Thai Airways use HS-TJR to HS-TJW for BKK/MEL/BKK, the 6 777-200ER's. on any given day the flights could be operated by any of those 6, you just never know. It would be interesting if you could generate a schedule for an aircraft subfleet without associating it to a particular registration but knowing that with say 10 of those aircraft the schedule could be covered along with any C check maintenance... might be way too complicated to code.

anyway, i can't be bothered moving aircraft schedules around now for C checks so I just let them go. the flight isnt flown for a couple of weeks, sorry everyone

[Sami]

might be way too complicated to code.

Not to code but to use. You'd have to have full time people doing the scheduling for every week/day like in real airlines