Radar

[SHAGRATHI]

I know it might not improve the game itself, but it will serve a purpose, for all of us that enjoy looking at route maps    I am talking about something like this...

http://www.flightradar24.com/

If it could be integrated in the game, and have a radar that would show what happens in the air, in the given scenario everytime. It might not be a major boost for the game, but it would be nice to have. I don'[t know how complicated that would be though, but it would be nice.

Thanks,

Dimitris

[thedr2]

For a start you'd have to really simplify it, by using "as the crow flies" routes rather than the real-life complex mess of airways and approach/departure procedures.

There would be a hell of a lot of data involved. Though my inner geek would absolutely love to see it, if it were possible.

[SHAGRATHI]

I am saying at a random time during the scenario you will open this radar and see 1 airplane flying from Madrid to Punta Cana, another from Istanbul to Algiers, another from Gotteborg to Chania, now obviously you won't have a cockpit view  or a plane photo as in the real thing, where every flight has a photo from the real plane, but you could have the type of the plane and the photo as you have in the market, but that would be the easy part I guess, also the registration we use from the settings tab could be used in that as well, as soon as you would choose the registration it would send it to the radar application automatically. The difficult would be the registration and to keep the time needed to destination on air and all that. It might not be doable but it might be as well. The people that run this website I am sure they would like to advertise their thing through this website, and they could help build something for this game, or it might be open source, I don't know.

[exchlbg]

Only thing is, that you neglect the fact, that we have a 30-minute day, means everything happens 48 times faster than in real life.
Most of the flights couldn´t even be seen between departure and landing. What are you willing to pay for the needed equipment/bandwith enhancement to observe a complete mess?
It wouldn´t help gameplay at all.
Besides, this was proposed repeatedly.
Requests belong into Featured Request Forum.

[SHAGRATHI]

Yes...it will be 48 times faster so a flight that needs 30-40 min in real life itwill need 1-2 min in the sim? ok, stillcan be tracked in the radar for some time. Again, Iam not the person that knows what is needed and what not, and if it needs money. I guess the way you are talking you know it will need money, and equipment and isn't easy to be done. But let's leave that to the people that would try to do this.

[Andre]

I remember requesting this a long time ago... but apparently the game engine (as it works now) doesn't simulate it that way or something.. I didn't quite understand the explenation. Would be cool though.

[swiftus27]

I remember requesting this a long time ago... but apparently the game engine (as it works now) doesn't simulate it that way or something.. I didn't quite understand the explenation. Would be cool though.

the game does maintenance one time per 25-35 minutes (game day).    How in the name of god could it ever update 600 airlines flights non stop during a game.