AirwaySim Changelog

[Sami]

Minor bugfixes

Various minor fixes after the v.1.4 upgrade.

Fixes

• Landing runway limitation calculation had a typo, causing too strict payload limitations in some rare cases.
  
  
• Copying route to the next day did not allow the same flight number to be used.
  
  
• Route planning page did not show airline's market share pie charts.
  
  
• Used aircraft viewing produced an error page in some cases.
  
  
• Airport aircraft size limitations were not correctly checked for techstop routes.
  
  
• Route sales and revenue chart did not always show the data of the previous day (today-1), but started from one day prior instead (today-2).
  
  
• Improved the speed of the scheduling page by removing some duplicate data loading.
  
  
• Route history view's financial info did not show cargo with imperial units (lbs), only with metric (kg).
  
  
• Some techstop route times did not convert properly from v.1.3 to v.1.4. A batch run has been done to correct this data.

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[Sami]

Minor bugfixes

Still some more minor fixes after the v.1.4 upgrade.

Updates

• AI aircraft brokers can now order planes of different MTOW/Engine variants from the new aircraft manufactures.

Fixes

• The runway requirement calculation has been reverted back to v.1.3 for current running games. The minor alterations to make it more accurate for the landing runway calculations caused a bit too big changes for some of the player's routes which were on the edge of the aircraft performance. All new games will use the new calculation.
  
  
• Route editor now saves all the arrival times of each techstopped route leg correctly ( = all scheduling issues should be now fine).
  
  
• "Routes with no aircraft" filter fixed at manage routes page.
  
  
• Schedule search highlights the resulting routes again.
  
  
• Techstop airports did not always switch to the new airport upon airport closure/relocation.
  
  
• Route planning and airport timetables did not show the correct flight number for return legs (showed the outbound number, i.e. current-1, instead).
  
  
• Added some missing info/warning texts to route information page.
  
  
• Easy Start wizard did not always show a proper warning if no suitable aircraft was found for the chosen type of airline.
  
  
• "View only my routes" at route planning pages produced some internal errors, fixed.
  
  
• When a game did not have cargo features enabled, the cargo numbers were still displayed at expanded route information listing.
  
  
• Buying an exactly 25.0 year old aircraft from used market produced an error due to depreciation calculation (which ends at 25.0yrs age).
  
  
• Airport slot count did not always update during airport transfer from old to new airport. Should always have at least the amount of slots the old airport had.
  
  
• In some very special case airport transfers (one airport closes, another downgrades, while new third airport opnes) the route image values did not always move correctly to the new airport.
  
  
• The messages sent to players during airport transfer sometimes used the techstop airport as the name of the destination.
  
  
• Moving routes from one fleet to another did not always work when routes with techstops were involved, due to a missing time zone data for some routes.

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[Sami]

Dornier 328 data update

Updates

• For all variants: Climb/descent performance and all fuel usage values updated (AirwaySim Performance Model v.2).
  
  
• Dornier 328NEU updated to Deutsche Aircraft D328eco:
  
  • Name / Manufacturer changed (remains still with the same main fleet group).
    
  • Introduction to service date updated.
    
  • Engine variant data updated.
    
  • Range values updated.
    
  • Operational weights updated.
    
  • Pax capacity updated.
    
  • Runway requirements updated.
  
  
• Dornier 328-100:
  
  • New variant.
  
  
• Dornier 328-110:
  
  • Range values updated.
    
  • Pax capacity updated.
    
  • Runway requirements updated.
  
  
• Dornier 328-120:
  
  • New variant.
  
  
• Dornier 328JET:
  
  • Range values updated.
    
  • Pax capacity updated.
    
  • Runway requirements updated.

These changes are effective only in all new game worlds launched after today. Note: Unfortunately still, in order to keep the planes in the same fleet group, the prop and jet Do328 have to be with the same cruise speed.

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[Sami]

Minor changes and bugfixes

Updates

• Aircraft cannot be put to sale on the used market during the last months of the game to prevent misuse of the aircraft trading system into airline scoring.
  
  
• The aircraft maintenance ramp checks ("FAA check") is now performed twice as often as before.
  
  
• Route editor changed for maximum turnaround of 10h at outstation.

Fixes

• Moving schedule between two fleets did not always respect the original turnaround time at the outstations (if the day changed during the turnaround).
  
  
• Firing staff from a group with zero staff requirement will also now reduce company image accordingly.
  
  
• Corrected incorrect display of "Time to remove from storage" for aircraft long-term storage display.
  
  
• Fixed various minor code errors appearing after server backend software upgrade.

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[Sami]

Technical update to in-game messages

Updates

• The in-game messages have been upgraded technically (data structure and some other aspects changed) to be more compatible with some other future updates in the backend systems.
  
  
• There are no visible changes to users with this change.

Other updates:

Fixes

• Direct URL input of airport codes to route editor now checks the airport opening times.
  
  
• Used aircraft min/max selling price checker sometimes rounded numbers the wrong way, causing unnecessary error message.

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[Sami]

Updates to route financial views, and other minor changes and fixes

Updates

• Route Information page's Financial Info segment, My Aircraft page's Weekly Financial Estimate and Assigned Routes tables, and Dashboard's Average Load Factors table all now show data also from the current ongoing week, in the case the previous week's statistics are not available (i.e. new route or new airline). In normal cases the stats always show the previous week (days -7 to -14), in comparison to the week prior to that (days -15 to -21).
  
  
• In a similar way to the previous item, the Routes section main page also shows always "Ongoing week" values, and hides "Last week" and "Week before" if no data is always.
  
  
• Bankruptcy page now displays the name of the currently selected game world in a big warning, to avoid mistakes.
  
  
• South African aircraft registration prefix is corrected to ZS-.
  
  
• Nagoya airports updated: The old Nagoya airport (RJNA) does not close in 2005, but instead downgrades as a domestic airport. Any airline HQ'ed at this airport will still move to the new Nagoya airport (RJGG) at this time, like before.
  
  
• Minor adjustment to aircraft's age-relative fuel burn factor to favour brand-new aircraft (no burn increase when a/c is less than 6 months old).
  
  
• Two obsolete internal features removed: 'Permanent/Pre-assigned alliances' and 'Game-specific logo template'.
  
  
• Minor improvement the display of Load Factory history bar charts when there was only a few days of history data to show; the data bars are thinner/better looking now.

Fixes

• Statistics main page showed the wrong title for cargo tables when imperial units was selected.
  
  
• Price Management page showed the airport codes in wrong order when IATA code format was in use.
  
  
• Route Information page did not show the 'expanded statistics' table if only 1 or 2 days of history was available.

Others

• Note that a general cleanup of feature requests forum will also take place with duplicate, obsolete and non-planned items are to be closed.

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[Sami]

Visual change to game advisor messages

Updates

• The face generation function to make various different in-game advisor faces will be soon removed as obsolete, and in order to cut down on unnecessary features and code when migrating to the new website/systems.
  
  
• The advisor face has been replaced with a couple of static images of similar idea than before.
  
  
• No changes to the content / functionality of the in-game advisor.

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[Sami]

Route maps at Route Planning page updated

Updates

• The route map at Route Planning data pages (where demand is shown) is updated to the same map as elsewhere in the game.
  
  
• The map is now zoomable/draggable/clickable and contains the information about airports in the same detailed manner as all the other maps.
  
  
• City Based Demand information (competing airports and area squares) is now also directly available from this map, helping you to determine who are your competitors near your airports.
  
  
• At the same time the backend mapping scripts have been updated to the latest versions available.
  
  
• This change is part of our renewal where obsolete & old functionalities will be removed to help migration to the new website/systems.

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[Sami]

New platform for manuals and documentation

The entire documentation and knowledge base of AirwaySim has been moved to a new platform at https://manual.airwaysim.com/.

The updated documentation has a modern and mobile-compatible layout, search capability and is also very easy to maintain from admin's point-of-view.

Please let us know if something is missing, or if the manual can be improved to help the new users!


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[Sami]

Minor updates and bugfixes

Updates

• Discord Chat element added to the Dashboard. This is a test to engage the community more. Note that you can post messages to the #generalchat channel without registration to Discord, but we highly recommend creating an account there to keep your unique username stored just for you. Also in the Discord chat itself (when using Discord app) the messages posted through web interface show as being posted by a "bot" while that actually is the real human player - this is due to technical constraints of the system. Feedback is appreciated.
  
  
• Minor adjustments to staff number calculations (due to optimization, and a calculation fix for cargo planes).
  
  
• Reduced the staff requirements for small aircraft operators a bit to adjust economics.
  
  
• Staff retirement rates adjusted (increased) a bit for better realism.

Fixes

• Calculation of cabin crew for cargo aircraft occurred at some rare occasions due to fleet changes.
  
  
• Dashboard's Economy Info, and Routes area front page shows "No data available" now instead of 0% LF if there was no supply provided for that particular travel/cargo class.
  
  
• Schedule mover/converter (from fleet to another) generated a wrong schedule overlap error in some rare cases.

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[Sami]

Minor updates (techstops, new aircraft ordering) and bugfixes

Updates

• Technical stopover vs. passenger ticket sale calculation changed to take account the game year. There is no "penalty" for technical stops before year 1965, and from there the passenger's displeasure for additional stops grows linerily until year 1990 from which onwards the factor has the full/normal force (as currently). This is a simple model to allow more realistic operation of the early fleets. In the future the calculation will be improved with actual trip time / quality component, but that needs some other updates first. As before, this affects only passengers and not cargo.
  
  
• New aircraft ordering page allows now up to 500 orders per each model (previously 50). Also each airline may now have up to 1000 new aircraft orders in total, lifted up from 500, (this is to protect from "order spam" and to give fair competition possibilities to other airlines). Please note that trying to order a huge batch of planes may result in the "Unable to assign production slots to aircraft. The production line may be closing soon so that there are not enough free production slots available anymore." -error since the time gaps between production slots very long down the line are quite large to accommodate orders from other airlines. In such case simply make a smaller order.

Fixes

• Interface didn't allow more than 99999 staff members per group, adjusted to be higher to accommodate larger airlines.
  
  
• Mentor user did not have the chance to refresh the used a/c market listings.

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[Sami]

Minor bugfixes

Fixes

• Route Information page's bar charts sometimes showed part of the data in wrong order.
  
  
• B check ending early in the morning was in some rare cases counted incorrectly as overlapping the entire day.
  
  
• System sometimes gave airlines incorrect warning after relocating an aircraft that such base airport does not exist for the airline.
  
  
• Noise regulation notification message to players listed East Germany too early (wrong message only, no other problems).
  
  
• Noise regulation checker did not automatically unschedule all routes in violation of the new noise rules.

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[Sami]

Australia - New Zealand open skies agreement updated

Updates

• Australia - New Zealand open skies model updated to better reflect the real history:
  
  • Agreement is in force from end of June 1997, instead of previously modelled August 2003 (when it was updated/expanded in the real life).
    
  • Agreement is now correctly called the Trans-Tasman Single Aviation Market.

The change is effective in all game worlds, and the manual has been updated also with this change.

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[Sami]

Caribbean Community Multilateral Air Services Agreement model added

A new significant feature has been added today to all game worlds. This feature expands the model of common aviation market to the Caribbean region and member states of the CARICOM.

For AirwaySim this has been modelled in the same way as EU open skies / free market, meaning full freedom including 9th freedoms of air (which the real life agreement does not allow), but since the agreement allows several other aviation free market practices and is very close to a full and total open market, it was added here to enhance opportunities at smaller countries / unserved regions. Note that not all CARICOM member states have yet ratified the agreement, and thus 13 out of 15 member states are part of this deal.

For further info about different exceptions to the airline expansion / free market rules, consult the manual: https://manual.airwaysim.com/simulation-documentation/base-airports (bottom of the page).


Updates

• CARICOM MASA model added.
  
  
• Each of the CARICOM member states who have ratified the deal (13 in total) become part of a single free market in August 2020, allowing airlines to expand freely to those states and fly freely between them.
  
  
• Dashboard news for the event have been added, and two prior news several years before it actually takes force.
  
  
• Countries participating in the agreement are:
  
  • Antigua and Barbuda
    
    
  • Barbados
    
    
  • Belize
    
    
  • Dominica
    
    
  • Grenada
    
    
  • Guyana
    
    
  • Jamaica
    
    
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
    
    
  • Saint Lucia
    
    
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    
    
  • Suriname
    
    
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  
  
• Additionally, dashboard news of ECAA open market membership of Georgia and Moldova (August 2020) added (agreement was already active previously, news was missing).

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[Sami]

Ukrainian airport names updated

Updates

• The following airports names have been corrected to their proper Ukrainian spelling:
  
  • Dnipropetrovsk, UKDD / DNK
    
  • Ivano-Frankivsk, UKLI / IFO
    
  • Kharkiv, UKHH / HRK
    
  • Kiyv - Boryspil, UKBB / KBP
    
  • Kiev - Zhuliany, UKKK / IEV
    
  • Uzhhorod, UKLU / UDJ
    
  • Zaporizhia, UKDE / OZH

Note that 'dynamic airport names' feature is not available yet, so the airport names cannot change according to history. This feature is planned and data is being collected, but not yet coded since it involves other very large changes to the technical fundamentals on how airports work in the simulation.

Slava Ukraini!


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[Sami]

Cessna 408 SkyCourier added

A new a/c type and fleet is added, the small 19-seater utility aircraft from Cessna, available in 2022. A spacious cargo version is also available with conversions between the two models.

Updates

• Cessna 408 SkyCourier added
  
• Cessna 408 SkyCourier Freighter added

This update is available in any game worlds starting after this post.


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[Sami]

Minor updates and fixes

Updates

• Minor adjustments to AI aircraft broker probabilities to convert old passenger planes to freighters.
  
  
• Minor changes to cargo cost/price levels for better game balance.
  
  
• Some further minor adjustments to staff requirements of small aircraft operations.

Fixes

• My Aircraft page was slow for large airlines.
  
  
• Route editor showed in some rare cases the wrong estimated payload limitation value, if route was limited by runway length.
  
  
• Marketing campaign's estimated cost when starting the campaign was sometimes incorrect.
  
  
• Ramp check/fine happened in some cases for the same plane too often.

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[Sami]

Minor updates and fixes

Updates

• Minor changes to Ilyushin Il-114 data:
  
  • Production start/end dates updated.
    
  • Runway requirements updated.
    
  • Il-114-300 max pax capacity updated.
    
  • Il-114-300 range values updated.
    
  • Note: The performance model of this fleet group is still v.1.0 (not based on real-life AFM data).
    
  
  
• Easy Start wizard improved for more variation in suggested airports.
  
  
• Added the possibility to limit HQ airport selection by region/country for all airlines in the game (for custom game setups).

Fixes

• Easy Start wizard did not respect the 'excluded aircraft models' filter in game setup.
  
  
• Base finder's airport info page had a wonky layout for market share if cargo features were disabled in game setup.
  
  
• Base airport finder's map showed airports that were excluded from selection in customized game setup.

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[Sami]

ATR 42-600S added

A small update to the aircraft database with ATR 42-600S, which is the STOL (short takeoff and landing) variant of this regional turboprop, capable of ~900m takeoff/landings. The model is in development and is expected to be certified during 2023/2024. This update is available in any game worlds starting today or after.

Updates

• ATR 42-600S added

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[Sami]

Minor updates and fixes

Updates

• Updated third-party libraries for website core systems.
  
  
• A lot of work related to the version upgrade of the backend systems.
  
  
• Removed many obsolete integrations and features from the backend systems.

Fixes

• Fixed an error (appeared after the forum update) which could lead in unwanted / too early player inactivity warnings in the game.
  
  
• Upgrading a base airport could lead to a size downgrade in some very rare cases.
  
  
• Backend calculation of aircraft performance could halt when some aircraft models were excluded in the game world's settings - fixed.

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