Since cargo has been introduced, we've got a two tier system now between solely freighter planes, which display their default range figure as the max payload of an aircraft.
For passenger planes, the default figure used is the range of standard default passengers configuration. At full distance, these ranges have no cargo capability.
This is confusing and results in a lot of people not understanding why their planes aren't carrying cargo, but even people like myself who understand the system, have to look at a lot at the range graphs to work out the useful full range potential of each plane. If that plane has a lot of variants this can not be something that can be remembered easily either.
I suggest we simplify this data so that all aircraft's default range figures, pax, combi and freighters, on the plane information and purchase pages are what figures for max payload. It won't affect the ranges at all, and after such a move it should be noted that flying reduced payload in any mode is not a bad thing.
It completely makes sense.
The current system pushes us to misinterpretations.
It was simpler and completely ok when only pax were handled, but now it's almost adding up apples and strawberries, pax and kg, and we have to make calculations and verifications each and every time.
That change could make things much easier.
https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,74876.0.html (https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,74876.0.html)
Something I addressed earlier.
Talentz
I don't see any problem on the current graphs, since it reflects the standards for payload-range curves. I only think it should have two scales on the y-axis on the same graph, one showing payload and other showing passengers. It should also be capable to plot multiple curves, each representing one different MTOW of the same model or even two different models for comparision.