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Peter you are genius! I did not see that must be Wednesday or a Saturday. It works now :goodjob:
 
Mmmmhhhh...curious...trying to sort out the flight a find one for today evening: I select the B738 AirChild livery, select LGAV for departure, today date, PAX, and no time constraint -> find flights - I have the listing of all the flights avaiable, including those with Small airplanes and Heavies...

Curious because when I check my Aircraft Profile (B738) it is saved with the "label" Large aircraft....


Any idea ?


By the way: a received a response from the FSCaptain forum: you can modify the passenger weight in the Item file located in the Config folder..... The original number is 170 (I assumed it is in pounds).....I changed that for 185 (= approx 84 kg).....will check my payload....

Cheers

Cedric
 
Ok Cedric,

I saw your post in FSCaptain forums, I'm curious about that, waiting for you to finish the flight. In the meantime, I'll try my new aircraft.cfg, i'm working on fuel flow and other aircraft specifications :?
 
Ok. Complicated.....first I don't understand why in the Administrator panel - Flight Dispatch I cannot have my flights adequately filtered when I choose my 737 NGX. Selecting LGAV airport, B738 Boeing 737-800NGX Air Child as Aircraft type and the 27 septembre 2011 I have a lot of flights that are not normaly avaiable for this type of aircraft (ex: LGSR) ???? (same problem with all the other companies)

Do you have the same issue ?


The payload is still not correct....and Fs Flight Keeper crashed during my last flight....und tried to reconnect...with success, but showing the Fokker as Aircraft and loosing all my times....so....

Still need some tests but actually not convinced by this piece of software using the NGX.

Concerning the modifications I made to the Aircraft Characteristics:

MLW: 146300
Passenger Seats 162
Cabin Crew 7
Cruise Altitude 35000
Equiped with GPWS: checked

And that's it for the moment.....

Will try another flight on friday.

Cheers

Cedric
 
Cedric Bandelier said:
Ok. Complicated.....first I don't understand why in the Administrator panel - Flight Dispatch I cannot have my flights adequately filtered when I choose my 737 NGX. Selecting LGAV airport, B738 Boeing 737-800NGX Air Child as Aircraft type and the 27 septembre 2011 I have a lot of flights that are not normaly avaiable for this type of aircraft (ex: LGSR) ???? (same problem with all the other companies)

Do you have the same issue ?
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I'm not sure about that this is a issue... can be generated charter flights. If airchild sheduled flights is there it should be ok. FSCaptain has the option to generate random charter flights, but instead departure time you should see "charter" there.
So, if they have departure time - something is wrong. Tell me when you check this, I can send you my shedule.cfg if there is a problem
Cedric Bandelier said:
The payload is still not correct....and Fs Flight Keeper crashed during my last flight....und tried to reconnect...with success, but showing the Fokker as Aircraft and loosing all my times....so....

Still need some tests but actually not convinced by this piece of software using the NGX.

Concerning the modifications I made to the Aircraft Characteristics:

MLW: 146300
Passenger Seats 162
Cabin Crew 7
Cruise Altitude 35000
Equiped with GPWS: checked

And that's it for the moment.....

Will try another flight on friday.

Cheers

Cedric
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I tried more modifications, some data from PMDG and Boeing. I was realy close, ZFW was same - but after that FSCaptain overloaded my NGX, 143% :wall:
So I returned the old aircraft.cfg
You can supres fuel load, and check "simulate load" in admin tool - then you must load everything by NGX FMC and FSCaptain will simulate passengers load(only sounds). This should solve all problems for now, i'll try tomorow. I read about this in user manual
 
Hi Peter and Zeljko,

Could you please test for me the Dispatch page in the Administrator tool as I described it in my previous post: when choosing the B738 and for example LGAV as departure airport and search for a flight available, there are too many flights and part of them are normally only available for Small Airplanes !?!

Is it the same for you ?

I need to say that I tried this also with the acme company....and the same problem: I choose the 738 but I ended with a complete list of today's flights including those for Heavies or Small airplanes....

Beside that I'm unable to create a new post in the FSCaptain forum.....don't know why....

Zeljko: I'm already aware concerning the "Suppress auto payload" feature....and also "simulate load". The problem for me is: I'm really confused with all those numbers....PMDG NGX values....AirChild Loadsheet values...FSCaptain values....and nothing is really concordant/matching ?!! I don't know which program I should thrust ! AirChild flightplan and loadsheet were usually pretty accurate....so....

We keep in touch !

Fly safe

Cheers

Cedric
 
Cedric, it's pretty hard for me to test the schedule stuff with the demo. (and I'm less sure now if I will actually buy it) :) ... anyway ...

I manually added a flight to the schedule, going from KSEA to CYYZ on all days for "large" a/c. The flight KSEA-KORD was already there for "heavy".
When I go to FSC dispatch and select the 738, I get only the "large" Toronto flight, as expected. When I select a 744 I get both flights. So it seems that smaller aircraft than what you select are included in the search, but no larger ones. Don't know why and if it makes sense.
Next, I changed the Chicago flight to "large" (so I had at least 2 for the 738), went in my NGX cockpit and started FCOM, 30 minutes before scheduled departure to KORD. Pressed F1 and FCOM told me there's no flight available at local time 23:25. Next flight KSEA-KORD at 23:55 ???!
Tried the other flight, and it worked there .... Very confusing.

As for the payload weights, I can only tell from my last flights with the NGX that ACH fuel & weight calculations and estimated times do mostly (nearly) match the actual values from the PMDG.
As I already said, ACH pax are heavier than PMDG pax. But this way you can be sure not to go overweight with an ACH loadsheet ;)
 
Just finished flight with options -supres load and fuel, only simulate load-. I loaded NGX through FMC and weights was the same with FSCaptain weights. So this time everything worked perfectly. I think this is the best solution for addon aircrafts for now.
Actually I like very much 2 things about FSCaptain:
-idea with FCOM gauge and dispatch, and how you get messages and advices from dispatch about weather etc
-cabin crew and pax enviroment with realistic possibility of failure
it is a very promising softvare, but I don't know if we will be able to configure FSCaptain to work perfect with airchild...

So Peter, I wonder if it would be very complicated to create something like that - airchild FCOM gauge maybe? :? I know that some VA have failure options, I don't know how it works but you can get failures sometimes from your VA if you choose a professional career. :yes:
I don't want to complicate things :no: , it was just an idea, maybe someday in the distant future when we get bored with only financial system...
 
Hello All

i'am also on the way to evaluate this Addon. its Sounds very intresting.

I see in the Schedule that it can also be saved a specific Aircrafttype and a Arrival time. I think this information is in our Database... is it posible that you can add that to the Export Peter?

The Format for that extra information is
Expand=FLIGHTNUMBER,ACTYPE,STA

With Greetings from Switzwerland
 
Hi Andre,
Try to put this format airchild schedule
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in FSCpatain/Airlines(after you created airchild airline). I bought a license today and schedule works for me only in this format. This is for now, i can't say it works 100%. Tested only 2 flights, i searched for departure flights from LOWW and it was ok for 737-800 flights.
 
Hy Zeljko

For my the Flightplan generated by the Script of Peter works. I Can find the Departure Flight from KSEA with the Boeing 744 :)
 
Andre Bohni said:
I see in the Schedule that it can also be saved a specific Aircrafttype and a Arrival time. I think this information is in our Database... is it posible that you can add that to the Export Peter?

The Format for that extra information is
Expand=FLIGHTNUMBER,ACTYPE,STA
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Andre, I couldn't find this EXPAND line in the sample schedules or in the manual. Does it have to be added as separate line in the text file? Is ACTYPE using ICAO standard format?

I also wonder if it's a good idea to add it because it would (probably) reduce the selection of flights to exactly the indicated aircraft type. Now you are still free to pick a 737-700 flight for a 737-800, for example. That would not be possible, anymore.
 
Peter Schindler said:
Does it have to be added as separate line in the text file? Is ACTYPE using ICAO standard format?
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Yes it was added as a separate line. I have Add it in the mask an then checked how it was been written in the txt-file.
For the ACType in the Manual is written:
Manual p.86 said:
A/C Specific Type: If left blank, any aircraft that meets the Min A/C requirement (see above) may be flown. But if a type is specified here, only that type of aircraft can be used for this flight. The type code is the same code as used to designated the aircraft type to FSCaptain (the one you see on the post-Login page of the FCOM, and the one used to access and change aircraft characteristics in this Administrator.)
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so i think it is ICAO standard.
Peter Schindler said:
I also wonder if it's a good idea to add it because it would (probably) reduce the selection of flights to exactly the indicated aircraft type. Now you are still free to pick a 737-700 flight for a 737-800, for example. That would not be possible, anymore.
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:yes: This is true. :think: i think we leave the actype free, so there is more selection. But for later when you have created a Page with filters why not add as an option ;)

Edith says: I now seen a post from zeljko in the FSCaptain forum, that he wish also the shedules for specific Types :hi:
 
Andre Bohni said:
For the ACType in the Manual is written:
A/C Specific Type: If left blank, any aircraft that meets the Min A/C requirement (see above) may be flown. But if a type is specified here, only that type of aircraft can be used for this flight. The type code is the same code as used to designated the aircraft type to FSCaptain
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Perfect! Thank you, Andre. And I think it also explains why we get "large" flights in the selection for a heavy (any aircraft that meets the minimum requirement).
i think we leave the actype free, so there is more selection. But for later when you have created a Page with filters why not add as an option ;)
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That's exactly what I wanted to suggest, too :yes:
 
I think i found a solution, i asked in FSCaptain forums if we can add routes for specific aircraft, and here is a response from Travis:

Yes that's easy to do. While you would apply the airplane size type to the flight, you would also add the same aircraft type ID as noted in the FCOM.

In your schedule the data would appear as two lines per leg:

Flight=53,KSFO,KRNO,2,1115,0,,,,,
Expand=53,CRJ700,-1,1

The '2' on the first line denotes a medium sized aircraft and on the 2nd line a CRJ700 is specified.

In the Administrator, here's how that flight data would appear:
crj700flight.png

I wonder if it is possible to list airchild schedule in that format?
I'll add for my hub, just to try it

Edit: maybe this is the reason why you can't search for a flight through FCOM(it shows only charter flights if there is no booked flights through administrator)
 
Zeljko Budovic said:
I wonder if it is possible to list airchild schedule in that format?
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Zeljko, please read the posts by Andre and me, further up. You will find the answer there.
Thanks for the additional info, though ;)
 
Good afternoon, Gents!
I was just wondering what benefits FSCaptain has over FSPax? From the various posts above FSC seems really tricky to operate, the interface seems bland at best (not that FSP is that much better). Why would I want to use FSC over FSP?

Thanks for sheding light on the matter! :)

Andreas
 
both is ok, it's only a matter of choice. You can try it for free and see if you like it. It's much better than listening to other people's opinion. FSCaptain demo version is limited to 3 airports, but you can use all features.
Fs passengers have Demo version too, but i don't remember if you can use all features
 
Yes, FS Passengers X demo has all features as the full version except free choice of departure airport. There are (I think) three airports around San Francisco (including KSFO), from which you can depart to any airport in the world. That´s the only limitation of the FSPax demo. :)
 
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