Hi I know this might sound little of the track from virtual airline ,but since we are supporting children and disaster areas, where there any thought for couple of heavy lift helicopters ? This are often used in hardly accessible areas . Cheers Petr :think:
Helicopters
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Probably will not be available at all. It's diffrent flying and helis barley fit to our actual flight planning stuff, including scheduled flights for sure.
It may be possible to introduce few helis as charter and only that way.
Hint: Probably illegal - For now it looks like best way to fly heli in ach is to charter DHC-6 in ACH papers and set some bigger, faster heli in sim in place of DHC.
If heli would be available:
Bell JetRanger transport short range
civil Blackhawk for smaller transport operations
Sea King or simmilar (bigger ones) for cargo flights
(and definetly must have) Mi-26 - heaviest flying (civil) cargo heli (also flying for UN). But that bird cant land on frigate or on top of building
It may be possible to introduce few helis as charter and only that way.
Hint: Probably illegal - For now it looks like best way to fly heli in ach is to charter DHC-6 in ACH papers and set some bigger, faster heli in sim in place of DHC.
If heli would be available:
Bell JetRanger transport short range
civil Blackhawk for smaller transport operations
Sea King or simmilar (bigger ones) for cargo flights
(and definetly must have) Mi-26 - heaviest flying (civil) cargo heli (also flying for UN). But that bird cant land on frigate or on top of building
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Logistics - charter stuff is quite easy to add and maintain...
Practical - quite MUCH coding to be done in stats, hangar and flight planning area, easier to add another plane type of manufacturer than whole new type... also i'm not sure if helipads are in ACH airport DB...
Scheduled flights - hell much work for each machine updated (and checked) monthly...
Practical - quite MUCH coding to be done in stats, hangar and flight planning area, easier to add another plane type of manufacturer than whole new type... also i'm not sure if helipads are in ACH airport DB...
Scheduled flights - hell much work for each machine updated (and checked) monthly...
Peter Schindler said:Yes, what Zeljko wrote is the main reason why we will not include new aircraft types in the near future.
On the other hand we have always said that the VA has to be defined by its members, not by its management. If many pilots request a certain aircraft it will certainly be considered, whenever possible. There's just some guidelines we'd like to follow:
- including aircraft that are only used by a handful of pilots is too much effort for what it's worth
- we'd like to keep a certain character to the fleet, which is to feature a fairly modern airliner and cargo fleet
- helicopters will definitely not be included because of their completely different approach to flight logging and pireps
Anyway, there's some lovely retro aircraft out there - like the Conny - and also many nice prop planes for bush flying and/or commuter flights. We discussed a bush flying department of Air-Child already in the past, and the project has not been totally abandoned. However, here's my opinion on this: bush-flying, as well as classic/retro flights, should be separate departments, both in management and in style. That means I would personally prefer different websites (also because I could design some retro style site^^) where pilots can switch between departments but still keep one logbook and pilot record. Other opinions or suggestions are very welcome.
This could become a nice long term project but only after the other 100+ projects are done