PLEASE READ: Charter briefing modifications

[Peter Schindler]

We made some changes to the charter briefing. First and IMPORTANT: before you use the charter briefing, please clear your browser cache to entirely remove all cached stuff. Otherwise the briefing may not work. After that's done you may have to log in again.

Now the changes (which you will notice anyway):
When you enter a departure and arrival airport, the program will look for existing connections in the flight schedule. If there are matching flights, you will see a note like this:

Now you can chose ...
- to do nothing and just go on with your entries
- to click on "take me there" and see something like this:

- or to click "give me a route" and end up with this:

The alternate, flight level and route are instantly filled in. You only have to confirm with "update briefing" to have your arrival time calculated.

The reason for this was that many people seem to book charter flights even if there are matching flights available in the schedule, including the routing and alternate. With the new info you can still make a charter but get a route suggestion with alternate and recommended cruise level. Or you just pick a scheduled flight and honor Norbert's dispatch work
(btw: Norbert is currently passing his free time with validating all routes against current AIRAC data; nice work ...)

The suggested flights are always suitable for your aircraft. So you will not be presented with a high level route on FL390 if you charter a Dash.

This "small" addition involved changes in many places, that's why you should clear all traces of cached browser stuff.

Report problems in this thread. Thanks!

 

[Norbert Woeller]

Thank you Peter!

(btw: Norbert is currently passing his free time with validating all routes against current AIRAC data; nice work ...)

Thanx is going to Tobi, who has build the tool which I'm using to validate the routes :clap:
B.t.w: it still will take some times to finish this work. We have 2196 Company Routes stored in the database 8)

 

[Peter Schindler]

small update to the above:
If you pick a prepared route from the schedule it will now give you the correct distance and time of that route (after "update briefing") instead of the great circle distance.
Also, as with all regular flights/routes, you can download the MSFS flightplan from the company plan page.