Ricardo Rementería Troncoso said:
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Thank you so much, Ricardo! Especially for the 124 points :rofl:
Seriously, I'm generally not much into competition in terms of "who's the best and who's the worst", but I'm definitely into comparison. I don't know if some general VA comparison like that exists. If not, someone should make it. Maybe not with a score and ranking, just telling what the different VA's offer and what they don't would help a lot in finding a virtual home.
Wonderful idea, after all!
Oh, and I agree that there's lots of room for improvements with Air-Child. Some are being worked on, like a more detailed flight plan, including waypoints and aloft winds and (due to the latter) estimated crossing times, fuel quantities and wind coordinates for every waypoint along a scheduled route. This has been worked out by Tobias and will be included around the end of this year.
There are also many blank spots on the website (especially statistics) which have to be filled or improved. However, these need time. As Norbert wrote, we all have jobs and families. Often things move slowly - but they will move.
I didn't know the Freeworld VA befor, but I took a look on their site and like it a lot. A nice and friendly website, and I love their colors - orange, blue & white ..... how familiar! :lol:
Unfortunately we lost 7 points for the free choice of aircraft, so let me explain this: if you book a scheduled flight for a certain aircraft type, you will have your flight times, weights and fuel calculations based on that aircraft. Same with charters, except that the calculations are not as precise. Basically you can use any aircraft you like (i.e. a Tu-154 for a B737) for any route, but don't rely on your company plan in that case. Also, if you report a flight that was booked for a 737 and you used a Tu154, the report will still show a 737. Due to the pirep add-ons this can't be changed.
Finally, about the ACH status banners: the idea was just to give others a brief information that someone is currently flying and where, so you can look for him on ServInfo, Dolomynum, vroute, Teamspeak, whatever. We wanted to keep a decent banner size and not to show a complete flight tracking there. That's the job of the Live Watch.
However, I will make the ACH signature a little wider so that your looong name will fit, Ricardo
btw: Vatsim members can also use ACH's Vatsim indicators - see
. There should be a preview but right now the Vatsim server doesn't respond.
Finally and lastly the A380: Tom already told us that there's a nice model for X-Plane, so it will be included - if Norbert agrees.
