FSAirlines

ok THIS does pertain to our topic - I set my pax limit at 3 so I would have enough space to take on one 441 package yet the system won't let me

You have far more patience than me! :lol: When one stops and thinks about this package system and the work it took to make it worldwide - and then we VA operators whine because it doesn't suit our particular need when we are just one of 1000 airlines ... it makes me really appreciate you and the wor...

Is there a way you can put "time limits" on the package engine to ignore flight routes that have not been flown in say 90 days? (120 days might be a better option, this is after all a hobby and not a full time job for 99.9% of the users). If that were possible, that would weed out the "dead routes" ...

Yeah after sleeping on it, it's the Kobayashi Maru - Star Trek no win scenario. It is what it is and it will never make everyone happy. So I'll just shush and fly regionals with generic cargo.

A simple solution would be to make designated "ports of entry" - the majors - when flying packages between continents. Mind you this would only apply to the package cargo system, people can still make ficticious routes all they want but they can't fly packages inter continental without going through...

The biggest problem is this is just the tinest tip of a giant iceberg I'm sure as many VA's book and fly into airports they would not be legally allowed to in the real world. So at some point there has to be some tradeoff between "gaming" and real world operations. If we overthink it and make it too...

I am kind of curious how EuroWings even gets in and out of an 8750 ft runway at 4154 elevation with a max weight bearing capacity of 250,000 lbs to fly to Germany.
LOL

The largest problem I see in the package system is the waste of database/resources for international packages departing regional airports that will rarely, if ever get delivered. The highest package load outbound of Twin Falls Idaho is going to Berlin but no plane with the range to fly that far can ...

AHHH yes that makes sense, we only run our small birds to KORD for service calls at another VA service center who is offering great prices.

But there used to be a ton of packages for rural Michigan in/out of KORD and it just seemed that something changed.

As of this morning Dec 28th, not using generic cargo would be a big problem in our Great Lakes region as the majority of 88's seem to have disappeared. There is no package cargo going to anywhere in Michigan out of KORD today so generic is all I have in my hometown area. So before anyone modifies al...

All good, as with most new systems, it will just take a bit to figure out and shake out the bugs..... So to the best of my understanding, BOTH limit cargo boxes must agree at 0 for the "no generic cargo" feature to work. That means the flight route and the seating configuration must agree. Yes? So i...

hmmmmm (system detects fuel in aircraft to prevent overloading MTOW) so how do we load fuel before we load the packages when the Client isn't on yet? I am getting more and more corn fused as things evolved LOL I am a big fan of KIS. And the older I get, the more I lean to KIS :shock: :lol: I was goi...

OK I have run a "beta test" on the new 0/0 cargo limit thing, making sure my seating has the cargo limit set to 0 and my charter flight route is set to cargo limit 0. I get a problem in that the "package cargo limit" set by FSAirlines cannot be met. Doing the math from the 789 specs: 82673 lbs cargo...

The new feature is very cool in practice - especially when using Charter Flight mode as you don't have to modify each and every route. We already have a proposal on the pilot vote table to make our VA a "no generic cargo airline" starting Jan 1 2021. One word of CAUTION however to all operators: You...

FYI, regarding the boxes in the pax seats you showed earlier, it seems to be SOP in the covid era with so much online shopping/shipping and so few pax flying. https://www.portandterminal.com/photo-report-passenger-planes-converted-into-cargo-planes/ but WOW I would think the man hours to load planes...