Flights to remote areas
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:26 pm
One thing that has been requested is the ability to make flights to remote locations or places that are not officially airports. I had several idea's on how that could work and wanted some feedback.
Remote Airports:
These would be 'temporary' airports, based on a pilots account type they could create some number of them and routes could be created to and from them like normal airports, fuel at them would be either not available or super expensive, and if the pilot 'owning' the airport quits then the flights/aircraft/pilots would be moved to a close by airport. These remote airports would have to be at least 2-5 nm from any airport already in our database, including other remote airports.
Waypoint Routes
A route could be created that could start and end at any airport but would have to either land within 1-2nm of the specified coordinates, and then take off and continue to the destination airport.
Distance Routes
In this option the pilot would simply have to fly at least some specified distance from the origin airport, land and then take off and continue to the destination. This would make it simpler to setup than the waypoint option and you could have one route setup for remote drops from a base and land in many locations.
With both the Waypoint and Distance options we could even do an airdrop option where the AC that are capable can just has to fly within 1 nm of the target, release there payload and then return.
What do you think?
Remote Airports:
These would be 'temporary' airports, based on a pilots account type they could create some number of them and routes could be created to and from them like normal airports, fuel at them would be either not available or super expensive, and if the pilot 'owning' the airport quits then the flights/aircraft/pilots would be moved to a close by airport. These remote airports would have to be at least 2-5 nm from any airport already in our database, including other remote airports.
Waypoint Routes
A route could be created that could start and end at any airport but would have to either land within 1-2nm of the specified coordinates, and then take off and continue to the destination airport.
Distance Routes
In this option the pilot would simply have to fly at least some specified distance from the origin airport, land and then take off and continue to the destination. This would make it simpler to setup than the waypoint option and you could have one route setup for remote drops from a base and land in many locations.
With both the Waypoint and Distance options we could even do an airdrop option where the AC that are capable can just has to fly within 1 nm of the target, release there payload and then return.
What do you think?