Removing Type Certificates
Removing Type Certificates
Is there a way a pilot can delete now unused type certificates that are killing their happiness rating?

- joefremont
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Re: Removing Type Certificates
Then what would be the point of that part of the happiness score?
My idea was that in addition to flying, getting paid and spending time at home, they would want to be able to advance their carriers. If were flying 787's and now they are flying DHC=6's, they are not going to forget that.
So how can we make it make sense that you could remove a type certificate and still make that part of the hippieness score have value?
My idea was that in addition to flying, getting paid and spending time at home, they would want to be able to advance their carriers. If were flying 787's and now they are flying DHC=6's, they are not going to forget that.
So how can we make it make sense that you could remove a type certificate and still make that part of the hippieness score have value?

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I guess I just don't understand how it all works. So what you are saying is because I have the 767 type certificate and am flying mostly 737's at this point, that one expired certificate is causing the more than 50% drop in the type ratings score? All the other certificates are aircraft smaller than my current active certificate, the 737.
I have simply gone back to flying mostly 737's as I restructured my airline to be a charter service featuring mostly the 737 family, but I kept a couple of CRJ's, an LJ45 and the Kodiak along with one 767-300ER which I only fly on special occasions.
For me, "happiness" cannot be measured on a linear scale (although it is a good tool for autobot pilots). I go in mood swings of what I like to fly at the time, so I guess the best thing for me is to simply ignore the happiness rating and type certificate program altogether.
Also the "expired date" is not accurate as I have not flown the LJ45 since March 2024, Citation X since March 2023, King Air since May 2023. My last flight with the 767 was Oct 15. The "expired date" on all of them is showing today (probably last long in time).
So I guess the key to human pilots with the happiness score is not to fly enough to get a type certificate on any specific aircraft, keep switching types so one can fly what they want when they want without any penalty in the ratings system. LOL

I have simply gone back to flying mostly 737's as I restructured my airline to be a charter service featuring mostly the 737 family, but I kept a couple of CRJ's, an LJ45 and the Kodiak along with one 767-300ER which I only fly on special occasions.
For me, "happiness" cannot be measured on a linear scale (although it is a good tool for autobot pilots). I go in mood swings of what I like to fly at the time, so I guess the best thing for me is to simply ignore the happiness rating and type certificate program altogether.
Also the "expired date" is not accurate as I have not flown the LJ45 since March 2024, Citation X since March 2023, King Air since May 2023. My last flight with the 767 was Oct 15. The "expired date" on all of them is showing today (probably last long in time).
So I guess the key to human pilots with the happiness score is not to fly enough to get a type certificate on any specific aircraft, keep switching types so one can fly what they want when they want without any penalty in the ratings system. LOL


- joefremont
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Ok the fact that the expiration dates were all today has been fixed and I reset the expiration dates on all certs and had the system recalculate them.
When I came up with the happiness score it was really intended for automated pilots but though it might be fun to expose for human pilots also, as for human it really has no effect. Maybe we could delete them if they expired more than a year or two ago but then it would be harder to regain them. What do you think.
When I came up with the happiness score it was really intended for automated pilots but though it might be fun to expose for human pilots also, as for human it really has no effect. Maybe we could delete them if they expired more than a year or two ago but then it would be harder to regain them. What do you think.

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yeah if you haven't flown a type in 12 months, you need full recurrency training. If it's easy enough to set up auto delete after that time frame, I'd be OK with that. I don't want to make a whole lot of work out of this. Like you said, human pilots like myself can just ignore the happiness score. We know if we are happy or not. LOL
edit: perhaps it's easier to just make the "happiness level" visible only for automated pilot logbooks?
EDIT II: After further thought, just disregard my request. There is no need to give you unnecessary "busy work" that really has no impact on the program functionality.
edit: perhaps it's easier to just make the "happiness level" visible only for automated pilot logbooks?
EDIT II: After further thought, just disregard my request. There is no need to give you unnecessary "busy work" that really has no impact on the program functionality.

Re: Removing Type Certificates
doing a test to see if I win my 757/767 Certificate back if the happiness score goes back up. All the other expired ones are for aircraft smaller.

- joefremont
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That would be a great test, I eagerly await your results.

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Re: Removing Type Certificates
experiment a success. Got my 757/767 Type Cert back today and the happiness level went from 8.78 to 20.0 even tho all the other ones are still inactive except the 737.



- joefremont
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Good to now it works. I figured that a pilot would want to advance to larger aircraft, if they started in turboprops, then moved up to 737's and then 767's they would not care if they lost the ratings for the smaller ac. But for the reverse, if they were flying 767's and are now flying turboprops, they would always remember they were once in the big leagues.

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