http://news.sky.com/story/london-city-ai...e-10626683

Bit of a scare at LCY London City Airport this evening as passengers forced to evacuate terminal after a suspected chemical gas incident.....

Get to see this bad boy fly this weekend. Saw it a bit yesterday as well, it's pretty awesome.

Looking for suggestions/input on the length of time brand new aircraft should be held in the "order queue" or whatever you want to call it. This system is already in-place and working, I just need to tweak the formula that determines the amount of time you have to wait before your new aircraft are delivered. Currently this is how the system works:

You configure a batch of new aircraft, selecting # of seats, quantity & delivery location. The system will calculate a delivery date of the first aircraft based on production time for the aircraft you are ordering and the current queue of aircraft currently on order by other players. See screenshot:




Two things affect how long you have to wait:

1) Production time 
-----> This is calculated by the size of each aircraft. Specifically, the number of seats in a maximum capacity single-class layout. The current formula is (max seats/20). This gives a number, in days, that it takes for the manufacturer to theoretically build the aircraft. 

2) Queue time
-----> This is the wait time depending on current aircraft on-order for the particular model (so each model has a separate queue. B737-8 is separate from B737-9, etc). Current formula is +1 day for each aircraft on order regardless of aircraft size or anything else. This part is probably what needs tweaking the most.

So the delivery date of each aircraft you order is calculated by this formula:

Current time + Production time + Queue time. 

So for example lets say you order 5 B737-800s. There are currently 10 aircraft on order from another airline. The delivery date for your first aircraft will be:

(189/20)+10 = 19.45 days

Second aircraft:

(189/20)+11 = 20.45 days

...and so on. 


This isn't going to be the final formula, its just something I came up with fairly quickly to test the system and get it working. So my question is what would you guys like to see as far as wait times? Keep in mind this ONLY applies to orders of brand new aircraft. Not used aircraft, and not leases.

Any ideas as to how maintenance/repairs should work? A, B, C & D checks? What about daily checks? 

I was thinking having a button you could click for each aircraft to perform a daily check and bring the condition back up to 100%. Kind of like the repair feature on CA except more realistic. Then in addition to that you would have the required maintenance checks at various intervals.

Hi Admin.

Can I see the current in-game aircraft list?

Thanks.

Hi.

Is it possible to see the demand figures before scheduling a flight?

Are we having a daily demand calculator or something?

Thanks.

Hi.

The longest distance an aircraft can fly between two cities is about 19,300 km. Are we having in-game aircraft able to cover this distance?

Thanks.

I know this is an old debate point, but I was wondering what the plans are regarding the availability of planes.

I mean I think it is quite common knowledge if I can I would love to operate a fun VC10 fleet until they kingdom comes

I am not asking for it to be the most efficient I simply would like it to be possible, to me that is more fun than optimizing my fleet to the fine tunes with a mix of all sorts of planes and updating to new models etc etc.

Not sure how many use it, but I love Discord and I think it could be usefull for unknown to start a server for the game for the chat needs and such

If Unknown doesn't want to set it up I can easily.

Do you guys care how detailed the aircraft registrations are? i.e. should you be allowed to make the registration however you want or do you want the registrations in-game to follow the real world naming conventions/prefixes etc?

Minor detail of the game but I figured I'd see what everyone thought.