Possible change/fix to route creation

[Unknown98]

There is an issue with route creation where if a flight is ready at, say, 23:30, and you set the next flight to take off at 00:15, you will get an error "departure time of leg Y is before ready time of leg X".

This can be worked-around by making the previous flight be ready after midnight, but it's not very user-friendly to do that. What I was thinking is, the ability to introduce additional turn times into route scheduling. This would essentially alter the "ready at" time of each flight, and it would allow you to have a flight land at 22:00, be ready at 22:30, but then add an additional 1:30 of turn time to make it ready at midnight. That would then get rid of the error.

Still not 100% user friendly, but I don't know of another way to do it other than a checkbox that says "this flight departs the following day" but that's even less user friendly and has it's own issues that I would have to then account for and address in the scheduling logic. Turn time is already worked into the logic, so this is the easiest way for me to do this.

I just wanted your thoughts. Initially I was thinking of replacing the departure time dropdown boxes with the additional turn time box, but that would make it more difficult to select specific times, so I think I'll leave that as is.

[Zortan]

Well, you know that additional turn time button on the plane modification page? Just make that have the ability to go longer than 20 extra! Maybe make it up to 240 extra or so.

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But you would probably need another thing in the route creation, so that’s a good idea you have there.

[Unknown98]

Yes but that would affect every flight

[Zortan]

Hello,

I think the solution would be to keep the possibility to add extra turn time for each aircraft. This extra turn time would act as the "basic" extra turn time. Then, on each route, there should be a little menu with "extra turn time". This menu will automaticaly take the value set previously on the aircraft page, but you would have the possibility to change it for each flight. It could look like that :

And by the way, would it be possible to have like a "day + 1" displayed for flights that take off one day and land another ?

Yeah that's the best way, but I would like to increase the impact on every flight as well if possible. I think that extending the extra turn time from 20 mins to 240 or so would be great. For example, in AirwaySim, if you don't have enough turn time, you're morelikely to have delays, decreasing rep, etc.

I'm not saying to add penalties for turn time (yet, anyhow), but I think that it would be pretty smart for those who wish to play as realistically as possible.