09-25-2016, 02:58 AM
Curious as to how you guys envision the flight system working. In CA we had a page that listed all your aircraft with an option for each plane to fly it to a number of possible destinations. I could simply re-create that page but I'm not sure if that's the direction I want to go in. At the same time I'm not sure what other options there are, other than going all-out with a scheduling/timetable system which I'm not going to do.
One thing I thought of was to look at it from the perspective of routes, rather than aircraft. So you'd create a route, say ATL-MIA-DFW. This could be however you want, you wouldn't need the same starting/ending destination or anything. Then there would be a page that lists all the routes you created, and you could click on each route to "fly" that route. You'd pick the aircraft you want to assign to fly that route (the aircraft would have to be located in the departure airport) and hit "fly route" or whatever. You could create various routes and get creative, so if you wanted to do Atlanta-Miami-Dallas-Phoenix, and then Phoenix-San Francisco-Minneapolis-Atlanta you could do that. Fly the first route in the morning and then fly the second in the afternoon. Kind of like an automatic itinerary but looking at it a little differently. There would have to be a limit to the number of flights you could have on each route, or maybe not the number of flights but the amount of time or distance each route takes up. I think that'd be more fair. This would prevent people from automating their entire fleet for days on end.
I don't know, what do you guys think?
One thing I thought of was to look at it from the perspective of routes, rather than aircraft. So you'd create a route, say ATL-MIA-DFW. This could be however you want, you wouldn't need the same starting/ending destination or anything. Then there would be a page that lists all the routes you created, and you could click on each route to "fly" that route. You'd pick the aircraft you want to assign to fly that route (the aircraft would have to be located in the departure airport) and hit "fly route" or whatever. You could create various routes and get creative, so if you wanted to do Atlanta-Miami-Dallas-Phoenix, and then Phoenix-San Francisco-Minneapolis-Atlanta you could do that. Fly the first route in the morning and then fly the second in the afternoon. Kind of like an automatic itinerary but looking at it a little differently. There would have to be a limit to the number of flights you could have on each route, or maybe not the number of flights but the amount of time or distance each route takes up. I think that'd be more fair. This would prevent people from automating their entire fleet for days on end.
I don't know, what do you guys think?
