Gdn Newal 5 Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Better to start a new company? I've noticed when I mix and match plane sizes the job listings become too wide a spread, which makes sense and not a complaint, but to that end..... If I have the Beaver Otter and the 185 sitting in Nanaimo BC as a separate co would that make more sense? Gord Link to post Share on other sites
Quickmarch 488 Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Hey! A fellow Canuk based at the same a/p - Competition! I'm running 5 AI plus myself. Fleet includes: A320, 737-800, C-130, , BT67, DC-3, C-208, and, for me, DHC2 and a Goose. Flying the PNW you have to have amphibs. I have two bases - CYCD and CYYJ. Talk about a mix. Just trying to remember the capacities is keeping me young. Welcome to MH. Keep the shiny side "up". 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 I also have a company in BC / Alaska with amphibians ( Goose, C 185s and Twin Otters ) Started in Nov 2013 in Prince Rupert, now in Port Hardy, Sitka, Yakutat, Cordova and Soldotna. I also have regular planes ( C 185 Tundra and Twin Otters ) I run short hauls between 100 and 400 nm together with 6 AI pilots. Welcome to MH ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Welcome to Mutley's Gord! A mix of job sizes is just a Feature of having mixed fleets, no way around it no matter how far you spread your fleet out. You can't base one size plane at base A and another size at Base B and hope that Base A will only generate jobs for the planes at that base...wont' happen. I get 75,000 lb jobs out of farm strips occasionally... and...ya...they just sit there unless I have a free CH-47 with time to run multiple trips. (A good reason to have a CH-47 in your fleet...you can land them on beaches at "water only" fields too ...even if YOU can't fly it, your AI can). My strategy for "dealing with it" is to categorize and arrange the planes in my fleets via the Registry: Heaviest-00X, Medium:0X, Light: X (001, 002, 01, 02, 03, 1, 2, 3)...that arranges the fleet by cargo capacity when you clik on the Registry column header. Then assign jobs to the AI easily: First arrange the job board by Weight (clik the weight column header to organize it thus). Then select all heavy jobs that can be carried by the Heavy Pilot/aircraft, maybe not All available jobs, but as many as you with to burden your AI's with or feel they can complete in a working day. If I have two of them I select all the jobs they can carry (and then I scan them to see if any are "very poor pay" and if so I deselect those), then rearrange the columns by "Time to complete" and then deselect every other job so that only half will go to the first heavy pilot. Then holding the Ctrl key down, unsellect/sellect each of those remaining jobs from "soonest due>last due" and that will put them into chronological order...then assign those to pilot 001, repeat with remaining Heavy jobs and assign to pilot/plane 002. Lather rinse repeat for each weight class in your fleet, and don't worry tooo much about "efficiency"...just worry about whether they have time to complete the jobs and the cash will roll in. Mixed fleets are the BEST because they give you more options to fly various planes in your favorite area, without having to manage multiple companies. Cheers, and happy hauling. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Gdn Newal 5 Posted May 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2015 OK, good G2, thanks! And may I add, I have alot of Orbx around the west. I just opened a base in Kamloops so I can do more low flying 206 type without the Rockies grind, but, what I want to say is that I would NEVER have seen a fraction of the Orbz airports and eye candy that they've put in their scenery if it weren't for 1046 ft runway fully loaded 208 jobs produced by buying AH. Version 2? Take my $. You earned it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted May 18, 2015 Report Share Posted May 18, 2015 Version 2? He's working on it and it's in testing. There's a lot to it. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 OK, good G2, thanks! And may I add, I have alot of Orbx around the west. I just opened a base in Kamloops so I can do more low flying 206 type without the Rockies grind, but, what I want to say is that I would NEVER have seen a fraction of the Orbz airports and eye candy that they've put in their scenery if it weren't for 1046 ft runway fully loaded 208 jobs produced by buying AH. Version 2? Take my $. You earned it. That comment: I agree 150%...Air Hauler opened up the world for me. I used to ONLY combat sim and scenery was just stuff I flew over to get to the next dogfight. "Just flying around" was what I considered FSX without dogfighting...yawwwwnnnn....boooooring. Then a friend from another game disappeared for a while, and mentioned he was flight simming in FSX using a game called Air Hauler. It sounded kind of boring, but I found it on sale at a Fry's store and have been hooked, reeled, landed, clubbed, and fileted by FSX and the Addon market thanks to the drive to deliver cargos at the behest of my AH virtual customers. Even learned how to fly helicopters so I could deliver to those little Xpads up in the ORBx NA-PNW Oregon Washington area, and glad for it...helicopters ROCK it turns out. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Matt it looks like we have the same story... I installed FSX Gold after seeing Air Hauler videos on You Tube while looking for something else. I had also been only in combat sims since the 90s. Now I keep on with World War 1 combat sims only. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Gdn Newal 5 Posted May 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 The company traffic for an semi annual meeting and BBQ in the Tournament town of B.C. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Nice fleet, AH is without doubt the best addon I ever bought, over the years since it came out I have changed or added so much to FSX but AH as always been there. I like how you get to go places you may never have gone and fly with a purpose... Wayne 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Cool ramp shot! I need to get my AIs to fly in to one place and see if I can arrange a shot like that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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