Longbeard 0 Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Can anyone give any recommendations as to what type of AC to buy first, and also, is there any good strategies out there for how to properly pursue building up your cargo company? I wind up with less money after every flight, at this rate, I'm going to be bankrupt soon. Right now I have the caravan, and a base in Calgary Canada. I bought that one because it was cheap. Should I be in a better area to start with? Thanks! John Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 You're doing fine and the choice of AC is good. CP has an odd business model that is utterly disconnected from the financial results you see after each flight. Every RW Friday you will get a payday in CP that will be based on hours flown (but they won't tell you that). You'll get a ton of money, out of all proportion to the individual flight results you've seen during the week. CP appears to be utterly indifferent to whether the flights you've flown made money or lost it. The pay scale is exponential. The second hour nets you far more than the first and the third more than the second, etc. CP rewards hours flown, or as Dree says, fuel burned. The only way to keep from being driven insane by that finacial scenario is to imagine that there are unseen others flying unseen other airplanes for your company and the income is the pooled result of everyone's labors. CP did this to permit fairly quick upward mobility to big iron without showing you ridiculously inflated freight fees for the individual flights. AirHauler does not use that model, but permits those who want to fly Boeings and Airbuses and Antonovs a different way (several, actually) to get there in an acceptably short career. Link to post Share on other sites
Longbeard 0 Posted February 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Thats great to hear John! I was starting to think I should probably stick to wheeling race cars! Link to post Share on other sites
Longbeard 0 Posted March 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 I have another question about AC. It seems that you can only select flights that AC thinks you can make without refueling. However, on several of my flights, I have found myself running out of fuel long befor I reach the destination. Luckily, (so far) I have been able to scramble to a nearby AP to refuel, then depart and resume the flight. Is this normal? And if so, why can't I select longer flights, with scheduled refueling stops? I'm assuming that this is just another one of the downfalls that AC has. Another question, by stopping along the way to refuel, does that affect the outcome of the flights? Thanks! John Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Cargo Pilot derives what it knows about the performance of the aircraft from the aircraft.cfg file. The contents of that file, particularly the up-front text data that describes the aircraft, is notoriously inconsistent from aircraft to aircraft and from developer to developer. It appears that Cargo Pilot tries to parse performance statistics such as range out of those text descriptions, usually with poor results. On the plus side, CP built in a means for you to adjust those parameters. You can click on the office window and go to the Fleet Management menus of CP. One of them allows you to adjust the performance parameters it uses for your aircraft. An important thing to understand is that changes made there only affect the cargo generation routine of CP - what it assumes your aircraft is capable of. It will not affect the actual performance of the aircraft when you fly it in FS. As far as I know, Cargo Pilot does not allow stopping for fuel or adding fuel in flight. If you add fuel, you get a severe financial penalty at the end of the job. If you land, CP assumes that's the delivery being made and that's the end of the job, right or wrong. I have to point out that AirHauler, when it is released, will only use performance parameters from the more structured sections of the aircraft.cfg file but will also ask the user to fill in missing data when importing the AC into AH - not unlike what CP allows, but it does it on the front end so job generation should never be based on incorrect AC data. AH does permit landing and re-fueling enroute. It will prevent you from adding fuel from the FS Fuel & Payload menu. All fuel in AH is purchased at the Cargo Loading screen while on the ground at an airport, and you are charged whatever the current rate is for that type of fuel at that particular airport at that time. John Link to post Share on other sites
kymsheba 0 Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 Cargo Pilot derives what it knows about the performance of the aircraft from the aircraft.cfg file. The contents of that file, particularly the up-front text data that describes the aircraft, is notoriously inconsistent from aircraft to aircraft and from developer to developer. It appears that Cargo Pilot tries to parse performance statistics such as range out of those text descriptions, usually with poor results.On the plus side, CP built in a means for you to adjust those parameters. You can click on the office window and go to the Fleet Management menus of CP. One of them allows you to adjust the performance parameters it uses for your aircraft. An important thing to understand is that changes made there only affect the cargo generation routine of CP - what it assumes your aircraft is capable of. It will not affect the actual performance of the aircraft when you fly it in FS. As far as I know, Cargo Pilot does not allow stopping for fuel or adding fuel in flight. If you add fuel, you get a severe financial penalty at the end of the job. If you land, CP assumes that's the delivery being made and that's the end of the job, right or wrong. I have to point out that AirHauler, when it is released, will only use performance parameters from the more structured sections of the aircraft.cfg file but will also ask the user to fill in missing data when importing the AC into AH - not unlike what CP allows, but it does it on the front end so job generation should never be based on incorrect AC data. AH does permit landing and re-fueling enroute. It will prevent you from adding fuel from the FS Fuel & Payload menu. All fuel in AH is purchased at the Cargo Loading screen while on the ground at an airport, and you are charged whatever the current rate is for that type of fuel at that particular airport at that time. John I use Cargo Pilot since it came out and it has served it's purpose until something better comes along well that wait seems to be over Cargo Pilot tried to be what AIR HAULER IS and i can't wait to get my hands on AIR HAULER this will be a huge leap forward similar in effect on the Flight Simulator world as FS Passengers had on it. Things are looking very good real soon. Cheers, kymsheba Link to post Share on other sites
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