Local Conditions = choice of aircraft

[Aether]

Following a read about why HA uses 717s and is not looking at replacing them anytime soon with something better, because actually nothing beats the 717s for the particular way and conditions in which HA uses them, making them better than other, newer, planes:

how about including technical details in the game such as the airplane engine, since some engines are simply not good for some routes and others are,

this so as to further encourage diversifying the fleet.

the thread in question for clarification: http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=580851

[Tjoeker]

I'm interested in giving the player more cons and pros as to why they would use a certain type.

I had an idea of a con: If you purchase a new airliner of a new family, your maintenance increases with a (high) new basic cost.
As you have to train your staff to handle the type, and might need new machinery to execute the maintenance.
Of course, the outsourcing of maintenance means that you don't have this additional cost, but the maintenance cost per aircraft would be higher then.

With a new family I mean:
You for example have a couple of A319s and A320s. These belong to the same family (A32S)
Now you decide to buy a new type, A330. This is new family in your fleet.

For example Ryanair only uses the 737 family to cut costs this way.


We might need some more pros and cons to why you would choose to use 1 or more families.
Or why you would choose for example Embraer over Bombardier or Fokker.
I often end up using the same aircraft in every game..

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I believe different engine types are included, or at least were included in v1.
Could you elaborate on what we are/were missing in this feature? (assuming you knew this)

[nnick]

I think this would be a great addition to the game.
An other thing that could be interesting is design flaws. For example the the de Havilland Comet was a revolutionary plane for it's time. It was one of the first commercial jet engine planes with a great capacity for passengers. But because of design flaws the aircraft was grounded for months and several flights crashed. Which brought sales down and kept the aircraft from being a success. 

Currently this is not covered in the game, but could be very interesting in my opinion. I think it would be challenging to have your aircrafts being grounded for weeks and needing to lease other aircrafts to replace them. Though I do think their should be a randomness factor in here. Because if the same airline type will always be grounded in year xxxx on month xx for x length, you can easily avoid buying that aircraft, which does not add any realism to the game.

Maybe some sort of manufacturer design flaw randomness can be implemented. The bigger the manufacturer is the lower the chance for a design flaw, also the year of development should be a factor. So an aircraft designed in the 1930's by a small manufacturer is more likely to fail then an aircraft made in 2017 by a big manufacturer. (Although this could still happen of course, take a look at the 787)

And in general i would love to see incidents in the game. Crashes, hijacks, medical emergencies onboard, drunk passengers which cause the plane to make a stop, etc..

Greetings Nick

[Tjoeker]

All optional of course.

It would indeed be fun to have more realism options.

But of the last sentence:

And in general i would love to see incidents in the game. Crashes, hijacks, medical emergencies onboard, drunk passengers which cause the plane to make a stop, etc..

You wouldn't notice any of these as time goes to fast. (except for crashes).
And generating mails for those events would clutter the mail again imo.