I like the permanence of both having a single base, and having a pilot that needs to travel with the plane (well, unless you can phase in and out like @Rhinosaurus was talking about). It makes me think carefully about where I take my cargo, the availability and convenience of nearby jobs, and I enjoy the pre-flight research on runway lengths, approaches, and weather.
Ugh. Another day of hanging Hardie board (concrete drywall) on a ceiling! Ladders, nailers, screws, holes in my finger, stiff back…can’t wait to get back into AH, among others. Too old for this. Enjoying reading about yaw’ls exploits though, while waiting for the Tylenol to kick in.
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you can. just have to set up plkane yourself. ah2 launches xplane but resume flight wont work because youll be at wrong airport.
This sums it up very well for me as well. As a gamer, I’ve always been a Career Mode gamer. Doesn’t matter whether it was a sports game or something else. In sports games, I was always the kind of gamer to take the crappiest team in the crappiest division and try to build them up to national champions of years and years (in-game).
AH2 gives me that same feeling (FSE too really), which is why I started in Career mode in that as well.
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I opened a second base up at Pullman/Moscow (KPUW) - home of @Rhinosaurus - that should allow us to run some flights into the interesting corners of Idaho, and we’ve seen the weather at each can be significantly different.
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Alrighty then…money burning a hole in my pocket. Now - to be fair, I DID transfer 100K of my MAC capital to MAD, so it isn’t as dire as it looks. But I did open a second base for MAC as well this morning at Pullman (KPUL) since I like that airport and it will probably generate missions into Idaho. It will also allow me to send missions to MAD from MAC, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to generate missions from KPUL.
My goal isn’t really company cash at this point (MAC) - but getting enough short trips in to get that overall REP up to 40 to open up a larger airplane lease. The addition of Pullman brings my monthly rental expenses to a combined 30K or so…definitely going to have to keep up with the flying to cover that.
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FSE to me is more like a mission generator. It does track where you’ve gone and how much you’ve earned, but there’s no restriction on what type of aircraft you can fly. The assignments/jobs available in various airports may make you calculate a little bit on what to take and how (route) to fly. It doesn’t matter if you crashed, or landed at over 500fpm. You would still get paid, even if the plane and payload might have ended up a pile of crumpled metal on the runway, as long as you pull the parking brake. I haven’t purchased a plane of my own or set up a FBO. Can’t comment on that part. But it seems to become more of a number game.
AH2 is obviously much more restricted. I am being stuck with my little C172 for a while, until I get enough reputation to lease and take out loan. AH2 website says “Travel around the world to meet new contacts and fly missions for them individually to boost your company’s reputation and income”. Sounds good, but not in my C172. Type rating got me a little anxious (thought only wannabe pilots like me would be subject to this 
). Before I try the MAD’s bush C172, I’ll have to practice some. Every landing “really” matters. I have to think a little bit before accepting a job, because canceling or letting it expire would hit my hard earned and still poor REP. Other aspects such as stocks (more like merchandise) trading, factories, AI pilot, etc. are all cool, but not of much concern to me, at least at this point. Although, it’d be great if hiring AI would help me grind through the REP earning process. Then of course, the whole interface, tracking of finance and various indicators, is so well done.
Anyways, AH2 makes me nervous about my flights, while FSE sometimes feels like just a number game. But I probably need to take a vacation in FSE from time to time from the AH2 grinding.
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It was a nice break to fly the Caravan last night on that FSE mission. Gives a little glimpse into the future of what can be possible with my own little company.
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So being new to AH2, I have a complete noob question. How do I fly jobs for the VA? Should I be looking for available jobs in the VA itself? (when I looked after first joining, there appeared to only be 3-4 of them). Or should I have my own company started in KEAT as well and “transfer jobs” to the VA to fly myself?
I’m new to the VA thing too - and it appears that this is correct - you have to start a company, then transfer the jobs. I’m not sure exactly how it works when the company airplane (the Bush 172) is away from the base as it is now. I don’t know if it has to be ferried back or get a mission back before it can be used…but you can always use your own plane to fly the VA mission as well.
Clear as mud. 
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Well, I suppose the good thing about having to work so much lately is that I haven’t been able to spend much time on my company I started in KMMV. So it’s the perfect time for me to start over again and start from KEAT this time :).
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So relative my thought that it is a bummer that VA flights don’t count toward personal REP, the developer (Slopey) said:
“They don’t count towards personal currently, no. But they do count towards the VA’s own rep. I might change it in a future update so you get some, but it’s a little more complex as multiple people could work on a VA job - who gets the rep in that sense? The delivered amounts aren’t tracked per job per pilot currently - that’s a level of complexity I’d rather not get into.”
I have to admit - I had not thought of splitting loads on a VA job…!
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Oh that is a good point. I can see why he wouldn’t want to start doing that. Why does VA rep even matter though? The whole VA function seems almost entirely driven by its sub companies so I’m not sure why linking VA jobs (which all seem to be sourced from the sub companies) to VA rep does anything. It’s not like it opens new opportunities the same way, does it?
The only thing I can think of is maybe the REP is required to lease bigger airplanes for the VA? If I go to the VA BUY aircraft page right now…BUY is selectable, but LEASE is not. So that might be it…
So I’m kind of weird about my pilot permanence - meaning I don’t want to be able to warp me OR my airplane anywhere. I’m in Pullman, and would like to keep the company 172 there in anticipation of flying jobs into Idaho, but my Husky is in Wenatchee/Pangborn - dumb question, but can I buy an airplane ticket there? LOL… It would be funny if another VA “competitor” came and picked me up…
By the way, I must be the dumbest CEO in the history of Air Hauler because I only just learned a couple hours ago that the interface is actually made of “windows” that are just like browser tabs and they are designed to be closed…LOL…for some reason I thought those just populated as you switched categories up at the top. I’m so dumb… Now it seems slightly less confusing now that I can close out those tabs each time I’m done using them.
as far as I can tell no. I wanted to do the same thing. I checked with the AH2 discord, and they indicated it doesn’t work that way. You personally just teleport. Your AI pilots have to transfer (and pay the costs to do so).
You just need to set your flight up in the right location in the sim if you are using standard mode. AH2 will launch xplane at the wrong airport based on where you were last I think, because of the resume last flight function.
Because you’re switching back to the other plane it may work, since that’s where it was last… I dunno. It didn’t work for me when my AI pilot took the plane elsewhere and then I wanted to fly it. I was able to without “buying a ticket” but I had to set up the flight manually at the new airport.
Also - that window nonsense is ANNOYING. Slopey has done a good job with many of the mechanics, but he needs a UI guy lol.
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I guess it would retain my “permanence” if I hired a pilot just to ferry my plane to me whenever I end up somewhere else with a MAD VA aircraft. Does the AI fly in real-time - like would it take a couple hours to get from Pangborn to Pullman?
Yep.
I have a pilot loading cargo right now (whereas for your it’s instant, it takes them time depending on their cargo loading / pax boarding skill). Then there is enroute time. Then unloading/deplaning time.
Obviously if the plane is empty it’s just enroute time.
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