OK, very cool! Thanks!
So I would start at Easy and replace the Kingair with my imported Do-228. Much less intimidating.
Still looking forward to the article! 
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Ouch, I didn’t realize that AI tasked for cargo jobs only earn .1 rep for completion. 
Back to commodity grinding it is. 
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Nobody…NOBODY!..hates grind more than I do. Air Hauler is not grindy when started at any level other than the most difficult. You can begin at minute=1 with a reputation of 40, sell the 172, and use the money to get a lease on just about anything you’d like to fly. What AH2 offers, the very reason for its existence, is the encouragement to fly to new places. It really is as simple as that. It takes perfectly mature adults and gives them silly incentives to fly to places. And we get there and hear the cheering, clapping audio clip and we feel a little sense of accomplishment. It is way more fun than I thought it would be. It’s a little like an atmospheric version of Elite Dangerous but without the piracy. Really though, this is about MAD. @BeachAV8R is putting in the time to build a nice sandbox for us. This moment won’t last forever. People will get bored and move on. But for now, we have our sandbox. It exists in a beautiful part of the world. The flying is fantastic. If one thinks about it more deeply than that, it’s ridiculous, even pointless. Whatever. For now it is scratching an itch quite nicely.
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Ha…that thought always lurks in the back of my mind whenever I’m playing X-Plane, Arma, or DCS…I’m just pushing 1 and 0s through a wire to create Dopamine in my system. 
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Oh, I know! I’m just a gluten for punishment.
I’m complaining, but I’m still playing so it must not be all that bad.
We are going to make you start sleeping on FBO couches soon. That part is fun.
Anyone had issues with AI passenger flights?
Specifically mine will do the first sector but won’t fly the second so they just end up stuck, idle, at the first destination.
It’s also not changing the status from “pending” to “completed”, even though I can see the rep added as well as the stats for that sector.
I had to create them a certain way.
- Add a new sector, and set it’s destination, prices, etc;
- Right click on that Sector and select “Schedule Return Sector”, set prices;
That’s what I’ve done, in addition to adding the crew for each leg.
Below is a capture of my pax page. The first leg for each aircraft (KCLL-KPNS and KEAT-KPDX) shows pending even though they’ve both been completed and both have refused to complete their second scheduled sector.
Edit: It seems as though there’s a 48 hour period that must pass between scheduling a flight and executing it. I’ll update in a few days whether that was the issue …
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This sounds frighteningly realistic. Air Hauler nailed it… Did it give you a coupon for a fast food joint and a hotel voucher?
Sorry I’m not being helpful…I have not been doing anything other than cargo flights…
The old “oops I had a beer, guess I’m done flying for twelve hours” line?
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Always have a beer on standby for when Dispatch comes up on the caller ID so you can answer with that sweet, sweet sound…
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Ahhh! I ran into the same problem that you are having (it only did one leg and then sat there, refusing to do the return one). I thought I solved it be sending the flight home manually and recreating it with the above procedure, but maybe it was solved because I ended up starting it 48 hours into the future.
This app has some … weird… choices 
Had some odd bugs today, both of which in the Zibo.
First takeoff, couldn’t rotate. My first thought was the stick was unplugged or not being registered but it was fine. Control yoke was matching stick inputs. Looking at the overhead, everything was in the right position but could not get the nose off the ground.
Resulted in the image below, I clearly need to work on my RTO/abort procedures.
After I reset the aircraft, I flew most of a flight with no problems but life came up with about 10 minutes to landing and I had to pause the game for a few hours.
When I came back and resumed, the jet was screaming through fuel. As in, I had to do an in-flight refuel to 8,000lbs 10 miles from the field and I still flamed out on the taxiway. No idea what was going on there.
Both situations I took a look at the failures in XP and saw nothing, in addition to nothing noted in AH2. Weird day.
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So Destiny is ranging far and wide! She is in Miami…having swung through New Mexico, Louisiana, the panhandle of Florida, and now deep into Florida. Finally, after thousands of miles traveled…she located a Kodiak fuselage! So that is on the way to Pullman - the final piece of that puzzle.
I think it will take $20,000 to ship it and will take 6 days from Miami…!
She also spotted a Port Wing for the Fokker 50 in Miami…but that baby is 400K, so I had to hop into the Dornier and run some commodities around Washington to pay for that sucker…
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This is what happens when you start trying to buy an expensive Fokker…
Even though that looks bad…it is all under control…
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Commodity runs around eastern Washington to keep Destiny’s East Coast Fokker Tour™ funded.
Practicing short fields at Boeing Field so that when I go back to flying in Idaho I won’t have lost a step…
The Fokker scavenger hunt is going well though (if expensive)…
- Cockpit
- Fuselage
- Tail Section
- Port Wing
- Starboard Wing
- Undercarriage
- Engine #1
- Engine #2
This was a more expensive build from a part shipping point of view too. A part that might have cost $20K to ship from the Pacific Northwest area is costing me near 100K to ship from the east coast. I’ll tally up the cost vs. new when I’ve got all the parts. Even if I find an Undercarriage soon, it will be at least 5 more days until the parts arrive at the factory in Pullman from the east coast, and then a couple days to build it I’m sure.
Once I build the Fokker 50, I’m settling in for the long haul and will transfer some airplanes over to the MAD VA side of the house. It looks like our fleet will be:
Cessna 172 Bush
TBM 900 (donated by @boomerang10)
Husky A-1C
Cessna 207
Dornier 228
DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
Fokker 50
I’ll continue to fly for MAC on the side for parts quests to eventually fund a MAD Boeing 727 freighter. Or we could do a stock MD80 if people would prefer to have some stock planes included.
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Destiny is all the way over in Charleston, SC in her little Cessna 207. So…a massive Boeing plant there…you’d figure you could maybe find some aircraft parts there.
NOPE.
Sigh. Oh well, maybe she can pick up a few pallets of beer from @chipwich to bring back west.
Next she will head up the East Coast hunting for that last Fokker of a part…
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