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UnitedContinental

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In Topic: ADE anyone?

10 September 2014 - 01:33 AM

I regularly use ADE by editing the stock airports in FSX so that I can correct the airports. I normally like to fly out of EWR, so I edited that Gates in each terminals so that Newark Ground sends the proper airlines to their respective gates which they use in really life. And when needed, I also add gates in or I edit the size of gates to all for the various aircraft types in FSX. I then also edit some taxiways and taxi signs, and ground lights.

 

I've been at it since June of 2013, and I have roughly 50 US airports edited. 


In Topic: Air Algerie Flight 117

24 July 2014 - 07:46 PM

The plane did in fact crash in an "very inaccessible desert area" (French Military/USA Today) in Mali. Here's the link.

 

http://www.usatoday....ears/13084329/

 

Based off of what we know, It's very doubtful that anyone would've been able to survive this. 


In Topic: AE4 request(s)

27 June 2014 - 11:26 PM

I beleive there is a regional US carrier moving from San Diego or Santa Ana to Dallas as we speak.

 

Also a big example is Air Berlin moving from Miami as Air Berlin USA to Berlin when politics calmed down.

 

I support this.

Moving from one state to another is one thing. But moving from the USA to Japan is another. With the Air Berlin case, they were a charter airline with only 90 employees when they "moved" their operations (when they actually were bought out by a German entrepreneur and then restructured into a German company). What would happen if a major airline (lets say Delta) were to move all of its operations from the US (and it's HQ in Atlanta) to Japan and base itself out of Japan? Their fleet would need to drastically change, and the Japanese government would most likely figure out a way to stop this if it ever happened (i.e. to protect the Japanese carriers ANA, JAL, etc.).

 

Possibly in the case of countries splitting up, this could be an idea.

(As when the USSR breaks up, Air Ukraine doesn't want to be stuck based in Moscow... ^_^ )

In this case, what could happen is the choice of choosing your new home country out of a list of countries that came out of the USSR break up(i.e. choose between the 15 countries that followed the USSR such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia). While this is not exactly what would have occur in real life, it does avoid the realistic fact that many Soviet Airlines went bankrupt and never restarted. At least this gives those current airlines a chance.


In Topic: AE4 request(s)

27 June 2014 - 03:43 AM

I really don't think this would be a good idea. In the real world, you don't just see airlines picking up and moving to another country. What they might do is transfer planes from one airline to another, but that's a different issue.

In Topic: Solution to Constant Expansion

17 June 2014 - 12:53 AM

"I'll just go ahead and prevent my competitors from getting new planes by backing up the assembly line until 2050"

 

Good point. The only way to prevent that would be to somehow limit the cash flow or orders, but I have no idea how either of those 2 should be addressed.