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#290835 What planes have you flown in?

Posted by 767holic on 22 September 2022 - 05:22 AM in Real World Aviation

Me :

 

Airbus

A320-200 IAE and CFM (AirAsia Indonesia, Citilink, Batik, Tigerair, Tigerair Mandala)

A320NEO CFM (Citilink)

A340-300 (Lufthansa)

A400M (French Air Force / Armee De L'air - Joyflight session)

 

ATR

ATR72-600 (NAM Air)

 

Boeing 

737-200 (Sriwijaya)

737-300 (Sriwijaya)

737-400 (Sriwijaya)

737-500 Winglets (Sriwijaya and NAM Air)

737-800 (Garuda, Sriwijaya)

737-900ER (Sriwijaya, Batik)

767-300 (ANA)

777-200ER (ANA)

777-300ER (Garuda Indonesia)

 

Bombardier

DHC-8-400 Q400 (ANA Wings)

 

Cessna

C208B Grand Caravan (Susi Air)




#290858 What do you think is the hardest country to operate out of?

Posted by 767holic on 26 September 2022 - 10:00 AM in General AE Discussion

I'd like to add after tried it again on this year :

1. Timor Leste (East Timor), it is possible to operate and survive, BUT :

  • You need to be patient and see your airline grow VERY slowly.
  • Complete monopoly of routes is required. One competitor enters especially at vital routes (such as DPS-DIL) and during early stages, game over.
  • Unless to DPS, don't try fly to big airports in early game as the gate leasing cost may overwhelm the potential profits.
  • You need to have a bigger airline in Indonesia inside your alliance which makes every city in Indonesia is a hub, so you can connect from DIL to many cities in Indonesia using CN235s and gain benefits from connecting pax. Note that Indonesian airline should not take a competition with you especially in the DPS-DIL route (if it does, game over)
  • Don't expect to grow big and fast there. At Rdelta, i took a ATP as starting aircraft and then stay for several years until i can afford to buy the ATP and finally buying CN235's. 
  • Try avoid leasing at all costs, better wait until there is enough money to buy in cash
  • I only managed to get 20 airplanes at peak : 5 A319LR an 15 CN235. The valuation is only around 850 million.

2. Suriname. At start it will be hard and slow just like Timor Leste but once you able to obtain jets able to fly far enough to Amsterdam and gain enough money, it will be easier. I managed to grew up to 50 airplanes consisting of 30 A319LR, 15 CN235 and 5 C208B.

3. Brunei. It is easier than Suriname but can be tricky to start. Prefering real-world routes and making a lot of 3-1x weekly flight is a key to success.

3. Singapore is a bit harder for me as i have airlines in Malaysia and Indonesia as well and i comply with the rules of not serving the same routes with my other airline so i unable to take advantage of huge demands in SIN-Indonesia and SIN-Malaysia routes. 

4. Maldives just same with Brunei i guess, but at least there are several profitable domestic route pairs is possible. Some of them has huge demands.

5. Russia could be hard if you start on cities other than Moscow and St. Petersburg. I started my airline in Novosibirsk and avoiding Moscow for some time, it is quite hard until finally i dared to fly from Moscow too.




#291000 What Subways/Metros/Monorails have you been in?

Posted by 767holic on 14 October 2022 - 03:49 AM in Real World Surface Transportation

Indonesia :

- MRT Jakarta

- LRT Palembang

- Perhaps soon LRT Jabodebek, due to operate in 2023

- KRL Commuter Line Jaboetabek (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- KRL Commuter Line Yogyakarta - Solo (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- Airport Railway Soekarno-Hatta Intl Airport Jakarta (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- Airport Railway Kualanamu Intl Airport (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- Airport Railway Yogyakarta Intl Airport (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- Soekarno-Hatta Intl Airport People Mover / Skytrain (not sure if this can be considered)

 

Singapore :

- Singapore MRT, i think almost all lines both operated by SBS Transit and SMRT

- Sentosa Monorail 

- Changi People Mover (not sure if this can be considered)

 

Malaysia :

- KL MRT

- KL Monorail

- KL LRT

- KTMB Commuter (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- KLIA Express and KLIA Transit (not sure if this can be considered)

- KLIA People Mover Main Terminal - Satellite Terminal (not sure if this can be considered)

 

Japan : 

- Keikyu Line (Haneda Airport - Higashi Nihombashi & Higashi Nihombashi - Asakusabashi)

- Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line (the one that uses TM 02 series rolling stock)

- Toei Shinjuku Line

- Seibu Shinjuku Line (i am not sure about the name but i was taking from Shinjuku to Tokorozawa)

- Seibu Ikebukuro Line (i am not sure about the name but i was taking from Tokorozawa to Ikebukuro)

- Tobu Tojo Line (Ikebukuro - Tokiwadai)

- Tokyo Monorail (Hamamatsucho - Haneda)

- JR East Yamanote Line (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- JR East Sobu Line - Rapid (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- JR East Chuo-Sobu Line (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- Osaka Monorail (Itami - Hotarugaike)

- Hankyu Takarazuka Line

- Hankyu Kyoto Line 

- Hankyu Arashiyama Line 

- Osaka Metro (i am not sure how many lines i was taken but for sure one of them its Midosuji Line)

- JR West Osaka Loop Line (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)

- JR West Kyoto Line (not sure if this can be considered since it using regular railway line)




#291098 worst ae brands by country

Posted by 767holic on 01 November 2022 - 02:25 AM in Member Projects

In Rdelta there are several weird airline called "Fartwinds", operating from a lot of country and formed a alliance called "kaboom" (which i would personally call them "the fartbangers"). The owner profile as of this writing can't be opened (it is said that the account is inactive) yet the airline is still there and not closed.




#290859 what would be the worst thing that could happen in aviation.

Posted by 767holic on 26 September 2022 - 10:20 AM in General AE Discussion

A bit more realistically saying is :

- An airplane, especially a big one such as A380 or 747 wrongly landed on a taxiway and collided with several other airplanes including the big ones. For some reasons the flight crew on the arriving airplane unaware of the conditions and doesn't have visual on the other planes on taxiway and no RAAS warning. Such incidents has occurred many times but thankfully nothing fatal happened and mostly a close calls and the pilots able to do corrective actions. 

- A meteor or space debris struck a plane and caused a sudden decompression / total structural failure / loss of control. While the odds are extremely low this is actually one of my worries when flying

- Also in my worst worries is when a depressed/suicidal person somehow have access to flight deck and ended up crashing the airplane to many other airplanes on ground. This has happened in 1999 when a Air Botswana pilot crashing his ATR42 to the other airplane. While there is no other fatalities other than the pilot, such action crippling the airline operations as it destroying the other 2 ATR's. Imagine if the very same thing happened but with full passengers on that plane and also the other airplanes on ground already have the pax onboard, waiting for departure.




#290973 Boeing 747: -10OSR, -100B, -200M, -200SUD, -300SR, -300M (Approved by Oliy)

Posted by 767holic on 08 October 2022 - 12:27 PM in New Aircraft Requests

Since there is a new aircraft data manager, i'd like to bump this request up...

SUD (stretched upper deck) i think should be some kind of optional upgrade (like winglets) instead of entirely new type, considering there is a regular 747-100/SR and 200 that being converted to SUD. Such example was used by JAL and KLM. 




#291107 Which aircraft is the most efficient?

Posted by 767holic on 04 November 2022 - 04:07 AM in New Players and Questions

Early 1950's (1950-1955) : DC-6, L-1649, B377, and for starting VC-1 Viking (you just need 20 vikings, after that better move to larger airplanes). Ambassador and Viscount may be considered too. 

Late 1950's (1955-1960) : DC-7 all variants, Britannia, 707-120/320B/C, DC8-20 

Early 1960's (1960-1965) : 707-320, 727-100, DC8-50, CL44. Tu-114 can be considered too.

Late 1960's (1965-1970) : Probably still 707-320, 727-200, 737-200, 747-100, DC8-50/61/62, CL44. 

1970's : 727-200/adv, 737-200/adv, 747-100/200B/C, A300B4, DC10, L1011

1980's : Still all mentioned in 1970's + 737-300/400, 747-300/400/400D, 757-200, All 767 variants, A300-600/600R, A310 all variants, A320, MD81, MD83. Can be considered too is Tu-154M and BAE146.

1990's : All mentioned in 1980's + A330 all variants, A340-300/300E, B737-500/700/800, 777-200/200ER, MD11. Can be considered too Avro RJ series and Fokker 100

2000's : All mentioned in 1980 and 1990's + 737-700ER/900ER & A380. Can be considered too is 777-200LR, 300, 300ER, and Embraer 170/190 series.

2010's : All mentioned in 1990's and 2000's + 737MAX, 747-8, 787-8/9/10, A330-800/900, A319/20/21NEO/LR, A350-900/1000. Can be considered too is C919, A220 and Embraer E2 series.




#290546 What would be the easiest country to operate domestic flights in

Posted by 767holic on 25 June 2022 - 05:00 PM in General AE Discussion

From my experience, the easiest for domestic flights is :
1. Japan (especially from and between HND, NRT, CTS, FUK, KIX, OKA, and ITM and also seems some of real-world routes). You can even fit a 24/7 flights (24 flights daily) all using wide body jets on some routes. Huge demand to neighbouring country such as Korea and China is a good bonus.
2. Indonesia especially from CGK, SUB, DPS + real world routes even from/to small cities has big, albeit not as big as Japan demands. Huge demands on route from CGK to SIN and KUL is a bonus.
3. China, lot of high demand domestic routes.

Other than that, never tried before. US maybe another one but competition is quite stiff there.



#290564 What would be the easiest country to operate domestic flights in

Posted by 767holic on 09 July 2022 - 06:10 PM in General AE Discussion

I am going to add more :

- Malaysia, demand is huge to ALL routes starting from KUL to any cities around Malaysia that can be served by MD80's. Also noteworthy additions is routes starting from PEN, BKI, SZB and KCH. Again, looks like real world routes have a lot bigger demand than non-existent routes in real world.

- Taiwan, it may looks really small but some domestic routes pairs have HUGE demands, sometimes which i am even surprised.




#290974 [UNDER DISCUSSION] Baade 152

Posted by 767holic on 08 October 2022 - 12:34 PM in New Aircraft Requests

Torn in this one. It flew but never entered service, but was planned too.

Will need to review. Placing in "Discussion" status

 

If Baade 152 going to be passed despite that it never entered service, then there will be pretty lot of unsuccesful aircraft projects (the one that managed to fly / prototype but not entered service) that can be added too. Some similar examples are IPTN N250 series, Dornier 728(?), Mitsubishi SpaceJet, etc...

 

Yet in game a Tu-334 is available. It never entered service with any airline (but they did market it until SSJ entered service)




#291724 Are you bilingual?

Posted by 767holic on 22 January 2023 - 12:56 PM in Off Topic

I speak English, Indonesian (can easily speak Malay too) and Javanese (local language).

In fact for Javanese there are 3 versions of the language, consists of that you use to talk with older people (formal use), other people which around your age (or neutral), and what supposed to be used for close friends only (it is more commonly known but can be considered rude if you use it to talk with older people, especially in Central Java).

 

In addition i also managed to understand Japanese language and still learning more about it :)




#291087 credit ratings

Posted by 767holic on 30 October 2022 - 02:18 PM in New Players and Questions

I recommend against taking out bonds since using Scam IFS and other strategies will give your airlines enough cash flow to acquire/lease aircraft quickly anyway. At the highest credit rating you can lease up to 10,000 aircraft but buying aircraft once you can is the better way to go.

 

I am disagree about this, taking bond is OK for starting as long as you know how to spend it wisely.




#291355 Qatar As A Base Is underrated

Posted by 767holic on 01 December 2022 - 02:07 AM in General AE Discussion

The main problem is that Qatar has only one major airport, so you will run out of good routes quickly. I usually recommend the US but China and the EU after 2000 are also viable. Qatar probably would be a good base in the open worlds though.

 

Unfortunately US competitions are very challenging. You either go big or go extinct there. Even international routes from other countries to US may tend to lose profit easily. China still better and even in my experience it support up to 4 top 10 largest airlines without even reducing prices. 

 

Regarding Qatar itself, i could say it might be similar with Singapore or Hong Kong - you can establish a pretty large airline but possibly not going to make it through the top 5.




#291086 Hub exploit?

Posted by 767holic on 30 October 2022 - 02:14 PM in General AE Discussion

Something is fishy with the way hubs are working in R7.

 

A certain airline has set up multiple hubs at regional airports, and operates in excess of 5,000 seats on routes with no demand. I get that opening hubs can increase load factors from connecting passengers, but how can hubs create such high demand when there initially exists none?

 

If you look at a regional airport like Dijon, it somehow has more annual passenger traffic than Amsterdam Schiphol?

 

I have seen a lot of these things in the previous round of Rdelta. You can easily beat the really over spamming by just adding reasonable frequency on that route + reduce price.




#291177 coviD 20 demand

Posted by 767holic on 13 November 2022 - 05:20 AM in General AE Discussion

I think i never saw such demand loss simulated. Had it really simulated, then other crisis which affects demand/profits (such as the 1973 oil crisis, Gulf War, 9-11, SARS, 2008 global crisis etc) should be simulated too




#291383 A380 on Short Haul Routes

Posted by 767holic on 07 December 2022 - 09:20 AM in General AE Discussion

If the demand is high then there is no problem. I think during the play on Rdelta last round i used to put my 747-400D and several other large airplanes such as MD-11 and B77E on a 48x daily flights (336x weekly or basically, 2 flights every hours) between HND and CTS.




#290833 Engine options

Posted by 767holic on 21 September 2022 - 03:32 AM in General AE Discussion

Normally i'd choose the one with the longest range yet sometimes i'd check the needed runway length if its necessary..




#291066 Political restrictions

Posted by 767holic on 23 October 2022 - 07:49 AM in General AE Discussion

At first, I tried to do a flight from Singapore Changi to John F Kennedy. Then, I tried to fly to San Francisco and Los Angeles from John F Kennedy, but could not due to political reasons. Do I have to add another flight from Singapore Changi? Or do I have to make a new hub?


On realistic world this is not possible (also on real world kind of allowing foreign airlines flying domestic routes or in short word : Cabotage is quite rare). On open world you could.



#291127 SO MANY ROUTES

Posted by 767holic on 06 November 2022 - 03:25 PM in General AE Discussion

 sometimes, i see airlines with thousands of routes after a fairly short amount of time, so it might take me an hour to add 30 routes. they are either just grinding for literal days, or theres a shortcut that i dont know, rather than searching up each route manually. sorry i had to ask this has been driving me crazy for the last few days

 

Haven't you aware of Browse Airports feature?




#290990 Lisunov Li-2 and Showa/Nakajima L2D

Posted by 767holic on 11 October 2022 - 04:20 AM in New Aircraft Requests

It is basically a license-produced DC-3 but have different production line, different engines and perhaps also a slightly different performance.

The performance below are from Wikipedia, however it is referenced to a encyclopedia book which seems legit.

 

Lisunov Li-2P (1939-1952, used by many airlines in eastern bloc notably Aeroflot)

  • Crew: 4 (5-6 Li-2T)
  • Capacity: 24 passengers
  • Length: 19.65 m (64 ft 6 in)
  • Wingspan: 28.81 m (94 ft 6 in)
  • Wing area: 91.33 m2 (983.1 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 7,700 kg (16,976 lb)
  • Max takeoff weight: 11,280 kg (24,868 lb)
  • Powerplant: 2 × Shvetsov M-62 9-cylinderair-cooled radial piston engines, 670 kW (900 hp) each
  • Propellers: 3-bladed variable-pitch propellers
  • Maximum speed: 280 km/h (170 mph, 150 kn)
  • Cruise speed: 245 km/h (152 mph, 132 kn)
  • Range: 2,500 km (1,600 mi, 1,300 nmi)
  • Service ceiling: 5,600 m (18,400 ft)

 

Nakajima L2D3 (1940-1945, used by Japan Air Transport, Imperial Japanese Airways, China National Aviation Corporation and Great Northern Airways)

  • Crew: 3-5
  • Capacity: 21 pax 
  • Length: 19.507 m (64 ft 0 in)
  • Wingspan: 18.956 m (62 ft 2 in)
  • Height: 7.46 m (24 ft 6 in)
  • Wing area: 91.6 m2 (986 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 7,218 kg (15,913 lb)
  • Gross weight: 12,500 kg (27,558 lb)
  • Powerplant: × Mitsubishi MK8 Kinsei 43 14-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 750 kW (1,000 hp) for take-off
  • Propellers: 3-bladed variable-pitch propellers
  • Maximum speed: 393 km/h (244 mph, 212 kn) at 2,800 m (9,186 ft)
  • Cruise speed: 241 km/h (150 mph, 130 kn) at 3,000 m (9,843 ft)
  • Range: 3,000 km (1,900 mi, 1,600 nmi)
  • Service ceiling: 10,500 m (34,400 ft) L2D2
  • Time to altitude: 5,000 m (16,404 ft) in 16 minutes 2 seconds
  • Wing loading: 136.5 kg/m2 (28.0 lb/sq ft)
  • Power/mass: 0.1550 kW/kg (0.0943 hp/lb)



#290992 Lisunov Li-2 and Showa/Nakajima L2D

Posted by 767holic on 11 October 2022 - 11:31 AM in New Aircraft Requests

I see no real point in the L2D3, since it's production line ends in 1945, and the (current) earliest game world starts in 1950.

 

Well there are several pre-1950 airplanes existed in AE though... the original purpose was to provide used airplanes at start if i am not mistaken, but not sure if it still continues until today (




#291577 Possibility to switch unit from Imperial to Metrics

Posted by 767holic on 10 January 2023 - 03:22 AM in Suggestions and Feature Requests

Imperial units are those officially used in aviation so those are the ones used in game.

 

Actually it is hybrid, not totally imperial or metrics either. Though for operations which is available on AE, i think most of the world use metrics unit instead of imperial.




#291549 Possibility to switch unit from Imperial to Metrics

Posted by 767holic on 08 January 2023 - 11:17 AM in Suggestions and Feature Requests

Well i think it will be good if there is a available option to show units in AE using metrics (meters, kilometers and so on) instead of only imperial units available (feet, miles, etc)...




#291576 Possibility to switch unit from Imperial to Metrics

Posted by 767holic on 10 January 2023 - 03:19 AM in Suggestions and Feature Requests

America invented commercial aviation therefore everything has to stay in terms Americans can understand & all international pilots must be able to speak English because Americans invented that too. That's also why the pilot in command sits on the left because that's the way Americans learnt to drive cars. Whoever invented the helicopter was somewhat mischievious. 

 

I was on a Qantas flight once and the captain gave the flight briefing as "we'll be cruising at 35,000ft which is about 10 & a half thousand metres, at a speed of approx xxxkm/hr...."

Australians appreciate metric.

 

So do the Russians. The don't give a stuff about American aviation conventions & use only metric for altitude, weights, speed, etc, both in the military & commercial aviation.

 

Apparently on AE gameplay since the main parameters are the aircraft range/ route length and airport runway length, it is possible to implement Metrics. Most of the world use meters to determine length of runway and i think most of airline in the world use kilometers to determine range. Imperial units only used during flight (such as flight altitude)




#290972 [NEEDS DATA] C-212 variants

Posted by 767holic on 08 October 2022 - 12:21 PM in New Aircraft Requests

NC212i specs can be seen here : 

https://www.indonesi...tail/18_nc212i