Idea for FS2006.......
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:18 amHey guys,
I just noticed the other day that when you're choosing airports, there's no info on them!!!! It should be like the real world, I know that they've done that with map view, which is good and I like it, but they should have a little space, for info on airports as you highlight them. I.E. Distance of longest runway, controlled or uncontrolled aerodrome, lit runway or not lit runway (at night), airport elevation and whether it is a private airstrip or a big commercial one, the size of aircraft that it can support and so on. It will actually make things much better, rather than, when you want to fly in places you haven't been before, say, with a 737, there's no info on the select airport page, so I could select a bloody airport with a runway 800 metres long and 20 metres wide, but would only find out when I'm either at the map page when flightplanning, or only when I'm at the airport if I'm not planning a flight!
Another cool thing would be:
I random flightplanner: You select a departure airport, or not at all, then you fill in a few fields, say, length of flight you want (E.g. from 1-2 hours) or distance range (I prefer time range), after choosing aircraft so it could calculate distance, IFR or VFR, and so on, and it would find a suitable airport in that range that you can fly to with that aircraft, or if you didn't choose a departure airport, it would find any 2 airports suitable for that aircraft type within the time or distance range and plan the flight. It could also choose suitable cruising altitudes, still don't know why current flight planner would choose 5000 'ASL for a flight 800nm long in a 747! You should be able to choose weather, then plan a flight, and it'll calculate a proper flight level, depending on the weather, in which the fuel consumption is best.
Greg
I just noticed the other day that when you're choosing airports, there's no info on them!!!! It should be like the real world, I know that they've done that with map view, which is good and I like it, but they should have a little space, for info on airports as you highlight them. I.E. Distance of longest runway, controlled or uncontrolled aerodrome, lit runway or not lit runway (at night), airport elevation and whether it is a private airstrip or a big commercial one, the size of aircraft that it can support and so on. It will actually make things much better, rather than, when you want to fly in places you haven't been before, say, with a 737, there's no info on the select airport page, so I could select a bloody airport with a runway 800 metres long and 20 metres wide, but would only find out when I'm either at the map page when flightplanning, or only when I'm at the airport if I'm not planning a flight!
Another cool thing would be:
I random flightplanner: You select a departure airport, or not at all, then you fill in a few fields, say, length of flight you want (E.g. from 1-2 hours) or distance range (I prefer time range), after choosing aircraft so it could calculate distance, IFR or VFR, and so on, and it would find a suitable airport in that range that you can fly to with that aircraft, or if you didn't choose a departure airport, it would find any 2 airports suitable for that aircraft type within the time or distance range and plan the flight. It could also choose suitable cruising altitudes, still don't know why current flight planner would choose 5000 'ASL for a flight 800nm long in a 747! You should be able to choose weather, then plan a flight, and it'll calculate a proper flight level, depending on the weather, in which the fuel consumption is best.
Greg
