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Game Strategy / Re: The Most Profitable Aircraft in AM

« on: August 13, 2009, 12:41:35 am »

If you mean a profit/cost ratio, then one of the 70-pax turbo props are probably at the top of the list. The most profitable jet is probably the F70.

I strongely dislike fokker 70s, because they do not have a good range.

Go for the dash-8-400s or atr-72s if you need a small, cheap plane for Base -> 50,000 value routes..for the airbus/boeing make the same amount of money.

Pick the long range engine varient then.  ~2100nm isn't too even if it's a modest price increase from the base Fok70

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General Chat / Re: Purchase vs Leasing????

« on: July 13, 2009, 02:31:34 am »

You'd only need to replace planes 3-4 times in 120 months (per plane)
12 months to a year

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General Chat / Re: what is your highest mx cost

« on: January 22, 2009, 01:12:56 am »

End W6 - maint cost of almost 7billion

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Game Strategy / Re: The Most Profitable Aircraft in AM

« on: November 22, 2008, 11:54:14 pm »

The F70 is excellent.  Even the expensive longer ranged one.  And they're availible from 1994

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General Chat / Re: Cleaning Out "Completed Worlds"

« on: October 20, 2008, 09:07:53 pm »

I say just clear out all PWs that are not 80% full after X time.   OR no new world can be made untill the last is X% full or X years left.

So what would happen if someone creates an 80-year, 1000-person world starting in 1928?

[/Devil's advocate]

Can I join that world

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Bugs / Re: Bae ATP bug!

« on: October 04, 2008, 01:55:46 pm »

The default engine for the BAe ATP (in W12 at least) is the P&WC PW126 - which has range 2140 (and costs 12.6m)

The PW127A has the 920 range (and is 9.8m)

You purchased the wrong engine.

Or, if buying a used plane - didnt pay attention to the planes specs before buying.

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Game Strategy / Re: How to make the long haul work?

« on: September 22, 2008, 04:58:47 pm »

Generally speaking, long haul (especially 3k or greater) is not a nice profit source when it's owned; to say nothing of leased.

The same plane running multiple shorter routes will be much more profitable.  (well, maybe not a 400+pax plane where turnaround time is a huge issue)

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Bugs / Re: W11

« on: August 20, 2008, 06:52:16 pm »

And it's apparently a 1yr scenario

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Game Strategy / Re: Best Long-Haul Aircraft?

« on: August 20, 2008, 02:37:03 pm »

Is there any way to see all the stats for the engine variants of all the aircraft on one page? I too noticed that the 767 has a very good ranged variant, but I only found this when I decided to buy the normal version.

Aircraft search is your friend.

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Bugs / Bug in Iranian Airports

« on: July 30, 2008, 11:13:48 pm »

Appears in rent gates and Gate Search

Iranian airports appear as "Iran, Islamic Republic of

(The quote at the start is the bug)

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General Chat / Leaseing of Planes

« on: July 25, 2008, 02:11:16 pm »

Or the person leasing the plane out just doesnt want the plane showing up as availible when creating new routes.

If someone takes the ill-advised lease; that's their problem

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Game Updates / Another new Addition - Aircraft Registrations

« on: July 17, 2008, 09:28:28 pm »

This wouldnt happen to be seat classes would it?

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Bugs / [FIXED] View Routes Page bug

« on: July 10, 2008, 02:32:09 pm »

PM'd

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Bugs / [FIXED] View Routes Page bug

« on: July 10, 2008, 02:09:49 pm »

Was something changed to have the settings and show routes X tabs to be moved to the bottom of the page, rather than on the right side?

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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: July 08, 2008, 04:32:56 pm »

But you are forgetting Tupelov's

Unlike some, I'm still keeping to the Western Bloc airplanes untill post 1992.  Not that I really want any Soviet Aircraft anyway.

And in W6, the current longest range Soviet Bloc can't even hop the Pacific from the US West coast.