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Game News / Game Reset and First Stage of Multiworlds

« on: December 17, 2007, 10:01:00 pm »

honesly, the 22nd is a terrible date. People are busy with friends/family, rushing around, and starting a new round at that time will mean people who can't log in then will get shafted honestly. Jan 1st would seem a much better idea. Or, do reset on the 22nd, just dont start the round until Jan 1st or something, give everyone time to get set up, like at the beginning of this round?

Though i would really prefer leaving this round until was to finish in 1960... i know im in the minority.

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General Chat / What year do you want the next round to be?

« on: December 17, 2007, 07:53:06 pm »

this round ends 1960... so 1960!

60s are cool anyways, long haul with 707/720, DC8, CV880/990, VC10... and not a widebody to be seen (the 747 entered service in 1970 really...). Plus all the new short-medium haul jets: BAC-111, Caravelle, DC-9, 727, 737, F.28, Tu-124/134... nummy!  :wink:

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General Chat / What to do with $3B? (winner gets a connie)

« on: December 17, 2007, 03:26:05 pm »

The DC-7C might be a 1049 killer, but the 1649 should be a bigger, longer range 1049G...

Otherwise... you need the DC-8-50 (-30 and -40 along with 707-320B are almost longer ranged) to beat the 1049's range/speed/size... and it wont be in service this round.

OH and 3 billion... does realy go that far... i mean its not even 100 L1049s.... just save up, you'll need mucho Euros when the 707 comes along.

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General Chat / What are your Projected Totals?

« on: December 11, 2007, 10:57:39 pm »

€3,934,312,594    

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Game Data / Next year

« on: December 11, 2007, 04:09:13 am »

aha, so i do get listened too

thanks muchly!

But now decisions! L1049G or DC-7A... d'oh!

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Game Data / Next year

« on: December 11, 2007, 02:53:44 am »

1955, only the DC-7A... should be a bit bigger than the L1049 hopefully... and as fast.

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General Chat / Reply!!!!!!

« on: December 08, 2007, 10:11:37 pm »

Real Name: Peter
Age: 27
Birthday: March
Born in: the wilderness of Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Wireless Enterprise Solutions Support Consultant
Hobbies: Flight Sim Aircraft Painting, Chat Modding for Airliners.net, Airplane spotting...
Favorite Airplanes: Lockheed L-1011, Convair 880/990, Boeing 777 (in that order this week)
LEAST favorite Airplanes: EMB-110, B1900D
Best idea I ever had: Learning to speak french
Worst idea I ever had: Giving up on my airline dreams

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General Chat / Limit on flights

« on: December 04, 2007, 02:27:15 pm »

Terminals only help when their actually basing there.. but flying a route to another airport.

It causes more gate hogging

If i could, id build 5 gate terminals at alot of my outstations... and im sure alot of the other big players would too.

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General Chat / Limit on flights

« on: December 04, 2007, 02:39:05 am »

seriously though--i tried to fly from boston to providence, even on 0.5 freq anything above $1.00 was 0% loadfactor and even at $1.00 for some reason my income on the route was $0. :?

Well ok so:

A> you tried to take on the biggest airline in BOS
B> you tried to enter an already oversaturated route
C> the airline flying the most BOS-PVD is a real bastard... i should know, he's me  :twisted:

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General Chat / Limit on flights

« on: December 04, 2007, 02:01:34 am »

no id be competing against EuroPacific...  

seriously on some routes, it's unavoidable alas... im flying one route 19x... because i have to to hold off the competition.

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General Chat / New Bases

« on: December 03, 2007, 02:57:17 am »

since i already filled my quota... 0

 :?

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: December 02, 2007, 02:30:00 am »

They are from:

Lets see, the Viscount specs are from 65-66 Jane's
DC-4M is actually from a Canadair sales brochure, partially verified from other sources (except capacity).
L-1049/1649 from 60-61 and 65-66 Jane's. Honestly they are a mess, the info is conflicting, but i verified the important (aka whats posted) parts with other less reliable books i have (Encyclopedia or World Aircraft, Propliner Encyclopedia, Guide to Classic Airliners).
L-049/649/749 is from Observers World Airliners copyright 1960... partially verified from info in 60-61 Jane's which partially lists them and the above Mentioned Classic Airliners.
And the Caravelle specs not in 70-71 Jane's are from Observers and 65-66 Jane's.

the 60-61 & 65-66 Jane's aren't mine alas... they belong to a friend who graciously allowed me access.

And i fully understand the reason for the question, i would be asking too... I wish i had better specs on propliners but alas my library mostly covers 1965 on.

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 30, 2007, 02:39:32 pm »

Lockheed L-1649 Constellation Starliner

Range: 11080km
Speed: 505kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-988TC18EA-12 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 115
Entry into Service: February 1957

Would love to have them in 1957   ... long range...  :wink:

Mmm, good thing the reality of the Starliner doesn't come through in stats... to get max range it flew really slow (so slow that on some days an L1649 flying SFO-LHR non-stop would arrive AFTER an L1049 doing it with one stop in Boston that left 20 minutes later and spent over an hour on the ground in Boston!), at max speed its range was only marginally higher than the L-1049G with tip tanks.

But the Starliner was techincally the longest range airliner in the west until the DC-8-50 came along... the Tu-114D was the longest range in the world most of that period...

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 30, 2007, 05:11:04 am »

Ok lets see... what else...

Convair/Canadair CV-540/CL-66C

Range: 1745km
Speed: 500kmh
Engines: 2x Napier Eland N. E1.1 Turboprops
Cockpit Crew: 2
Max passenger capacity: 54 (or as CV440)
Entry into Service: July 1960

Well if i think of any more ill post them tommorow.

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 30, 2007, 01:43:26 am »

so if you wanna pay me for 34 hours work at $95 an hour+expenses (going consultant rate for me)... well

hmm... then I may need to charge you for 6 hours a day, $10/hr, for as long as you have played and will be playing AM to provide you with any degree of support. Thanks for your generousity
(oh... and that is only for me. Any technical support involving Will or Stephen would cost you more )

ummm... yea ok, lets just call it even ok? Don't wanna go there especially since this is the season of giving

anyways here we go:

Lockheed L-049 Constellation:

Range: 2214km
Speed: 557kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-50 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 60
Entry into Service: February 1946

Lockheed L-649 Constellation:

Range: 2792km
Speed: 557kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-65 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 81
Entry into Service: March 1947

Lochheed L-749 Constellation

Range: 3219km
Speed: 557kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-65 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 81
Entry into Service: May 1947


Lochheed L-749A Constellation

Range: 3330km
Speed: 557kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-65 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 81
Entry into Service: March 1949

Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation

Range: 4409km
Speed: 483kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-749C18DB-1 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 109
Entry into Service: December 1951

Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation

Range: 5219km
Speed: 483kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-87TC18DA-1 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 109
Entry into Service: August 1953


Lockheed L-1049E Super Constellation

Range: 7753km
Speed: 533kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-972TC18DA1 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 109
Entry into Service: August 1954

Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation "Super G" w/o tip tanks

Range: 7614km
Speed: 557kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-87TC18DA-3 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 109
Entry into Service: January 1955

Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation "Super G" with tip tanks

Range: 8614km
Speed: 557kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-87TC18DA-3 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 109
Entry into Service: January 1955
(closest match to existing Super Constellation in the game)


Lockheed L-1649 Constellation Starliner

Range: 11080km
Speed: 505kmh
Engines: 4x Wright R-3350-988TC18EA-12 radials
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 115
Entry into Service: February 1957


Canadair DC-4M2-3 NorthStar Mk1

Range: 3914km
Speed: 523kmh
Engines: 4x Rolls Royce Merlin 622
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 62
Entry into Service: January 1947

Canadair DC-4M2-4 NorthStar Mk2

Range: 5505km
Speed: 523kmh
Engines: 4x Rolls Royce Merlin 632
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 68
Entry into Service: October 1948


Vickers V802 Viscount

Range: 2550km
Speed: 523kmh
Engines: 4x Rolls Royce Dart 525Da-3 Turboprops
Cockpit Crew: 3
Max passenger capacity: 75
Entry into Service: January 1957


Vickers V810 Viscount

Range: 2773km
Speed: 563kmh
Engines: 4x Rolls Royce Dart 525Da-7 Turboprops
Cockpit Crew: 3
Max passenger capacity: 75
Entry into Service: January 1958