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[-] Suggestions / Re: Re-engining Aircraft

« on: July 06, 2009, 08:22:52 pm »

i think that you should be able to change engines on aircraft after they are bought and add winglets and extra fuel tanks so that small aircraft can be used on short to medium length routes airlines in real world do it all the time

Winglets, yes. Extra fuel tanks, no. I know of no airlines who add fuel tanks after aircraft are bought. The only aircraft I know of that can come with different numbers of fuel tanks is the 777-200LR and those are just extra wing tanks

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[-] Suggestions / Re: Re-engining Aircraft

« on: July 01, 2009, 02:43:31 am »

So then to do the engine age, all it would take would be to add another field and do the same thing for the engines. The only complex part would be to get a default value since so many aircraft are already in operation in all worlds.

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[-] Suggestions / Re: Re-engining Aircraft

« on: July 01, 2009, 01:53:08 am »

Out of curiosity, to get the aircraft age, do you have it by date in the database or do you just update the age every day

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[-] Suggestions / Re: Re-engining Aircraft

« on: June 29, 2009, 11:44:49 pm »

so you mean changing engines on aircraft after they are brought? It is do able and will be a nice addition although some aircraft are hardwired to the exact engine type

In my experience, depending on the complexity of the database, it should be a very easy thing to do (compared to some items in AM). I would think that the most complex part would be to develop the design of the page.

What made me think of this was that I recently bought used A319s w/ CFM International CFM56-5A4 engines but I only get ~2000nm range instead of the ~4000nm range of the IAE V2524-A5 equipped A319


And also, if feasible (I don't know exactly how complex this would be), you could do an "engine age" stat and after a certain engine age, mx costs jump up. That's what happens in real life. The actual plane stays for 10+ years but the engines get replaced multiple times

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[-] Suggestions / [=] Re-engining Aircraft

« on: June 29, 2009, 06:50:08 pm »

I think it would be an interesting addition if you had the capability to give an aircraft a new engine type. Say you just got a great deal on an used aircraft but the engines it has don't give it enough range for the route you want to put it on. You should be able to re-engine it (for a cost of course) instead of having to buy a brand new aircraft.

As a coder in PHP and MySQL I don't think that this would be too hard to implement. You would just have to update the aircraft entry in the database and then charge the airline some.

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