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Game Data / Airport distance error

« on: August 15, 2007, 12:30:03 pm »

Just had an A345 delivered, and discovered something.

just a pointer: Singapore airlines in flies SIN - LAX and SIN - EWR nonstop on a A345.

Using rfinder (http://rfinder.asalink.net/free/)

The route distance for SIN - LAX is only 7961.9nm, compared to the 8772nm calculated by AM.

route distance for SIN - EWR is only 8855.6, as compared to the 9540nm calculated by AM.

Lastly, the A345, fully loaded is able to fly a range of 9000nm (making these 2 routes possible), not 8500nm as stated on the AM plane stats.

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Game Data / use ICAO instead of IATA

« on: August 07, 2007, 03:47:28 pm »

yea. well i mean, personally i remember airports by ICAO.
so im having some problems on IATA at the moment.

but it's just some suggestion. you could always open up the work to AM users. im sure most will help in the keying in of ICAOs.

well, i think an extra 4 characters is not that much right?
we could keep both icao and iata...

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Game Data / use ICAO instead of IATA

« on: August 07, 2007, 01:51:25 pm »

I am a user of vatsim, and thus is more used to the 4-lettered ICAO code.

Also, the ICAO code for airports tells more about it's continent/location.

for eg,
american airports are prefixed as K***
South east asian airport are prefixed as W***
Australian airports are Y***

Isn't this easier for searching, classifiying etc?

Highly suggest ICAO use.
(should there be any reason for IATA use, please enlighten me)