I asked Konny at FlyNET what system failures we can expect. I also asked the 'mechanism' that gives the engine failure - I thought I had read somewhere that the fuel was drained from the tank feeding the failed engine and was it poss to relight using x-feed. Here is his reply :-
I also asked what factors effect the Airline Reputation and what had caused the recent hit on ours. Here is the 'conversation' :-Konny wrote:Well, there are more to come but currently we only have stuck gear/flaps and engine failures. The engine failures are "real" engine failures so you don't have a chance to relight them. The fuel doesn't have to do anything with it.
Quantum wrote:Does a flight that shows a loss have an impact on Airline Reputation. We've had two flights today where revenues have gone negative due to bowsering to get fuel from a cheaper supplier. Airline reputation has taken a hit and thats the only possible reason I can see why.
Rgds
John
Konny wrote:Well, the flight revenue doesn't have any effect on your reputation. The reasons for your reputation going down can be:
- aircraft crash ( obviously ;-) )
- landing at the wrong airport
And last but not least failures during flight. Guess that is the problem because I included a failure which doesn't work and therefore you don't notice anything if it is engaged ;-)
Quantum wrote:
No failures have been reported. Any way of fixing that invisible failure?
Rgds
John
One of CBFS pilots wrote:John,
I must fess up here. I was the cause of the rep loss. Due to a glitch in my system, I had to cancel a flight that I had booked and take the hit to be able to clear the issue. I then proceeded to make a major screw-up and cancel the next flight I booked when attempting to hit the "Flight Briefing" button. That is what caused the reputation loss. I intend to be flying all week to try to help get our rep back up again.
This all occured on Monday morning UTC, but Sunday evening my time, so I didn't initially realize that was the cause until I looked closer.
Quantum wrote:Hi ****,(CBFS pilot)
OK tks for info, but Konny says that rep is lost only by :
1. Aircraft crash
2. Landing at wrong airport
3. Failures
So by that, we shouldn't have taken a hit on rep, just a hit on your personal bank balance. If the above list is incomplete, we could do with an update on what else has an affect.
Rgds
John
Konny wrote:Hm, the above list should be complete. Only the client can change an airline's reputation and only at the end of a flight. So I'ld say the invisible failure ( will be fixed in the next release ) is the reason.
But something else we already had is that a pilot who crashed shut down his internet connection before the client could send all the flight data to the website and so only the reputation got updated ;-)
Hope that's all clear to you guys.
Rgds
John