Classic British Flight Sim

Just a bit curious about the way things stand in the flyNET and client thingy about regaining status percentage. 12 flights ago I incurred a 5% penalty and have worked back up to 98.9% with consistent 100% flights and there it stays. Will future 100% flights recover the status to 100% or does this blemish stay permanently on your pilot record?

Regards

Sean

(Landing lights criminal)

Hi Sean

do you mean your back to 99.9% ?.

it is impossible to get any higher than 99.9% as far as i can see.

same thing happened to me and a lot of the other guys too.
so don't worry as we are all the same.

Regards
Rick

Sean

I guess the more accurate flights you do is just making the penalty a smaller percentage.

Like Rick says 99.9 will be the max.

Garry

Hi Rick

Stuck at 98.9% oddly enough. In the real world points on a driving licence get removed after a certain time usually 5 years. It seems a bit stiff that you have a blot on your copybook permanently for such a trivial offence as leaving landing lights on once. Crashing into the Bundestag I could understand, but lights??

Its all good fun though perhaps as FlyNET criminals we should expect to have more rights than our victims just as in the real world, serve our time (maybe 20 perfect flights per 5%) and then rejoin society.

Regards

Sean

Hiya Sean,

I got pulled a few days ago after 30-odd flights for pulling the landing lights early on the VC9 leaving Jersey. The flight was at ISA so I was reading the shift+z. By the time I heard the bong, I was at 1343ft (ASL) and having checked the flightpath at ground level.. the highest point on the island is 320ft so needless to say, I was very pi@@ed. Due to the number of flights I'd done, my percentage only dropped to 99.9% but.. this is where it will stay. Had I done a lesser amount of flights, my rating would have been lower as it works on the percentage of flights done so.. if you continue to complete 100% flights, your percentage will eventually get up to 99.9% but that is as high as it will ever go :sad:
It does seem a bit rough mate but if you worry about it, you'll not bother flying again. Just keep notching up those 100% flights to increase the reputation of the VA

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Hi DB

The highest point in Jersey is over 400ft :think: I think it's 446 feet., at Fremont Point on the North coast one o'clock from the airport.

That is why the TV transmitter is there. :dance:

That might explain how you got caught out.

ATB

Garry

Hi Dave, not particularly worried about it but just thought that as the client can bring you back from 95% to 99.9% it could be made to go that bit further to 100% If it could, then it would be an incentive to better flying. But I still think it unecessarily harsh never to return to 100%

Regards

Sean

Landing Light Criminals Reform League Chairman

It seams wrong that the airline can achive 120 even after having problems, but that pilots once they loose 100% you can never get it back.

Hi Guys,

I totally agree with you. Perhaps some way can be found in the future for such penalties to be time limited to the number of 100% flights as it currently is for the pilot rating. If for example (take mine) I pulled the landing lights a few feet early after 30-odd flights.. if I completed a further 30 or 40 flights at 100%, then the penalty could be seen to have been 'worked off'. 30 or 40 is only a number off the top of my head and could be anything but I'm sure something like this could be done.

After all, you can book a flight for say G-APIM carrying 77pax and in reality, make the flight in a totally different Viscount with zero pax onboard and still get 100%.. not that I would encourage anyone to do this :tuttut:

Oh, btw Garry.. the key phrase about me checking the highest point on Jersey was 'along my flightpath'. I loaded up FSNav with my plan ready and drove Hama's Stalwart along it noting the heights Incidentally, I as able to fly it back from the Jersey VOR having gone down a dip then up a hill, it carried on going up :shock: Managed a nice 100% landing too Odd.. very odd

ATB

DaveB :tab:

I brought this issue up over at the FLYnet forum under Tips and Ideas.