Some questions from AH

Thanks for the kind words, but Duncan is the one who deserves all the credit.  All the rest of us did was test and gripe.

1- If, we choose a airport to start, and them, after a few time, we don't want stay there, and want to move to another one, we can do this? without loss anything? just move to another airport that we can think that could be better than the previous one?

You can open and close bases whenever you wish, but you have to pay to open a new one.  If you close one, you leave some unhappy customers behind and your company reputation suffers, which has some consequences.

2- We can add any aircraft, since the C150 to AN225?

Yes, or hang gliders or the Space Shuttle or the Starship Enterprise.  I even used the Just Flight Follow Me van with an AI pilot once.  If it can be installed and flown in FS it can be imported and purchased or leased in AH.

3- What type of airport is better to start, a cost commitment/benefit, international, regional or some forgotten and dusty track?

Airport type has little to do with what kind of jobs you are offered.  It has more to do with your cargo preference settings and aircraft type and how many airports lie within range of your base.  What kind of airport to choose at the beginning depends on several factors, including what kind of flying you like to do and what kind of AC you like to fly and what part of the world you'd like to fly in and how difficult you want it to be.  My preferences run to starting in Career Mode with a small AC and not much money, but I prefer larger airports, not grass strips.  I can do all that.  Starting in career mode means waiting for a while before  you can hire AI pilots and longer yet before you can get a bank loan.  If moving into a heavy (and expensive) aircraft very soon is important to you, you can start in medium or easy mode.  The starting options are very flexible.

4- We can invest in others airlines?

Not sure I understand.  You can start as many companies as you wish, but each is separate and do not share funds, aircraft, pilots, bases or anything else.

5- We can see rankings from all airlines that use the AH, to compare with ours?

It's being worked on.  I'm not sure if it's going to be in the initial release or not.

6- Can we have some fuel stock in our hub, for example, when we buy the fuel "cheap" and keep as a reserve to our fleet?

You cannot stockpile fuel except in the tanks of your airplanes.  You're a freight operator, not a commodities speculator.  You do get a discount on fuel purchased at one of your bases.  One of our testers, who flies freight for real, tells us that "ferrying fuel" is a losing proposition.  It costs more to carry the extra weight than you can save.

7- What currency type AH use, only £ ?

I use US Dollars.  I don't know what the other choices are, but I know some of the other testers are using GBP, so at least those two are available.

8- Can we use Time Acceleration without penalty, for who don´t have to much time to spend in long cruise flights?

Yes.  You can set time of day as you wish and you can use accelerated time if you wish to.  There is no penalty for either.  You do have to complete the jobs you accept before they expire, however, and that is based on RW time, not sim time.

9- How AI works, for example, we can put our AI pilot flying  A - B and B - A or other combination as a routine? and AI pilot fly real time too? 

You accept jobs and assign them to AI more or less in series, though they can carry two jobs at the same time if they both originate at the same airport.  AI will also make multiple trips to move a cargo that is too heavy to carry in a single load.  You may load up an AI's schedule with any number of jobs and he will fly them in series, in real time.  Job expirations apply to them too and if they are late delivering a cargo, there are consequences.

10- Careear mode is different from Easy / medium/ Hard start?

Career is the same starting position as difficult, but you are also subject to the same MTOW limitations as the AI and you must earn promotions in rating/rank by completing a certain number of jobs before being allowed to pilot the next heavier class of aircraft.  In Difficult, Medium and Easy modes, the owner/pilot is not subject to those weight limitations and can fly any aircraft he can afford, right from the start, regardless of AC weight.  Other than that Career and Difficult are the same.

John Allard

Did I understand it correctly that we need to change our regional settings to make AH work properly ?

Thank you Allardjd and Slopey to answer to my doubts very detailed

About currency, my preferences is € , because I live in europe, and for that is natural that I and many others(I believe) prefer to make our accounting in euros.

When I say "4- We can invest in others airlines?", was to know if we can invest in airlines company that are on capital market's like NYSE and others, or in AH virtual world, or in other business area to help grow our money. ;)

Thanks!

Yes, you can invest your virtual money in virtual shares of any stock that is listed on the several exchanges that are included. 

AH generates a price for a new aircraft based on certain pieces of information it gleans from the aircraft.cfg file.  Without getting too specific, the price is intended to be a reflection of its ability to carry cargo.  Obviously, the information that can be pulled from that source reliably is limited, but in our experience so far, the prices are at least plausible.

There is also a market for used AC in AH.  Used aircraft appear from time to time in less-than-perfect condition for a reduced price.  Sometimes they are a good deal - sometimes they are not.

John

Herege,

You can, of course, test any aircraft all you want in FS without using it in AH.  That will give you a pretty good idea of fuel consumption, how it handles when loaded, cruise speed and other performance parameters.  The cost of fuel at AH airports is readily available so figuring out operating costs (except insurance, 100 hour inspections, repairs) should be fairly easy to do.

Also, you can import any aircraft into AH at any time, even if you cannot yet afford it.  That will make it appear in the available aircraft list and you'll know the selling and leasing costs for it.  Importing it also makes it a candidate to show up as a used aircraft.  That's done randomly but any AC that is imported into AH might show up for sale used at any time.

I can't say that what you suggest won't be implemented at some point, but for now it's not available.

John

David,

Yes, in an easy mode start, selling the Lear and borrowing money would probably allow you to lease a large AC like that, though that might be a precarious business situation to be in that early in the game, that deep in debt. 

The Captain Sim C-130 comes up at a lease deposit of $3,985,000 and a monthly leasing fee of $1,771,000.  Then there would be the loan interest payments, monthly base lease cost, insurance if you choose to buy it, AI salaries if you choose to hire them.  It's up to you how far out on that limb you'd like to go.

John

Well, they say, "No cajones, no blue chips".

Dirty Harry Callahan's question comes to mind.  What you have to ask yourself is, "Do I feel lucky?"

John