airports

CP seemed to have an anomaly in the cargo generation routine which caused it to create a tremendous number of cargoes for whichever airport ICAO code sorted dead last on the list.  In my case, it was Z98.  In Dree's it was some Chinese airport. 

John

Yes, Z98 is Ottowa Executive, in Zeeland, Michigan.  As I recall, the runway is plenty long enough, but is about the width of a sidewalk. 

AH doesn't trick you into grass strips with a 747, it only generates jobs from and to strips that are suitable for the plane, no matter were your slider is. It's hard coded.

It’s possible to do but then you do it yourself, you can open a base on a grass strip and buy a 747 and put it on that base, AH will warn you and ask you if this is right but can’t stop you from being stupid  you even get jobs I think.

Making separate options for every plane and every base and for every plane other options for every other base made our programmer go wild..  

Dree

You can, of course, run your company as you wish, but AH is intended to be a business simulation and was created to plausibly model RW air freight operations.  If a user creates a convoluted sceneario, AH may not do everything quite as desired.

The airport size slider is a general setting.  It would be impractical to have separate airport preference settings for each base. For example, what should AH do for non-base or base to base jobs?  It just makes more sense as a global setting.

AH generates plenty of jobs (there's a "Number of Jobs" slider too).  If some are inappropriate for your AC at a certain location, they needn't be accepted.  Plenty of the jobs will be appropriate and those can be accepted and flown.  AH will generate more jobs than you can fly. Some will always be fitting. AH will always try to generate at least some jobs that are suitable for each AC type in your fleet.

Additional AC increase the number of jobs generated. Adding bases has the same effect.  You won't lack for jobs unless you set the Number of Jobs slider low.

If for some reason you want to fly a 747 and a Beaver in the same company and want a mix of airports, set the slider in the middle and see how it works.

It falls to the user to be sure that the AC selected for a job is appropriate for the cargo and can handle both of the airports involved. As Dree points out, the app does not try to trick you.  Full information about both airports is a click away before you commit to the job.

If all else fails, fly the Beaver in one company and the aluminum overcast in another, with suitable airport settings for each. 

Finally, a tip of the hat to Scooter, who gives good advice.  Military cargo types generally do a pretty good job of getting cargo into unimproved airstrips if you learn how to fly them to their full capability.

John