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Post by Ralf Maylin on May 11, 2007 12:21:36 GMT -5
I'm planing to work on some retro-GA packages soon and would appreciate your opinions, input and help. I'm thinking of populating the airports with some older Learjets, Gulfstreams, Jetstars, King Airs and whatever. One approach would be a bunch of generic repaints flying fictional flight plans. With the least workload I could generate some nice traffic to spot, but the planes would miss registrations, and registrations are a big part of a GA aircraft's paintscheme. A different way is to paint real planes and send them on fictional routes. The repaint would look better, but it takes a lot of work to generate an ammount of enjoyable GA traffic. Maybe the answer is somewhere inbetween, what do you think of real repaints, but each airplane flies 5-6 routes to and from different places to make sure the planes of each kind will never meet? For the US i.e. that would mean I could paint this plane ( www.airliners.net/open.file/1206101/L/) and make flightplans for it. One gets routes to/from Florida, the next one to/from the Westcoast, the next one to/from the Great Lakes aerea etc. None of them will visit the same airports as the others and I could offer a "faked increased movement of GA aircrafts" without painting few hundreds of them. Your input is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Post by chrisP on May 11, 2007 14:50:16 GMT -5
There's an AI GA thread over at the CalClassic forums so you could also inquire over there
Christian
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Post by jetstar on May 11, 2007 17:54:45 GMT -5
Hi Ralf.
I have Bizjet spotting books going back to about 76, and also turbo books for the early 80's so real reg's / operators are not a problem.
I also have construction lists which cover all of the registrations of bizz jets as well as some turbo.
Sounds like a great idea to me.
Paul
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Post by Ralf Maylin on May 12, 2007 3:05:47 GMT -5
Paul, would that mean you could sent me a list with let's say all registered Jetstars of 1980? 1908 looks like a good year, the traffic could be used for 80's as well as 70's setups. Information anbout the planes homebases would make that more than perfect.
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Post by chrisP on May 12, 2007 7:29:42 GMT -5
1908? Looks like substance abuse to me....
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Post by Ralf Maylin on May 12, 2007 9:36:42 GMT -5
LOL, make it "1980" please...
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Post by jetstar on May 12, 2007 11:00:38 GMT -5
Paul, would that mean you could sent me a list with let's say all registered Jetstars of 1980? 1908 looks like a good year, the traffic could be used for 80's as well as 70's setups. Information anbout the planes homebases would make that more than perfect. Hi Ralf. Give me a little time as the books go by country and registration so I will manually have to pull them out. I'll put down home bases were listed. Pau PS I don't think Lockheed was making JetStars in 1908 ;D Now where do you think my user name came from??
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Post by Ralf Maylin on May 12, 2007 11:12:23 GMT -5
Thanks in advance, Paul. It's not an urgent matter, I have to finish Capitol, Air Europe and some "homegrown" repaints. I guess the Jetstar package will be a "summer project".
PS: I think a guy called "Red Baron" flew the first jetstars in '08, right? ;D
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Post by chrisP on May 12, 2007 11:53:28 GMT -5
PS: I think a guy called "Red Baron" flew the first jetstars in '08, right? ;D
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on May 13, 2007 2:19:52 GMT -5
Only things I can add right now is Hugh Hefner's "Black Bunny" DC-9 that I have set up to fly between Chicago-Midway and Los Angeles so "Hef" can fly between the Chicago headquarters and the Mansion West. Then I have "Little Precious", Braniff's executive BAC 1-11, it flies from Love Field to Acapulco, where Harding Lawrence maintained a vacation home in the '70's. I also have a pair of Sabreliners painted with the Kerr-McGee logo that fly between Oklahoma City-Wiley Post and Houston-Hobby. I want to work up some Phillips traffic around Bartlesville, OK and I thought about doing some other oil company traffic as well as Malcolm Forbes' "Capitalist Tool" CV-580. As kind of a joke, I have been working up a Gulfstream to fly in and out of Dallas-Addison - callsign "Ewing One", got to have J.R. flying around...
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