How I set up random types of PAX / Cargo for one plane

[SaVas]

I was pondering something not too long ago with my CaptainSim C-130. I know these planes are used for many things - humanitarian
flights and rescuing refugees in war torn countries, military personnel transport, research personnel transport, cargo, etc. and I was
thinking, OK I have 4 pax areas in the payload editor. I dont have to use them all, but I can play around with it.

So what I have done is station 1 is crew (up to 4 which I always have and keep at $0) I have flight crew (up to 8 at $0), and I have made
two stations both with the same position in the payload. Station 3 is set as "Refugees" (set in economy and $100 each) and holds up to
42 pax and Station 4 is titled "Researchers" (set in business class and $400 per pax) and holds up to 30 (I figure it could do 42 but
researchers tend to have a lot of baggage and equipment). I have also set my cargo according to specs on Arliners.net to what the C-130
can hold with no additional pax)

Now depending on where I am flying, like Colombia, I haul refugees trying to escape the drug cartels, and less cargo. If I am flying out of
Antarctica, chances are those folks arent refugees, so I keep Refugees at 0 and move the slider for researchers up, as well as cargo up
for their equipment. Sometimes on my Antarctic or Arctic flights I have 0 to 4 or so researchers and mainly cargo, but since researchers
and refugees dont want to sit on top of each other I wont slide both of them up all the way.

Anyone else do this?

[TonyH]

I just got promoted to C7 and spent £29 million on a nearly new C130K.

I'm playing about with the payload model for the C130 also. I copied the default one to 'CS Legendary C130 7' and like you I kept the 4 in
station 1 up front as the crew. 2 pilots, a flight engineer and a loadmaster. I,ve got 25 officer business class seats and 50 squadies in
economy, all paid for by the taxpayer of course.

Still messing about with cargo settings. Did you use 51,054 lbs as reported for the L100-30 Hercules at Airliners.net ? I didn't find the
C130 on there.

PS when I start FS9 from the ACE I don't have FS Passengers at first. I have to reset the flight before doing anything to get it up. Have you noticed that ?



Post Edited ( 11-03-05 21:35 )

[SaVas]

TonyH wrote:
I just got promoted to C7 and spent £29 million on a nearly new C130K.

Still messing about with cargo settings. Did you use 51,054 lbs as reported for the L100-30 Hercules at Airliners.net ? I didn't find the
C130 on there.

PS when I start FS9 from the ACE I don't have FS Passengers at first. I have to reset the flight before doing anything to get it up. Have you
noticed that ?

I think I used around 43,000 lbs or so instead of 51054 (because I always carry crew and tech staff with every flight

I dont normally start with ACE. I use FSAutostart which turns off most of my background programs so I have more usage for the sim.