Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Flight database times

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Posted onPost created on August 07 2008 16:46 ET by Jack Vogel

Been using FSPassengers, and this entails figuring out exact flight times, something I hadn't
cared much about before. In any case, when doing multi-timezone flights it would be so
much easier if the flight times were all in zulu, any way to get that conversion as a display
option maybe...pretty please?? smile

Jack Vogel

Captain, MD-11

DVA3931
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Posted onPost created on August 07 2008 17:24 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

just use a flight planner and add 20 minutes to it. With FSPassengers, you get rated on how close you are to actual times - I can't remember what the time windows are, prob in the documentation...however:

If you are planning you flights, part of the planning is time for runup/taxi/airborne/descent and taxi to the gate.

FSBuild plans this for you, or you can use fuel brun and speed/distance calculations and figure it out.

Time?Speed/Distance Calculator:
http://www.csgnetwork.com/csgtsd.html

http://www.soft32.com/download_152176.html

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,53364-order,4-page,5/reviews.html

:-)

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

Posted onPost created on August 07 2008 18:17 ET by Jack Vogel

I think maybe you are missing my point, what I want is rather than seeing:
Depart 23:45 ET Arrive 18:00 JET

And having to do timezone conversion.... If its ALL in ZULU then there's just two time values to subtract,
no conversion necessary.

I understand that for passengers you can't confuse them with ZULU time, but we are the pilots, and
for us ZULU makes life much easier.

Jack Vogel

Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on August 07 2008 19:04 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

Ahh. I agree with you. When I did mil operations - anywhere in the world - we always use ZULU time so everyone was on a common time.

Something to maybe bring up as an issue rather than a cooler topic.

Andrew Kaufmann (DVA3931)

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