Military AI Works

I'm getting to the point that I'm quite happy with the fairly basic FPs that I create.
The main problem I have, is for example - Cranwell at the weekends, where there would be no flying other than the Flying Club, is covered in Phenoms, Grobs etc - in the real world they would all be hangared and hidden away at cease flying on Friday and rolled out for start of play on Monday morning or as necessary. This obviously applies to quite a few airfields & aircraft types.

Has any FP guru managed a solution to this problem?


Many Thanks


Jim

There are two solutions for this, neither optimal, but maybe one works for you.

The first is to modify the ADD file to stack parking spots on top of each other inside the hangar. The problem with this approach is that they will always be in the hangar. Not the best option.

The second option is to have a hidden mass fly out and return. Pick a time in the midfle of the night friday night into saturday morning and create a flight plan to the middle of no where in the attic or something equally unlikely to be visited. Then create a return flight in the middle of the night sunday into monday. From casual observation, it will look like the planes have been put up for the weekend. No one has to know they are visiting santa.

Sigh... AFD file not ADD file... silly phone autocorrect.

Using the logic of Brent's first suggestion, a possible third option. Create 2 AFD's of the same airport with identical runways and taxiways but with different codes and different parking. The first one with ramp parking and the normal airport code and the second with hanger parking and an unused airport code.

In the flightplans, send the residents to the ramp parking AFD during the week and to the hanger parking AFD for the weekends. Any visitors will use the normal code and park on the ramp.

If you don't want to see them taxiing through the hanger doors, schedule the transition early Monday/late Friday when it's dark.

The mass fly-off and return to Santa-Claus Land works great - thanks for the ideas.


Jim