SUGGESTION: Option Random age button for accusim aircraft.

[Glider1]

Hi there
One of the barriers to me buying the whole fleet of A2A accusim aircraft is that I know I will never ever get close to running up the hours necessary to simulate the wear and tear of an aircraft. I would only get to 1500hr engine overhaul unless I only ever fly one A2A plane in my life!

So I bork in buying A2A planes in bulk to add to my fleet because they will be unrealistically almost "brand new" for my entire simulation experience.

Could you add a random age button so that I could start flying an accusim plane at say the 1217hr mark already? That would make it a heap more interesting and I would be more keen to try and buy more of your accusim range of products.

Please consider this suggestion.

Caveats:
Is there already a way to do this without having to run up the hours by hard?
Is there a place to share A2A accusim files between online users so that I could swap someones aged A2A data files in their plane for my own?

Cheers, thanks in advance.

[Eric.]

All of the GA planes have a feature to generate a used airplane (check everything in the hangar, often these are in no way safe to go flying in without some repairs). I believe the Texan also has it.

[caleb1]

Eric is right. Go to the shift+3 menu and click "Used" then click "Ok". This should accomplish what you want.

Caleb

[crippy]

Yep I do this for all my aircraft at first.

Cherokee came with around 600 hours, I think it is about to roll to 700 or 800 can't quite remember.
Skylane had over 1100 hours with low compression and all sorts of problems
Comanche had similar hours with low compression and some problems. Parts have worn out too on their own.

Also, the dirt level increases with aircraft age I think. If you take a 1000 hour used aircraft, and click complete overhaul it looks much cleaner.

[Alan_A]

What would also be nice (not a new suggestion, but relevant here, so I'm "bumping" it) is an option for a rental or club aircraft, where you'd start it off with hours on it, then have other people fly it, and maybe abuse it, when you're not flying it. Even more incentive to do the walkaround, and a way to model a big part of the GA experience. Hope that can happen at some point.

[caleb1]

What would also be nice (not a new suggestion, but relevant here, so I'm "bumping" it) is an option for a rental or club aircraft, where you'd start it off with hours on it, then have other people fly it, and maybe abuse it, when you're not flying it. Even more incentive to do the walkaround, and a way to model a big part of the GA experience. Hope that can happen at some point.

I like this idea too. Maybe with the skill level for the "other pilots" an option so that if you select that they are good then they wont abuse it too badly.

[Glider1]

Had no idea the used option existed. Amazing my blind spot on that. Thanks again.

[Alfredson007]

Club aircraft option would be nice. I'd also hope that the plane would be in a very random config, like flaps and trim. I'd also wish that when i fly MY airplane, the trim would stay where i left it. It resets everytime.

[Lewis - A2A]

yes that used option is a nice one, it'll give you a totally random aircraft, sometimes needing a little help right away sometimes not, but always pre-flight for sure after using that button!

cheers,
Lewis

[daveo132]

Talk about hiding in "plane" sight........

Can't believe I've missed that for so long!