New to Globe Cargo. Please help.

[Airchile]

Hello,
I just Joined Globe Cargo last week and this weekend I flew 2 Open Board Flights.

a) Anchofrage to Chicago.
b) KJFK to EHAM.

I have a few questions. Kindly help.

FSACARS/MAP Problems.

1) My flight status always shows climbing and never goes to Cruise. It always shows like 35998 as altitude when I am cruising at FL 360.
2) Half way down the flight my flight status dissappears in flight map.
3) I took off at KJFK morning on Sunday at around 8:15 and Landed at EHAM at 3:30. Just over 7 hours. ( I have counted between
Brake release and Set parking brake time). But ACARS shows 6 :16 Minutes after the flight?
4) My Aircraft tail number never appears on the FSACARS map though I have enetered in the FSACARS.
Also how do I select the aircraft ? I choose the one availabe in the aircraft log books menu.
But there is none available at the origin of my selected flight ?

Kindly answer.

Thanks in Advance.

Rgds
Airchile

[nwadc10]

Hello,
I just Joined Globe Cargo last week and this weekend I flew 2 Open Board Flights.

a) Anchofrage to Chicago.
b) KJFK to EHAM.

I have a few questions. Kindly help.

FSACARS/MAP Problems.

1) My flight status always shows climbing and never goes to Cruise. It always shows like 35998 as altitude when I am cruising at FL 360.
2) Half way down the flight my flight status dissappears in flight map.
3) I took off at KJFK morning on Sunday at around 8:15 and Landed at EHAM at 3:30. Just over 7 hours. ( I have counted between
Brake release and Set parking brake time). But ACARS shows 6 :16 Minutes after the flight?
4) My Aircraft tail number never appears on the FSACARS map though I have enetered in the FSACARS.
Also how do I select the aircraft ? I choose the one availabe in the aircraft log books menu.
But there is none available at the origin of my selected flight ?

Kindly answer.

Thanks in Advance.

Rgds
Airchile

Hi Airchile,

Thankfully you have some easy questions mixed in with some difficult ones. I'll do the best I can with the difficult ones I believe you are using FSACARS and not GCP.
1. In FSACARS, you must get the aircraft to the altitude you set in FSACARS setup before Cruise will be reported to the flight map. (GCP uses rate of climb to determine a Cruise condition. If rate of climb is less than 300 fpm it considers you as cruising at any altitude above 10000ft and will report to the flight map as cruising)

2. Not sure of the problem here but I've seen it before. My only guess is that FSACARS for some reason stopped reporting your position and over time the flight map will drop a flight with no reported activity for a while (something like 5, 10, 0r 15 minutes...I really don't know what it's set to)(GCP has a menu item you can use to manually send a position update to the flight map in the event your flight gets "stuck" or disappears)

3. There may be an issue with crossing time zones. There's a program/scenery file out there that is supposed to fix time zone anomolies in the FS world. Contact your RM to manually correct the flight time. (GCP calculates time a little different than FSACARS which seems to be a lot more reliable. However, I have had very rare reports of innaccurate time being reported with GCP)

4. FSACARS does not report the tail number to the flight map, that feature is only in GCP. Regarding aircraft selection, for Polar/scheduled ops you will see a tail number assigned in which case take that tail number regardless of its location except for when it's out of service. To get that assigned aircraft to your location when you need would mean everyone has to fly their bid flights in real time at the same date and time that the real flight operates. In addition, every flight available for bidding must be taken. That's an impossible task so the aircraft location is just for fun. For Atlas/DHL flights you may take any aircraft that's in service of the assigned aircraft type. For these flights the aircraft locations comes in handy when deciding which ship to take as there may be one at your point of origin.

Hope that helps,
Justin

[khelm]

What Justin is saying is GCP solves all your problems basically, and it REALLY does. Great program, you should download it. Takes less time to set up, and allows you to utilize all of Globe's features.

[Airchile]

Hello Justin,

Firstly thanks very much for the detailed reply. Really appreciate your time for helping me.
I tried installing GCP but I get an error when I run the exe file.

Kindly let me know if you have a link where it works or anything I am doing wrong.

Thanks again,

Rgds
Srihari
PS : I wrote a mail to PIREP issues under contact us menu in globecargova website.
But no reply as of now. I did one more and the time is correct as per FSACARS.

[nwadc10]

Hello Justin,

Firstly thanks very much for the detailed reply. Really appreciate your time for helping me.
I tried installing GCP but I get an error when I run the exe file.

Kindly let me know if you have a link where it works or anything I am doing wrong.

Thanks again,

Rgds
Srihari
PS : I wrote a mail to PIREP issues under contact us menu in globecargova website.
But no reply as of now. I did one more and the time is correct as per FSACARS.

Make sure you have Microsoft .NET Framework installed. Here's the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

This package is required for any program designed in MS's programming software which I used to program GCP. I'm guessing that will fix it but out of curiosity what error are you seeing and exactly when does it occur...upon startup I'm assuming.