Hotel Expenses and Rest periods.

[joefremont]

I have been thinking about hotel expenses, mostly this would be for automated pilots. My current idea is if a pilot spends more than six hours at an airport that is not their home base, they need to be given a hotel room and expenses which for the sake of simplicity I will set at 100v$ per night. Each 24 hour increment on top of that would require another day. This would be paid either when their next flight departs or every week if they are left there for a long time. Does this sound like a reasonable approach?

I was wondering along with that is what is the requirement for rest periods within a work day. Right now I am planning on limiting automated pilots to 10 hours or one flight (if the flight is longer than 10 hours) per 24 hour period, do we also need to enforce that there be at least one 10 hour break period within the day?

Last question, I was only going to apply this hotel costs to automated pilots, should we do this for human pilots also? So if a pilot flys away from their base and does not return for a long time their airline gets charged? My inclination is no but wanted to know what others thought.

[jato0072]

Yes, I like it. I am all for changes that enhance realism and immersion.

[joefremont]

I was reading that for a pilot, they can have a duty period of not more than 14 hours, and after which they must have a 10 hour rest period. If this is true then I may make the following change for automated pilots.

The system will see if there has been a rest period of at least 10 hours, and if more than one flight has been flown after that then the end of the next flight must be within 14 hours of the end of the rest period or the start of the first flight in the 14 hour duty period.

This of course means that if a pilot can not complete the flight then they will wait until the next scheduled day to fly there flight, if that flight is scheduled to only fly once a week then they will be there for a week.

[joefremont]

Doing some testing, I think just from the computational requirements alone I am not going to do the hotels expenses for human pilots.

[MrJTSZ]

I agree about the hotel expenses for autopilots

[joefremont]

More I think about it, in most cases 100 is too low, but if your close to home its too high. So I am going to set it so that if your within 50nm of their home base there is not hotel fee (So if your home is KJFK and your at KLGA, just 10 nm away there is no charge. After that the rate is the distance from home or 200 v%, which ever is less.