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New View Dispatch Screen

Sean Fisher — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:05:23 +0000

Just a quick feature on a new part of our website. After you dispatch a flight, you can view details about that dispatch from the Flight Booking Center.

You can access the View Dispatch screen by clicking “View Dispatch” in the Flight Bid Center. It will be on the last column to the right. Thanks and I would love to hear some feedback about this in the forums!

Announcing Flight Bidding

Sean Fisher — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:10:47 +0000

We are pleased to announce, with great please, the release of Simulated Continental’s Flight Bidding system! Along with a number of well needed updates to the website, Simulated Continental has now opened the flight bidding center to allow for better flight operations and for ease of access.

To start off, you can find the Flight Bid Center by clicking on “Flight Bid Center” on the side of the website.

From the flight booking screen, you are able to search and “book” multiple flights at one time. This also includes flights that are automatically assigned to you as well as flights that you fly from here on out. After you are ready to fly a flight that you have booked, you can click on “Dispatch Flight to ACARS” and it will assign an aircraft to your dispatch. This will also enable you to use the “Flight from VA” button in FSACARS to load flight information about your dispatch.

Searching for flights has also become easier with the new “Search Flights” page.

By using multiple variables to find a flight specific to your needs, you can get to your flight faster than ever. Please note that we are still in the process of updating out flight database to reflect flights from 2010 as well as the Star Alliance.

Getting ready for flights is also very easy.

The flight booking system will provide you with METARs for you departure and arrival airports as well as detailed information about your flight. The route that is displayed is also one that has been most commonly used on VATSIM, as according to our massive 200,000+ route database.

Something new to consider with flights is flight availability. Each flight isn’t flown seven days a week, and our system is able to reflect that. Though we are laid back about our policy to review flight availability, you can still fly a flight on a day that it isn’t scheduled to fly.

We hope you enjoy this new feature as well as other updates in the Simulated Continental website to make your experience even better. Pushing Forward into 2010.

Coming Soon to SimCOA

Sean Fisher — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:38:57 +0000

Simulated Continental will be releasing a good deal of new features in the coming weeks. One was already know, which was the Flight Bidding. The Flight Bidding system will allow users to bid on flights sets that were planned out by our dispatch department. When a user would bid, the one with the most seniority would receive the bid. This is in the BETA stages right now, so stay tuned!

Some other things that SimCOA is working on is getting an Automatic Dispatch Center online. This would be for only in the even that the Dispatch Center is offline. It would crunch some numbers and give you a basic fuel layout and some flight data and planning. This is in the planning stages.

We do have other ideas that we are also working on, but we always want to keep you guessing! If you have any idea for SimCOA that you think would make us even better, please email suggest@simcoa.org. Thanks!