FWA Status - Freeworld Airways

FWA Development Status

Feb. 19th 2012 - Restoring our server is done, back to enhancing the web site!

FWA 2011 Restart

After two years of tinkering on a be-all and end-all fully integrated and automated hyper-modern Content Management System solution, we decided that it is time to take a shortcut. In November 2011, we took the best parts of the last two years of development implementing it into a ready-made virtual airline administration software named phpVMS. The design looks familiar, the overall functionality will be what you expect from FWA: the mainline, Butterfly, our gorgeous liveries and lots of fancy pictures. I can not give you a time frame for the full conversion to phpVMS, but we already made the first deadline: be up before XP10 is selling.

On December 7th 2011 we launched this web site. Oh yes, it is a beta version, X-Plane style, where we grow your experience by the day. This page should give you the idea which direction we take and which functionality you can expect.

If you spot a bug, smile, and report it on our forum at http://forum.freeworld-airways.com or drop us a message. The most important: Have fun flying with Freeworld Airways!

Home Page

Putting it best: it is a bit boring currently. Before adding stats or info, we have to improve the other pages first (operations, crew room, pilot page). There won't be a info overload, there will be more pictures of nice FWA jets. Eye candy. Promise.

Operations / Route Network

Add off-/online (IVAO, VATSIM) flight fields to the pirep form. Prrrrronto.
We would like to make the search even better and nice - sorry, no spoilers at this point, we have a nice development going on.
Very important will be the return of Butterfly and charter flights. You can choose where you fly and do not have to adhere to our network.

Regarding our route network, we plan to fly to destinations every where. Hence, FreeWORLD - otherwise the name would be Freeeurope (sounds bad, triple e looks bad, too). International schedules from EGLL are available by now (January) and US domestic flights are next. Asia/Pacific anyone?

Aircraft / Downloads Of Aircraft Liveries, Manuals, Scenery

Finishing of all paragraphs (alternatives, info about the aircraft) and adding all performance specifications to the table.

Downloads are nearly all up by now - everybody wants to have our nice liveries, right? The amount of aircraft we serve is clearly unhealthy - we can not produce freeware and payware liveries for every aircraft.
Currently the SSJ100 v5 livery is being painted.
On my wish list are definitely freeware liveries for the Boeing 787, Airbus A380. And the Boeing 747 for XP 10.

There are a couple of nice aircraft available, but we will have to see which we add to the fleet later. First we want to make our current fleet consistent.

The XACARS tutorial and the basic airline manual are online (December). The latter needs to be expanded.

Further manuals and scenery will follow at a later point. Apart from a really nice airport scenery which is due out in a couple of weeks we still figuring out a way to organize the links to the available scenerey. Wait and see.

Crew Room

Here we have to most room for improvement. Latest PIREPs, busiest pilots, a live map, airline stats, historical stats, etc.

Pilot Profile

We want you to be able to review all your PIREPs, currently we offer a maximum of 100. I think that should serve most of our pilots for the time being.
Awards will be something for the new year. We would like to improve the statistics on your profile page first.

Finances

We are not sure what to make of this built-in feature of our software. It may show here and there, but we will switch it off and decide later how to use it. Seeing the fuel prices is interesting, although they are calculate using a standard price. I was not able to find a source for up-to-date Jet-A1 prices.

How-To Pages, Tutorials

Last, but important - takes the most time... (X)ACARS tutorial and the basic manual are online, more to follow.

Known Issues

• Recent Bookings in crew room won't show fully.
• The navdata contains several fixes (and some VORs) which are way off.
• Live Map shows flights long after they were finished, places pilots south of Ghana.