About skills for spaceship pilots

[nexus7]

Are there specific skills that you need for operating a spaceship?

[Anna]

No, i dont think so.

[Shim]

There are no skills for pilots just the investment of the hanger/spaceship. Once you have it it pretty much is autopilot.

[Ludde]

Would be pretty annoying if the pilot didn´t have the skill to fly. And when he ran out of oil he would tell the passangers to leave :)

[nexus7]

Thanks to all - sry for late reply, only I've been stranded somewhere in EU:D

Very surprised you don't need special skills to fly a spaceship seeing as you need skills for just about anything else in EU, so that's good to know. It's a good few months away yet, but I would love a spaceship. I know they cost about 60-70k PED with the hanger, but have no idea if pilots make a profit...

[Xander]

I have only seen them going for around 120k - 150k.
From my understanding, if you do it full time, you can make a little profit off of it.

[Ludde]

If you buy a hangar for 120k and if you take 25/ped / person then you need to sell 4800 tickets, But i havent calculated the oil use. But its proably not any problems to make a profit.

If yo can do 0ne flight/ day the it will take 1200 days before you start to profit.

[theNoize]

himm.... ware do i sigh up? hangers on loan? do they come with payments like a car? =-P

[Xander]

They come with High oil prices.... about 25k oil required to fill these dudes up.

[nexus7]

:)I have only seen them going for around 120k - 150k.
From my understanding, if you do it full time, you can make a little profit off of it.


Thanks for correcting me on that - I was quoting from prices that I saw some time ago (a long time ago...) before the AV recreation, so prices must have gone up. BTW - I hope we've both quoted PE$ here and not US$, because to be honest I've forgotten :D

Ludde - " If yo can do 0ne flight/ day the it will take 1200 days before you start to profit."

Flip - that's a bit of a downer. This might make me do a quick U-turn from the idea

[Anna]

Well, to be realistic, maybe 4 flights a day.

Thats 300days before profit.

If i would have enough peds, i would buy hangar.

[james]

yep...to have an hangar and a ship it is a good ideea...i have a friend who had one, and from profit he pay a pilot with 2-2.5k peds/mounth!! So i think it he had some good profit!!

[Xander]

That is only 200 US$ to 250 US$. Nice little part time work I guess. :)

[nexus7]

Well, to be realistic, maybe 4 flights a day.

Thats 300days before profit.

If i would have enough peds, i would buy hangar.

Yep - that makes sense; would reduce the time. I'm starting to think though, that maybe most hangers are not purchased by one person but by a few ppl that chip in.