Conceptual - Creative Question.... 2006-12-20 - By Michael Hood
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Do we get to ride in one of the jets if your boss picks one of our ideas?!
:-P
First, I think it's a bit unrealistic to only show the aircraft's
performance rating using "X" number of passengers on a perfect, windless
day with zero baggage.
I might have a look at some actual flight charts and make the flight paths
to/from each major airport more dynamic (and accurate), according to the
charts. As the user hovers over a particular city, highlight it, and
generate the flight paths from that city to each destination city within
it's range, given the number of passengers (the user provides/selects),
baggage and cargo, assuming a full tank of fuel with no stops. Perhaps at
the apex of each of the flight paths you could dynamically display the
number of miles, the estimated flight time to the destination, actual fuel
consumption per whatever the weight is of the cargo/passengers/crew, etc.,
and so on.
If you don't have access to that kind of information, you could invest in a
couple flight calculators and some charts and crunch the numbers yourself
(if you know what you are doing) or maybe hit up a pilot training facility
and have the instructors make it a classroom exercise, for the ground
school - perhaps there's even a site out there that does the conversions
for a couple bucks??
I would also offer more realistic, "worse case" scenarios (max
passengers/baggage/crew/headwind), or make it so the user can input his own
information and have Flash do the math and display the results. Definitely
show the number of hours the flight might take, so the typical user can
"get it" in terms he/she understands.
I'm unclear as to whether your company sells the aircraft, or just wants a
"tool" for the execs, so they can figure out where they can go on their
jets. If it's to sell the jet, I'd put in all kinds of realistic data,
including load balancing/planning, fuel consumption rates at altitudes,
etc., whatever else might impact the performance of the aircraft. If it's
to be used for people to plan a trip, I might include things like trip time
to/from the destination airport to/from the hotel when they arrive, what
hotels are available (with the info so they can book a room in advance)
Whether I was a buyer or a flyer, I'd rather see more realistic data than
hyper-optimistic data built from conditions that just never really exist
(whether I could use it, or not - I'm kinda wired that way).
-Michael H.
Internal Applications Dev ADMS/ CMS/ Armory
> [Original Message]
> From: Chester McLaughlin <chester@(protected)>
> To: <pro_flash@(protected)>
> Date: 12/19/2006 10:06:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pro Flash Users] Conceptual - Creative Question....
>
> When you say, "supports the information", it leads me to believe that
> you are trying to convey more than simply the range of the aircraft.
>
> Can you share the other communication points with us?
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:04 PM, pagreen07 wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to the group and my question is of a conceptual/creative
> > nature. I've been asked by Senior Management to come up with
> > a "concept" to visually represent the range of our aircraft using
> > Flash. I think it's important that whatever gets designed is useful
> > and supports the information. I don't want it to be gratuitous.
> >
> > The example that was provided to me (a concept they "liked") is on
> > this page:
> >
> > http://www.uyjaviation.com/learjet.htm
> >
> > Besides the fact that I'm not going to "steal" the concept for our
> > site...I personally don't see any value in it. I don't see how it
> > demonstrates the range of their aircraft. I've shown it to several
> > users and they've rated the value it adds to that page as low.
> >
> > Does anyone have any creative ideas on how to use Flash to demonstrate
> > the range of an aircraft?
> >
> > Hope someone has some ideas...I'm stumped.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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