San Airdreas

COMPANY CLOSURE Good afternoon! In spite of a rather successful few months, we are unfortunately forced to shut the business down. We'd like to thank all our kind clients, who trusted us to help them soar through the skies of San Andreas. We can't count how many hours were saved, by taking the sky route instead of the road, and hope our recurring customers can find similar or better accomodations. We'd also like to thank the Los Santos Department of Transportation, when under the responsibility of miss Jenna Gardiner, for its impressive support in helping us establish ourselves and obtain the required authorizations. Best regards, - Jezebel TRAN ((The situation mentioned above hasn't changed much so it's simpler to just move on 🙂 thanks for the cool air RP!))

UPDATE - TEMPORARY HOLD ON FLIGHTS Good evening! We will put all flights on hold for the foreseeable future, as we update our safety guidelines and landing procedures. In the meantime, if you had a flight booked with us, please make sure to call 7247 or send us a text: we will be glad to either refund you, or put your flight as a priority once we re-open. This also means an updated landing zone map will be made available, once we are able to get those validated through all the proper channels. In the meantime, spring is coming! This means a lot of new exciting tours, places to land at, and fun beach times to be had! Thank you for your patience. (( There have been changes in the aviation authority. In itself it's not a big deal. However there are a suddenly lot of new rules that aren't written anywhere but that all pilots are supposed to know. Things that were common knowledge/courtesy and taught in IC flight school for years can now get you suspended. And you can't guess which rules are still OK and which aren't until you're in IC trouble. To avoid any IC problem out of this OOC situation, I'd rather pause the business. Once things are clarified, and there is no risk of being punished IC for OOC problems, we'll be back 🙂 See you later ))

FUNDING, PALETO BAY, AND NEW HELIPAD IN HAWICK: Following several offers, we must announce that we are currently not in need of funding. Should you want to help a local business and have a fun flight though? Feel free to book a taxi ride, we'll be happy to bring you over from any safe landing area to any other, in mere minutes. Additionally, we're glad to add landing zone 40 on the map (southern area), located in Hawick. Need to go anywhere in Hawick or Vinewood? Now we can get you there! Our kind thanks to the owners of the building on Meteor Street, who allowed access to the roof and helipad. Finally, following multiple attacks on our clients, pilots and aircraft in Paleto Bay by local residents, we must warn our kind customers of the incurred risks for anyone landing there. If you do not have any specific business there, and merely would like to visit the countryside, we'll be glad to advise other locations, where the odds of getting shot by teenagers are considerably lower.

It's not just that mod. Most map mods have loading issues. I don't know how they impact performance. But the fact is that each extra "item" needs to be streamed to each single player in the area. While the "vanilla" map is stored locally on everyone's computer. So less lag and issues. Again idk how much lag and issues it really creates. Maybe it's nothing. But even with a big PC I feel the hit when I fly above the charleston area.

I can shed some more light on this. And yes it's true. 🙂 It comes from a lot of different problems. San Air is supposed to be, originally, a helicopter charter company. I looked into them, IRL, a lot, before opening. Generally, those tend to work rather well and to become profitable quickly. The reason is simple. Most mid-to-high end companies tend to reach a point where the time of their managers and execs becomes more valuable than money. E.g.: their manager needs to have 3 meetings in 3 different places in the LA county. They can go to one meeting by car, because of traffic and all that, the day is over. Then they have another meeting the next day. And another the next day. OR. They can charter a helicopter, and go to all 3 meetings in a single day. Same goes for "VIP" rich people whose time is more valuable than the (tons of) money they have. Issue is, this market segment exists IRL, realistically, but doesn't exist in-game. So, I added tours on top, to have more activity. And it brings a few people. But. Most helicopter tour companies make their money from tourists. We don't have them 😄 That means, realistically a helicopter touring & charter company could easily make bank quickly. But since the server has a very special context, it doesn't. So it's like you said, there is a need for a script benefit. BUT. Even if your business brings a script benefit, it may be "speaking" to a segment of the population that isn't represented on the serv. That means the business that would be "realistically" profitable isn't. Have that problem with my first (and only 😛 ) employee. They realized that most shifts are boring. You wait at the heliport, hoping at least one person will come by lol. Looking at my accounting, we have (on average) 0,12 clients per ad sent. That's 0.24 clients per hour. Which means for each helicopter trip, you have to AFK/wait on average for 4-5 hours. Not amazing lol. It's part of why my character also part-time manages a bar. It gives her a job that 1) Is much more active, you see a lot of people when you open, and 2) Makes some money. It might not be perfectly realistic. But the fact that the charter company makes no money isn't realistic in the first place lol. And I like to RP with new people a little instead of AFK'ing at La Puerta all day 😄

UPDATE - PILOT ROSTER: We're glad to welcome a new pilot today! Twice the availability: should you want to book a flight with us, please feel free to either call 7247 or 8081 from now on. See you soon!

WEBSITE UPDATE: Our website went through a major update today, with a new branding and looks. Thanks to TI Designs™ for their precious and quick help!

REOPENING: We are glad to announce that, after receiving the green light from the PHMC doctors, we are re-opening starting today! We will first work through the previously booked flights that got delayed, before moving on to taking new appointments. As usual, if one of your flights was delayed or if you want any information, please call us at 7247 or send us an e-mail at [email protected]

Or have another job to fuel your cool RP business, it's what i have to do to cover it all. To pay for the leases and all the rest i have to work as a manager at another business, otherwise it would be guaranteed bankruptcy lol. and even then: And there's no fleet of elegys or anything, it's just the office, the helicopter, internet, security. Ofc the problem is that then i get called a mallrat because my char has more than 1 job lol you just can't ever win. Bcs you're held to the same profitability standards as a bar/club so either you work 2+ jobs to sustain your rp business or it dies after a few months.

1-WEEK INTERRUPTION AFTER ASSAULT: After a kidnapping and assault in the middle of the La Puerta Heliport, where we operate from, our pilot will not be able to fly for a week. Her captors struck her in the head with a baseball bat, resulting in a head trauma. While she's thankfully in good health and recovering, we judge it prudent to not fly immediately, for her safety and our kind clients'. Should you have had a flight booked with us, rest assured we will call you and do our best to reschedule in a timely manner, with a 10 percent discount as an apology for the delay. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

it's funny to read because my character's a heli pilot who signed up for an mma tournament 🙂 i'm sure some people will say the same things you are saying and ignore that i voluntarily play her as poorly trained, not muscular enough, and that she will definitely lose. She just can't say no to a friend and a friend asked lol problem is most people, esp. on the forums, assume that IF a character does more than one thing, then they re an expert in everything. They never assume: maybe this character can do a lot of things but they're like mediocre or "just ok enough". Instead they not only assume your char's good at everything (even tho they only do 2 or 3 things) but then they invent themselves a world of delirium where your char's also military trained or sth... but personally I won't start rejecting a coherent IC situation just bc the forum people may think it's bad, and for their pleasure lol. However if that situation is new then yeah, she's going to suck at it... like her upcoming participation in an mma tournament, even though the poor dumb thing trains for maybe 3 hours a week 😄 that's very true though. If you limited every character to one single thing, you wouldn't do a lot of stuff and most businesses wouldn't have employees, there's suspension of disbelief involved. That same char i got who pilots choppers? She had FIVE heliocopter clients in the entire month of January.... if I limited myself to only that activity, tbh I wouldn't do much lol. So since she did bartending in college, she takes bartending gigs to pay for jet fuel and rent, but, mostly, it's also to create new rp connections.

lol they probably never trucked then 😛 i posted this elsewhere on another post https://streamable.com/4fsru4 but this kind of stuff happens to me regularly (inb4 "you were caught lacking" while i was literally just driving lmao)

TO OUR KIND CLIENTS - TEMPORARY CLOSING: Our pilot will be taking a few days for family reasons, starting this Saturday 22nd of January, until Wednesday the 26th of January (included). We will at that point not be able to book any new flights, and possible be unable to reply to e-mails and calls. Should you have any urgent need for a flight, we kindly encourage you to contact your local airfields, such as Blaine Aviation or Sandy Airfields. Thank you for your understanding, we will see you in less than a week!

Detailed Description Add the helicopter or plane icons to the available list of icons, to put on the map, on the /bad menu 🙂 Relevant Commands/Items /bad How will it benefit the server? Not a very major benefit, and I think it will only benefit me and air instructors lol. It would just be nice to have the proper icon for air-oriented businesses, kind of like there are jetski and boat /bad blip icons 🙂 If we can't it's not a big deal, it would just be a very small but very welcome quality of life improvement.

Hello 🙂 Niche RP specialist here (air taxi). It's definitely not easy to find activity overall or attract interest. Most often the problem is convincing people to try it. I noticed people usually don't come see us bc they believe helicopter=expensive or they don't know why they'd hire a pilot. But every one that actually comes and tries it ends up a regular client lol. I got a full sheet, and over 75% of people who come see san air actually end up liking it and come back. I think it's similar with other kinds of more niche stuff. Like record stores. I went in one, once bc someone invited me ic to come check it out and it was really a lot cooler than I thought it would be. It's funny also bc I'm often trying to find "excuses" to hire niche rp providers lol. Like dot it I was literally waiting to get an office to call them 😄 Or the bug eliminators, same thing I wanted to call them soon as I had the office (but now they're gone, sadly). Pbm is that only a small section of the server pop is interested in those more niche things. But ye for those who don't do it: if you see a weird or unusual kinda business and you're not doing anything, go check it out, I've had plenty of super cool surprises! The key isn't wondering "why would my character go there", but asking yourself "is there any reason why my character would NOT go there?". If there's no reason to avoid the place, then I consider that mere curiosity is reason enough to go check it. The objective's to find and create cool RP, so if there is no reason to avoid it? Then why not 🙂