[MetroAir Newsdesk]

February Hub Competition!

The competition is straightforward. Basically, the hub that flies more, wins. Each ACARS flight flown by a pilot earns their hub a base number of points, and the hub with the most points at the end of the month takes the cake. Some months have a special rule; this month, only flights that depart and...

Source: February Hub Competition!

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This post has been cross-posted from the MetroAir Blog.

[Nick Westfall]

Ok LAX, let's get out there and fly!

[Terry Ford]

What are our current official Focus Cities?   http://forums.metroairvirtual.com/Smileys/default/cool.gif

[William Hogarth]

What are our current official Focus Cities?   http://forums.metroairvirtual.com/Smileys/default/cool.gif

Hubs:

LAX/BOS/MCI

Focus Cities:
ONT/PDX/ORD/FLL

[Jamie Mackay]

Gah! You non-LAX boys better be glad that I'm currently 4,244 miles from my rig and won't be able to get back to it this month. 

[Tim Moskal]

What are our current official Focus Cities?   http://forums.metroairvirtual.com/Smileys/default/cool.gif

Hubs:

LAX/BOS/MCI

Focus Cities:
ONT/PDX/ORD/FLL

Willam, is BWI not a focus city?  It has the purple star on the route map.

[William Hogarth]

Sorry! Tim your correct...BWI is still a Focus City but I forgot 

[Tim Moskal]

I didn't want to fly BOS-BWI if I wasn't earning points! 

[Pierre Dequack]

Hi all,
as a new member, I'm flying in the February HUB Competition to give some points to KMCI, but curious about the formula used to calculate the credit given to HUB for each approuved flight.
Well, I'm back in the competition 

[Matt Calsada]

The formula gets a little complicated but here is the stuff that we can share.

Each hub is assigned a daily hub differential that is based on roster size, pilots on leave, and some other components to determine an active roster size. The differential is there since each roster size fluctuates and we want to make the challenge a little more fair.

For each pirep that meets the criteria the hub differential is multiplied by a base number. That base is basically 2 for Vatsim flights and 0.5 for non-Vatsim flights.

So as an example,
PiRep flown on ACARS for BWI-BOS for an MCI based pilot.
Differential: 4.2
Pirep OFFLINE - Multiplier: 0.5
Final Points: 2.1

[Pierre Dequack]

Many thanks Matt for the informations and the example.

[Jason Weaver]

Cause the Boston crews are getting killed   

I flew on Feb 1st and didn't get any points for the Hub 

Definitely a great idea by the Staff though.

[Anders Young]

I flew on Feb 1st and didn't get any points for the Hub 

Looks like your Feb 1st flight was PHL-BOS.

The rule this month is flights that arrive AND depart from a hub or focus city.

[Terry Ford]

Congrats to all Kansas City Hub pilots on your glorious HUB competition victory in February!