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LF devs to help on project

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I've used a bunch of different systems over the years (FSEconomy, FSPassengers, VAFS, Just Flight, whatever Delta Virtual uses, and I'm sure some others I'm forgetting), and while they all have their niche none of them have everything to fully immerse yourself, push you to better yourself, and have a full on progressive career in the world of aviation. After waiting years for the ultimate simulation tracker / environment, and building a PoC over the last couple of days, I've set out to build one myself.

I'm looking for one NodeJS developer who is familiar with some combination of:
  1. FAA flight requirements (lights, speed limits, pressure settings, maintenance schedules, airport operations, etc)
  2. FAA pilot requirements (IFR, CPL, Duel-engine, PIC hourly limits, etc)
  3. FBO / Airport operations (maintenance, fuel, hangers, passenger / cargo terminals, employees, etc)
I'm also looking for one web designer who can assist in building the interface. The web designer should be well versed in:
  1. HTML
  2. CSS/SCSS
  3. Material Design
  4. (if possible) Angular
I could also use a C/C++ developer to help wire parts of the SimConnect client to the node application. I'm using https://github.com/EvenAR/node-simconnect/blob/master/src/addon.cc as a starting point, but not all features of the SimConnect client are built out.

While there is income potential for this project, there will be a lot of upfront work that will be unpaid, and income is not guaranteed at any point in the project. Because of this, I'm trying to keep the number of devs low, and will only be accepting 2 or 3 so each of us don't have to split the income too much. Developers interested should join this project because they're excited about building a fully featured flight simulation environment, and not a job that will produce income for them. Please reach out to me directly if interested. Thanks!
 
jpdise said:
How much have you completed? I'm working on something similar-ISH.
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I started with what's probably the hardest part of this which is the ACARS system so I could find what road-blocks I was going to run into. So far I have:
A. Connected into the sim to get aircraft information
B. Calculated landing rates
C. User accounts / authentication
D. Persistent storage

What my immediate needs are (in order of importance):
1. The node-simconnect client i'm starting with is incomplete, and needs more shims written for simconnect (C++).
2. Start building out the ACARS features (penalties, flight scoring, etc) (NodeJS)
3. Interface design / implementation (Web Designer / Angular)
4. Start building out VA capabilities (NodeJS)
5. Start building out the world for the Job ecosystem (NodeJS)

As you can see, now that I've got the basic infrastructure up and running, I'm ready to start building the tool. I do have a business plan to generate enough income to keep this project running (cover the costs), keep the product free to use, and am in talks with a couple VAs to see if I could get some starter funds. That being said, even if we don't get any VAs to contribute to the development, I'm willing and able to eat the hosting costs until we're at a point where we can open release the product, I just cannot afford any developers.
 
My projects is more specifically focused on the VA component (challenges, career mode, fund management, aircraft type qualifications, etc.) I have entertained implementing a full-featured RESTFUL API to interact with the VA backend. Perhaps we could work on something together. I'm a .NET developer by trade, but also run a handful of my other projects in Node environments. Want to take this offline?
 
jpdise said:
My projects is more specifically focused on the VA component (challenges, career mode, fund management, aircraft type qualifications, etc.) I have entertained implementing a full-featured RESTFUL API to interact with the VA backend. Perhaps we could work on something together. I'm a .NET developer by trade, but also run a handful of my other projects in Node environments. Want to take this offline?
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Absolutely, I'll start a conversation with you.
 
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