Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: schedule

Other than flying the planes, arguably the most fun thing to do with Microsoft Flight Simulator is to build up the AI traffic files, which use the same simulated aircraft (usually) as what the player can fly. This is a lot like setting up a model trainset, only with planes. The format of the files is really simple, as you can see here, although each traffic .bgl file is made by compiling three text files, for the selected aircraft and airports, and for the flight plans themselves. The most popular compiler is called TTools, and I have it pictured next.

Browsing the schedule while waiting for my train, I discovered that one of the through trains is named for Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, who wrote the first comprehensive study of the American rail industry, "‘Die innern Communicationen,’ which he wrote during his travels in 1838-1839, dying before it could be published. His wife eventually published it in 1842, and it was reprinted in English some years ago. He is significant to Czech railway history because he was involved in building the Ceske Budejovice-Linz mainline.