Realistic Taxi Time estimations

SimBrief Feature Requests
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Hi, it would be nice to have Simbrief suggesting realistic taxi in/out time based on the selected airports. This would also improve the accuracy of the proposed scheduled block time.

For example Eurocontrol publishes twice a year avg,mean,p90,p10 of taxi in/out times for both winter and summer seasons for all the airports. It only takes into account flights departing from/to the eurocontrol area so the estimation would not be accurate for other areas of the world but I guess there could be other sources to integrate and if not the default value can always be provided. Regardless, the user has always the possibility to change those values just like it works today.

As a proof of concept I’ve built around Eurocontrol provided data a simple application here https://user2684.github.io/taxi-time which does just simple lookups on the datasets referenced above.
Thanks

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While this would improve immersion for some, I’m not sure it would be very useful, as this is based on real-world traffic, where most people in the sim will probably be using something else (multiplayer, online ATC, artificial ATC etc.) where the actual taxi times will not match IRL values.

It’s not like I am against it per se but I wonder if development time is not better spent elsewhere, especially if finding a worldwide source were to prove difficult.

Regards,

Tim

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Should be off of NASSTATUS and OIS for FAA regulated traffic

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