Flight Operations

Introduction


There are four [4] types of flights available at Walker Air Transport:

Cargo Charter Scheduled Tours

To learn more about each of them, scroll through this document.

Location and Home:
When you signed up for Walker Air Transport, you were asked to provide a Home Base location. This location is at your discretion and only affects one thing; where your career begins in the 'Scheduled' and 'Cargo' module.

Aircraft Available:
Each flight type has a specific fleet available. Visit our Fleet page by clicking here.

Notice About Worldwide Persistence:
As you read further into each module, remember that our 'Cargo' and 'Scheduled' operations require Pilots to depart from their last arrival airport, unless a Jumpseat to another airport is purchased.

We also have an option called 'Worldwide Persistence' which enables Charter flights to be operated in the same manner. Read more here.

Notice About Diversions or Crashes:
When you divert and land, or crash, our system will use your last known coordinates to determine the airport (or closest) where you are. Your PIREP is then marked as 'Diverted' and you have an additional icon placed on the map. In order to maintain our persistence system, we do one additional task based on having Worldwide Persistence enabled or not (see note above about Worldwide Persistence).

WWP is ON
| ENABLED: 

You'll remain at the airport we identified.
WWP is OFF | DISABLED:
If the airport where you are has no Cargo or Scheduled flights, we'll identify another airport closest to your location that does have flights and relocate you so you may continue on your journey.


If you're on a Tour flight, you'll be required to re-fly that leg.

Cargo


The Cargo Flight Module gives Pilots an opportunity to experience life as a 'Freight Dog' for a cargo airlines.

If you wish to depart from another location, purchase a Jumpseat Ticket to transfer to another airport.


Finding a Cargo Flight

In the Navigation Bar of the Crew Ops website, select Flights > Cargo. That will take you to the Cargo Flights page.

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Upon arrival, you'll be presented with a map. You'll see a departure icon (Green Map Pin) and 1 or more arrival pins (Black Dots), as well a Toggle Weather, Toggle VATSIM and Select Random Arrival buttons at the bottom left of the screen.

The map seen above represents its default view. To see the rest of the world, place your cursor on the map and, with your control wheel, zoom in or out.

The departure location for your next flight is set as follows:

New Pilots All Other Pilots
New Pilots taking their first flight depart
from the Home Airport they requested on registration.
The Arrival Airport of your last Cargo or Scheduled flight.

Mouse over pins/black dots to see the names of the airports with flights available from your departure airport.

Once you find a place to which you'd like to fly, click on its black dot. Lets use KIAH > KSEA as an example.

 


IMPORTANT  ::  You may only Bid a new Cargo flight when no other Cargo Flights have been bid. If you have already bid another flight – or – that flight is already in progress, you'll see this message.

You must complete the flight or cancel it in order to bid a new one.
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You'll then see your Flight Bid appear listing the Flight Number, Distance and Estimated Time Enroute.

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The Estimated Time Enroute is only an estimate and does not reflect the time in the aircraft you select.

 


Bidding a Cargo Flight

Click the Bid Flight button to bid on the flight.

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After doing so, the confirmation window below will appear.

From the drop-down, select an Aircraft Type.

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We allow our Pilots to chose their preferred aircraft type rather than restricted them to one assigned to the flight.

After selecting your aircraft, click Book.

The Pilot Briefing will appear signifying the flight has been added your My Bids page.

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For both the Departure and Arrival Airports, the METAR (Meteorological Terminal Air Report) will be displayed.

 

In case of airports with no METAR available, we provide you with a geolocated button directing you to Windy, an external site that will provide you with the local conditions of the airport. You can access this by hitting the Windy logo at the bottom.

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Click TAF and the Terminal Arrival Forecast will be displayed.

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Click Runways and those available at the airport will be displayed.

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Map Features

Flight Status – A number of informational items regarding the real-time status of your current flight are displayed on the map.

NOTE:  The data updates every 10 seconds.

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Once you've reviewed the details of your flight, you're ready to go fly it...

Charter


Leveraging a list of all airports around the world, the Charter system allows a pilot to create a flight schedule without the constraints of having to adhere to the company's route map. The only limitation is selecting an aircraft with the range to complete the flight, and that will fit in the airports.

If you find an airport missing from the list, please send in a ticket.


Creating & Bidding a Charter Flight

In the Navigation Bar in our Crew Ops website, select Flights > Charter.

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On the Charter Page, there are (2) ways you can create a flight. You can choose to use the Create a Flight option listed below -- or -- read below that and you can use the Interactive Map.

Using the Create-a-Flight, there are seven (7) steps you must complete in order to create and bid a Charter flight.

1. Departure – Enter the Name or ICAO Code of any airport from which you wish to depart.
2. Arrival – Enter the Name or ICAO Code of any airport to which you wish to arrive. This may be the same airport as departures, if you wish to simulate circuit training, sightseeing tours, etc.
3.

Aircraft – Click the drop-down and select an aircraft from our Cargo, Charter, or Scheduled fleet.

 

If you wish to return and pick another fleet, click on the 'Reset Aircraft' to the right of the drop down box.image-1687629352335.png

 

You can view our entire fleet by operation by visiting CrewOps > Company > Fleet.

4. Departure Time – Select a departure time – and remember this is UTC time, not local time. You can just leave this as-is, as you do not need to set this time in your flight sim for your flight to count for Walker.
5. Passengers or Cargo – Choose who or what will be accompanying you on your flight – passengers or cargo.
6.
Worldwide Persistence – Toggle On or Off

To learn more about Worldwide Persistence, click here.

7.
Click the Create Charter button.

Using the Interactive Map, please note the following details.

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You can zoom in to any icon, hover over it, and then left mouse click. You will be presented with a box that will enable you to add that airport to either Departure or ICAO. Just click the button as you wish.

 

The airports can be replaced by simply clicking, and choose the right slot. Over and over.

 

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It will automatically update the Create-a-Flight section, and then simply pick your aircraft and finish out the rest of the flight information. Lastly, click 'Create Charter' and you are done.

You'll be directed to Flights > My Bids where the newly-created flight appears.

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To view the Pilot Briefing for this flight, click the yellow button. Use this information to assist you in planning your flight and its flight route.

To delete this Bid, click the red button.

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Find a Flight - Random Flight Generator

The Random Generator is an easy way to address the 'Where am I going to fly today?' question... Input a few items and generate a random flight.

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If you're using Worldwide Persistence, your departure airport will be filled in automatically. Otherwise you can fill as many or as little of the following boxes and the system will generate a flight that fits within the constraints you have selected.

Note that if you do not tick any boxes for the runway surface selection and the airport size selection, the system will take this input as allowing all of the options.

You can click on the Find a Flight button as many times as you like until you get a satisfactory result, then you can proceed to hit Transfer Flight to send the airport information to the charter module on the top of the screen.

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To clear all entries, click the Clear Generator button or simply refresh the page.

Scheduled


The Scheduled Flight Module gives Pilots an opportunity to experience life as a 'Line Pilot' for a major passenger airline.

If you wish to depart from another location, you may purchase a Jumpseat Ticket to transfer to another airport.

 

Finding a Scheduled Flight

In the Navigation Bar of the Crew Ops website, select Flights > Scheduled. That will take you to the Scheduled Flights page.

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Upon arrival, you'll be presented with a map. You'll see a departure icon (Green Map Pin) and one [1] or more arrival pins (Black Dots), as well as Toggle Weather, Toggle VATSIM and Select Random Arrival buttons at the bottom left of the screen.

The map seen above represents its default view. To see the rest of the world, place your cursor on the map and, with your control wheel, zoom in or out.

The departure location for your next flight is set as follows:

New Pilots All Other Pilots
New Pilots taking their first flight depart
from the Home Airport they requested on registration.
The Arrival Airport of your last Cargo or Scheduled flight.

Mouse over pins/black dots to see the names of the airports with flights available from your departure airport.

Once you find a place to which you'd like to fly, click on its black dot. Let's use KIAH > KPDX as an example.


IMPORTANT  ::  You may only Bid a new Scheduled flight when no other Scheduled Flights have been bid. If you have already bid another flight – or – that flight is already in progress, you'll see this message.

You must complete the flight or cancel it in order to bid a new one.
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You'll then see your Flight Bid appear listing the Flight Number, Distance and Estimated Time Enroute.

The Estimated Time Enroute is only an estimate and does not reflect the time in the aircraft you select.

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Bidding a Scheduled Flight

Click the Bid Flight button to bid on the flight.

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After doing so, the confirmation window below will appear.

From the drop-down, select an Aircraft Type.

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We allow our Pilots to chose their preferred aircraft type rather than restricted them to one assigned to the flight.

After selecting your aircraft, click Book.

The Pilot Briefing will appear signifying the flight has been added your My Bids page.

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For both the Departure and Arrival Airports, the METAR (Meteorological Terminal Air Report) will be displayed.

In case of airports with no METAR available, we provide you with a geolocated button directing you to Windy, an external site that will provide you with the local conditions of the airport. You can access this by hitting the Windy logo at the bottom.

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Click TAF and the Terminal Arrival Forecast will be displayed.

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Click Runways and those available at the airport will be displayed.

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Map Features

Flight Status – A number of informational items regarding the real-time status of your current flight are displayed on the map.

NOTE:  The data updates every 10 seconds.

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Once you've reviewed the details of your flight, you're ready to go fly it...

Walker Flying Club


This feature is only available to Patreon members - please click here to read up on the membership system.

The Walker Flying Club allows you to fly any plane, any where, and have it tracked in the Walker system. This allows our pilots to fly aircraft that does not fall into our other three aircraft categories - Scheduled, Cargo, or Charter.

The Club represents pilot flying on their off time or as a hobby, thus instead of being paid, the pilot actually pays a nominal sum in order to fly from their pilot wallet, using money earned from flying in the other three categories. This is meant to represent aircraft rental, maintenance, and fuel costs as appropriate.

You will still get hours and points for these flights, and these will count towards ranking your seniority up in the airline. Further, as this is not meant to be a simulation of airline operations, there will be no SimBrief import/OFP within Walker for Club flights. However, you are of course welcome to plan your flights separately in SimBrief if you so wish and connect this to the aircraft avionics that you are flying.

In order to avoid exorbitant fuel costs, such as if you choose to fly a jet fighter under Club, you will be billed as per below table, based on your seniority in the airline. 

Rank | Title Insignia Pay Rate (Hourly) Flying Club Fee (Hourly)
Flight Student

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$15.00 $6.00
First Officer

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$35.00 $15.75
Senior First Officer

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$45.00 $22.50
Captain

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$65.00 $35.75
Flight Captain

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$85.00 $51.00
Senior Flight Captain

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$105.00 $68.25
Chief Pilot I

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$115.00 $80.50
Chief Pilot II

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$135.00 $101.25
Chief Pilot III

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$165.00 $132.00
Senior Chief Pilot I

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$192.00 $163.20
Senior Chief Pilot II

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$225.00 $202.50
Senior Chief Pilot III

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$255.00 $242.25
Walker Emeritus

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$300.00 $300.00

 

If you find an aircraft missing from the list, please send in a ticket.


Creating & Bidding a Club Flight

In the Navigation Bar in our Crew Ops website, select Flights > Club.

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On the Club Page, there are (2) ways you can create a flight. You can choose to use the Create a Flight option listed below or read below that for the Interactive Map.

Using the Create-a-Flight, there are five steps you must complete in order to create and bid a Charter flight.

1. Departure – Enter the Name or ICAO Code of any airport from which you wish to depart.
2. Arrival – Enter the Name or ICAO Code of any airport to which you wish to arrive. This may be the same airport as departures, if you wish to simulate circuit training, sightseeing tours, etc.
3.

Aircraft – Type the name or the ICAO code of the aircraft you wish to fly

If the aircraft you wish to fly is missing, please raise a ticket.

4. Departure Time – Select a departure time – and remember this is UTC time, not local time. You can just leave this as-is, as you do not need to set this time in your flight sim for your flight to count for Walker.
5.
Click the Create Charter button.

Using the Interactive Map, please note the following details.

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You can zoom in to any icon, hover over it, and then left mouse click. You will be presented with a box that will enable you to add that airport to either Departure or ICAO. Just click the button as you wish.

 

The airports can be replaced by simply clicking, and choose the right slot.

 

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It will automatically update the Create-a-Flight section, and then simply pick your aircraft and finish out the rest of the flight information. Lastly, click 'Create Charter' and you are done.

You'll be directed to Pilot Briefing where you can track your flight.

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To delete this Bid, head to Flights -> My Bids, look for the correct flight, then hit the red button. Note that you cannot do this while the flight is live in SmartCars.

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Find a Flight - Random Flight Generator

The Random Generator is an easy way to address the 'Where am I going to fly today?' question... Input a few items and generate a random flight.

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Note that if you do not tick any boxes for the runway surface selection and the airport size selection, the system will take this input as allowing all of the options.

You can click on the Find a Flight button as many times as you like until you get a satisfactory result, then you can proceed to hit Transfer Flight to send the airport information to the charter module on the top of the screen.

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To clear all entries, click the Clear Generator button or simply refresh the page.

Tours


A Tour provides an opportunity for a pilot to discover the world in a new and unique way. Each one is themed, and unless specified differently, can be completed in an aircraft from any of the company's fleets. They are comprised of planned legs, each of which must be flown in the order specified. Once all legs have been completed, an award is posted to a pilot's Logbook.

You do not have to be at the airport location in order to start any leg of a tour.

Tour flights do not change your location upon landing.

To explore our Tours offerings, click Tours.

The default view is for all Tours to be displayed. Once you begin flying them, though, you may find it useful and/or convenient to be able to sort them. In the Text Box to the right of the magnifying glass icon, you can select any sorting option from the drop-down menu.

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All

Available

In Progress

Completed

 


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Beneath the Title Bar above are our Tours. These are from the All view – as you can see from the Text Box in the Title Bar.

They're also displayed in alphabetical order.

The Tours shown below are only a small portion of the entire offerings. Please proceed to the Tours page in CrewOps for the whole list

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Each Tour has a status. It's either Available, In Progress or Completed – and each is anchored by a colored bar providing you a visual indicator of its status. 

Tour Status: Available In Progress Completed
Completion Status: Grey Yellow Green

Below are samples of what you may see in your tours page.

Available In Progress Completed
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Available

Referring to the Tour Page image above, you can see the Airbus Tour is Available because the Sign Up bar is Grey

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To learn more about this Tour, click its image on the Tour page.

After doing so, the screen below will open. In it, there are three areas on the page.

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Area 1  |  Tour Description

Click Tour Description beneath the Tour Image. After doing so, its description will appear. This will provide an narrative overview of the Tour.

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If you wish to sign up for the Tour, click the Sign Up bar. After doing so, you'll note two new things in the page that opens.

1.

If you change your mind about completing the Tour at any time after signing up for it, click the Leave this Tour? button and you'll be removed from it.

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2.

The Tour's First Leg will now have a grey aircraft icon button. That means you may bid this leg.

Tour Legs must be completed in the order they're sequenced. You will not be able to skip around once you begin.

To bid a Tour Leg, click the grey aircraft icon button.

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Afterwards, the screen below will open.

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If you are a member of the Patreon program, you may use any livery you want for the tour.

From the drop-down (click the chevron in the right corner of the text box), select a Fleet – Cargo, Charter or Scheduled (as appropriate - some tours will not have a fleet available due to the tour restrictions.)

Once selected, the dropdown will refresh with the aircraft available in your selected fleet.

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Select the aircraft you wish to fly from those in the drop-down menu (click the chevron in the right corner of the text box).

In this example, a Beechcraft Baron 58 from the Charter Fleet will be flown for this Tour Leg.

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If you wish to return and pick another fleet, click on the 'Reset Aircraft' to the right of the drop down box.image-1687629352335.png

Otherwise, click "Bid Flight" to continue.


You now have three options regarding this Tour Leg.

If you want to... ... then do this.
Fly Click the Bid Flight button.
Change Change the Fleet and/or Aircraft – and then click the Bid Flight button.
Cancel Click the 'x' in the upper right corner of the box and the Leg will be canceled.

After clicking the Bid Flight button, the Tour Leg will appear in My Bids. You may then operate the flight.

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To view the Pilot Briefing for this flight, click the yellow button. Use this information to assist you in planning your flight and its flight route.

To delete this Bid, click the red button.

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And about the colored buttons... Here's another example of a Pilot currently flying a Tour we can use as an illustration:

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Leg 26 has a green check mark icon indicating that leg has been Completed.

Leg 27 has a red aircraft icon indicating that leg has already been bid and is available to be flown. It cannot be bid again.

Leg 28 has a yellow clock icon indicating it may not be bid upon unless/until Leg 27's flight has been completed.

This color coding has been implemented for all Tours.

 

Area 2  |  Tour Map & Legs

In this area of the Tour Page, a map identifying the Legs and their location is presented.

To its right is the list of Tour Legs. Each is numbered and must be flown in that order. The Aircraft Type allowed in this Tour can be seen by clicking the green Cargo, Charter and Scheduled buttons.

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Area 3  |  Pilot Status On Tour

In this area, the status of all Pilots flying the Tour are noted – Pilot Name, Location, Last Flight, Last Aircraft and Progress. If desired, you can measure your progress against others flying the Tour and view their most recent PIREPs.

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In Progress

Referring to the Tour Page image above, you can see the Around The World Tour is In Progress because the Sign Up bar is Yellow.

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All other visual elements of an Available Tour exist for an In Progress Tour – with two notable exceptions.

 

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Completed

Referring to the Tour Page image above, you can see the Alaska Milk Run Tour has been completed because the Sign Up bar is Green.

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All other visual elements of an In Progress Tour, exist for a Completed Tour – with two notable exceptions.

ONE

A Tour may be re-flown at any time. In the image above, clicking the green button will do that. To re-fly a Tour, you'll need to purchase a Tour Pass and there's a cost for doing that.

After clicking the Green button, the screen below will open. There, you'll see what it'll cost you to re-fly the Tour.

Clicking the Cancel button at any time will cancel the transaction.

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If your Wallet Balance is greater than that cost, the transaction will be approved. You will be allowed to re-fly the Tour.


If your Wallet Balance is less than that cost, the transaction will be disapproved. You will not be allowed to re-fly the Tour


In our example, because the Wallet Balance is greater than the Total Cost, the transaction will be approved.

 

TWO

All Tour Legs have been completed. There are no more Tour Legs to fly, so each one has a green check mark.

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Tour Pause due to Time Compression // Cleared To Fly

Pilots are allowed to use time compression on tour legs with our new Tour Pause system. When you use TC on a leg, the amount of time remaining after your compression is used to put you in pause mode on that specific tour. This means that on that one tour, you cannot start the next leg until the real-time equivalent has passed. You can, however, move on to another tour and do a leg in time compression. The goal here is to keep pilots from speed running one tour within a few hours, but also allow them to enjoy the longer tours without having to sit at a PC for 8 hours or leave it running overnight.

Example: you fly a 4 hour leg in 2 hours time compressed. You will be paused for 2 hours on our platform and after that 2 hours expires, you can bid the next leg. If you happen to pause the simulator for those 2 hours because you had to step away, when you land the required time is met and you'll immediately open up the next leg.

When you are not cleared to fly, you will see this icon and the clearance time (in UTC) will be presented to you in the tooltip.

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Please note: you will still be deducted points for time compression per our policy and point chart here: Rank & Points

Jumpseat


When flying Cargo and Scheduled flights – and Charter flights, though only when Worldwide Persistence is on/enabled – your departure airport must be the same as the arrival airport of your previous flight.

A Jumpseat enables you to change that.

With a Ticket, you can move from the airport where you currently are to any other one in the world. With Worldwide Persistence on, this also includes Charter flights.

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Jumpseat tickets, though, are not free. They cost money. They're purchased using the virtual money you earn as a Pilot.


EXAMPLE:  You're currently at KSEA - Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and wish to get to KJFK | New York John F. Kennedy International Airport. When you go to Flights > Jumpseats, you'll be presented with the screen below. Your Current Location will already be noted. Enter the airport where you want to go in the Transfer To box. In addition to a distance between the airports, a price will appear below it. If you want to purchase the seat, click the Purchase Ticket button. Repeat the process as many times as you wish before making a purchase decision.

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If the price of the Ticket is more than the balance in your In Your Wallet account, you will not be able to purchase it.