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
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.
- The map automatically displays airports by type, based on your zoom level and panning with below details showing in stages as you zoom in.
- Large airports
- Large, and medium airports
- Large, medium, and small airports
- Large, medium, small, seaplane, and heliport
- The map now includes icons and ICAO labels.
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= Airport -
= Heliport -
= Seaplane
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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.
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.
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.
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.
To clear all entries, click the Clear Generator button or simply refresh the page.