Finding a flight
Schedules lists the flights of the current monthly schedule. Pick an airline, a departure or an arrival airport (ICAO codes, like OJAI) and click Search. Each flight shows its days of operation (Monday to Sunday), its departure and arrival times in UTC, its block time and the aircraft type the airline uses.
Tip: the live map's Fly it button opens the route of any grey aeroplane in Schedules.
Booking
- Click Book. You can hold up to 3 active bookings (booked or in flight) at a time: fly or cancel one to book another.
- An aircraft of the airline's real fleet, of the right type, is picked for you.
- Bookings do not expire. When a new monthly schedule comes out, your bookings stay as they are and can still be flown.
The booking page
- Aircraft: choose another registration of the same type in the airline's fleet. When the airline's fleet is not known yet, any registration will do.
- SimBrief flight plan: Plan on SimBrief opens SimBrief with the flight filled in, and Import my latest OFP brings the plan back (it must be for the booked route). SimBrief guide.
Flying it
The ACARS shows your bookings as boarding passes. Pick one and click Begin flight. Fly the booked aircraft type: another type sends the report to staff review. ACARS guide.
Cancelling
- On the website: Cancel this booking at the top of the booking page, or Cancel in your dashboard. A flight in progress shows Cancel this flight: it also stops the flight in the ACARS, and that flight will not count.
- In the ACARS: Cancel this booking under the boarding pass, or Cancel flight during the flight. Cancelling the flight alone keeps the booking, so you can start again.
Once a report is filed for a booking, accepted or not, the booking is completed. To fly the same flight again, book it again.