Seems to be a great alternative to FSEconomy

Yeah I am checking out some videos on it atm looks promising and I have seen a few forum posts that said it is a pretty good alternative.

more astroturfing from the OnAir guys....

I've been using for a while now and have to say it's quite a nice experience, it gives you a purpose to fly and it's as someone said, the life of a virtual pilot. It's definitely next gen when it comes to virtual management but it comes at a price that I think is worth it. FSE and AH are quite static while this one is truly persistent and server generated in real time.

Very impressed with support, I only had one problem with registration and it was answered and fixed literally under 5 minutes I kid you not. I'm playing on survival with no AI so it's a tad more realistic and a grind but love it that way. Most of those who have problems are trying to cut corners and cheat the gameplay but if you use it the proper way in real time, I haven't any any issues yet with it. Just don't expect to go into survival and get a 747 on your first flight. There's a skill tree, XP, a very nice company management, you can buy FBO's ect.. I have to admit it's very nicely done.

3 minutes ago, environmental_ice said:

more astroturfing from the OnAir guys....

and no I'm not an OnAir guy and I have to paid for it myself.

Monthly subscription add-ons? LOL. I'm good thanks

Wasn't  that kinda a flop for Aerosoft?

I've looked at this, but I had the impression it was focused more toward airlines, which I have little to no interest in.   The mention of FSE interests me though.  Would this be suitable for a bush pilot / local freight operation in the vein of Air Hauler?  That might get me to try it out.

1 hour ago, Adrian123 said:

Wasn't  that kinda a flop for Aerosoft?

I think its gained a new following, one FSE has stopped new regos for now ( Overloaded ) and it connects to MS2020

I've been using it for a couple of days now. It does have Air Hauler vibs. I have only done a couple of passenger runs, the rest have been cargo. If you do the tutorial you get a C172 for your fleet. I have an AI pilot doing runs with that one, and rent a DA62 for myself.

Its nice because you fly to other areas, and airports you probably wouldn't on your own.

You get a 7 day free trial, so give it a go.

It bugs me that a system like this isn't included with the game to be honest. You are given some planes to fly and the world to explore which is fantastic, don't get me wrong and I know FS titles have always been like this. When I used to play FSX, After the initial excitement of the sim wore off after a few months, and I completed the missions, I was looking for things to do, so I joined the Simfly community which had it's own FS economy.

With MSFS, in terms of gameplay, especially for a game that can cost £100 there's very little to do content wise. I would say less to do than FSX, as there aren't even any missions. You have the lessons and a few landing challenges and that's about it. When you look at the other simulator titles, Euro Truck Simulator for example. You're not given just a truck and a road. There's a career aspect to it. Farming Simulator, you're not just given a tractor and a field. There's progression and unlockables. The more you do, the more you get and that feels rewarding. Some kind of career where you start off flying small aircraft for leisure flights in remote areas, you can choose your starting location, Africa, India etc. With more hours and successful flights you earn promotions, more job opportunities arise, you can work for bigger companies with bigger planes, taking out turboprops flying longer flights, earning you with more experience and money, eventually working your way up to the airliners. Or if that's not your thing, being able to create your own company and have others join you. I just feel like we've been given an empty sandbox, and just abit too much is relying on 3rd parties to create the content. For an additional cost.

Its really a pretty slick piece of software.  Really streamlined and easy to use, but has a fair amount of depth.  You can run it entirely as a management sim (not flying at all) or flying everything.  It also judges your flying a little like FSpassengers and makes you do check rides for new aircraft.  I thought that was cool. 

 

However, they seem to have a server maintenance that is not at all scheduled as a regular timed occurrence. Sometimes its 10pm, sometimes its 12am, sometimes its...

 

If they would have made clear what time of day they intend to do the maintenance, it would have made my decision to subscribe a lot easier.    As it is, I subscribed because I really dig the package, but the daily maintenance seems to roll around the only time of day I have free to fly. 

 

I went on their discord to discuss that and was shouted away like I was an absolute heretic.  

 

To be clear.  Its a lot of fun and, I think, worth the few bucks a month.    (If it suits your schedule)  

3 hours ago, kaosfere said:

I've looked at this, but I had the impression it was focused more toward airlines, which I have little to no interest in.   The mention of FSE interests me though.  Would this be suitable for a bush pilot / local freight operation in the vein of Air Hauler?  That might get me to try it out.

yes, you can, setup your base in bushcountry. try it out, its free after all.

5 hours ago, kaosfere said:

I've looked at this, but I had the impression it was focused more toward airlines, which I have little to no interest in.   The mention of FSE interests me though.  Would this be suitable for a bush pilot / local freight operation in the vein of Air Hauler?  That might get me to try it out.

I have a nice little company based out of Bristol in England.  Currently I am playing on Cumulus which is the easy server and have 3 cessna 172's based there with 2 ai pilots and myself.  There is no requirement to go beyond the single pilot, single plane operation based at any airport that is in MSFS.

It's taken them a few days to increase the number of servers they use because of the influx of new pilots from FS2020 and they also had to do a huge datatbase update to include all the new default airports that are in FS2020 that don't exist in the other sims, so if the airport you want to base from is in fs2020 it should be in the database now.

There is also a 7 day free trial, so no reason not to try it and see if it fulfills your requirements.

I do like the fact that there is support and it's good support.   Had to file a ticket because my email authorisation didn't show up..  less than 5 minutes and it was all sorted 🙂

 

Graham

Graham, I'm assuming you're here in the UK given your "nice little company" (😁) based in Bristol, do you know what time the server maintenance appears to be for us?