"Oh no - not another app!" Yeah well but this time it's not AI slop, but made by a fellow Avsimmer of yours - me ;)

So what is is about: A thing that annoyed me for years was that the pax numbers and additional cargo you get from Simbrief (or several other VAs I've tried) were totally random and more often than not did not fit the "narrative" of my flight (e.g. a holiday charter 737 at the start of the local holidays filled up to the takeoff performance limits, a 777 freighter out of Hong Kong carrying lots and lots of low-priced Asian products, an A320 city-to-city with mostly business people with a small laptop as hand baggage etc.).
I therefore build myself a PC app half a year ago which would create fitting passenger numbers and baggage and additional cargo weights that fit the narrative of my flights. While I was at it I even added some other things that could create some sort of story background for the flight, like a simple MEL system and a turnaround time generator (with e.g. random slot delays).
Then two weeks ago I thought that might be something that other simmers might be interested in, so I thought I should share it and that's what I did. I made a webapp (= website) out of it and released it yesterday. It's of course free.

I hope it's something that can improve your simming experience and immersion, enjoy! And feel free to give me feedback / report bugs via the form on the site. Thank you for your attention :)

realisticpaxcargo.com

Edited Sunday at 08:40 AM4 days by Fiorentoni

Sounds pretty good - and coded by a real human too! I haven't downloaded it yet ... but how would it integrate with something like the iFly 737Max8, where you [typically] load the aircraft (and MCDU) by transferring the Simbrief data via the EFB?

1 hour ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Sounds pretty good - and coded by a real human too! I haven't downloaded it yet ... but how would it integrate with something like the iFly 737Max8, where you [typically] load the aircraft (and MCDU) by transferring the Simbrief data via the EFB?

It's a website, no need to download.
As for your question: You would use RPC (Realistic Pax & Cargo) during (or before) your Simbrief flight planning and enter the pax number and payload from there into Simbrief. Then the rest as usual - the iFly will consequently get those pax number and payload from the Simbrief import.
So RPC -> Simbrief -> flight sim is the work flow.

Many thanks! I'll give it a whirl! ;)

Wow! Im all for realistic immersion indeed! Thanks for taking the time to do this and indeed sharing with the community! Much appreciated!

This looks outstanding! Thanks for sharing this!

I will give this a try. Like you, I've always felt the lack of a missing "infrastructure", maybe this will help. It could be even more, for instance, with the true cargo details provided by the FF 777 (which is in XP12 but hey... :) I'd like to see exact specifications of what is loaded and where in the plane, maybe its asking too much, but that seems interesting to me.

Thanks for sharing what you did!

1 hour ago, jfv said:

I will give this a try. Like you, I've always felt the lack of a missing "infrastructure", maybe this will help. It could be even more, for instance, with the true cargo details provided by the FF 777 (which is in XP12 but hey... :) I'd like to see exact specifications of what is loaded and where in the plane, maybe its asking too much, but that seems interesting to me.

Thanks for sharing what you did!

You mean the exact distribution of pallets etc.? Hm yeah that would currently be a bit above the focus; can you even load the cargo that precisely in the FF 777?
What I do have at the moment is a simple, slightly randomized load distribution info (below the total payload section), so you can spread the weights between FWD & AFT + [if applicable] MAIN DECK & BULK. That will give a bit of variance in regards to the CG% you have in your flights (and consequently the trim settings). It also recognizes some airline-type-specific load tendencies (e.g. [U]LCCs filling one hold completely first before using the other one, to save turnaround time etc.).

Edited Sunday at 05:35 PM3 days by Fiorentoni

On 7/12/2026 at 10:34 AM, Fiorentoni said:

You mean the exact distribution of pallets etc.? Hm yeah that would currently be a bit above the focus; can you even load the cargo that precisely in the FF 777?
What I do have at the moment is a simple, slightly randomized load distribution info (below the total payload section), so you can spread the weights between FWD & AFT + [if applicable] MAIN DECK & BULK. That will give a bit of variance in regards to the CG% you have in your flights (and consequently the trim settings). It also recognizes some airline-type-specific load tendencies (e.g. [U]LCCs filling one hold completely first before using the other one, to save turnaround time etc.).

Yes, for instance check out this overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEPN2DsVKsk&t=86s

The narrator is a bit slow, you need to go about half way through to see the cargo details. It's mind blowing how much detail is model'ed !