There’s an option in settings that says “Allow realistic procedures in simulator”. I haven;t tried it yet but maybe that stops those penalties. I have a habit of getting the strobe light penalty too.
All in all though, I love it.
Can someone familiar with this program answer whether or not you can partner with a friend? I’d love to be able to complete flights with a business partner.
Eaxctly, there are many options to costumize the experience. The problem is that they’re all enabled by default, so new players can get a bit frustrated when starting with all these realism settings.
I’m trying to understand the real-time items - say for example I park at an airstrip where I don’t have a base… But I don’t have time to play for a few days. Will I have to pay for parking fees that will pile up while I don’t have time to play IRL?
I tried to give this a go but after install tried to sign in but couldn’t. It said DNS was out of date and would take a few hours to clear. It also said to make the process go quicker to flushdns which I did. Any way 3 days later I gave up. I’m now waiting for Fseconomy to accept new subs.
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Me too. I couldn’t really get into OnAir, the interface is lovely but it has a lot of issues currently - maybe down the line. Waiting on my FSE game works activation (which I thought I did when I registered way back, but apparently not)
It’s a bug with OnAir and their connection to MSFS. You pretty much always get the beacon light reputation hit. It’s annoying. There’s also a few other rep hits like stalling which are so very silly seeing as flaring a Cessna is essentially forcing it into a stall angle…
The replies on here made me skip OnAir and go for FSEconomy! Hoping they get their registration back up soon! Itching to get a career mode going.
I had done a trial of OnAir, in XP, over a year ago and my company finances, when i retried it again, in MSFS, were let’s say not overly healthy, because of these charges. It looks like there is an option to pause your company, so that this does not happen and it may be useful for you to look up and use that when you log off, just in case you don’t come back for a while.
I just recreated another company, as I wasn’t sure that a bankrupt company would have been a good look. 
OnAir is def a more premium and in-depth experience. A few bugs to iron out with 2020 but its certainly the best one. Ofc that comes at a price.
I’ve been trying it out for the past 5 days, I like the idea of it, but finding your way around the interface is a bit of a learning curve and there are no tutorials to aid you (there is a manual). I dont like that I have to fiddle around loading my fuel/pax/cargo in Onair and then having to go into the sim and do the same (to match) - Should be pushed into the sim. It does give a goal to your flying, but I don’t think it’s worth the subscription prices - which is why I wont be subscribing - I’ll wait until something else comes along.
It’s a shame that the Author of FSPassengers (FSX) is no longer around to support the new MSFS - That was a fun and well implemented app.
After a lot of testing in the trial I subscribed for 3 months to support the development, but the first thing they have to get rid of is annoying the customer by this awful and bad designed UI. Its more like an access database programmed by an absolute beginner.
But: The general design and the idea behind it are good, so I support them. Hopefully they will quickly move into professional programming, bringing this piece of beta-UI to a nearly modern level.
And the next thing is the problems a customers gets when he has a couple of airplanes around. No rescheduled flightplans (like KJFK-KORD 3 times a week) and stuff like that, just some auto-generated-random-stuff that makes planning a pita.
I’ve been playing it on the free trial the past few days. I can see how it will be really great for small planes and small airports. But I don’t think it will fill a role for true “airline” simulation (at least from what I understand). Not having scheduled flights between bases seems to be a major missing piece.
That said, I will probably do a one year sub at the end of my trial because I am loving the small plane, short route flights and the sense of progression / direction. My son (14 years old) and I are running the same company…I do wish there was a way for us to have separate logs (if there is, I haven’t found it).
14 hours since I posted my reply, I’ve reconsidered. I might just try OnAir after all. FSEconomy is still down and probably losing new players to OnAir and other competitors.
The only thing that concerns me about subscriptions is if devs stop working on it but when I seen the pricing, it wasn’t too bad. Still in college but I just need to work around half a day to pay for a year’s worth of sub.
It has a nice trial period, see if its for you. I dropped £20 on a 6 month sub to see if they iron out the fs2020 specific issues which im sure they will. I think you made a good choice
Well, I thought it was for me, but here I am, last day of the trial, wondering what the hell is going on with progression? I own a Cessna 172 (G1000 version) and have been running short little regional hauls, with the longest flight being just over 100 NM. I’m based in Northwest Arkansas. I completed the level 4 jobs. Now the level 5 jobs appear…in South America? Once I arrive in South America, I have to complete 8 separate flights, 7 of which are 2000 NM each, and are one-way (meaning, I’ll have return trips of 2k NM to handle). I’m struggling to understand how the game goes from < 100 NM regional runs to > 2000 NM 1-way runs across a continent.
As FYI, for those that haven’t played OnAir yet, the Level Jobs are pretty much required to progress. While other jobs available to me reward 4 XP, the Level Job rewards 4000 XP. They can not be reasonably skipped. You can put an AI pilot on some jobs, but this current one in South America does not allow it. For those who are veterans of the game, is this how the experience continues, or is it a one-time thing before going back to your home airport and running reasonable jobs?
You dont have to do it in sim again. When you start tracking, your plane gets loaded with cargo. Just spawn the plane on the correct airport and you’re set.
Im on that 1 now, bought myself a TBM930 for it
Bought or rented? That’s the plane I want, but I’m nowhere near being able to buy one. At the rate I’m going, it might take a week or more. Highest jobs I see available to me are around 18k and they take a few hours to complete. I’m around 150k short of buying a TBM930.
Bought, cost me 220k, got a small loan