Which planes are safe to use in higher altitudes?

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It’s pretty easy to look up the Service ceiling and pressurization of the various career planes but that doesn’t really tell me if they are actually safe to fly in career mode at these altitudes.

For example the corvalis proudly claims a cruise altitude of FL250 (unpressurised). It can actually do this in free flight for hours (speed up). However I’v noticed it throws a hypoxia warning in career mode at this altitude. Do the pilots forget their oxy masks in career ? Then again it feels kinda weird to give VIP passengers oxygen masks for their trip so for roleplay reasons i fly lower anyway.

How about the Caravan or skycourier ? Both capable of high altitudes but not pressurized. There are many such options and its kinda silly I can’t find anything concrete about this literally vital info.

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To me it sounds as if the career mode simply doesn’t simulate auxiliary oxygen. After all it is cumbersome in real life and I doubt many commercial air transport companies would bother their passengers with that.

Also just because a plane can do FL250 does not mean it was designed to be flown there. It’s just the limit of its performance envelope. There are even microlights that have a ceiling over FL200.

So: above 10k => pressurised only

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PC-24, Caravan, Vision Jet, 737 all work for me.

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Thanks, the caravan makes no sense but good to know :slight_smile: