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Flight Horizon
Passenger-first charter career for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 / 2024 (PC)
Published by Integrate Systems
Facebook group: https://www. facebook. com/groups/flighthorizon
Give every flight a reason to exist.
Flight Horizon is a career companion that sits beside MSFS 2020 / 2024 and turns free flight into an owner-pilot charter operation. You name the company, choose a home base, buy a light aircraft, and take real people — and freight — from A to... Flight Horizon
Passenger-first charter career for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 / 2024 (PC)
Published by Integrate Systems
Facebook group: https://www. facebook. com/groups/flighthorizon
Give every flight a reason to exist.
Flight Horizon is a career companion that sits beside MSFS 2020 / 2024 and turns free flight into an owner-pilot charter operation. You name the company, choose a home base, buy a light aircraft, and take real people — and freight — from A to B. How you fly matters: smoothness, weather, boarding, and the landing all feed passenger happiness, which feeds pay, reputation, and the next contract.
It is not a shared online airline. There is no monthly fee and no MMO economy. Your career lives on your PC. You fly whatever you load in the sim; Flight Horizon owns the jobs, the money, the hangar, and the story around the flight.
A Windows companion is the ops desk. An in-sim toolbar panel keeps the loop in the cockpit. Mock Sim lets you learn the career with the sim closed; Live MSFS hooks SimConnect when you are ready to fly for real.
The career
You start as a Student Charter operator on local hops and short scenic loops. Reputation and hours unlock the ladder:
- Student Charter (STU) — local hops and sightseeing (up to about 150 nm; scenic loops shorter)
- Private Charter (PPL) — longer range, Cargo Lite, challenge jobs, longer scenic work
- Commercial Light (CPL) — priority and medical charters
- Senior Charter (SEN) — six-seat aircraft on the market
- Airline Charter (ATPL) — multi-leg tour contracts
Each rank is earned, not bought. Hour gates can be left at the defaults (10 / 40 / 100 / 250 hours) or set in Settings if you want a slower or faster career.
Cash, reputation, airborne hours, fleet condition, and the ledger persist between sessions.
The job board
Contracts are generated from real airport geography, not a fixed mission list. Refresh the board whenever you want a new day’s work.
Job types (unlocked as you progress):
- Air taxi — the bread-and-butter passenger hop
- Sightseeing — scenic loops with paying passengers
- Cargo Lite — freight, no passengers
- Challenge — higher risk, danger money if you fly the required approach well
- Priority — time-sensitive charters, better pay
- Medical — patient transfer; the airframe has to be in decent condition
- Multi-leg — tour contracts once you hold Airline Charter
Each contract shows estimated net pay, weather (VFR day, VFR night, IFR), urgency, required approach, and payload. Filter by this airport for continuous legs, or by approach: Any, VFR, non-precision, or ILS.
Open a full briefing before you accept: route, payload, scheduled depart time, origin and destination notes. Incoming charters also ring the company phone — unsolicited offers that land in the inbox and on the board.
Accept a job and it locks to the hangar aircraft you took it on. You fly that type. Cancel if you must — it costs reputation.
Night VFR is not flavour text. When you start the job flight, Flight Horizon can set the sim clock to the scheduled local departure.
Dispatch, cabin, and the flight
A typical live sortie:
- Accept the contract
- Optional SimBrief OFP (username in Settings; SID/STAR can import into the plan)
- Exterior walk-around — eight items; camera can jump outside or into the cockpit
- Boarding — timed, with a live seat map, personalities, and happiness
- Fly the route in MSFS
- Arrival auto-completes when you are at the destination with brake or door (optional)
- Debrief — happiness, touchdown, gross, tips, costs, danger money, reputation, cash
Passengers are the product. Happiness is not a pass/fail landing flag. It moves with the flight, and it moves the payout: poor trips pay less, excellent trips pay more and can add tips. Challenge jobs can add danger money when the approach matches and the cabin is still smiling.
Ground ops from the companion (live sim): parking brake, cabin door, pushback (left / straight / right), jetway or stairs, GPU, fuel truck with a cash-capped top-up. Divert mid-flight to a new ICAO if the day goes sideways. Open a passenger manifest when you want names on paper.
Optional cabin SFX and spoken crew PA follow boarding state. Career speed 1× / 2× / 4× shortens boarding, mock flights, and crew ETAs without touching the sim’s own rate.
Hangar and the market
Ownership is economic. You buy catalog types — C172-class, DA40-class, and six-seat airframes once you are Senior — or optionally pull in aircraft installed in your Community and Official folders.
The hangar tracks:
- Photos, seats, hours, condition
- Assigned crew
- Wear bands and “service soon / required”
- A maintenance reserve that accrues in the air and is spent when you pay for a service quote
- Sell price that follows condition
Rentals are available too: deposit, prepaid days, then daily rent. Return the aircraft and the deposit can take a hit if you brought it back tired.
Medical work will not go out on a wreck. If condition is too low, that contract stays on the ground.
Daily hangar, insurance, and crew wages come off automatically. The ledger is a proper cash book: credits in green, debits in red — payouts, fuel, landing, hangar, insurance, wages, hire fees, rent, cargo, sales.
Crew
Hiring unlocks at reputation 10. The board shows adverts with skill, wage, hire fee, and a generated resume — hours, types, employers, incident record, portrait.
Hire them, assign them to a rated hangar aircraft, or release them. Dispatch a hired pilot onto a board contract instead of flying it yourself. They appear on the Home live ops map, spawn as AI traffic in MSFS (or in Mock Sim), fly the route, and come home with payout, hours, and sometimes a license upgrade.
Cargo
Private Charter opens Cargo Lite jobs and the freight desk. Refresh standalone lots from home base, taxi into the pickup zone (~20 m, brake set), load, pay handling, and deliver at the destination for cash and reputation. Cargo Lite on a booked job can auto-load when boarding starts. In live MSFS, ramp cargo can spawn as world objects.
Home and the phone
The companion Home page is the ops snapshot: license ladder with aircraft glyphs, cash, reputation, hours, active aircraft and condition, maintenance reserve, flights logged, fleet value, and the live map of you and crew.
The phone is incoming charters only — unread badge, open to brief, mark one or all read. Toasts cover unlocks, walk-around complete, flight complete, daily costs, crew arrivals, wear, and live SimConnect.
In-sim panel
With the companion running, install the Community toolbar package and open Flight Horizon from the MSFS 2020 in-flight toolbar. The same loop is available in a browser at the local panel URL.
Panel pages: Home, Jobs, Dispatch, Cabin, Phone, Crew, Debrief, Status.
From the cockpit you can accept work, start the job flight, walk around, board, load the flight plan, trigger SimBrief, hire from adverts, take a rental, and read the debrief. Full hangar service, cargo desk, market, ledger, and settings stay in the companion — the panel is for flying the day, not running the company accounts.
Mock Sim and Live MSFS
Mock Sim — no simulator required. Scripted taxi, climb, cruise, and land so you can learn jobs, boarding, money, and crew without waiting on weather.
Live MSFS — SimConnect. Real telemetry (IAS, VS, altitude, fuel), plan load, clock set, cameras, ground ops, fuel quantity, cargo props, AI crew. If live fails, the companion can fall back to mock.
Switch from the sidebar whenever you want.
Settings and a new career
- Pilot name and male / female portraits
- Company name and home base
- License hour gates (or reset to defaults)
- Airport coverage: global, continents, or Pacific Northwest
- Auto-start boarding after walk-around
- SimBrief username and OFP preferences
- Auto-request SimBrief on accept
- Detect MSFS Community and Official folders
- Include installed aircraft on the Market
- Cabin SFX and spoken announcements
- Career speed 1× / 2× / 4×
- Fullscreen (F11)
- Start a new career (wipes the local save)
What’s included
- Flight Horizon Companion (Windows desktop ops hub)
- MSFS 2020 in-sim toolbar panel (Community package)
- Browser / tablet panel served by the companion
- Local career save (no account, no always-online requirement)
Who it is for
Pilots who want a charter company of their own: a job on the board, passengers who care how you fly, a hangar that wears out, crew you can send while you fly something else, and a panel in the cockpit so you are not alt-tabbing for every decision.
If you want a persistent shared world with other players, this is not that. If you want a reason to start the Cessna this evening and still have a company in the morning, this is.
