My Flight Page

The My Flight page is your Pilot Briefing Room for your next flight, next set of flights, or your currently-enroute flight. This page contains all of the information about the current aircraft you have rented, whether you're currently flying (or set to fly the next flight) "for yourself", or "for a group", and the status of any assignment(s) you have selected.

This page is divided into four main sections. See the areas below for a description of each section.

My Flight Section

The top section of the My Flight page is a quick note about the status of your current flight in progress or your next upcoming flight (if you have an aircraft rented).

Enroute status

Once you click "Start Flight" in the FSE Client, you are considered to be "enroute" by the FSE GameWorld Server. The MyFlight page will display a green status bar indicating whether the current flight is being payed for by your personal account or by a group. If you need to cancel the current flight for any reason, you can click the Cancel button in this section. Cancelling a flight will return the aircraft and all assignments to the originating airport and you will not be charged any flying time or flight expenses.

On the ground - Prohibited Takeoff Warnings

There are two possible warning boxes when you are prohibited from starting a flight: "No Aircraft" has been rented and "Flight Crew Grounded" when your pilot flight hours have been exceeded. (see the 30/48 Rule for more information about Hours Exceeded)

On the ground - Ready for Departure

If you are on the ground with an aircraft rented and you are not prohibited from taking off, the Ready for Departure status indicates whether you are currently set to fly the next flight "for yourself", or "for a group".

Cautions and Warnings

There are several caution and warning alerts that may appear below the Ready for Departure boxes.

Caution alerts are highlighted in yellow and are meant to alert you to upcoming maintenance issues with the aircraft or potential issues with costs that could impact your next flight. You may still continue your flight with all selected assignments, but may need to plan for these issues.

low funds (cash < 30 minutes of flight time). This caution alerts you to the possibility that your pilot account or the group account which is paying for the flight might not have enough cash to cover the expenses. If the landing results in more expenses than income, and the account cannot cover the difference, the flight will be cancelled.
high distance bonus on aircraft. This caution alerts you to the fact that the aircraft has a high distance bonus and may result in high fees. See the Distance Bonus section of the Renting an Aircraft page for more information on distance bonus fees.
100 hours inspection < 10 hours left. This caution alerts you to the fact that this aircraft is nearing its 100 hour inspection requirement. You can still depart on THIS fight, but you may need to plan your next landing at an airport with a maintenance facility. If 100 hours are exceeded, you can still fly the aircraft but will be prohibited from carrying assignments. Only aircraft owners can conduct this maintenance.
Engine TBO < 50 hours left. This caution alerts you to the fact that this aircraft is nearing its TBO limits (engine overhaul/replacement). You can still depart on THIS flight, but you may need to plan your next landing at an airport with a maintenance facility. If TBO hours are exceeded, you can still fly the aircraft but will be prohibited from carrying assignments. Only aircraft owners can conduct this maintenance.

Warning alerts are highlighted in red and are meant to alert you to any maintenance condition which prohibits the aircraft from "commercial operations". If you are prohibited from commercial operations, you cannot take any FSE Assignment onboard except for a zero-weight "Group Assignment". This is considered a maintenance-ferry permit authorizing you to fly the aircraft in its current condition on behalf of an FSE Flight Group who will cover the flight expenses. If you are not flying "for a group", you do not need this permit to fly the aircraft - you can still fly with no assignments and cover the flight expenses yourself.

Aircraft needs repair. This aircraft requires minor maintenance before it can carry assignments. The warning alert will indicate whether non-owners can repair the aircraft or not, and provide a button to repair the aircraft if the current renter is authorized AND a repair facility is available at the local airport.
100 hours inspection exceeded. This aircraft requires a 100 hour inspection before it can carry assignments. Only owners are allowed to conduct this inspection.
Engine TBO exceeded. This aircraft requires an engine overhaul/replacement before it can carry assignments. Only owners are allowed to conduct this inspection.

Assignments Section

The middle section of the My Flight page provides all of the details about assignments that you have loaded into your personal flight queue. There are five possible sub-sections of assignments, each detailed below.

Selected Assignments (only visible when no aircraft is rented)

If you have not rented an aircraft, FSE does not know what airport you intend to depart from. All of your assignments are listed in the "Selected Assignments" grouping, unless you have placed them "On Hold".

Ready to Depart

This area of the Assignments Section becomes active once you have rented an aircraft. This area contains all of your selected assignments that are A) located at the same airport as your rented aircraft, and B) fit onboard the aircraft within the allowed Payload Capacity parameters.

This section is crucial to knowing what assignments will be getting onboard the aircraft when you hit "Start Flight" in the client. You should thoroughly review this section and the "At the Airport - Will Not Get On the Plane" section before starting the flight in your simulator to ensure that what FSE will allow you to bring onboard is what you expected to bring onboard. If you have too much of one payload type (including fuel), you may not have enough room for all of your expected assignments.

Payload Chart

Use the Aircraft Payload Chart in the Ready to Depart area to see which of your various payload components are at maximum capacity or still have space remaining. If you have reached maximum capacity in one area, you may still have room in another area - or completely filling one area may, in fact, prevent the other area(s) from being used.

Using the screenshot above, you can see that there is a 2-passenger assignment and a 170kg Cargo assignment that are onboard the aircraft. In the Payload Chart below, you can see that these two payload components, along with the single crew member and 67 gallons of fuel on board leaves only 11kg of total Payload Capacity space remaining. You COULD go try to find an 11kg (or less) Cargo assignment, OR you could top off with 4 more gallons of fuel.

You can also see that although you have 3 passenger seats in the aircraft, and only 2 seats are currently occupied, you cannot use that 3rd seat for another passenger. There is only 11kg of total remaining Payload Capacity. That 3rd passenger seat requires at least 77kg of total available space, so that 3rd passenger seat is unusable at the aircraft's current load.

See the Aircraft Weights and Payload section of the Aircraft Basics page for complete details on all of the weight and payload parameters shown below.

At the Airport - Will Not Get On the Plane

This area of the Assignments Section is only active when you have rented an aircraft. These assignments are A) at the same airport as your aircraft, but B) cannot get onboard due to lack of Available Space remaining in your Payload Capacity. Using your Payload Chart in combination with the Assignments Ready to Depart area, you can determine if maybe rearranging some of your other Payload components might allow some of these assignments to become eligible for getting onboard.

From the screenshot of assignments, you can see that you still have 1 passenger and a 245kg Cargo assignment at the same airport as your aircraft. With only 11kg of Available Space, neither of these assignments will fit along with the other two assignments already onboard the aircraft. You COULD make the determination that in order to take 1 more passenger, you would need to shed 77kg of existing weight. There are two options to get rid of this weight:

Remove 24 gallons (66kg) of fuel so that there is only 43 gallons onboard. This will free up another 66kg of Payload Capacity, allowing just enough room for one more passenger to get onboard.
You could, instead, choose to remove the 170kg Cargo assignment from the aircraft and take the 77kg passenger instead. Swapping these two assignments will free up 104kg of net Total Available space, which could allow you to search for one more smaller cargo assignment of 104kg or less, OR top off the fuel tanks with the aircraft's maximum fuel capacity of 90 gallons. Even filling the remaining 23 gallons of fuel tank space (62kg) will leave you with 42kg of total Available Space - allowing you to possibly search for another small Cargo assignment of 42kg or less.

As you can see, using the Payload Chart to mix and match your four Payload Capacity values can allow you to take advantage of all available space onboard the aircraft.

Holding Area

This area of the Assignments Section is visible whether you have an aircraft rented or not. Any assignments that you have placed "On Hold", regardless of location, will be listed in this grouping.

The main purpose of the Holding Area is to have more control over which assignments actually get onboard the aircraft. Using the two example screenshots above ("Ready to Depart" and "Will Not Get on the Plane"), we can see that there are four assignments at the airport with your aircraft. Two are onboard (ready to depart), but there is no room for the other two (will not get onboard). FSE selects which assignments get onboard and which assignments have to stay behind., but perhaps you would like to override this default.

In the examples above, there are two passenger assignments going to the same destination (KLGB); however, FSE has "bumped" one of them in favor of the 170kg Cargo assignment. With this cargo loaded, there is no room for the second passenger assignment. If you would prefer to fly both passenger assignments now, and come back for the cargo later, you would place the 170kg Cargo assignment "on hold" by selecting the check box for that assignment and clicking the "Hold Selected Assignment" button.

Once you place the 170kg Cargo assignment into your Holding Area, there is still only enough room for one of the two remaining assignments to get onboard the aircraft. FSE will pick for you. In order to guarantee that the passenger assignment gets onboard, it would be wise to Hold the 245kg Cargo assignment from your "At the Airport - Will Not Get On the Plane" section also. Once you have both cargo assignments On Hold, then both passenger assignments going to the same location will now be onboard the aircaft.

Somewhere Else

This area of the Assignments Section is only active when you have rented an aircraft. All assignments that are not at the same airport as your rented aircraft will be listed in this section, unless you have moved them to the Holding Area.

Bottom Section

The bottom part of the My Flight Page contains the final two information about your aircraft as well as a Fuel Calculator to help determine your potential Payload Capacity and fuel needs using "what if" calculations.

Aircraft Actions

The Aircraft portion of this section provides some details about the aircraft itself as well as some actions you can take.

Cancel the Aircraft Rental

Clicking on the "Cancel" button will cancel the rental on this aircraft and make it available at the airport for other players to rent.

Refuel the Aircraft

Clicking on the "Refuel" button will take you to the refueling screen where you can purchase fuel, if there is any fuel available. See the Adding Fuel section of the Aircraft Basics page for more information on refueling an aircraft.

Aircraft Release / Hold

This section provides two different actions that FSE will take when you arrive at your next destination airport and end the flight. If you still have assignments that will remain onboard the aircraft for another destination, FSE will automatically renew the rental so that you can continue the next leg of your trip. When you land and register the flight, FSE will re-set the rental timer, and you will have that much time to prepare for your next leg. ("Start Flight" for your next leg will, again, re-set the rental timer). However, if you do not have assignments onboard, FSE assumes that your trip is complete and it will release the aircraft rental back to public availability at the airport where the aircraft is now located.

If you wish to hold on to the aircraft when you land with no assignments left onboard, you can select the option in this section to keep the aircraft rental in your name. The rental timer will be reset when you land, and the aircraft rental will be released if you do not start your next flight before the timer expires.

Fuel Calculator

The final section of the My Flight Page is the fuel calculator. There are three different ways to calculate fuel requirements to run several "what if" scenarios. This calculator can be used in conjunction with the Payload Chart, or used stand-alone.

Notes:
1. In FSE Terminology, "payload" refers to the combination of Cargo, Passengers, Crew Members, and Fuel. Essentially, anything above "empty weight".
2. FSE will automatically include the known crew weights in the calculated results. There is no need to adjust for the required Crew.

Known Pax/Cargo Payload - Show Max Fuel

If you know what your cargo weights and passenger counts will be, you can enter them into the first section of the calculator and see what your maximum amount of fuel can be without losing cargo or passenger capacity. This is useful for "topping off" the aircraft with as much fuel as possible, while still keeping the known amount of cargo/pax combination onboard.

Known Fuel Requirement - Show Max Payload

If you know how much fuel you need for the next flight segment(s), you can enter that amount (in gallons) and the calculator will show you the total remaining Payload Capacity for Cargo or Passenger assignment combinations. The result will be displayed as Xkg or Y pax. The weight portion of this result can be divided up between either cargo or passengers (77kg each).

Distance Requirements - Show Fuel

If you know the distance you need to go for your next flight segment(s), you can enter than number (in nautical miles) and the calculator will show you an estimated number of gallons you will need and the estimated time FSE expects for this distance (assuming no wind factors).

Note: The time/distance fuel estimations are just estimates. These numbers are not necessarily "hard stop" numbers that will result in a cancelled flight. These numbers (time and fuel consumption) ARE the numbers that will be used by the FSE server to determine whether a flight will be accepted or not, with some leeway for external weather factors. You can read more about how FSE determines whether a flight will be cancelled or not at this page.

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