Maintenance Income Tool

Sales Pitch

Need a purpose for your flight?

Tired of people stealing your airplane in FSEconomy?

Tired of that annoying flight attendant in FSPassengersX?

Tired of wussy passengers who panic during the slightest bit of turbulence?

Tired of having to purchase airplane paints and repurchase the whole darn thing when you want to switch repaints?

Tired of hunting down payload configuration files?

Tired of being permanently, financially screwed after a particularly bad flight?

Tired of that first officer that chews you out for not switching off the landing lights at exactly 10000.0000 ft?

Tired of running separate tools for passengers and cargo?

Broke?

Then MI Tool is the perfect solution for you!

This tool is actually two gauges to add some purpose to your aircraft. They install as any other subpanel and gauge can be used with any aircraft (even the Majestic Dash 8 and gliders) with one to four engines, so you can use it with nearly any aircraft.
Payload is just that: Payload. It doesn't discriminate between cattle, humanoid cattle, weapons or boxes. If it has weight, it can be hauled.
The random payload contract generator (payload demand and rate) will keep things insteresting.
No whiny passengers. Hit some turbulence? Enjoy the ride! Your payload won't care.
No annoying flight attendant to scare you out of your sleep while on a transcon.
You're in charge of payload distribution with FSX' or the aircraft's payload manager. No hunting down payload configuration files.
The only thing that counts for making big bucks is arriving at the destination set in the flight plan. So fly where you want and take as much time as you need (as long as you can pay for the fuel).
Not in the mood to buy your plane? Turn the purchase requirement off.
Buy a singe aircraft or an entire aircraft type with specific avionics. It's up to you.
Watch the condition of the engine(s), flaps, landing gear and airframe degrade over time. The worse you fly, the quicker it will happen.
Failures are probability based and depend on the plane's condition.
Multiple types of failure for each system.
Your reputation influences payload contract offers, so keep your plane and company in tip top shape!
Earn funds to pay for mandatory aircraft checks. Miss a check and your reputation is going to suffer.
Not in the mood to haul stuff? Use "non-revenue" mode to simulate positioning flights, training flights or simply to screw around and burn some money.
Money is tight and there's an expensive check coming up? Cheat. MI Tool won't judge you.
MI Tool is written in XML and very configurable, so you can tailor it to your liking.
Persistence and some failures kindly provided by XMLTools.

So much for the exciting stuff.

The more unexciting stuff:

You will have to be able to run XMLTools 2.01. If you can't run it, you can't use MI Tool. XMLTools works in FSX, FSX:SE and (apparently) P3D. Instructions regarding the download and installation of MI Tool are included in the documentation.
While MI Tool is tailored to be as flexible as possible regarding the aircraft it is used with, its failure modeling might not play well with add-ons simulating failures themselves (i.e. AccuSim, Damage Mod, RealEngine). In that case, however, failure modeling can be turned off.
The destination in revenue mode has to be defined as an airport/airfield/seaplane base and available in FSX' flight planner. Moving ships are therefor NOT supported as a valid destination. Returning from a moving ship to an airport/airfield/seaplane base, however, works just fine.
The installation requires intitial configuration for the airplane you've installed MI Tool into. This is described in the documentation.
The default values for revenue mode might not work well for the aircraft you might want to use MI Tool in. The documentation contains a guide on how to determine values that might work better.
MI Tool is a rolling release (no major release versions), bugs might come and go.

This add-on is 64 bit (P3D v4) compatible!