Starting Flights and Careers

Starting Your First Career

When you are ready to embark on your first career adventure, simply click “MENU” and then choose “Manage Careers” and “New Career”.

Fill in your name, airline name and airline code in the top three boxes. You can then choose the ticket prices for the airline and your service quality. Choosing your reputation lets you set your target customer base, such as Economy, Balanced or Business. Bear in mind that each of these options attracts different passengers and can affect the likelihood and nature of in-flight incidents or complaints and comments.

Restricting your aircraft by rank allows you to fly more aircraft as you progress through the ranks in the airline. Hardcore mode means that every flight will be automatically recorded at the end, slewing and time acceleration will be disabled, and a crash will end your career.

Once completed, you will be taken back to the manage careers page, where you can choose to modify any aspect of your airline, as well as the opportunity to archive a career.

Starting a Flight

When ready, click menu and start a flight.

On the first page, you will set your flight itinerary.

• Fly with career mode/Desired Career Profile: Enable and select your career, if desired.
• Departure ICAO: The four-letter identifier of the departure airport.
• Arrival ICAO: The four-letter identifier of the arrival airport.
• Time Until Takeoff: The time, in hours and minutes, until you expect to takeoff.
• Flight Time: The time, in hours and minutes, you expect to spend in air.
• Cruise Altitude: The altitude, in feet, that you will be cruising at.
• Flight Number: Your flight number (there are no specific format requirements).

Selecting “Next” at the bottom will take you to the next menu to choose your aircraft and some other flight settings.

The second page provides a preview of the cabin of the aircraft you have selected, as well as aircraft options.

• Aircraft: The aircraft you are flying.
• Passenger Count: This is the number of passengers aboard this flight.
• Aircraft Wi-Fi: Selects whether this aircraft is Wi-Fi equipped.
• Aircraft has IFE System: This selects whether passengers can use an in-flight entertainment system or not. This has no effect on the PACX IFE that is accessible from the main menu.

When ready, click “Next” again to advance to the final page of flight setup.

The final page provides some additional options for in-flight announcements and passenger experience.

• Boarding Music: Select if boarding music should play during boarding. A file selection dialogue will open when the box is checked. The files must be .wav files.
• Custom Safety Brief: Selects a custom safety demonstration file to play in place of the spoken one. A file selection dialogue will open when the box is checked. This file must be a .wav file.
• Can serve snacks/drinks: This specifies whether or not snacks and drinks can be offered on this flight.
• Can serve meals: This specifies whether or not meals can be served on this flight.
• Customs card required: This box indicates whether or not the passengers should be prompted to fill out a customs card prior to arrival.
• This flight number continues: This option specifies if post-landing announcements regarding connecting flights should be made.