Name: FLIGHT HORIZON: OWNER-PILOT CAREER
Brand: Integrate Systems
SKU: 21506
Price: 7.50 EUR
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Flight Horizon

Passenger-first charter career for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (PC)
Published by Integrate Systems

Give every flight a reason to exist.

Flight Horizon is a career companion that sits beside MSFS 2020 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.

That is ready to paste into SimMarket. If they have a short “tagline” field as well as the long description, use:

Passenger-first charter career companion for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 — jobs, hangar, crew, and an in-sim panel.

Requirements

System requirements

Platform

- Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit). 32-bit Windows is not supported.
- PC only. Xbox, cloud, and console MSFS are not supported.
- A 64-bit CPU. The companion is an x64 desktop app.

Microsoft Flight Simulator

- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (PC) — Steam or Microsoft Store edition — for live flying, SimConnect, ground ops, AI crew, cargo props, and the in-sim toolbar panel.
- You must be in a flight (ready to fly / on the runway / airborne), not only on the main menu, for Live MSFS to connect.
- The companion does not replace MSFS. It does not include an aircraft, scenery, or ATC. Use any aircraft you already own; Flight Horizon tracks the career around it.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is not a supported target. Native 2024 career / EFB is not integrated.
- Flight Horizon is a parallel free-flight career layer. It does not read or write Asobo career progress.

What you need installed

- Flight Horizon Companion running whenever you want jobs, dispatch, the phone, crew, or the in-sim panel. The toolbar panel talks to the companion on this PC; it will not work with the companion closed.
- .NET 8 Desktop Runtime (x64) if the download does not already bundle it. Install the Desktop runtime from Microsoft, not the ASP.NET Hosting Bundle alone.
- Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (Evergreen) for the in-app SimBrief window. If it is missing, SimBrief still opens in your normal browser and the OFP can import from there.
- MSFS Community folder access to install the in-sim toolbar package (and optional cargo world objects). You do not need Dev Mode.

Hardware (companion)

- The companion itself is light: a few hundred MB of RAM and a small disk footprint are typical.
- Display: 1920×1080 or higher is comfortable. The window can scale down; practical minimum is about 960×600.
- Second monitor strongly recommended so the ops hub stays visible while you fly. A tablet or phone on the same PC can use the local browser panel instead of a second screen.
- Mouse and keyboard for the companion. A yoke/joystick is only for MSFS.
- Speakers or a headset if you want cabin SFX and spoken crew PA. A microphone is not required.

Hardware (live flying)

- Meet or exceed official MSFS 2020 PC requirements. If the sim runs well on your machine, Flight Horizon will. The companion does not add a meaningful GPU load; MSFS remains the bottleneck.
- Asobo’s typical guidance still applies: 16 GB RAM is a realistic floor for the sim, 32 GB is more comfortable with add-on aircraft and scenery. Flight Horizon will not fix a sim that is already paging.

Disk and save data

- Application files: small (on the order of tens to a few hundred MB, depending on whether the runtime is bundled).
- Community panel: a small extra folder in your MSFS Community directory.
- Career save: local SQLite database under %LocalAppData%FlightHorizon (no cloud account). Leave enough free space for Windows and MSFS; the save itself is tiny.
- Do not run the companion from a read-only or heavily synced folder if you can avoid it (some cloud-sync folders lock files).

Network

- Offline by default. Mock Sim, the career, hangar, jobs, and dispatch all work with no internet.
- Internet is optional and used for SimBrief dispatch only (account and OFP generation on Navigraph/SimBrief’s side).
- The in-sim / browser panel uses a local HTTP server on this PC (http://127.0.0.1:8787). No account, no always-online licence check. If a firewall prompts, allow the companion on private networks; you do not need to open ports on your router.
- The panel is served on localhost. It is not designed as a remote website for another machine on the internet.

SimConnect / live session

- Live mode uses SimConnect (the same interface many utilities use). No WASM module in the aircraft is required.
- Run one companion instance. Two copies fighting over SimConnect will fail in confusing ways.
- Run MSFS and the companion on the same PC. This is not a networked copilot app.
- If Live MSFS cannot connect, the companion can fall back to Mock Sim so the career UI still works.

Permissions and security

- Administrator rights are not required for normal use.
- Windows may ask to allow the app through the firewall the first time the panel server starts — allow it.
- Some antivirus tools flag SimConnect utilities or Community-folder installers. If the toolbar icon does not appear, check that the Community package was not quarantined and restart the flight (or return to the main menu and load again).

What is not supported

- Xbox / cloud gaming
- 32-bit Windows
- Running the in-sim panel without the companion
- macOS / Linux (no native build)
- VR-only UI (you can fly VR in MSFS; the companion is a 2D Windows window or the 2D toolbar panel)
- Multiplayer shared economy or cross-PC career sync

Recommended setup for a first live flight

- Windows 11 64-bit, 1920×1080 or better, second monitor if you have one
- MSFS 2020 installed and able to load a flight at your home base
- Companion installed, Mock Sim tried once so you know the career loop
- Community toolbar package installed
- Companion started, then MSFS flight loaded, then Live MSFS in the sidebar
- (Optional) SimBrief username in Settings and WebView2 installed

In short: any decent MSFS 2020 PC already qualifies. You need 64-bit Windows, the companion running next to the sim, and a Community-folder install if you want the cockpit panel. The sim is the heavy requirement; Flight Horizon is not.

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