Air Hauler 2 puts you in complete control of your own freight and passenger company - take charge of operations both in the boardroom and in the cockpit. You can also 'go global' and create your own Virtual Airline and recruit other AH2 pilots to fly for you with attractive payouts, or you can join another pilot’s booming airline and fly for that alongside your own company.
The limitless possibilities and flexibility of Air Hauler 2 will let you immerse yourself totally in every operational detail of your company - each crucial flight will have an effect on the reputation and reach of your expanding empire.
The level of complexity is up to you - simply fly jobs between bases and buy or lease aircraft, or carve out a career in the air freight or airline industry by hiring AI pilots and risking everything on loans to fill up your dream hangar.
Air Hauler 2 tracks all your financial activity, whether you're buying aircraft or air bases, fuel or repairs, or paying for landing fees or even loans and leases. Take out insurance if you think the part-time pilots you've hired might let you down when you can least afford it.
As the pilot charged with delivering the goods or passengers on time, you can decide to fly a job in multiple legs or stop anywhere enroute for refuelling or maintenance. Create your regular passenger routes and look out for special humanitarian missions. Contend with real-world weather conditions if you want the extra challenge and keep a watchful eye on your fuel economy.
Trade commodities for delivery on your cargo routes, and open manufacturing plants and factories at your bases to create parts for manufacture into more precious commodities. Travel around the world to meet new contacts and fly missions for them individually to boost your company’s reputation and income!
If your management skills are needed in the boardroom, recruit other pilots to fly jobs for you and keep track of them all with the AI pilot system. Detailed Map views showing all the airports in X-Plane will help you keep tabs on available jobs and the locations of your bases and fleet, and you can also view the live locations of other online Air Hauler 2 pilots.
Expand your company into an online Virtual Airline where other pilots can fly passenger routes and cargo jobs for your new venture – select jobs from a global shared job board and allow users to help you manage your virtual airline and fly, expand and maintain your fleet!
Air Hauler 2 puts you in charge every step of the way - from landings to leases, flight plans to finances, and repairs to recruitment!
See the Detailed Description section below for all the features. You can take a look at the manual here or check in on the Air Hauler 2 forum!
If you'd like to see Duncan Murray, the Developer of Air Hauler 2, run through the main features and capabilities of this addictive flying and management sim, check out his recent Twitch stream or visit YouTube!
AIR HAULER 2 FEATURES
Cargo jobs – a wide variety of job types, from flying high-tech electronic equipment to potatoes and fruit, with differing rates of pay, from hundreds to hundreds of thousands!
Passenger operations – fly single passenger jobs between any airport you choose, or set up a schedule and routes for your airline to fly. You can let your AI pilots fly these routes or you can fly any of them at any time.
Missions - take missions from new contacts you meet as you travel to new airports and destinations.
Virtual Airlines – create your own Virtual Airline and recruit other AH2 pilots from around the world to fly passenger and cargo jobs! Advertise your airline on the Air Hauler 2 Hiring Bulletin Board. Accept and fly jobs from the Global Job Board and compete with other airlines for the best hauls.
Humanitarian missions - respond to real-world disasters by manufacturing and delivering relief supplies to local airports.
AI pilot skills tree system – AI pilots can be ‘trained’ in over 18 different skills which bring benefits to your company. As the AI pilots improve, they ‘level up’ in rank which gives them more skill points to spend. There is a skill tree which has five different tracks with individual skills in each and these can be unlocked by spending points. So, for example, an AI pilot who has five points in ‘Bungee Warrior’ will be subject to less in-flight cargo damage as a result of rough handling than one who has less (or no) points in that skill. Other examples are ‘Rocketman’, which provides a more efficient cruise (lower fuel costs), and ‘Short Stripper’ which lowers the runway landing requirements for AI pilots.
Take missions from clients at airports – supply them with rare commodities or perform photo recon flights or private charter flights.
Commodity trading – buy and sell commodities rather than just move them for clients. Make your own fortune trading between airports!
Upgrade your bases – upgrade them with fuel depots and commodity storage facilities, allowing you to hedge fuel prices and store commodities long term.
Factories and production – build factories at your bases and use them to produce desirable commodities which can’t be bought on the open market.
Find aircraft parts from vendors – find these at larger airports and use them to repair your fleet or build new aircraft yourself rather than buying them!
Type rating system – get qualified on aircraft before you or your AI pilots can fly them.
Buy and fly aircraft in your personal fleet – you can also transfer money from your company into your own personal account.
Buy new aircraft direct from the manufacturer, or buy second hand – have the aircraft shipped to you or go and collect them yourself and fly them home.
Map views with great circle routes – several map tile choices are available.
I am sorry but I have to lower my rating to 3 stars. The app is still pretty good, but I found too many issues. Dates are not consistent in flight history, some of the options don't work. Currency continues to revert to XDR even if you try to set a different currency, it shows up as XDR.. maybe not a big deal to many but annoying. Also, on two occasions I don't know if it was XP or AH, when trying to fly I was told I need to repair the airplane. It was at 0 so I had to spend most of my savings to repair it. I'm not talking about maintenance, it showed damage to landing gear and wings. In my previous flights I had excellent ratings (not crashes) so it just seems like it randomly shows up. One time it happened when XP12 crashed. I clicked the "quit" button and was hoping it would allow me to restart but it said "Your plane is damaged". So I assume if XP crashes, so does your plane :)... anyway, not a bad app, just not great.
Tough to review this because it is a good add-on for XP. Easy to install and it works out of the box. If you want to add a purpose to flying in XP, this is a good add on. It's been around a while. I am using it and will continue to use it. It does everything as advertised. Build a career of hauling cargo. You can start out in easy mode, where you already have a lot of money, or career mode (which I like) where you start out with a Cessna and 100K. The great thing is you can sell your Cessna right away and buy (if you have one) your favorite GA plane. So the jobs are good, the interface is fine, everything works. You set your plane to be cargo or passenger. Jobs begin as low paying so you will need to grind. A cool feature is ad hoc passenger jobs. If you have seats, you can pick any destination and find a few people that want to pay you to go there. You can convert from cargo to passenger and back any time. There is a nominal fee to do this. Now the negatives, and they really aren't that bad. It doesn't really seem to care (or enforce) how you load your plane. It gives you a job, and if you take it, but find you are way overweight, it will just warn you. Fine.. but you can take a job, then put 0lb in your plane, and fly. AH2 doesn't care and doesn't do anything. At first I did not like this but then I realized it's a small thing and it does give me some flexibility because many of the capacities / limits etc shown on planes are not exactly correct. It does not appear to have any effect on FPS so overall it's a very good add on. The only thing keeping it from a 5 star rating is that it seems a bit out of date and the forums seem rather dead. I had AH2 a few years back with Microsoft products and it seems like nothing has really changed except they added factories or something (not something I'm interested in) you also have a "personal finance" thing but I have no idea what this is about and don't care lol.
Eine einzige Katastrophe. Geld aus dem Fenster geworfen kann ich da nur sagen. Bedienung sowas von kompliziert und unlogisch. Jeden Flieger muss man einen Test machen. Es wird beschrieben, dass wenn man den Test für einen Flieger gemacht hat, dann müsse man diesen nie mehr machen. Stimmt nicht!!! Ich habe neu angefangen und muss alle Prüfungen wieder machen. Bravo da kommt freude auf. Fliegt man irgendwo hin. Von dem neuen Standpunkt her gibt es keine Fracht mehr zu transportieren... u.s.w. .... also OnAir ist um vieles besser und einfacher zu bedienen. Das hier, will zwar viel bieten ... aber kaum bedienbar.