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2025-08-26
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1.0.456
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20335

FLY THE LINE – SHORT HAUL EDITION

(for MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, X-Plane 12, X-Plane 11, P3D v6, P3D v5, P3D v4, Flight Simulator X)

Fly the Line is the ultimate career-driven experience for flight simulator enthusiasts, now arriving in your favourite sim platforms!

Take your place in the cockpit as a short-haul airline pilot and begin your journey from Junior First Officer to Fleet Captain. With every flight you’ll build your aviation legacy - navigating realistic schedules, managing tight turn-arounds and handling unexpected diversions, all while flying the aircraft of your choice.

As you complete flights, you’ll earn cash, XP and skill points that can be used to unlock new abilities, improve your lifestyle and enhance your well-being. These elements don’t just add depth - they directly impact your performance and progression, making every decision matter.

Getting started is simple. Choose your airline, select your home base, generate your route network and you’re ready to fly. A user-friendly interface and in-app tutorials ensure a smooth onboarding experience, whether you're on the cusp of becoming a Fleet Captain or just starting out as a Junior First Officer.

Whether you're dreaming of joining a major airline or building your own virtual fleet, Fly the Line gives you the tools, freedom and realism to shape your own aviation story via three distinct and engaging game modes:

Career Mode

Begin your journey as a Junior First Officer, full of ambition but short on cash.
Choose your airline’s hub and let Fly The Line generate a realistic route network, complete with accurate flight numbers and timings.
Receive a weekly schedule (roster) with your upcoming flights – use rest days to skip unwanted flights.
Earn cash, XP and skill points by flying well and earning promotions - the better your performance, the greater your rewards.
Spend your earnings to upgrade your lifestyle, which directly impacts your well-being and job performance.
Fly any aircraft in your flight sim hangar (up to 16 aircraft profiles can be created!)

Free Play Mode

Enjoy all the functionality of Career Mode with unlimited resources from day one.
Instantly unlock all items and upgrades, and accelerate your path to Fleet Captain with extra starting cash and skill points.
Perfect for players who want freedom and flexibility without the grind.

Schedule Mode

Strip away the career mechanics and focus purely on realistic, schedule-based flying - no deadlines, no quotas, just immersive flying on your terms.
Real world airline schedules, flight tracking and logbook features.
Choose a real-world airline and fly routes based on its actual schedules.
Includes flight tracking and logbook features, offering the realism of a virtual airline without the strict guidelines.

In-app tutorials are provided and a Quick Start Guide is available here. We have also posted some FAQs which you might find helpful.

Fly the Line is packed with immersive features to deliver a deep, rewarding airline pilot experience:

Profile and personalisation

Create up to eight unique pilot profiles, each with their own airline and career path.
Customise your experience with imported profile pictures and airline logos, or choose from a selection of realistic defaults.

Route generation and scheduling

Generate hundreds of realistic routes with an intuitive schedule generator based on real-world data from your chosen base airport.
Fly two- or four-sector daily schedules, or mix and match to suit your flying style.
Choose from short 30-minute hops to longer flights of up to 5.5 hours.

Game modes for every pilot (click here for a PDF with more detailed information on the three Game Modes)

Career Mode: Start from the bottom and work your way up, balancing your job performance and lifestyle to climb the ranks.
Free Play Mode: Enjoy the full experience with everything unlocked - unlimited cash, skill points and rest days from day one.
Schedule Mode: Focus purely on Fly The Line’s schedule generation with no career mechanics - your own offline virtual airline, with no strings attached.

Progression and lifestyle

Earn XP and level up to unlock new opportunities and promotions.
Manage your work/life balance by completing downtime activities that boost well-being and job performance.
Unlock over 30 pilot skills through a detailed skill tree system.
Spend your earnings on household items, vehicles, home upgrades or even a sim pit to enhance your lifestyle.
Watch your purchases appear in real time in your fully 3D home and garage.

Side activities and immersion

Take on side hustle jobs to earn extra income.
Fly sightseeing trips to global points of interest or complete land-away missions for bonus cash.
Experience random diversions for added realism and unpredictability.

Flight tracking and feedback

Log every flight with a detailed flight logbook and performance stats.
Get in-depth feedback on your flying, including landing sink rates, touchdown accuracy and more to help you improve.

Why choose Fly The Line?

Compatible with all major Flight Simulators: MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, X-Plane 12, X-Plane 11, P3D V5, P3D V4, and FSX.
Stand-alone app, with easy to use interface and in-app tutorials.
Fast and simple installation via a single installer.
Fly your favourite aircraft from day one – use any aircraft in your flight sim hangar, no unlocking required.
Fly for your favourite airline or create your own.
Choose from a selection of realistic avatar profile pictures, or upload your own profile picture and airline logo!
Create up to eight profiles, each with its own game modes, schedules and progression.
Create up to sixteen aircraft profiles that can be shared amongst your profiles.
Route Generator creates a realistic route network from your chosen hub airport, including realistic flight numbers and timings.
Schedule Builder provides a weekly roster of the flights you are expected to fly – two- or four-sector days depending on user preference.
Three independent and engaging game modes: Career Mode, Free-Play Mode and Schedule Mode.
Diversions for unpredictable, non-linear sectors.
Comprehensive logbook allowing you to track and measure all flights.
Data insights to help you improve your flying.
Adds purpose and progression to flight sim specifically aimed at short-haul operations.

Requirements

PC (Windows only)

MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, X-Plane 12, X-Plane 11, P3D v4-v6, FSX

FSUIPC (MSFS, P3D, FSX) or XPUIPC (X-Plane)

Reviews

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Name: FLY THE LINE – SHORT HAUL EDITION
Brand: Just Flight
SKU: 20335
Price: 24.96 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

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2026-08-06

This addon is the ONLY addon i go to anymore for flight schedule simulation. There was some flaws with it when it was just the "Short Haul Edition". But on August 4, 2026 they released a new version called "Fly The Line: Airline Edition" which is now out on Just Flight but has not been updated here on simmarket as simmarket is slow at updating it apparently. If you own the Short Haul Edition then you get the Airline Edition free! If you check out what the Airline Edition offers it basically fills all the wishlist items from me and I'm sure other users of the software. It now allows custom route making for custom airlines, etc. It also allows "long haul" flights! It has just gotten a much needed update to allow new items, if you wish to check the updated items, please check their page on Just Flight. The only thing I still wish they would allow is cargo ops, but they may allow it with the new update, as i don't know yet.

2026-03-11

I’ve been using Fly The Line for about **38 in-game days now All airlines I actually want to fly are available. Great for immersion if you like to replicate real airline operations. Virtual airlines are also possible. One thing to be aware of though: when creating routes for virtual airlines, you should filter airports quite aggressively. The route calculator can eat a lot of RAM, and if you leave too many airports in the search pool it may even crash. The after-flight analysis is one of the highlights of the app. It’s very detailed and gives you a rating plus XP points after each flight. Watching your performance and slowly improving is quite satisfying. Touchdown zone scoring is extremely strict. To get the full 5 points you must land exactly within 50% of the TDZ. If you're even 1% short of that, you only get 3 points. Another thing that works really well is the career progression system. Getting promoted through ranks and receiving salary increases is surprisingly motivating. A big part of the app is also the life simulation running alongside your pilot career. You have to furnish your house and manage things like health, exhaustion, mood, etc.*during your off time. It adds a layer of role-playing. Things I don’t like that much: The landing analysis doesn’t include a statistic for centerline deviation/tracking. Touchdown zone scoring feels overly strict. Odd design decision that you start without basic bathroom equipment (toilet and sink) in your house. Calendar system loops the months. I started in February, flew for a full in-game month, and then the calendar returned to February 1st again. The only way to move to the next month is by creating a new route, which breaks immersion a bit. Suggestions and Wishes One idea would be an option where you cannot immediately fly any aircraft type. Instead, you would first need to complete a virtual type rating before being allowed to operate that aircraft. I would also love more depth in the procedure evaluation, checking for things like: * Beacon before engine start * Landing lights used correctly below 10,000 ft * Centerline deviation during takeoff and landing Another improvement could be the Airline job system. Right now you can switch airlines anytime, but it would be more immersive if you had to **ply for a new airline and be evaluated based on both flying skills and pilot condition (health, fatigue, etc.)**. Active Sky integration would be fantastic. For example, the training captain could reference the weather briefing from Active Sky before the flight. --- Summary: Despite a few quirks, Fly The Line is a *ery engaging career companion for flight simulation. The combination of detailed flight analysis, career progression, and life simulation gives every flight a sense of purpose. After 38 in-game days I’m still motivated to keep flying.

2026-01-14

To be perfectly honest, I don't recommend buying this add-on. In fact, I deeply regret buying it. It works great in the advertisements, but in practice it's terrible. It doesn't recognize all airline ICAO codes, and because of that, I couldn't even use it, since career mode doesn't interest me. When creating a fictional airline, too many airports appear, and it simply freezes trying to create routes. I'll stop using it and wait for a future update to fix the negative points.

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