You fly a beautiful approach into a difficult airport. You grease the landing. And then? Nothing remembers it. The next session starts from zero, in a different aircraft, going nowhere in particular.
Pilot Journey fixes that. It is a career add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 that runs beside the simulator and turns every flight you make into part of one continuous career. You keep flying in MSFS exactly as you do now. Pilot Journey builds everything around it.
EVERY FLIGHT LEAVES A MARK
• REAL WORK, NOT RANDOM MISSIONS. Take generated charter contracts anywhere in the world, or fly ordered airline rotations with assigned aircraft, deadlines, passengers and payouts.
• THE OPERATION GOES LIVE WITH YOU. Route progress, flight phase, fuel, weather and telemetry stay in front of you while you fly, read straight from the simulator.
• AN AUTOMATIC DEBRIEF THAT READS THE WHOLE FLIGHT. Your 0-100 score combines landing quality and on-time arrival, then applies any overspeed or stall-warning deduction recorded from the simulator.
• YOU EARN ACCESS, NOT POINTS. Money, miles, reputation and ratings decide which contracts and airline seats you actually qualify for. A bad month closes doors. A good one opens them.
• CLIMB FROM SINGLE PISTON TO SUPERSONIC. Nine licence tiers, class ratings, aircraft-specific type ratings, and new and used aircraft markets that make owning an aircraft a career decision instead of a dropdown.
• YOUR AIRLINE TALKS BACK. A career inbox delivers dispatch briefings, schedule changes, recognition, warnings and decisions that belong to your career and nobody else's.
• ONE PERMANENT RECORD. Logbook, finances, reputation, licences and airline history stay connected across every session.
A WORLD BIG ENOUGH TO DISAPPEAR INTO
9,685 airports. 11,387 runways. 17,994 radio frequencies. 231 airline profiles. 158 aircraft variants. The same reference data that lets you search the world also generates your routes, your contracts, your fleet requirements and your next opportunity.
PUT THE CAREER CONSOLE WHERE YOU WANT IT
• WINDOWS, SAME PC. Pilot Journey and MSFS on one machine, connected directly through SimConnect.
• WINDOWS, DUAL PC. Run the career console on a second computer. Pilot Journey Bridge relays live telemetry over your local network, so nothing competes with the simulator for resources.
• MACOS CAREER CONSOLE. Run the console on your Mac while Bridge connects to MSFS on the Windows simulator PC. Full live telemetry, on Apple hardware.
SimBrief is optional. Connect it and your OFP, filed route, schedule, cruise level, fuel figures and alternate drop straight into the briefing.
ONE LICENCE. NOTHING HELD BACK.
No mission packs. No airline tiers. No telemetry sold separately. No subscription. One purchase unlocks the complete Pilot Journey v1 career experience, and every v1 update is included.
SIMULATOR: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
SIMULATOR PC: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
CAREER CONSOLE: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), or macOS on Apple Silicon or Intel. The console may run on the simulator PC or on a separate computer.
MEMORY: 8 GB RAM available.
STORAGE: 1 GB free disk space.
CONNECTION: Direct SimConnect on the simulator PC, or Pilot Journey Bridge over the local network for dual-PC and macOS setups. Bridge installs on the Windows PC running MSFS.
INTERNET: Required for activation, updates and online services. Flying itself does not require an internet connection.
OPTIONAL: A SimBrief account for dispatch integration.