Can’t decide where to fly next?
Are you looking for a simulation of a commercial pilot career?
We have the solution for you!
A PILOT’S LIFE application will generate your schedule, track your flights, give you purpose to fly and provide a sense of continuity while you do this. Everything is based around your commercial pilot career. It will take you from the first steps of a junior first officer employed at a local small company, to a senior captain at a world-renowned airline. In the beginning you will be offered a job and you will generate your schedule. As you progress and complete the flights, you will earn virtual money and experience (XP) based on flight time and number of routes completed. After a while, you will advance in pilot rankings, receive offers from other airlines and most importantly, you will have fun doing this.
Please be aware that there is a NEW VERSION of the software with lots of new features and improvements.
It is available here: https://secure.simmarket.com/simbitworld-a-pilots-life-chapter-2.phtml
FEATURES:
- More than 300 airlines included, complete with real schedules and fleets
- Multi-hub environment for the airlines that have them
- Multi-leg routes that will take you to places you may have never thought of flying to
- Realistic salary based on your rating and current employer
- Reports page for detailed analysis of your pilor career
- Job market with auto generated offers and job application/acceptance mechanism
- Virtual shop with realistically priced objects where you can spend your hard-earned money
- Ability to purchase flight tickets when you are tired of working and need to take a vacation
- Community page for interacting with other users
- Personal photo album, printable contracts, resume, flight logs
- Live map so you can track your flight and your friend’s whereabouts (https://www.simbitworld.com/aplOpsLiveMap.html)
- SimBrief dispatcher page integration
- Auto-update mechanism to sustain new features that are being added on a regular basis
- Live support on our Discord channels (https://discord.gg/UgwbNvB)
- Continuously growing community and much more
This was fun for the time it lasted (1 week), now I am enjoying a lot Chapter 2
The only bad thing that I see and I would like that they could do something is that: When the sim crashes and you have already traveled a fairly long flight, the configuration is not saved and that makes you start the flight again..
P.S. my results on this moment is 29 flights, 14 numbers of destinations and 47,96 flight hours. Working on S7 Airlines and I should hurry up to the next flight on my schedule)))
The best software for FS world. Adds a feeling of real environment to simulator's flights. Software is always getting regular updates which makes it better.
As a junior FO you'll get a 1-2 stars airline job (just as in the real world) to accumulate flight experience and hours. Then, as you get a higher seniority you'll be able to choose between several options in the job market until you manage to get a job in a five-star international airline. Furthermore, there are a lot of minor things you could buy either to get more money per flight, more experience or just for fun.
Last but not least, staff are very polite and kind. If you encounter an issue they are always ready to help you.
The addon does what it says it does. It gives you the feeling of being working for an airline. In fact, it is pretty cool in this way since it delivers what it promises.
However, there are some things which taking into account the price it should give more realism to the SIM. Such as tracking VS landing, keep an eye on things the pilot may do wrong whilst flying and get rewarded or viceversa in the game. It does not matter how terribly or beautifuly you fly the aircraft, the airline does not care... LOL.
I bought it cause I wanted to have a new experience, having an addon which gives you flights to do and working for an airline your way up is pretty cool. Similar thing to Justflight Cargo from the past or idealflight ( I tried both, they are way better by the way)
However, if you dont feel like being on a Virtual Airline or you want to have the feeling of working for different airlines with different schedulles give it a go.
If I was the developer I would have go for less as I am sorry to say but I dont think is worth it 20€.
Hope this helps!
Overall there are worse addons, and more expensive addons that do the same. This is worth the price all teh way and with active developers always listening and takind feedback serious it wont be long until this software is King
You can get tired of flying the same destination over and over again, but the software is still in development and they told me that updating the destinations database is in their short time plans. This software really worth the money. Great job
I guess the data is a bit old as I started with Monarch but now fly Easyjet from the UK but you can use a huge number of airlines from around the world, PAX or Cargo.
I think you need internet whilst flying as you have a map showing your progress but it does not effect the flight.From accepting the flight you can go via an in app link to Simbrief and setup the flightplan and away you go.
Easy to use and reasonably priced.
Kiwi Mace first look
APL from SIMBITWORLD is an excellent program to follow your career as a virtual pilot. You'll find a lot of possibilities with different airlines compagnies and flying real flights in the world.
I highly recommend this program because it gives you a great addon with your flight simulator (FSX, P3D and X-Plane compatible).
Buy this program and you'll not be disapppointed. The support on DISCORD program is excellent and the developer reacts immediatly if you encounter a problem with the software.
This program is constantly in evolution with great future features.
I will admit the visuals leave much to be desired but I am hoping they improve that as updates are released. All in all, I am enjoying this product.
This is a simple to use program of being a pilot, rather than a business manager.
You apply for a job, sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. The company tells you where to fly, you fly it, you take home a "salary"
It reminds me a lot of airliner pilot for FS9
All it does right now is to create a list of destinations you have to fly and tracks that. There are freeware online services that do exactly that already, partly way better and with more data, graphs, records, options.
But I hope the devs will continue & expand the features to make this tool more than just a destination-generator. Passengers, loading, routing, fuel, etc... all of this is unfortunatley missing. In my optinion, that's insufficient for a 20,- Euro add on.
You start out unemployed, and are offered several jobs with various airlines. Once you accept a job, you are given a schedule to fly. You can re-generate a schedule if you wish. You go into a setup screen to check what planes you have in your simulator. I believe these planes show up when you select an airline and start flying. I'm not sure, but I think you can simply ignore that and fly whatever plane you want to. I could be wrong and I didn't test it, but I was able to load up a Mooney Bravo and start a flight. It did not complain. The only reason I bring this up is because I'm not sure what restrictions are in place for different aircraft.
Once you've chosen your flight, you go into your simulator and just fly it. You can alt-tab out if you want, but the program automatically sees that you are flying and begins tracking (I think you can turn this feature off). The live moving map appears to re-draw very slowly.. not sure why, but this does not affect the simulator. There is no FPS hit whatsoever. I think the database is stored at their website, because moving from tab to tab sometimes takes a few seconds, as the form is filled in with information. My guess is this is a live database somewhere remote. Not sure what this means if the network goes down.
After the flight you simply have a log and you can fly your next flight. You can also apply for different jobs available, or even try to apply at any airline. Beware they may not want you unless you've gained experience.
The interface is very well done, clean, and the information is laid out in a very organized manner. The author did a good job of not cluttering up the interface.
If you've been looking for a "career" type of add-on that does not require you to join a Virtual Airline (you don't have to meet # flights criteria, or VATSIM, etc..), this is the one you want.
The user manual is a little weak but should get you going. Initial setup was a bit confusing but the tech support was excellent, and I was up and running in no time. If you're running Windows 7, make sure you don't install into the Program Files (X86) folder (use a root folder), and you may need to exempt the installation folder from your anti-virus. Also, run as administrator. These things were causing issues for me before I changed them. I'm not sure if this applies in Windows 10.
Overall, I am close to giving this a 5 star. I want to see where the author takes it in the future.
Jeff
This product has really enticed me to fly regularly as the generated schedules make you fly to places you might never go and this in itself has helped as i have always been struggling on where to fly.
The auto start and finish of a flight is a little bit buggy but nothing a hot fix can't fix which this app is always being updated and it is built into the software so you don't have top keep re downloading updates.
Overall a really good product and i would recommend to anyone. Only 4 star because of the current bugs as this is a relatively new product.
The app delivers on job acceptance, schedules and flight tracking. It encourages me to fly more and with different airlines.
Indeed, there are some features that are missing at the moment but hopefully they will be implemented soon. The community page and shop sound interesting. Can’t wait to see what those bring to the table.
But I must say that the completion of the application is not enough. It can be seen that it will provide some new features one after another, hoping to complete it soon.
In addition, the application and the simulator are also relatively simple, and the user-customizable functions are basically not available. You know, a career is more than just a job and a talent market. Also, there was a decision that made me unacceptable. When I landed at the destination airport, it showed 1 nautical mile from the destination. So when I clicked "End Flight", the program did not admit that the flight arrived successfully.
This type of application is not much on the market, so it is especially hoped that it will become a boutique.
SIMULATOR : MSFS / P3D (V1 - V5) / X-PLANE / FSX
ADD-ONS : FSUIPC / XPUIPC ( FREE VERSION )
*NOTE: If running MSFS, please make sure you have FSUIPC7 installed and configured correctly.
OTHER : ADOBE ACROBAT READER ( FREE VERSION )
OS : WINDOWS
PERMANENT INTERNET CONNECTION IS REQUIRED