Aircraft variants

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Your airline can list the variants of each aircraft type it flies, for example A320 CFM, A320 IAE (sharklets) or the add-on you fly in the simulator. You pick one when you book.

Choosing a variant when you book

1. Open a flight and press Book.
2. Pick your aircraft. Under it, Variant lists your airline's variants of that aircraft's type. The airline's default is already picked.
3. Choose the variant you'll fly. SimBrief plans with that variant's airframe, unless you typed your own airframe ID under SimBrief settings.
4. Press Create booking. Your booking shows the variant next to the aircraft.

In the EFB's Book tab, the second list next to the aircraft is the variant.

SimBrief's add-on variants

Under SimBrief settings, the airframe list also shows SimBrief add-on variants: SimBrief's own airframes for add-ons such as Fenix, FSLabs, PMDG or ToLiss, with the simulator they're for. The one that fits the add-on you fly (from your recent flights) comes first and says fits your aircraft; your simulator's variants come next.

SimBrief can't load these variants from Vaeroly by an ID. When you pick one:

• If you saved a matching airframe on your SimBrief account, Vaeroly plans with it. Press Refresh my SimBrief aircraft after you save a new one.
• If you haven't, SimBrief plans with the plain aircraft type. Save the variant once under My airframes on SimBrief, and Vaeroly picks it for you from then on.
• Not signed in with Navigraph? You can still pick any SimBrief airframe and variant. Vaeroly can't read your saved airframes then, so type your saved airframe's ID under Or type an airframe ID to plan with it exactly.

You don't see Variant when your airline hasn't listed any for that type. Then SimBrief plans with the airline's airframe for the aircraft, as before.

For staff: listing your variants

1. Open Staff → Operations → Fleet, tab Types & SimBrief airframes, card Aircraft variants for pilots.
2. Under Known variants you can add, open a type to see the variants Vaeroly knows for it, then press Add on one, or Add every … variant.
3. Or add your own under Add your own: a name and the SimBrief airframe it plans with (a type code like A20N, or the ID of an airframe you saved in SimBrief).
4. Make default picks the variant pilots start with. Delete removes one from the list; bookings already made keep its name.

Where the known variants come from

Vaeroly collects them every night, for every airline to pick from:

• SimBrief: SimBrief's own variants, such as a type's freighter, and its add-on variants with the simulator they're for.
• Airline fleets: the SimBrief airframes airlines plan with. An airframe saved on someone's SimBrief account is only offered to its own airline.
• Flights: the add-on pilots really fly, from the aircraft name ACARS sees in the simulator, once pilots of two airlines, or three pilots, have flown it as the booked type. Names with a link or an address are never listed. Only the number of flights and pilots is kept, never who flew it.