The airline handbook (PDF)

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This article explains the Airline handbook: a PDF for your pilots, written out from your airline's live settings, so it always matches how your airline really works.

Switch it on

1. Open Staff → Airline settings → Optional features.
2. Under Airline running, switch on Airline handbook and save.
3. Open Staff → Community → Documents. The Airline handbook card is at the top. You need the Documents and downloads permission.

Download it

Press Download the handbook. The PDF is made from your settings at that moment, in your account's language. After you change a setting, download it again.

To share it with your pilots, put the PDF somewhere they can open it (your Discord or a shared drive), and add the link on the same Documents page.

What's in it

• A cover with your logo (or your airline code in a circle when you don't have one), your name and the date.
• About the airline: your airline's description and hubs.
• Ranks and promotion: every rank with its hours, points, flights, days and aircraft, plus the honorary ranks.
• Type ratings: the aircraft that need a rating, and when a rating lapses.
• Booking and flying: where flights start, where aircraft are, charters (and charters from any airport), the cost of riding to another airport as a passenger, online flying and hand-filed PIREPs.
• ACARS: the minimum app version, engines off at the start, the aircraft check, paused time, and automatic acceptance.
• Scoring: the main points lines, the stable approach gates and what sends a flight to review. With Scoring rules page on, it points pilots to the full scoring rules page.
• Activity and leave: inactivity, activity requirements and leave limits.
• Contacts: your email, your Discord server, the owner, the deputy and your staff with their role titles.

Every page carries your airline's name and "Virtual airline, for flight simulation only".

Use your own words

The only text you write yourself is your airline's description (Staff → Airline settings → Settings). Write it in your own words. Never paste text from a real airline's manuals, from aircraft makers' manuals (such as an FCOM or QRH), from chart providers, or from an add-on's manual. That material belongs to its owners. Describing a procedure in your own words is fine, for example "we fly stable approaches from 1,000 ft".

If you see a handbook or description that copies someone else's text, tell us through Contact and we'll remove it.