Flight release

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When your airline has the Flight release on, you accept the release of each flight before ACARS starts it, as a real captain signs for a flight before leaving the gate.

Accept the release

1. Book your flight and open the booking page.
2. The Flight release step shows Open the flight release. Press it.
3. Read the page: the flight and the crew, the plan with its fuel and weights, the weather at the departure, the arrival and the alternate, the NOTAMs, and the pre-flight risk card when your airline uses it.
4. Press Accept the release. The step turns green and ACARS can start the flight.

If you haven't accepted it yet, ACARS shows a short message with a link to the release instead of starting. Accept it, then press Refresh in ACARS.

Good to know

• The release only shows what Vaeroly already knows about the flight. Plan on SimBrief first to see the fuel and weights; you can still accept it without a plan.
• Changed your mind? Not read yet on the booking page's checklist takes the acceptance back, as long as the flight hasn't started.
• A flight that is already in the air carries on.
• A co-pilot on a shared cockpit doesn't accept anything: the release is the captain's.

For staff

Turn it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features → Flight release. It is off for new airlines, so each airline decides whether its pilots need it.