OnAir Company Guide - Part 1: Setup and First Flight / Flight Simulator Career Mode

OnAir Company is a career mode add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, and Prepar3d that I love using. This is the first video in an ongoing series where I show you how to get started in building your virtual airline company.
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=== Featured in this Video ===
OnAir Company: www.onair.company/
=== Other career mode add-ons ===
The Skypark: parallel42.com/sim/skypark
NeoFly: www.neofly.net/
=== Chapters ===
00:00 Introduction
00:37 What is a career mode add-on?
01:40 OnAir subscription pricing
02:53 Choosing a world and company type
06:13 Entering your company details
09:13 Company Dashboard and Skills Tree
11:30 Getting your first aircraft
15:37 Seating configuration
17:56 Starting our first mission/job
20:03 Flight preparation
23:11 Loading into your simulator
24:08 Starting the Flight Tracking
26:58 Startup and flight
28:07 Shutdown and flight summary
29:13 A note about time acceleration ("warp mode")
30:32 Using some skill points
=== Discord Server ===
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=== Links to mods, tools, my gear list, and more ===
www.kipontheground.com/
=== Disclaimer ===
I am not a flight instructor and my videos are not to be used as a resource for real-world flight training. They are only intended as tutorials for casual use in flight simulators like Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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[@MrWildbil7]

Kip, you do an excellent job in explaining the steps for beginners and you are appreciated for helping the beginners, thanks again

[@tabs1913]

Looking forward to the next one. Grabbed the week free trial and am enjoying it so far.

[@mikevadnais7722]

I started in the basic one 4 days ago in the trial. Navigating the app is a learning curve, but after 3 flights now it's getting easier. I used KLAL as my home thinking I could get jobs from Tampa and Orlando area, but now find it hard to get back to my home base. Of course I am only using the 172, so things are limited. I only have 140 hours in the sim, so pretty new at this. I purchased the Kodiak 100, and plan to start training myself in that plane. Should bring more opportunity in OnAir. Great series, I have watched almost all your videos. Looking forward to Part 2. Thanks

[@keimahane]

This is the absolute best OnAir Company tutorial I have seen, thank you. I am really thinking about using this addon after watching. Will watch a few more of your OnAir vids. You really do a great job at explaining / teaching. Subbed :)

[@tomjanzen9278]

Great intro but I'm intimidated! Still working to get my head around Neofly and OnAir seems much more complicated, although much more realistic. I think I'll try the 7 day trial after watching your video a couple more times, but I'm not going to abandon Neofly quite yet! Looking forward to your subsequent instructional videos on OnAir. You're always terrific and I appreciate all the instructional videos you've posted in the past.

[@Stickb0y87]

Just got on air. Going to watch this video before I get started.

[@robomatt101]

This is exactly what I was looking for! I saw this video and signed up yesterday. I’m doing thunder starting with a C172 bare bones company and also started stratus where I rented a 737 moving cargo because I REALLY rather fly jets lol. I’m hoping one day I could own a couple of jets with thunder. Best thing is I’m flying to places I never would consider. Thank you for introducing this to us!

[@KipOnTheGround]

That's the main reason I love all the career add-ons, they keep me flying and going to places I wouldn't otherwise decide to fly! If you want to fly jets on Thunder, you could consider taking a loan out or starting your company as an Airline (which is just a shortcut to getting a 1.5M credit loan + gives you a Jet certification automatically). I do like the progression of starting with the C172 though :-)

[@robomatt101]

@@KipOnTheGround Thanks for the tip!

[@SpaceJelly45]

Awesome, thanks for doing this!

[@BtcSimmer]

I might check this out!

[@Dux_86]

Good explaining video! Thanks

[@TormodSteinsholt]

Great intro. Yes, career and progression is indeed something I'm missing from FS2020. It is my understanding that this gets better with FS2024. I also like to fly in VR, so the alt-tabbing between FS and external add-ons as of now seems contrived, but hopefully we'll be getting there.

[@monkeynews8311]

Just returning to onAir after 2 years. Great video! Helped me to remember everything and even taught me a few things I never knew before... I've done around 100 flights all together and all of them have been at night, I never knew about the time offset lol You've just made this 100x more enjoyable for me now :D Thinking about renting different aircraft... It'd be cool if the aircraft interiors had visual wear depending on the age and usage etc. Each aircraft would look unique and it'd be pretty cool seeing the change going from using an older beat up rented aircraft to a brand new one... Anyone know of any addons that do something like this?

[@ChrisCsanyi]

Thanks for a great overview. I never looked at this in details because of the cost but like you said it's less than a coffee trip a month if you purchase a few months at a time. Did you say you could have more that one Company running at a time?

[@pboire1402]

Thanks for this good job. Does OnAir works in VR and how ?

[@donc9751]

I'm definitely interested in this and I fly more GA than Airline style, for 3 bucks a month I won't have to waste time thinking up what would be a fun flight, unless I want to of course! 1 big question I have though is how much of a drain on PC resources this program may have? I'm going to be following this, and your channel so thanks!!!

[@KipOnTheGround]

I honestly haven't ever thought about the resources it uses, but I'd say it must be low impact like other similar services that track your plane's location and telemetry, like Volanta, Navigraph, etc. If your PC is on a lower end, I'd test with something like Volanta to see if it significantly impacts anything for your setup. That should give you a decent idea of the impact OnAir would have.

[@motosikletveotesi]

Pan Pan Pan Please help me, I chose the main airport in the wrong place, it is difficult for me due to the weather conditions. I want to change it to another airport as the starting airport, how can I do that?

[@steveyford7127]

What would happen if you didn't load into a Cessna on the simulator?

[@J4FThunder666]

can i use Inflight Time Acceleration or only real Time Flights ?

[@abstractbybrian]

Does it generate jobs to seaplane airports if you have an amphibian plane?

[@jjsx5347]

Question : If I want to have the A318 do I need to buy an A318 addon separately? Or is it already in the default list?

[@nickda1]

Does it give you penalty if you start the flight and have the ai pilot within flight simulator fly it because i think its more or less working now or it seems to be working for me

[@Lone_GamerUK]

Can you transfer money or business from a lower level to the next or is that a do over everytime?

[@valeriik9135]

Thanks for the video. Could you tell us if there are 'helicopter' tasks in OnAir? Passanger and cargo tasks are Ok. Are therr other tasks? Thanks!

[@KipOnTheGround]

There are sightseeing and rescue job types as well, both of which are probably good for helis. I can’t say for sure since I rarely fly them though.

[@MrSpeaker69]

Can I create my own routes? I hate flying to default airports.

[@justalldamnmotorsports2419]

So there is no certifications for planes correct? Just as long as you have money to buy or rent or lease it? Im torn between this and Neofly, I think I bought Airhauler 2 but its kind of dead for joining other VA's. I just want to start low and work my way up. Doing cargo and airline stuff once I get there. Would OnAir be the best overall or use Neofly to scratch the itch for free for awhile?

[@KipOnTheGround]

There are check rides and certifications in OnAir, yes. I cover them in Part 4 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYfId2mpj8ZofZY I'm partial to OnAir because it has the most depth of any of the career mode apps, and I find myself using it more than anything else. Often it's a question of budget for people, as OnAir is $35.99 for a 1-year pass while NeoFly is free (aside from the optional donations for additional features). I think that if you don't have any interest at all in managing AI pilots, having to hire co-pilots and flight attendants for larger planes you fly, building and managing FBOs, or doing multiplayer things like virtual airlines, NeoFly is the best choice and saves you money. If you want any of those things I just listed, then OnAir is the choice. Either way, you can get the 7-day trial for OnAir to see what you think before deciding. I also still open Skypark from time-to-time since it's so simple to use.

[@user-yi2wr6bj9j]

Is it possible to play with AI pilots only and “fly” the route on xbox?

[@robynwood4481]

I have just downloaded this, how do I add the Xplane link ?

[@handoromper7987]

Fantastic tutorial. I did try it but found it extremely confusing and frustrating with where my plane was first located and no jobs available from that airport Also after landing I had very little fuel and the airport I was at didn't have a fueling station. It looks great but I just lost interest as I didn't find it user-friendly.

[@KipOnTheGround]

Thanks! OnAir (and Neofly, too) can be a bit intimidating. I've been stranded before like that myself! In that situation, you can use employee "transport" and/or airplane "ferry" options to move your pilot and airplanes to airports that have fuel and missions to take. It can definitely be frustrating sometimes. I'll try to remember to cover these situations in future videos in this series so others can know how to get out of them. I'll be covering AI pilots, Work Orders, and the Logistics Center in part 2.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

I don't understand why they force a FOUR character airline code given ICAO codes are three characters.

[@MrWildbil7]

got a question for you, if you loose tracking and it says to drag your airplane to the orange area, how do you do that.

[@KipOnTheGround]

There is a button on the OnAir flight tracking page that will automatically position/slew your plane to the spot where you can resume the flight. It's a bit tricky though -- I'd recommend (1) getting the plane airborne first and setup in a cruise configuration, (2) turn on "active pause" in the top-of-screen menu in MSFS, (3) use reposition button in OnAir so it slews/moves your plane to its previous known location, (4) start the flight tracking in OnAir, then finally (5) turn off active pause in MSFS. Hope that helps.

[@MrWildbil7]

@@KipOnTheGround Thanks Kip.

[@newfarming2090]

mine start with autopilot

[@MrWildbil7]

Kip, If i wanted to change the airport for my operations how would i do that?

[@KipOnTheGround]

Go to My Company / Employees. Find yourself and click "Manage". On that screen, there are options to change your home base and/or send yourself to another airport via commercial travel.

[@MrWildbil7]

@@KipOnTheGround your very helpful Kip, thanks again

[@hrsouls]

is it compatible with xbox series?

[@KipOnTheGround]

Unfortunately not -- hoping we see some kind of career mode for Xbox in the future, but when that may happen is unknown :-(

[@ronwagoner8358]

Seems to me, you got to be a fool to pay a subscription to use software, especially a game. If you only want to play a game for a month, then it's not much of a game, and certainly not worth the money. Seems like just another way to exploit the gulliblity of the consumer.

[@csh5414]

Some people like to enhance their experience and are willing to pay for that. Seems like you don’t understand how hobbies work.

[@RektAgarioRS]

Absolute money grabbing

[@csh5414]

No one is forcing you to use it, it’s an add that you can use if you want to.

[@gaza2times697]

it cost money.... no gthankyou. cant even be botherd checking my spelling.

[@neohelios77]

What are you even here for?! From peripherals to increased system requirements to buying individual aircraft: flight sims are one of the most expensive hobbies in PC gaming. "It cost money". --and??? What are you adding to the conversation, here? Or are you just shitting your opinion out there like the comments section is some kind of personal journal?😂😂😂😂 Clown

[@csh5414]

This is where the dumbest comments are I see.