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    What does it actually cost to own that aircraft?

    GARealistic is a companion app that turns your MSFS GA flying into a full aircraft ownership and pilot training simulation. Every hour costs money — fuel, oil, tires, brakes, engine time. Land hard and you'll crack a strut. Abuse the brakes and pads wear thin. Push past the red line and the airframe pays for it. Worn components cause real in-sim failures — a neglected vacuum pump kills your attitude indicator — until you get it fixed at a shop.

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    🏢 NEW — Found Your Own Company


    Stop flying for hire and start owning the operation. Found a GA airline or cargo carrier with its own fleet, finances, and staff — separate from your personal flying.
    • Cargo & passenger routes shaped by real-world catchment population
    • Hire pilots (real or AI) — your company earns while you're offline
    • Bring on co-owners with equity and auto-split dividends
    • Full company ledger, loans, and payroll — isolated from your wallet
    • Grow to multiple hubs, each with its own contract board

    Free community account required — managed from the Company and Employment tabs.

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    🌐 Community Platform (optional — app works fully standalone)


    • Live flight map — watch other GARealistic pilots flying in real time
    • Community logbook of every synced flight
    • Airport browser — runways, approaches, fuel prices, based aircraft, amenities
    • Community fuel price & service reporting
    • Shared, votable per-aircraft checklists

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    Features:
    • Full aircraft ownership cost tracking — fuel, maintenance, storage, insurance obligations, overnight away-from-base charges
    • Component wear system with 30+ tracked parts, driven by your actual flying — hard landings, overspeed exceedances, brake abuse, crashes
    • V-speed wear — sustained flight in the yellow arc (Vno–Vne) and above the red line degrades control surfaces, cables, engine, and airframe; uses your aircraft's registered V-speeds for precise tracking
    • MSFS failure injection — degraded components cause real in-sim failures (brakes, vacuum pump, alternator, pitot, partial panel)
    • Landing quality scoring with full per-touchdown breakdown — sink rate, G-force, bank, crab angle, runway, wind
    • Jobs system — 8 job types generated based on your location: Charter, Cargo, Ferry, Training, Medevac, Sightseeing, Backcountry, Supplies. Pilot reputation system tracks your career across 5 tiers from Student Pilot to Elite Charter
    • Flight grading — in-flight ACS evaluation for IFR approaches, holds, steep turns, slow flight, stalls, turns around a point, and S-turns; graded at Private, Instrument, Commercial, and ATP standards
    • Post-flight debrief — a plain-English summary of every flight (landing quality, overall grade, weakest-area callout), a "vs. your average" trend badge, and a shareable PNG flight report card you can post anywhere
    • Certification Progress — the Training Log tracks real FAA Part 61 aeronautical experience requirements per certificate and endorsement (PPL, IR, CPL, ATP, MEL, Complex, High Performance, Tailwheel, and more), with progress bars, CFR citations, and auto-award the moment every requirement is met
    • Digital go/no-go checklist — Before Start/Takeoff/Landing/After Landing items auto-check themselves against live aircraft state (gear, flaps, lights, parking brake, avionics master); fully custom per aircraft — add, remove, and reorder sections and items — and stays live-synced between the desktop app and the EFB tablet
    • Personal minimums — an optional preflight gate for minimum ceiling/visibility, maximum crosswind (estimated from the best-aligned runway), and night currency, with soft warnings you can override at Begin Flight
    • Flight replay viewer — a time-scrubbed map of any completed flight, colored by G-force, airspeed, or altitude, with optional auto-play
    • Trip Planner — select route and destination types and plan refueling
    • IFR currency tracking — approach and hold logging with 6-month rolling window; post-flight summary shows holds, approaches, and whether IFR currency requirements are met
    • Achievements — six categories (Exploration, Dining & Recreation, Jobs, Flying, Landings, Discoveries) with six badge tiers from Bronze to Amethyst
    • Pilot map — interactive flight path map showing every flight color-coded by type, with landing positions and activity markers at visited airports
    • Financial summary — income vs. expense chart with selectable date ranges and net profit/loss tracking; multi-currency support (USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, CHF, NZD) across the desktop app, EFB, and community website
    • Pilot endorsement / credential checking — warns you at engine start if you lack a required qualification (Complex, High Performance, Pressurised, Multi-Engine, Tailwheel); auto-logs dual instruction notes when training toward an endorsement
    • Live weather strip — ambient temperature, wind, visibility, QNH, and VFR/MVFR/IMC conditions label on the dashboard
    • MSFS 2024 Weather Radar in app map
    • SimBrief integration for pre-flight briefing and post-flight comparison
    • Multi-engine support with per-engine instrument monitoring
    • Rental aircraft support — wet/dry tach rates, automatic rental billing
    • Fleet management — register multiple aircraft across multiple home bases
    • Destinations tab showing nearby airports with fuel prices, runway info, FBO/mechanic availability, activities, and dining. Heliport mode for helicopter operations
    • Logbook with day/night/IFR hours, airborne vs Hobbs time, approach currency tracking (CSV import/export)
    • Expense log with per-aircraft filter — view costs fleet-wide or drill into a single aircraft
    • Deep integration with A2A Comanche and Black Square aircraft — reads their internal wear data directly and auto-logs repair expenses when you service them through their own tools
    • Airframe-hours-based MTBF failures
    • Preferred mechanic location — fly or taxi to the shop, or pay a call-out fee
    • Turbine engine wear measures
    • Local streaming/OBS overlay — an optional local web page with live flight instruments for use as an OBS Browser Source
    • Google Earth KML export of flight tracks
    • Working EFB App — Dashboard, Logbook, Checklist, Endurance Calculator, Job tracking, and Training maneuver scoring in the MSFS 2024 in-sim EFB tablet, fully synced with the desktop app
    • Works with MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020

    This isn't a panel replacement or a checklist app. It's the ledger that makes every flight — and every business decision — matter, because that engine overhaul is coming, and you're the one paying for it.

    Looking for feedback, comments, ideas, and bug reports.

    Discord: https://discord.gg/hSy9j9nNy8
    Community: https://garealistic.firebaseapp.com

    Requires Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or 2020 to be running for live telemetry. The app will still open without MSFS and data can be managed manually. All data is stored locally in %APPDATA%\GARealistic.

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    Comments(130)

    R

    about 10 hours ago

    Hi, really impressive addon, congrats.

    What to do with 5 letters ICAO with no airports at these locations, fly above to complete mission ? How to set it up to a flightplan (no GPS coordinates) ?

    Thank you very much for this software that really change the way I fly.
    j

    about 4 hours ago

    Hi, thanks for the review.

    These are either seaplane bases or heliports. There is option in settings to disable these. The current beta update (in settings) improves this filtering. Will be fixed in next flightsim.to release later in the week.
    M
    Love this addon if you want to make your GA flying even more realistic! Works great with the a2a aircraft and tracks fuel and maitinence costs. Makes the world feel even more alive instead of being a random flight sim where you fly for no reason at no expense. I cannot recommend this addon enough. This is what MSFS career should have been.
    j

    8 days ago

    Thanks! Appreciate the feedback.
    The app is always getting better and adding features. Make sure to select the beta channel in settings to get updates ahead of releases. Join the discord server to provide ideas, suggestions or ask questions
    R

    14 days ago

    hi l ike the Idea of realistic Fuel loader, on the MD-80 series fly the maddog it works perfectly. On the TFDI desing MD-11 it dosent work even the FBW A380 and A320 Neo can you pls fix it? I will test more planes soon with the Program I really like the Idea
    j

    14 days ago

    Hi, thanks for the review… just a heads up that the focus of “GA” Realistic is General Aviation aircraft. I can look to adapt for these aircraft, but they tend to be more complicated and will require some effort to integrate.
    R

    9 days ago

    yea it would be nice to have a fuel tabled fore al planes working ( basic planes airbus, boeing, md, dc ) so piloting will be more Easier
    R

    9 days ago

    Does it work fore the DC Concorde?
    j

    9 days ago

    You can select what tanks the plane has and then bind it, and more items, to the plane’s variables in the variables page of the aircraft configuration menu.

    Not sure about the Concorde, I don’t own it.
    B

    23 days ago

    Loving this so far as I was getting burned by the built-in mission modes.
    I do wish that the process for getting ratings/certificates was a little clearer. I decided to start from no licenses or ratings. My checkride pre-reqs have some maneuvers checked that my training log doesn't and vice-versa. It also approved my stall training when all i did was get stall horn during ground effect on landing.
    It also lists that I need 'instrument training' but not how I'm supposed to get that?
    Overall amazing app and just wanted to list the above to bring to your attention.
    Looking forward to everything else you bring to this addon.
    j

    9 days ago

    Thanks for the review… always working to improve the app, and receiving feedback helps. Thanks!

    Feel free to join the discord channel to provide feedback. The beta channel in settings will also allow you to get the latest updates for these issues in between published releases.
    J

    24 days ago

    Fantastic as a detailed flight log app if you don't want to focus on the costs/maintenance side of things, you can just bypass all that and have it Track your hours, distance, places/airports,countries visited and auto export .kml fligh paths for displaying in Google Earth - Amazing for RTW trips or just long term flight logging.
    The money, jobs and maintenance side of things adds another level of fun, along with performing taring/check rides with all of this being optional so, not stressful until you're ready.
    Can't believe this is a free app and how responsive the dev is on discord with fixes and adding suggestions, truly a Swiss Army knife app!
    j

    24 days ago

    Thanks for the kind words and review!
    Happy to listen and implement more ideas, suggestions or fix any issues. Enjoy!
    C

    about 1 month ago

    What's with the ton of DLL files included in the EFB version of the download?
    j

    about 1 month ago

    Those DLLs belong to the desktop app, not the EFB itself — the zip bundles both. The desktop app is a self-contained .NET/WPF build, meaning it ships its own copy of the .NET runtime so you don't need to install anything separately — that's what accounts for the DLL count (a lot of it is just per-language resource files, e.g. the cs/de/es/fr folders). The actual EFB package is just JS/HTML/JSON — no DLLs in it at all.
    S

    about 1 month ago

    Please add an automatic updater to the program
    j

    about 1 month ago

    Now in v1.17.0... beta and stable branch options in settintgs
    MSFS 2020MSFS 2024

    GA Realistic

    Every hour you fly costs money. GARealistic adds the full weight of aircraft ownership to MSFS — fuel bills, component wear from your actual flying habits, and real in-sim failures when you neglect maintenance. Work charter, cargo, medevac, and backcountry jobs to cover the costs, build a five-tier pilot reputation, grade your IFR approaches and ACS maneuvers against practical test standards, and track everything in a searchable logbook — with a live EFB tablet app for in-cockpit access. Works with MSFS 2024 and 2020.

    Downloads3K
    Version1.22.0
    File Size80.0 MB
    Published5 months ago
    Updated4 days ago
    Classification
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    Version History

    GARealistic 1.22.0 Update Notes: Dynamic Regional Market (new this release) --- Regional commodity prices now genuinely respond to real trades instead of a static isolation/tag formula — buying drains a node's stock and raises the price there, selling replenishes it and lowers the price, with a natural drift back toward equilibrium over time --- The Freight Planner, Market tab, and Inventory tab's price rankings all now factor in live regional stock, so profitable routes actually vary over time instead of the search always finding the same answer --- Facilities can opt in to auto-sell their own surplus output at market price instead of it just sitting in the depot --- Fixed a real data-integrity bug (caught in review before it caused visible harm, though live briefly): a same-airport "sell" freight run could silently corrupt a region's price signal Company Supply & Economy --- New Planner tab: searches for profitable multi-hop freight routes (maximize profit, source-and-return a commodity, or sell off existing stock), with a map overlay and one-click commit to real freight runs --- Freight runs can now carry a multi-commodity manifest per flight instead of one commodity at a time --- Facilities and Builds: Demolish (partial refund), auto-buy-on-shortfall, NEEDED/DAY and PRODUCED/DAY breakdowns, idle-reason display, drag-resizable panels --- Fuel Farm: dedicated upgradeable storage tanks, wholesale bulk pricing, real pump location + fuel truck delivery mechanic Real spoilage (previously cosmetic) plus a Freezer build to extend it; Packing House can now run on Seafood --- Multiple commodity-pricing rebalances, each re-grounded in real-world data Market/Inventory tabs: nearest-price search, best-buy/best-sell columns, depot-overflow warnings, and several data-freshness fixes Company Staff & Contracts --- New Postal Route and Scheduled Courier contract types with guaranteed weekly slots --- Contract/charter pay is now weight-driven; aircraft and AI pilots gained job-type eligibility flags and aircraft-class endorsements that are actually enforced at assignment time --- Paid instant AI-pilot endorsement upgrades Aircraft & Wear --- Turboprop/turbine POH fields (Max ITT, Max Torque) now wired into real component wear, not just data entry Individual-cylinder EGT/CHT graphs (live and post-flight) --- New "VFR only, no lights" exterior light configuration for airframes with no electrical system --- A community POH data-quality sweep corrected several misclassified aircraft Reliability --- Fixed a SimConnect bug causing disconnects on most session starts --- Fixed several crashes and silent data-loss bugs (aircraft sales not updating the web fleet, an owner permanently locked out of their own company's Market) Installation: Extract zip. Copy GARealistic-v1.22.0/ folder to your preferred location and run GARealistic.exe. Copy garealistic-efb/ folder to your MSFS Community folder.