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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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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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• 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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• 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.