GARealistic is a companion app that turns your MSFS GA flying into a complete aircraft
ownership and pilot training simulation.

Every hour you fly costs money — fuel at the going rate, oil changes, tire wear, brake
wear, engine time. Land hard enough and you'll crack a gear strut. Hammer the brakes on
every rollout and the pads wear down. Push past the red line and the airframe pays for
it. Leave the aircraft parked for months and the battery goes flat. Park overnight away
from home base and you'll pay for it in the morning.

When components degrade far enough, the failures show up in the sim. Worn-out brakes
fail. A neglected vacuum pump kills your attitude indicator. Run the engine ragged and
watch the damage percent climb. Fix it at the repair shop — if the airport has a
mechanic — and the failures clear.

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GARealistic now has an online hub — a shared space for
the entire GARealistic community. This is optional - the app will work standalone.

🗺️ Live Flight Map — see other GARealistic pilots flying in real time. Your aircraft
appears on the map the moment you start a flight, with callsign, aircraft type,
altitude, and a trail of your route.

📋 Community Logbook — every completed flight is automatically synced online. Browse
the full community log or filter to your own flights.

🛬 Airport Browser — search thousands of airports with runways, frequencies, ILS
approaches, based aircraft, fuel prices, mechanic services, and local amenities.

⛽ Community Fuel Prices — signed-in pilots can report real fuel prices and vote on
airport services. The more pilots who fly, the richer the data gets.

Sign in with a free community account on first launch, or continue in standalone mode
with all local features intact.

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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

• Trip Planner - select type of routes and what type of destinations 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

• 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

• MSFS2024 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

• Google Earth KML export of flight tracks

• Working EFB App — Dashboard, Logbook, Endurance Calculator, and Training maneuver
  scoring in the MSFS 2024 in-sim EFB tablet

• 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 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.