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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🏢 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, fully separate from your personal flying and bank account.

✈️ Cargo & Passenger Routes — recurring cargo contracts and scheduled passenger routes, both shaped by the destination's real-world catchment population and economic profile.

👥 Hire Pilots (Real or AI) — bring on other GARealistic pilots as employees paid by salary, per-flight, or profit-share — or assign an AI pilot to fly routes you don't have time for. Your company keeps earning while you're logged off.

📊 Officers & Equity — bring in co-owners as CEO/CFO/COO/CMO/Director with a real cap table; dividends split automatically by equity stake.

🏦 Company Financials — its own ledger, P&L, loans, and payroll, fully isolated from your personal wallet.

📍 Multi-Hub Growth — expand beyond one base to co-equal economic hubs, each with its own cargo/charter board.

Managed from the Company and Employment tabs. Requires a free community account — company identity and hiring other pilots are inherently online.

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🌐 Community Platform

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.

✅ Community Checklists — share your custom per-aircraft checklist and browse/vote on checklists other pilots have built for the same aircraft type.

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

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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 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; 🆕 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
• 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
• 🆕 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.