One dispatch, on the website and in ACARS.
Pilots find a flight on the airline's website or in ACARS, plan it with SimBrief or vaBase's own brief, and fly it from either. The same dispatch, the same rules and the same aircraft, whichever the pilot opened first.
Plan it at the desk, fly it from the sim.
What a pilot books, plans or changes on one is waiting on the other, checked by the same rules on the server.
On the website
In ACARS
Fly the schedule, or fly free.
Search the schedule from where the pilot is, take a free flight when the airline allows it, or pick one of the company's own routes. Airline identities and codeshares come through as the schedule defines them.
- Suggested flights from the pilot's current location, on the website, in ACARS and in Discord.
- Free flights within the airline's own rules.
- Company routes offered at dispatch, so the routing is the airline's, not a guess.
SimBrief, or the brief built in.
Import a SimBrief plan or generate one from the dispatch, see the route, fuel and weights before you commit, then adjust and regenerate until it is right. Or use vaBase's own brief: payload and fuel worked out from the aircraft and the route, with live weather.
- The OFP in the dispatch: departure and arrival procedures, fuel, weights and the PDF.
- Weather and runway advice: reports and forecasts for both ends, and the runway the wind favours.
- A completed brief before the flight, when the airline asks for one.
Strict, relaxed, or somewhere between.
Every airline flies differently, so the rules are settings. Share aircraft freely or keep one pilot on each. Let flights start anywhere, or only from where the aircraft and the pilot last landed. Jumpseats and positioning flights keep a strict airline moving.
- Three fleet modes: Relaxed, Standard or Realistic. They cover aircraft sharing and location; your other rules apply in all three.
- Flight assignments from staff, including positioning flights.
- Before a flight can start: ask for a booking, a route, an alternate or a completed brief, or none of them, and decide who may fly their own flights.
Plan it once. Fly it anywhere.
Dispatch, SimBrief and the vaBase brief are in every subscription.