v2.4.0

New Features

Maintenance warnings before an aircraft goes out of service (FSC-4070)

Until now nothing told you a maintenance check was coming up. An aircraft would quietly go overdue, stop being offered jobs, and stop being sellable or listable, and the only hint was a badge you would see if you happened to open that aircraft.

Your company now gets two new notifications. Maintenance Due Soon arrives when a C or D check reaches 90% of its interval, and Maintenance Overdue arrives once the check is past due. Each is a single message listing every affected aircraft, so a neglected fleet earns you one notification rather than twenty. The overdue message knows what kind of aircraft it is describing, pointing general aviation owners at field service and airliner owners at a Service Centre.

Overdue notifications default to both in-game mail and email.

Field service for C and D checks on smaller aircraft (FSC-4070)

Single-engine aircraft, multi-engine aircraft, business jets and helicopters can now have a C or D check carried out wherever they are standing, for a fee, once the check is close to due. No more ferrying a stranded aircraft a thousand miles to the nearest facility.

The fee is 0.75% of the aircraft type's catalogue price for a C check and 1.5% for a D check. A Cessna 152 pays around £1,312 for a C check, a King Air 350 around £12,917, and a Gulfstream G650 around £151,889.

Service Centres keep their advantages. They remain free to use, they remain twice as fast, and airliners still have to use them. Field service takes double the time a Service Centre would, and you see the exact price and the downtime before you confirm.

Improvements

Jobs you would not be paid for no longer appear (FSC-4064)

Jobs from companies that could not cover your rank pay when the job completes are now hidden. If you are on a company's roster this is based on your own rank's rate, and if you are not, it is based on the cheapest rank you could join at. Owners always see their own company's jobs.

Boarding is gated the same way. If finishing a leg would trigger a payout the company cannot cover, you are stopped before you fly it and told why, rather than finding out afterwards.

Bug Fixes

Pilots were being silently short-paid, and past shortfalls have been settled (FSC-4064)

If you flew for a company that could not afford your rank pay, you were quietly paid whatever was left in its account and the rest was written off. Your accrued flight hours were wiped, your payment record claimed you had been paid in full, and nobody told you.

This is now fixed. When a company cannot cover the full amount, only the hours it actually paid for are cleared. The remaining hours stay on your record and are paid the next time you complete a job for that company while it has the money. Your payment record shows what you actually received. You get a message explaining the shortfall and how many hours were carried over, and the company gets a notification of its own.

We have also settled the historic shortfalls. £332,784.69 has been paid back to affected pilots across 11 settlements, arriving as refunds from the central FSCharter bank.