The guide

How to

1. Create your account at charterinc.app/signup and confirm your e-mail.
2. Download the app (the alpha opens soon: create your account now, and the download appears on the download page), unzip it into a folder of its own and run WestmarkCharter.exe (its name from before it was Charter Inc) beside MSFS 2024.
3. Windows may warn you first ("Windows protected your PC"): choose More info, then Run anyway.
4. Sign in to the shared world with the same e-mail and password.
5. Name your company, give it a three-letter code (your flights file as ABC123) and the callsign ATC says on the radio.
6. Pick your home base: any airport with a runway. Its card says how busy the market around it is, and whether freelance work reaches it.
7. Choose how you start: Freelance (Start freelancing), or Your own aircraft: pick one from the list, read The terms, and start in it.
8. In Settings, enter your SimBrief username or pilot ID: every leg is planned there.

Good to know

• Freelance, you start with $0, no aircraft, no debt, and a pilot rated on single-engine pistons and turboprops (SEP and SET).
• Your own aircraft: one of 20 single-pilot types that come with MSFS 2024, from a piston single to a light jet (31 add-ons on request), waiting at your home base. Lease-to-buy with no deposit: a payment every week for 7 years at 9%, then a final 10% of the price makes it yours. Or buy it out sooner from the Fleet page.
• The ratings it needs (multi-engine, a type rating) are added at once, their course fees on a training loan over 2 years, paid weekly too.
• Each aircraft shows its week and about how many paid hours a week of its own class of work cover it: as the game's prices stand, about $1,400 for a Titan 404 (1.4 h), $10,800 for a TBM 930 (6.2 h), $29,700 for a Citation CJ4 (6.5 h). Little of that work near your base means more hours.
• A payment your cash can't cover goes through as an overdraft with a late fee. Miss three in a row and the lessor takes the aircraft back: the equity is lost, and the missed payments stay owed.
• Started freelance? The Fleet page offers the same start until your company has had an aircraft or a loan.
• Trips run on real-world UTC time, and the title bar keeps its clock. There's no time acceleration.
• The sidebar follows a day's work: Operations, Aircraft, Money, Company and You. Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 jump between pages.

How to

1. Open the Charter board. Near me lists the work within 150 nm of you and your aircraft; the market picker shows any region.
2. Narrow it with the chips: the job's type, the departure, the sort.
3. Pick a row: its route draws on the map, and its card opens under it with the client, the price and what your aircraft can do.
4. Accept: the trip is yours, on the Trip page.

Good to know

• A row gives the type and tags, the airports, the trip's reason, when it leaves (UTC), passengers, distance and value, with "Can fly" or why not.
• The map's switches add the operators' flights in the air, VATSIM's controllers online, and the regions.
• Tags: Premium pays more; Weather is stranded travellers or a storm ferry; Event comes with its tier; Return and Direct are clients who know you.
• Jobs are posted through each region's day, and the world's operators book them too: good ones go fast.
• Every job has a deadline: the departure window's end plus the planned block time.

How to

1. On the Charter board, choose Freelance jobs: the operators' own gigs near you, in their aircraft.
2. Pick one in a type you're rated for. The row names the operator, the aircraft and your pay.
3. Accept, then dispatch and fly it like any trip. The operator fuels and crews its aircraft and pays its costs.
4. You're paid 25% of the charter, and stay where you land.

Good to know

• Gigs reach you within 150 nm, where ground transport is included.
• Farther away? Pilot → Fly there by airline: $150 plus 25¢ a nautical mile, and hours, not minutes (3 h plus the distance at 450 kt).
• Each trip you deliver raises what the bank will lend you ($12,000 a trip, up to $150,000): after a few gigs, enough for a lease's deposit or a type rating.

1. Open Clients (under Company): everyone you've booked or flown, with a search by name or company.
2. Or click a client's name anywhere in the app (the board, a trip, tenders, events, reputation) to open their card.
3. Read the card: their group and tags (loyal client, booked with you), your loyalty with what it earns you, trips with you, and when they last flew.

• Interests, eight of them: motorsport lover, tennis fan, golfer, film buff, music lover, art collector, tech enthusiast (or speaker at tech conferences), and follows global affairs.
• An event that matches an interest pulls that client from much further away, as an event two tiers higher would; speakers fly to tech conferences.
• You learn about a client by flying them: until you've booked them, their interests, company, homes, habits and ties read Unknown until you book them.
• Below: their ties to real institutions, every trip with you with its outcome and event, and their jobs on the board now.

1. Fly a client well until their loyalty reaches 40 of 100. After the trip that does it, they say a line under the flight's result on the Flight page and in Home's Activity, and hand you their business card.
2. On the Clients page, switch from All clients to Business cards: your collection.
3. Click a card to open its client.

• You keep a card whatever comes later. Under it, how the client stands with you now: Loyal, Loyalty lapsed or Won't fly with you, with their loyalty.
• Each card is printed in its client company's own style: its paper and ink, type, logo and layout, the same every time.
• Under each card, the client's group, the line from the back of the card, and when you received it, with your trips together. The client's own page shows the line too.

How to

1. Open Trip → Dispatch: the leg, the aircraft and the times.
2. Open SimBrief from its button: the plan is filled in with the leg, your aircraft and the payload.
3. Generate it in SimBrief, then Fetch it back.
4. The check reads the plan against the trip (airports, aircraft, weights, fuel). Fix what it flags, then Dispatch.

Good to know

• Dispatching orders the plan's fuel at the departure FBO; change it on the Fuel page before you fly.
• A leg beyond 95% of the aircraft's range needs a fuel stop: pick one and the leg splits there.
• Weather cards for the departure, arrival and alternate: the flight category, ceiling, visibility, wind, the METAR and the TAF.
• Briefing: report time, the first officer, the FBOs, the fuel order and the passenger manifest.
• Aircraft somewhere else? Position the jet: a ferry with no client and no revenue, flown like any leg.

How to

1. Load the aircraft in MSFS at the departure airport.
2. Open Flight and Start tracking.
3. Fly the plan. The map draws your track over it; the tiles show altitude, speeds and fuel.
4. Land, park, set the parking brake and shut down: the flight settles, and the trip moves on.

Good to know

• Real time only: a sim rate other than 1×, slew, or a clock that doesn't match the real one voids the flight.
• Interruptions never void a flight. A pause, a sim crash or a closed app suspends it where it was: restore it and carry on.
• Only a crash voids a flight, and it damages the aircraft.
• The logbook keeps the block time, the touchdown in fpm and g, and the result. Passengers rate the ride: turbulence, steep banks and fast cabin pressure changes.
• Late, at the alternate or diverted, a trip still pays, less a penalty. A client left stranded costs most.

How to

1. Open Events: everything on now and in the next four weeks, a row each with its tier.
2. Search by name, league, city or airport, or filter by tier (or Major: S, A and B).
3. Pick an event: its jobs on the board near you and its tenders from your region, with buttons to both.

Good to know

• Real schedules: the NFL and MLB, football in Europe and Brazil, Formula 1, MotoGP and Formula E, NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA and WEC, conferences and summits. Refreshed every day at 00:00 UTC.
• A job to an event carries the event's tier on the board.
• A client whose interest matches the event (a motorsport lover and a Grand Prix, say) comes from much further away, as if the event were two tiers higher.
• Majors (S, A and B) bring group tenders as well.

How to

1. Open Tenders: the open ones, your bids and your bookings.
2. Pick one: its route on the map, what the client needs, and when bidding closes.
3. Choose an aircraft that can fly it and Place bid. Until it closes you can Change bid or Withdraw.
4. Won it? It's a booking: Start it on the day, or Cancel it (for a fee).

Good to know

• The client picks by their own taste: the price, the aircraft, your reputation with their group, and loyalty.
• Teams fly their real schedules; major events bring group charters.

How to

1. Open Pilot → Find a school: the schools that teach a rating, nearest first, with both prices.
2. Not at the school's airport? Fly there by airline.
3. Sign up: the fee with the school's aircraft, or a lower one with your own of the type (owned, leased or rented).
4. Open Flight, Start tracking, and fly the checkride card.
5. Pass, and the rating is yours. Fail, and the card says what to fix: fly it again.

The checkride card

• Depart the school's airport, from the ground.
• Climb to 3,000 ft above the airport.
• Hold that altitude within 200 ft and your heading within 15° for 2 minutes.
• Land back at the school, 500 fpm or softer, after at least 10 minutes in the air.
• The usual rules apply: real time, no slew.

How to

1. Open the Aircraft market: every type, new from the factory or used listings around the world, cheapest first.
2. Pick one: its age, hours, condition, where it is, and a quote for each way to pay.
3. Choose where it's delivered (for a fee), or Collect it myself and ferry it home.

Ways to pay

• Cash, or an aircraft loan: 50% down, over 10 years.
• A lease: a 3-month deposit, for 2 to 7 years. Lease-to-buy: pay 10% at the end and it's yours.
• A new company's first aircraft can also come on the starter lease: lease-to-buy with no deposit, paid weekly, its ratings included (Your first day).
• Rent by the flight hour from operators and listings near you: dry, with a daily minimum.