Airline Tutorial

Join the Airline

Create Your Account

All pilot registrations are handled via:

👉 FS Airlines
https://www.fsairlines.net/en/home

What to do:

  1. Open the website
  2. Click Register and create your account
  3. We recomend to select EDNY as starting airport
  4. Log in after registration

Join BlueLake Airways

  1. After Log in go into the Crew Center
  2. Below Virtual Airline you can search for: BlueLake Airways
  3. Apply to join the airline
  4. Wait for approval

Once accepted, you are officially part of the airline ✅

Join BlueLake Airways Discord

  1. Join the discord
  2. Read the Rules
  3. Especially Point 11 for the discord Name rule
  4. Select your Role via the Channel & Role option
  5. Say Hallo to other pilots :)

Documentation and Type Rating

Read the Documentation 

👉 Knowledgebase
https://kb.bluelakeairways.com/books

Before continuing, read:

After reading this both parts, you can continue with the next part.

Complete Your Type Rating 

After reading the Aircraft Handbook for the Aircraft you want to fly, you can go to the Training website.

👉 Trainingcenter
https://training.bluelakeairways.com/?redirect=0

Required steps:

  1. Open the Website
  2. register on the website and login after
  3. Select your aircraft course
  4. Study the related Handbook
  5. You must have 90% correct answers
  6. Complete the exam
  7. Pass the test

✅ Only after passing, you are allowed to fly that aircraft

❗You have 3 attempts on every Type Rating exam, if you fail it on all attempts, read the Plan B part below!

ℹ️ Note: For a faster assignment, go in our Discord and Post a screenshot of your successful attempt.

 

Plan B, the training flight 

❗ This part is only for pilots who failed the Type Rating exam three times!

  1. Text a Staff member in the discord and ask for a training flight
  2. Send him links to your three attempts
  3. He will review your tries and give you a feedback either if he let you pass (can happen if you have between 80% and 90%)
  4. If he can't do that, you must do a Training flight with an staff member in discord voice and stream
  5. arrange a date for the flight

 

The training flight
  1. you setup your simulator for a short training flight
  2. This can be either a IFR traffic pattern or a short flight between two airports.
  3. During this flight you will do all parts of the flight according to the Airline SOP and Aircraft Handbook.
  4. If he see that you can handle the aircraft as we imagine it, and you're confident in it, he will give you the type rating

✅ Only after passing, you are allowed to fly that aircraft

Booking & Flight Preparation

Book Your First Flight

In FS Airlines:

  1. Go to Book Flight
  2. Select a flight

Via our Website

  1. Open the Routes Page
  2. Click on the "Book a flight" button
  3. Select a flight

Booking Process:

  1. Press on the Blue and White "book flight" button
  2. Choose Aircraft
    • Must match your type rating
  3. Cofirm Flight details (dont change the Limits)
    • Press on Submit
  4. Optional: Select Packages
    • Optional cargo for additional revenue
  5. Open Briefing Document
    • Right side of the screen or if you skipped Point 4, then on "continue" 
  6. Go to Simbrief 
    • Scroll down
    • Click SimBrief
  7. Own Airframes
    • Select our own Airframe variant
    • You can download them in the Fleet Part of the Knowledgebase
  8. Generate the Flighplan
    • No more edits needed with the custom Airframe
    • Just Generate your Flight Plan

👉 This will generate your operational flight plan

Install ACARS

  1. Go to Downloads in FS Airlines
  2. Download the ACARS client
  3. Install it
  4. Log in with your FS Airlines account
  5. Select your simulator

Install Aircraft Livery 

According to the SOP:

Where to get it:

👉 Livery Downloads

⚠️ Important:

First Flight

Start Your Flight

  1. Start your simulator and prepare the flight
  2. Open the Acars when ready for pushback and/or engine start
  3. Start the Acars tracking
    1. Click on "Fly!"
    2. Click on "Fuel Up!
    3. Click on "Fly!"
  4. During the Acars Setup (Point 3) no inputs needed
    • Don*t start the flight in the Acars before you fueled up the Aircraft in the Sim!
  5. Start pushback and/or engine start
  6. taxi out and get airborne

During the Flight

👉 Follow all procedures from the Handbook

End Your Flight

After parking:

  1. Open ACARS
  2. Click End Flight

Your flight will be logged automatically ✅

Aditional Information

Callsign vs Pilot ID 


⚠️ Always use the flight callsign, NOT your Pilot ID

Important Rules

Need Help?

  1. Check the Knowledgebase
  2. Ask via Discord