Managing your aircraft
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Managing your aircraft covers the day-to-day: reading an aircraft's status, giving it a registration prefix and moving it between hangars.
Status
Every aircraft shows one of these states:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Available | Parked in a hangar (or rented) and ready to fly. |
| In use | On a flight right now. |
| Maintenance | Being serviced; cannot fly until the work is done. See Maintenance. |
| AOG | Aircraft on ground: an engine, tyre or brake limit was reached. Needs maintenance before it flies again. |
| Listed | For sale on the Marketplace. Cannot fly while listed. |
| No hangar | Owned but not assigned to any hangar, which can happen to older company aircraft after a company's hangars are reorganised. Assigning it to a hangar you own is free; it cannot fly until then. |
Registration prefix
Each aircraft has a registration prefix shown on the map and in the flight history. You can change it for 350 Pilop Points. The new prefix must be:
- 4 to 8 characters long;
- uppercase letters, digits and hyphens only;
- not in use by another aircraft.
Moving an aircraft to another hangar
There are two separate operations:
- Ferrying the aircraft to another airport. The cost depends on the distance: P$ 2,000 for every 10 nautical miles (rounded up), or one tenth of that amount in Pilop Points.
- Assigning the aircraft to a different hangar you own. This costs a flat P$ 25,000 or Pp$ 250. If the aircraft currently has no hangar, the assignment is free.
An aircraft listed on the Marketplace cannot be moved.
Flying it yourself is the free alternative: the aircraft stays wherever it lands and keeps its hangar assignment, so you can keep flying from the new airport.
Fuel on board
Fuel stays in the aircraft between flights. You pay for fuel when you add it in the Fuel step of flight planning; removing fuel is free but not refunded.