I highly recommend www.fseconomy.com

It hasn`t the real big birds in it though, as it started with bush-flying in mind. Biggest birds are around 70 seats.

You can do anything between flying as a single pilot with a rented plane to running a network of FBOs. This is the Group I`m "working" for: http://www.german-flight-corporation.de/

It really brought be back into flying FS, made me buy FSX (and a ton of addons).

And it`s free. Might be looking a little complicated at the beginning, but the community is very helpful.

IL-2s campaigns are dynamic...

You can also try a virtual airline. I joined one to have more of a purpose flying FSX and ended up being a hub manager.

http://www.simulatedunited.com/

You don't have to fly on VATSIM for these but you can if you want the whole ATC experience.

All depends on what you want. VA's are for the airlines

Thanks for the new replies folks. (PM's to some of you are en route) It's always nice to find such a welcoming friendly forum. Sadly I have found that this is not always the case with flight sim forums. (All forums have their trolls and A-holes of course, but oddly enough in my travels, I've found that we flight simmers seem to have more than our fair share.)

Online airlines you say? As much as the idea fascinates me, I'm not ready for an online alternative yet. Firstly I'll still learning to fly and secondly... well... I'm not sure I'd have the time needed to do justice to something like that and not let my fellow online flyers down.



Hi Heretic, are you sure about that?

A dynamic campaign generates missions on the fly, reacting to what you did on your last flight. (As per "EECH", or "Total Air War") My Old friend "IL2" on the other hand, has scripted mission descriptions at the start of each mission and strings a series of these together to make up a number of mini campaigns.

Badger

I would say,

fseconomy is almost perfect for you. You can really do what you want, in FSE you only have to book your assignments, rent a plane and fly your job. F.E. you can rent a C172 for a 80 NM flight with three PAX. You fly, land, apply your Parking Break and the server logs your flight and pays your virtual fee (minus the rent and fuel costs. Once you get more familiar with the system, you can rent bigger planes and do multi-hops. Later you might want to buy your own planes or FBOs or even open your own Group (or join one). If you own a plane, you have to care for maintenance, repairs and fuel. (flying into a forgotten place where no fuel is available is a really bad idea, you might have to fly in fuel drums to get your bird airborne again). If you own FBOs, you have to care for supply and fuel to keep them going. And if you you find a place with a room for one FBO, you fly in building material and build your own one, build PAX terminals and or repair shops. No need to fly online, you only need a internet connection for the client with which you book your flights and logs your flight, fuel use, rent time. FSE is really what YOU make out of it. Fly once a week, or several flights a day, your choice. The nice thing IMO is, the most valuable flights are around 100 to 150 NM, so lots of action, no cross continent flights on Autopilot.

Be warned though, it`s addictive. I just checked my stats, I`ve done 720 flights within the last two and a half years. The downside, as FSE is privately run, the server at times has outages.

cool...will have to check that out!

I always fly FSX with FS Economy, great group of people on there. You can fly anything from a J-3 cub right up to a 330 seater Bristol Britannia, it's mostly prop stuff with a leaning towards bush flying. You hire planes initially until you have saved up enough or taken out a loan to buy your own plane.

If exploration is your interest....


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pole-Add-FS-2004-FSX/dp/B002C1B3L0

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discover-Great-Britain-PC-DVD/dp/B0030GEQIS/ref=pd_sim_vg_h__7

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discover-Arabia-Add-2004-FSX/dp/B002MZZSIU/ref=pd_sim_vg_h__2

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discover-Europe-Add-2004-FSX/dp/B002MZZSIK/ref=pd_sim_vg_h__1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discover-The-U-S...4502&sr=1-1

Thanks again all

Badger

Certainly CoD is completely undynamic as far as I am concerned. Even FSX is more dynamic than IL2 and CoD (in that you can often select new objectives on the fly) and the weather changing etc can force you to make changes to your flightplan etc. IL2 and CoD dont have any of that to my knowledge or at least they didnt the last time I looked (but I admit I didnt pay much attention to IL2 as I just didnt like the whole premise much). Certainly CoD is a flat as a pancake in terms of any surprises or excitement once you have played through a given mission once. And even when you are playing the mission the first time its pretty dull most of the time (no AA over German airfields, no AI generated interceptions over France, etc). I wasnt impressed with either sim much. Give me the dynamicism of the Falcon 4 and BOB2:WOV campaigns any day.