Role select

Three Roles. One World.

One persistent aviation economy, three roles that answer to it. Fly it, run the airlines, run the ground. Pilot Life is live and playable today; the other two are in development.
Pilot Life
Live
Airline Manager
In development
Airport Operator
In development
Roles Interactions
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Passenger
Demand · not a role
Airline Manager
In dev
Pilot Life
Live
Airport Operator
In dev
01 Demand · passengers pile up where the world wants to travel
02 Route · the airline reads that demand and opens the route
03 Crew · the airline pays the pilot who takes the flight
04 Ground · the airline pays the operator for stand, fuel and turnaround
05 Flight · the pilot flies it and delivers the passengers
06 Settle · earnings and reputation fund the next rotation
One economy · three playable roles · one shared passenger pool
Simulator required for the Pilot role only
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The living world

Somebody is always waiting

Passengers in MetaFlight aren’t numbers on a spreadsheet. They have somewhere to be, a connection to catch, and a reason to be in a hurry.
01

They have somewhere to be

A regional field fills up overnight and nobody is scheduled to take them out. That backlog is an opening — and it is yours if you get there first.
02

They have connections to make

Land at a hub and your passengers scatter onto their onward flights. Serve the right hub at the right hour and the whole board moves because of you.
03

They don’t wait forever

Demand builds, peaks and drains. Routes run hot, then go quiet. The map you flew last week is not the map you will fly tonight.
Today the world balances itself. Soon, airlines, airports and their operators will be the ones pulling the strings.
Flight operations
Live

Pilot Life

Your simulator becomes a job. Fly the route, land the people, get paid, get known.
01
Fly in MSFS, X-Plane or P3D — MetaFlight reads the flight live
02
Real passengers with real destinations, not filler cargo
03
A reputation that opens doors, or closes them
04
MetaFlight Airlines always has a line waiting for you
Boeing 737 flight deck at night, captured in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 by Esteban, callsign AFR2797
Capture by Esteban / AFR2797 / B737-800 / MSFS 2024
Commercial operations
In development

Airline Manager

Found an airline and decide who flies where. Open a route nobody serves and you create the demand every pilot on the map can see. Build a fleet, defend a network, and outrun the airlines chasing the same passengers.
Pilots already fly for MetaFlight Airlines today. Player-run airlines are in active development.
Illustrative panel — feature in development
Boeing 737-900 on final approach at dusk, captured in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 by Benjamin, callsign AFR7039
Capture by Benjamin / AFR7039 / B737-900 / MSFS 2024
Ground operations
In development

Airport Operator

Run the field itself, hour by hour. Stands, turnarounds, fuel, baggage, de-icing: the work that decides whether an aircraft leaves on time or does not leave at all. Every pilot on your apron is a real player waiting on your decisions, and a field that runs clean earns the reputation that opens strategic control over the site.
Illustrative panel — feature in development
The chain

Everything you do lands on someone else

You fly them in. An airline decides who flies next. An airport decides where they want to go. And it comes back around to you.
01

Pilots

You fly them in. Every landing changes what the world needs next.
02

Airlines

They decide who flies where, and open the routes you will be flying.
03

Airports

They run the field hour by hour, pull the crowd their way, and set the board you wake up to.
Start flying now and your hours, reputation and history are already in the world when the other roles open. Nothing resets, nothing starts over.
Questions and answers

Frequently asked questions

Yes, for the Pilot Life role only.
MetaFlight connects to external flight simulators to give purpose and progression to your flights.
Airline Manager and Airport Operator do not require a flight simulator.

For the Pilot role, MetaFlight currently supports Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 / 2024), Prepar3D (all versions) and X-Plane (all versions).
MetaFlight does not replace your simulator. It adds career, economy and impact on top of it.

Only if you play as a Pilot.
MetaFlight uses connector tools (such as MF Link) to read live flight data from your simulator. Setup is guided and documented.

That is the design, not today’s state.
All three roles live inside the same persistent world and share one economy, so hours flown, reputation and history carry across every seat you take. Today only Pilot Life is playable; you will be able to add the other roles as they ship, without starting over.

Not yet. Airline Manager and Airport Operator are in active development and will be released progressively.
Pilot Life is live and playable now, and MetaFlight Airlines already flies routes you can take today. Nothing you build as a pilot resets when the other roles open.

It is a promotion, not a separate role.
You start as an Airport Operator and run the field. Airport Manager is what an operator becomes once performance earns it: the same seat, wider authority over strategy, capacity and events. Nothing extra to subscribe to, nothing to switch.

No.
MetaFlight is a persistent aviation ecosystem that connects simulation, management and strategy into one living world.

If you already fly on a simulator, start with Pilot Life.
If you enjoy strategy and tycoon gameplay, Airline Manager and Airport Operator will expand your experience as they arrive.
Ready when you are

Pick your angle on the world

One account, one persistent world. Start flying today and grow into the roles as they open.
A persistent aviation world where simulation meets strategy. Connect flying, management and economy into one ecosystem.
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