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Control tower
Every take-off, landing and low pass counts as a movement. When the tower reaches its limit, arrivals hold in the pattern and departures wait at their stand. The flight schedule ch …
Fees and airline contracts
Landing, parking and passenger fees, handling charges and 28-day airline contracts explained.
Night operations
Night lasts from 21:00 to 05:00. During that time: Take-offs and landings are only allowed on runways with runway lighting. Based aircraft – flight school, sightseeing aircraft and …
Flight schedule
Plan arrivals and departures per stand, drag flights around and let the schedule check catch conflicts.
Playing together
Host an online co-op session, let friends join and run one airport with a shared budget.
Radio hut
The humble start of air traffic control – one radio operator, one runway, six movements per hour.
Research points
How operating experience becomes research points, how projects queue up and what the research tree unlocks.
Airport management
Hire controllers and managers from weekly applicants – strengths, salaries and experience levels.
Beginner's guide
Your first hour – lay out a grass strip, put up the radio hut, welcome visitors and plan the asphalt runway.
Box hangar
The box hangar is one of the first research projects in the Airfield branch and cheap enough for your first day. Once it is built, the first tenant usually arrives within half an h …
Departure level
A first floor for your terminal with escalators, more room for shops and gates with boarding bridges.
Fire station
Rescue and firefighting for a growing airport – a flight-operations building still in development.
Fuel suppliers
Three fuel suppliers compared – markup, reliability, delivery volume, minimum purchase and contract terms.
Glider club
The glider club is a tier-2 project in the General aviation branch, after the flight school. It consists of four parts: Part Notes Glider strip Grass, 350 to 900 m long, priced per …
Loans and finance
Starting capital, short loans from the county bank, daily interest and what happens if you go bust.
Runways
Grass, asphalt and concrete runways – lengths, weight limits and which aircraft need what.
Security lane
The research Security adds security lanes and the control zone to your terminal. A lane sits on the border between a landside and an airside zone; passengers can only reach the air …
Taxiways
Mown paths, asphalt and concrete taxiways link runways, stands and hangars – and route your traffic.
Weather station
Weather alternates between dry spells of 6 to 30 hours and showers of 1 to 4 hours; about a quarter of the showers are heavy rain. On average it rains roughly a tenth of the time. …
Aprons and stands
Stand Cost For Grass stand about 3,000 € Light aircraft up to 5.7 t, no fixed orientation Paved stand about 6,000 € Turboprops, business jets, regional aircraft Class D about 18,00 …
Baggage system
The research Baggage systems opens level -1 below your terminal. There you build a belt network and its stations: Part Role Belt Moves bags at 30 m per minute, up to 25 bags a minu …
Buses and baggage carts
Baggage tractors with carts arrive with the research Vehicle hall. They are the workhorses of the apron: Departures: the tractor waits at the make-up station of the baggage system …
Fuel farm
Your grass field starts with a fuel pump holding 3,000 litres. Pilots taxi up, pull the tank trailer over and refuel themselves – fine for light aircraft, hopeless for a turboprop …
Fuel trucks
Fuel trucks come with the research Fuel depot, together with the fuel farm. Each truck carries 5,000 litres. When an aircraft needs fuel during its turnaround, a free truck drives …
Gates and boarding bridges
Gates connect the terminal to the apron – on foot, by bus or dry-shod over a boarding bridge.
Pushback tugs
Every aircraft with 40 seats or more – from the Tern T48 regional turboprop upwards – needs a pushback before departure. With your own tug the pushback takes about four minutes: th …
Terminal
The terminal is built on a grid of 8 × 8 m cells. With the first research (Terminal, after the asphalt runway) your terminal may have up to six cells – just enough for an entrance, …