Active Flight Management

Table of contents

  1. Accessing the Active Flight View
  2. Real-Time Tracking
  3. Speed Dial — Quick Actions
  4. Actions Bar — Radios & ATC
  5. Your Virtual First Officer
  6. Crew Voices — AI Voice Experience
  7. Flight Phase Notifications
    1. Landing Report
  8. Completing a Flight
  9. Cancelling a Flight
  10. Aircraft Change Detection
  11. Sharing Your Flight

Once you have dispatched a flight through the Dispatcher Wizard, FlyAround begins tracking your flight in real time. The Active Flight screen is your command center while airborne.

Accessing the Active Flight View

  • Navigate to Active Flight from the main navigation
  • Or click the active flight shortcut in your pilot summary (top of the hamburger menu)
  • The app automatically redirects to this view when a flight is in progress

Real-Time Tracking

FlyAround connects to your simulator and continuously receives:

  • Current aircraft position (latitude/longitude)
  • Altitude
  • Speed (ground speed / airspeed)
  • Heading
  • Flight phase

The flight phase updates automatically as you progress through your flight.

Speed Dial — Quick Actions

The Speed Dial is a floating menu on the right side of the active flight screen:

Button Action
3D Map Toggle between 2D and 3D map view (disabled while on ground)
My Location Center the map on your aircraft’s current position
LiveMap Open the full live tracking map
Share Copy a shareable link to your flight
Timeline View your flight phase timeline and progression
Loadsheet View weight & balance, fuel, and payload data
OFP Open the Operational Flight Plan document
PAX View the passenger manifest (PAX flights only)
Settings Flight-specific settings and quick actions
Cancel Flight Cancel the active flight (with confirmation prompt)
Complete Flight Mark the flight as complete (available during taxi-in, parking, deboarding, or cleaning phase)

Actions Bar — Radios & ATC

A floating, draggable Actions bar on the flight map shows your COM1 / COM2 / XPDR readout together with quick-action buttons:

  • Click the COM1 readout to open the ATC frequencies list for your departure, destination and nearest airport, and tune a controller with one click.
  • The ATC button opens the ATC conversation for the tuned station — request clearance, pushback, taxi, takeoff and more, fully voiced.
  • Exterior-light and cabin-sign toggles let you flip NAV/TAXI/LANDING/BEACON/STROBE lights and the seatbelt sign directly in the sim.

When ATC clears you to taxi, the cleared taxi route is drawn on the map and shrinks as you advance along it — both to the departure runway and to your assigned gate after landing.

Your Virtual First Officer

With First Officer auto-actions enabled (Settings → System), a virtual FO works the aircraft with you through every phase of flight:

  • Exterior lights — NAV, beacon, taxi, landing and strobe lights at the right moments (landing lights off passing 10,000 ft, and so on)
  • Cabin signs — seatbelt and no-smoking signs per phase
  • APU and fuel pumps — started for ATC-approved engine start, managed on arrival
  • Spoilers and flaps — armed for landing, retracted after
  • Spoken callouts — “80 knots”, “V1”, “rotate”, “positive rate, gear up” and more

The FO also carries out ATC-approved actions — pushback, engine startup, and the line-up preparation when you’re cleared for takeoff.

You can also command the FO yourself — “flaps one”, “gear up”, and with GSX Pro installed “start boarding” or “request pushback” — by binding a First Officer push-to-talk key; see First Officer Voice Commands.

The FO works on both MSFS and X-Plane. You can mute the spoken callouts separately under Settings → PA & Callouts → First Officer callouts (the FO still performs the actions silently).

Crew Voices — AI Voice Experience

With Realistic AI crew voices enabled (on by default, Settings → System), the captain, cabin crew and ATC speak with lifelike AI-generated voices:

  • Cabin announcements are spoken in the airline’s home language and then repeated in English — just like real crew; flight-deck callouts stay in English.
  • Voices are chosen automatically by airline, so there’s nothing to set up. You can steer the crew voice gender in Settings.
  • ATC and dispatcher lines get a VHF radio effect; ground crew speak over the interphone.

AI voice generation uses AI credits. When credits run out, voices fall back to the standard voice rather than going silent.

Flight Phase Notifications

FlyAround sends automatic notifications as your flight progresses:

Phase Notification
Pushback Pushback phase started
Takeoff Takeoff phase started
Climb Climb phase started
Cruise Cruise phase started
Descent Descent phase started
Landing Landing report (see below)
Parked “Ready to Deboard” notification

Landing Report

The landing report notification includes:

  • Descent rate (ft/min)
  • G-force at touchdown
  • Ground speed
  • Wind direction and velocity

Completing a Flight

A flight can be completed when your aircraft reaches one of these phases:

  • Taxi-In
  • Parking
  • Deboarding
  • Cleaning

Click Complete Flight in the Speed Dial. The flight is logged to your Logbook and a full flight report is generated.

Cancelling a Flight

Click Cancel Flight in the Speed Dial. A confirmation dialog will appear — confirm to cancel. Cancelled flights are not saved to the Logbook.

Aircraft Change Detection

If FlyAround detects that you have switched aircraft mid-flight, a warning alert appears. You will be offered the option to cancel the current flight so you can start fresh with the correct aircraft.

Sharing Your Flight

Use the Share button in the Speed Dial to copy a public link to your flight. Anyone with the link can view your live flight on the FlyAround public map at flyon.me.