From sign-up to a logged flight in an afternoon. Here's the whole path — eight steps from creating your account to filing your first report out of St. Louis. No entry test, free tools, and you can do it the same day.
Create your account on the crew portal. You'll get a pilot ID and land straight on your dashboard. No entry test, no waiting on approval — you're a pilot the moment you register.
Our Discord is where the community lives and where every flight posts in real time. Drop into the welcome channel and say hello — it's also the fastest place to get help on your first flight.
Our flight tracker is vmsACARS — free, and it comes with your account. Download it from the Downloads page in the crew portal, then connect it using the API key on your profile. Full setup is in the Operations Manual once you are signed in. It tracks your flight and files your report automatically — nothing else to buy.
SimBrief is built into the portal. Generate a flight plan for your route and you'll get realistic fuel, routing, and payload for your aircraft. New to SimBrief? You can skip it for your very first flight and just fly — but it's worth setting up early.
Three ways, and all of them count: VATSIM for live human ATC, SayIntentions.AI for AI ATC any time of day, or fully offline on your own schedule.
Flying SayIntentions? Open its Settings and select Confluence Air as your virtual airline. If you skip this one step, your callsign and the branded cabin announcements won't fire — nothing will recognize you as Confluence Air. It takes ten seconds and only has to be done once.
Your first leg is CFE100, KSUS → Chicago O'Hare (KORD) — about an hour in any of the CRJs. Bid it in the portal or load it straight into vmsACARS, then fly it like the real thing: brief it, fly the procedures, talk to ATC if you're online.
When you park and end the flight in vmsACARS, it files your PIREP automatically. It's accepted automatically too — the only thing that bounces a flight here is a landing harder than about 1,000 ft/min. No check flights, no waiting on a reviewer.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024, or X-Plane 12. X-Plane pilots are full members — we don't lock you out.
vmsACARS tracks your flight and files the report. No cost, no subscription.
A free SimBrief account for flight planning, and our Discord for the community. Both optional to start, both worth it.
Register, install vmsACARS, and fly CFE100 out of St. Louis — you can do it today.
Register & fly CFE100