Fuel Selling #

One final option with FBOs is to resell services (either by selling fuel or by providing workshop services to other players). You can find these options by navigating to the My Company Menu → FBOs and then choosing the ‘Manage’ button next to the FBO you wish to offer services at.

You will require to have the fuel seller agreement and workshop service selling skills unlocked before you can provide those respective services.

To sell fuel, you simply need to tick the boxes for 100LL and jet fuel and fill in a value for how much you will charge per gallon of fuel. Also make sure you have enough fuel in stock using the fuel ordering options on the top-right of the management screen! If you have no fuel available, nobody is going to be able to purchase any from you.

Aircraft Maintenance and mechanics #

To start the maintenance of one of your aircraft, go to the Aircraft Detail page and click the “Maintenance” button in the top menu bar.

Multiple mechanics based at an FBO will start working when any aircraft comes in for service at their assigned FBO.

Mechanics are automatically assigned to one of your FBO if they are currently located at the same airport.

A limit on the total number of active mechanics in a single FBO is calculated as: (Airport Size + 1) * 2
e.g. A size 4 airport will allow (4+1)*2 or 10 total mechanics to be active at that FBO.

Mechanics will only work on a limited number of aircraft simultaneously for 10h a day.
The first aircraft to be scheduled for work will have the highest priority.
The limit is calculated as either the total number of mechanics available, or Airport Size + 1, whichever is smaller.
E.g. At a size 1 airport, only 2 aircraft maximum can be under simultaneous maintenance regardless of how many mechanics might be available.
At a size 5 Airport, 6 aircraft might be under simultaneous maintenance assuming you have 6 mechanics assigned.

Additional mechanics are distributed equally amongst all the aircraft currently being serviced.

Cargo hangar #

A hangar fee is applied when you store a cargo at an airport where you don’t have enough hangar room in your own FBO. The price for this service is 0.06 Cr. per LBS per hour.

• You will not be charged until you start the job: the hangar fee is not applied until you first load the cargo in one of your aircraft. This means that you can accept a job and leave the cargo at its departure airport with no charges.
• The hangar fee is applied when a cargo spends more than 3 hours on any airport, and you don’t have enough room in your own FBO hangar to host the cargo.

To avoid paying this fee, you can keep the cargo in one of your aircraft.

If you split your cargo, the leftover cargo is not chargeable until it is loaded its first aircraft.
At the destination, when counting as delivered, it’s also not chargeable.

The following discounts apply depending on the airport size:

Hangar fee worked example:
Discounts apply on all FBO components prices.

We will consider a cargo of 1000lbs that we need to store for 1 week:

With no FBO:

You need to pay 0.06Cr per LBS per hour: for the 1000lbs stored for one week in a hangar you don’t own, it will be:

0.06 * 1000 * 24 * 7 = 10,080 Cr

Remember that this cost can be avoided if you stay less than 3 hours, for instance, while waiting for another aircraft to load it.

With an FBO at a size 3 airport:

(we will not take FBO foundations into account since they are used for all components and not only for the hangar)

Hangar construction costs 60 Cr. Per LBS:

60 * 1000 * 0.4 = 24,000 Cr.

Weekly ownership for this hangar:

2,000Cr.

So, with this hangar, you save 8,080 Cr per week. The construction cost can show a return on investment after about 3 weeks. After the construction cost is covered, you have a very cheap hangar cost :

2000 / 1000 / 24 / 7 = 0.01 Cr per LBS per hour

It is 6 times cheaper than the 0.06Cr per LBS per hour without your own hangar. At airports of size 2 to 0 it is even cheaper.

With an FBO at a size 5 airport:

(we will not take FBO foundations into account since they are used for all components and not only for the hangar)

Hangar construction costs 60 Cr. Per LBS:

60 * 1000 * 1 = 60,000 Cr.

Weekly ownership for this hangar:

5,000Cr.

With this hangar, you save 5,080Cr per week.

The construction cost will be covered after about 12 weeks.

After the construction cost is covered, you have the cheaper hangar costing:

5000 / 1000 / 24 / 7 = 0.03 Cr per LBS per hour

It is 2 times cheaper than the 0.06Cr per LBS per hour without your own hangar.