If you find yourself operating a lot of AI piloted flights, it can require constant micro management, preparing and dispatching each individual leg and sending them on their way.

Work orders allow you to create a series of scheduled legs, loading and unloading cargo and passengers along the way and keeping your employees, aircraft and company working even when you aren’t around to manage every detail.
Creating them, however, can be a little on the complicated side and comes with some caveats that you should be aware of to avoid your carefully laid plans being stopped in their tracks along the way and waiting till you can come back to the helm and set them straight.

This chapter is devoted to understanding how the work order system functions, how to set up a new work order and some of the things that can go wrong and cause a work order to be suspended or paused part way through.

The first thing you should be aware of is that work orders can only be used to perform jobs that you have already taken and they cannot perform jobs that have a human-only status tagged on them.

How is the fuel estimation computed in the Work Orders: #

[TOTAL DISTANCE] = [DISTANCE FROM DEPARTURE TO ARRIVAL] + [DISTANCE FROM ARRIVAL TO ALTERNATE] + [30MIN FLIGHT DISTANCE]

[ESTIMATED FLIGHT HOURS] = [TOTAL DISTANCE] / [AIRCRAFT DESIGN CRUISE SPEED]

[ESTIMATED FUEL CONSUMPTION] = [ESTIMATED FLIGHT HOURS] x [ESTIMATED CRUISE FF]

Once you have some jobs lined up, however, you are ready to get started creating a work order so read on with the first section on the next page.