Good evening everyone, I kindly ask you to remove the air travel tax, unfair in the current context, where you have not yet inserted an alert, for those who use the simulator with fuel that never ends, and the planes purchased by us from third parties, which have realistic consumption, do not coincide with your Simfly planes, given that there are those who cross the ocean in an unrealistic way with planes that cannot due to their availability of fuel, this involves some rentals of abandoned planes in places where then no one takes them back, and an owner to bring it back, is forced to pay, this is truly unfair thank you.
AleItaly
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This is a consequence of the ongoing updates and improvements to the portal. Nevertheless, it’s totally normal at this stage.
But you’re right. Developers definitely need to speed up resolving the range issue and displaying flights on a more appropriate map.
The situations you mention go against the spirit of rentals and the good intentions of the people who offer their properties.
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Certainly, this is a problem as long as the issue of out-of-range flights remains unresolved. But logically, the first solution is to eliminate the possibility of carrying out this behavior.
Once the aircraft has a range that matches its specifications (I believe it’s not enough to simply not pay pax—aircraft shouldn’t be allowed to fly beyond their range), obviously anyone renting an aircraft is exposed to the risk of it being moved, not necessarily by a single long flight, but through a series of consecutive flights by different users. You wake up, and when you go to use your aircraft, it’s on the other side of Europe.
A possible solution, taken from a similar platform, is to include a distance-based fee in flight payments. This way, flying farther reduces your profit, while getting closer increases it. That encourages users who want to earn money to consider round trips, and some even seek out aircraft far from home to bring them closer and make extra money on their flights.
Best regards.
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There could be a couple of steps to activate in order not to have an unnecessary and illogic behavior by some user to bring a plane way far from its range. Even though its strange a user would do a 10 hour flight when he would get only pax for the first 3 hours, unless a voluntary move to make a “damage” to the owner. 
One other step could be the rule of putting prior the flight, departure and arrival airport, so the system can check the range and not authorize the flight. But of course he can decide to go over, and in that case a warning to a flight cancelation.
Maybe letting a maximum fee for movement of the aircraft.. let’s say a c172 can make 800 miles. A user brings a cessna away 1200 miles the owner will be charged just for 800 miles.
Ps. The idea of distance based fee is also a good idea.. i’m bringing a trinidad tobago tb20 that ended up in antarctica, back to his home in North Dakota.. its a long trip, but fun, trying to find jobs on the way..
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I think your second option would be good top prevent this kind of flight. Buuuut the system let flight without flight plan. The flight plan must be necesary to rental missions.
Buuut (again) you could set a close airport on flight plan and later you can do a PinkFloyd and move the plane to the dark side of the moon.
Things can change also in the system. 
And as you say, and how I mentioned, i can decide no matter the plan, to go somewhere else, that’s why, or a cancel flight, or just make a maximum transportation fee according to the max range.
You are the owner of the planes so apply your rules…I personally apply the 3 day rule or to be more precise the 72 hour rule…when you rent your plane you can no longer take it back and take it back until the 72 hours expire from when the plane is stopped in one place at the end of the 72 hours you take your plane back at one of your airports it’s a rule that I have already been applying for some time and you must equip a private timer for every single plane you have.
How do you apply the rule? You take it away from the rent? I didn’t understand how can you force a user to respect your rules?
It’s not an obligation, it’s simply a deadline. If you leave the aircraft parked at an airport for 24+24+24 = 72 hours without anyone else leasing it, I’m forced to take it back and return it to my home airport. However, if within those 72 hours another user leases the aircraft again, the 72-hour countdown resets to 0.
The goal is to keep the aircraft generating income and not sitting idle without generating any revenue.
But that’s not what we’re talking about. Even if you do that, they might leave the aircraft on the other side of the world, and you’d have to pay a significant amount to recover it, which would make your profit zero or even cause you to lose money.
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Even if the aircraft, after 3 or 4 flights—or even just one—generates only 3 PAX per flight or 6 PAX in a single flight, that profit is still enough to cover the costs of bringing your aircraft back. This is exactly the topic we’re discussing; I never go off-topic.
To get to the other side of the world, you need multiple flights.
I think you believe you will generate too much pax for a rental, when the pilot gets 60% of the profit.
But this is not the case. We are talking about a single flight with unilited fuel from europe to usa. It will not get you more than 0,5 pax if lucky and bring it back will cost maybe 3 or 4 pax
Hello everyone,
I’d like to inform you that we’re working hard to release the new rule regarding aircraft operational range as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we’re also closely monitoring the prices for instant relocations.
We’ll keep you updated as soon as possible 
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This is the real solution! Nice!
Thanks for your effort
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Hi Karim, if you go to the “Active Asset” page and use the “airplane” filter, you’ll notice that each aircraft has a small green dot below it.
Can I ask why the dot stays green even when the aircraft is under maintenance, instead of turning red as it should?
The dot has only two colors: red and green.
Would it be possible to add another color, like yellow, to indicate when the aircraft is being flown by another pilot and not the owner?
It would be enough to replace the green with yellow in that case.
Hi Symonx6,
the green dot on the asset card indicates that the aircraft is active, while the red dot means it still needs to be activated.
You’re right — it can cause some confusion, especially in situations like maintenance.
We’re currently working on improving the entire UI/UX, and we appreciate your feedback.
In the meantime, we’ll implement a small temporary change until the full graphic update is ready.
Regarding your request, there is already a “Live” section on the aircraft detail page that indicates whether your airplane is currently in flight or not.
However, it’s an interesting idea to include this information directly on the asset card for quicker visibility.
I’ll pass the suggestion along to the UI/UX team.