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The XP bar for aircraft and airports is much more intuitive than the XP bar for licenses. Please change this XP bar so filling it once makes the license eligible for upgrade.
This is not a request to make license ranking faster - just a cosmetic change for consistency across asset types.
Hello @Karim-CTO-SimFly
Thanks for the reply however I believe your response was intended for my other feature request thread - Vote: Request Removal of the 84 Hour Timer.
This feature request is for the pilot license XP bar to work identically to the airplane and airport XP bars.
Desired UI change: fill XP bar = license eligible for upgrade
Current UI: fill XP bar 10 times = license eligible for upgrade
Sorry, you’re right — I’ll remove it from here. Thanks for pointing it out!
Regarding this topic, could you give me a few more details? What do you mean exactly when you say they’re different?
Let me know if I understood correctly: do you mean that for pilot licenses you first need to reach level 10 to upgrade the rank, while for aircraft and airports the upgrade happens at each individual level?
Is that what you mean?
Sure - perhaps some illustrations will help.
With airports and airplanes, the XP bar displays the progress towards upgrade eligibility.
Figure 1: When the XP bar in the image below reaches the far right, ESMS is eligible for upgrade.
Figure 2: In the illustration below, when the XP bar reaches the far right, I AM NOT eligible to upgrade my pilots license. I have to fill the XP bar an additional seven times before this license is eligible for upgrade
The feature request is to make the pilot license XP bar work identically to the airport and airplane XP bars - full bar = eligible for upgrade.
Does this help?
Thanks Kyndra, yes, I understood it correctly — it’s different because the pilot license has both Ranks and Levels, while aircraft and airports only have levels, and their categories always remain the same.
We know that we could remove all the license levels and simply show a progress bar from Rank A to Rank B.
However, even in that case, it would still be different from the other assets, and the question would come up again: “Why does the license have no levels, while aircraft and airports do?”
That’s exactly why we structured it this way — to at least make it visually consistent, even if not identical.
We know there are other possible solutions, but changing it now would require deep modifications to the Brain, and I assure you it would be a huge job — even if it looks like a small change — because everything is closely interconnected. This would also slow down more important ongoing developments.
That said, it’s important to remember that SimFly is still in a preliminary implementation stage.
Once we see the platform reach full stability and traction, and all major releases are completed, we already plan to rebuild everything entirely as SimFly 2.0.
I really appreciate this kind of constructive feedback — it’s extremely valuable.
Whenever possible, we apply changes right away, and when it’s more complex due to timing or structural reasons, I make sure to note everything down for the future.
Thank you for that explanation!
I fully understand that sometimes what seems simple to an end-user requires significant behind-the-scenes effort 
