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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 A Guide To The Most Passive Income Company
One important thing to note is it's taken me over 200 hours to learn and understand how the career mode really works, and honestly in that time what I've learned - is the company system is a little broken. With this in mind, it may change in the future but let's get into it.
Time Is Money
Let's understand one key point - time is money, so with that in mind the best company you can buy is a cargo company. For roughly an hour's work you carn upwards of 40,000 credits on the lower end, and 500,000 credits on the upper end. I'll take you through all the steps - I know you'll want to earn all your certificates/type ratings but it isn't worth the money when you're early on. Focus on getting your turboprop certificate.
Unlocking Companies
Once you've gotten to the level of unlocking companies (Roughly level 24-26) you'll be able to purchase a company, however, don't jump the gun - buying a flight-seeing company isn't worth it yet. Save your credits for the time being you'll want to focus on doing Employee missions.
Specialization
In your skill tree, you'll want to focus on unlocking "Cargo Transport Light" first, you'll need to do a few missions doing random flights, my suggestion is skydiving missions, they pay the best for how long they take - you can also use the skip function on these missions, they'll still count towards your skill tree.
Buying Your First Company
(You'll only have 1 aircraft)
Now you've got some money saved up and you can do light cargo missions, you should be able to purchase a light cargo company. This is where you'll really start earning money. You'll want to purchase a secondhand Cessna 172, go through to the insurance page - BUY THE CHEAPEST. Premium insurance on such a cheap aircraft isn't worth it. You'll lose money on your passive income.
Back To The Grind
You'll now want to go back to your skill tree, now focus on "Medium Cargo" - this is where the big money is - you may need to go back to employee missions to get all the requirements for medium cargo. You'll want to really start saving some money, cause you'll need to buy a Cessna Caravan or a PC12 (I Suggest the Cessna Caravan).
Buying Your Second Plane
Once you can afford the Cessna Caravan, you'll want to again buy the cheapest insurance ( I know you'll want to buy premium, but don't it'll eat up all your profits on the passive income)
Now I suggest you read through this post as it'll help you get the money for the next phase - It is a must so read it Here.
MSFS 2024 Most Profitable Career Mode
Scaling The Comapny
Now we're going to scale, let's scale your company up - we want to save as much money as possible. Now we'll want to buy all the Cessna Caravans in the secondhand market, as well as the rest of the 172's - all with the cheapest insurance. The most important part is to ensure you have the crew turned on for all your aircraft - you can do this by clicking on manager aircraft in your company. Then click "Crew" and it should show the crew turned on.
Operating Your Companies
Now we can focus on opening our scope of operations, it's time to expand. Let's talk about the next most profitable company. Now we're focusing on the fixed wing (Planes) so let's talk VIP, VIP is the next best hourly profitable company. You'll want to buy a VIP company and purchase your first aircraft, things are cheaper here at the moment - go to brand new and buy the Vision jet for 700,000 Credits. You'll want to grind out a few more missions of cargo or VIP, I suggest cargo medium as you'll earn more. We're going to do the same as we did with the cargo company, invest in more Vision jets (New) with the cheapest insurance. You'll want to make sure you're sending them to locations with jobs, so check the map and get the aircraft delivered to these locations.
Now've got a small empire of a couple companies, you should start noticing every day you log in you'll be getting passive income. Now let's talk about managing your companies to ensure your companies bring income. Jobs are seasonal, and change locations meaning if the income slows down you'll need to move aircraft around to find the jobs. One of the key things to being able to see locations of jobs is flying around in missions, going to new areas you haven't been to uncover the locations. You can also click on airports in the mission map and faster travel - this will cost money and unlock a small area around that airport.
Important Notes
Again I've gone through everything you must avoid in a post Here, it's a must-read for this all to work so check that out.
MSFS 2024 Things To Avoid In Career Mode
Uncovering as much as the map so you can see that jobs are as close as they can be to the right aircraft. Sometimes this means you will need to transfer aircraft to different airports.
Buying aircraft, there is a fine line between having too many aircraft in the fleet and making passive income in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. If you notice you're not getting as many jobs or profit as expected for how many aircraft you have. Consider turning off the crew option on aircraft that aren't being flown (Or move them to an airport with jobs in the area)
The most important thing for you now is to ensure there is a job around for your aircraft and crew. If there aren't any jobs near the airport or you've done them all. You just going to be hit with insurance bills and you'll slowly lose money.
This is all subject to change, as the team at Asobo and Microsoft - update and change MSFS 2024. I'll make an updated post if anything changes, if you've noticed anything else that might be handy, drop it down below and let me know so I can include it in this guide.
