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Book the flight on your airline's site
Stratos doesn’t make bookings. Book the flight on your virtual airline’s website, the same way you always have. Stratos picks up your bookings from there.
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Open Stratos and start your simulator
Load your aircraft at the departure airport. Stratos finds the running simulator on its own: the top bar changes to Connected to and the simulator’s name, with a green dot.If it still says Not connected, click it to try again, or see Connecting your simulator. A simulator on another computer needs the remote simulator setup first.
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Find your booking
Open Flight Tracking in the sidebar. Under Flight Bookings you’ll see what you’ve booked, with the flight number, departure, arrival and aircraft. Click Refresh if a booking you just made isn’t there yet.
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Start tracking
Click Start Tracking on the booking. Stratos runs its pre-flight checks first, such as whether the aircraft is on the ground near the departure airport.If you turn on Auto-Start Tracking (Settings → Plugins → Flight Tracking), Stratos starts on its own once your aircraft is at a booked departure airport. See Bookings and starting a flight for the checks, aircraft changes and what to do when a check fails.
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Fly
Fly the flight as normal. The tracking screen shows your position on the map, the flight phase and a flight log that records events as they happen. You can add your own comments to the log.Keep Stratos open until the flight is filed. If the simulator closes or crashes, Stratos keeps the flight and offers to pick it up again. See The tracking screen and Pauses and disconnects.
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Land and park
Land, taxi to the gate and shut down. Stratos records the landing as you touch down and moves through the landing, taxi and arrival phases on its own.
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Submit the flight
Click Submit in the flight log panel. Stratos asks you to confirm (Submit Flight Early?) if you haven’t landed yet, and your airline may only let you submit once you’ve arrived.With Auto-Submit Flight on (Settings → Plugins → Flight Tracking), Stratos submits for you once you’re parked at the destination gate with the engines off. See Submitting or cancelling a flight.
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See how the landing went
Open Landing Analyser in the sidebar. The Latest tab shows your landing report: the score, landing rate, g-force, where you touched down on the runway and how stable the approach was. See The landing report.
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Check your airline's site
Your flight report (PIREP) goes to your airline’s crew system, so you’ll find it in your logbook on their site, ready for whatever review your airline does.