If you’ve ever sat in front of your simulator, aircraft loaded and ready, and completely blanked on where to go… well, let’s just say that’s a common problem. Nowadays there’s no lack of utilities that attempt to bring some purpose to your flights, and today we’re introducing you to another one: FlyHub.
The platform launched in public beta at flyhub.app and has already crossed 1,000 users, picking up a healthy amount of new features along the way. What started as a schedule browser and flight tracker has grown into something with considerably more depth, including a private jet operations mode, curated tours, type rating badges, and a career mode still in development.
FlyHub is a companion app, not a simulator add-on in the traditional sense. It sits alongside MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, or X-Plane 12 and connects via a lightweight desktop client that pulls telemetry from your sim in real time. There’s no complex setup, and the developer says it’s built to stay out of the way while you fly. Console simmers on Xbox and PlayStation are also supported through a manual mode, which lets you log and score flights without a direct sim connection.
The foundation of the platform is schedule browsing. FlyHub currently indexes over 130 active airlines, and you can search by route, by airline, or by aircraft type to find something to fly. Once you’ve booked a flight, it lands in your personal queue ready to go. SimBrief integration lets you pull your flight plan directly into the app without leaving it.
When you’re in the sim, the desktop client tracks everything: climb rates, flap and gear deployment, sim rate, speed, and heading throughout the flight. After landing, a scored debrief breaks down your performance and plots key events on a map, showing exactly where you configured flaps and gear on approach, and how your touchdown measured up.
It’s a familiar concept if you’ve used tools like My FS Flights or SimToolkitPro, though FlyHub’s angle is less about raw data analysis and more about giving your flights a reason to happen in the first place.
Schedule generator and historical routes
Beyond browsing individual flights, FlyHub includes a schedule generator that builds multi-leg itineraries between any two airports. You set the number of legs, pick a direction, and the system pieces together real-world connections to get you there. The results won’t always follow the most geographically sensible path, especially on longer chains, but it’s a genuinely fun way to discover routes and airline pairings you’d never plan manually. The developer admits there’s room to improve the routing logic, and it’s being worked on.
The historical routes section is arguably the standout feature of the free tier. FlyHub has compiled a database of schedules going back to 1954, covering airlines that no longer exist and routes that haven’t been flown in decades. You can search for Concorde services between London and New York, look up what specific carriers operated in a given year, and use those as the basis for a flight. For anyone flying vintage or historical aircraft in MSFS, this is a genuinely compelling reason to try the platform.
A calendar view rounds out the planning side, letting you drag booked flights into specific days and build out a personal flying schedule the way you’d manage a real roster.
VIP Ops: the private jet layer
One of the bigger recent additions is VIP Ops, a premium-only mode built around business aviation. Rather than flying airline schedules, you’re operating as a charter pilot, flying missions drawn from over 22,000 real-world schedules from operators including VistaJet, Flexjet, NetJets, Jet Linx, Wheels Up, XO Jets, and FlyExclusive.
The mode introduces a client relationship system where you build reputation with individual clients over time to unlock more missions. Custom missions with any aircraft of your choice are also available, giving it a degree of flexibility beyond the more rigid schedule list.
Tours, type ratings, and achievements
FlyHub has also added a tours system, and it’s entirely free for all users regardless of tier. Tours come in several categories: monthly tours, a world tour, an F1 tour, airline-specific tours, historical tours, and regional tours. Completing a tour earns a custom badge displayed on your profile.
Type ratings work on a similar principle. Flying enough hours in a specific aircraft family earns you a type rating badge on your profile, rewarding consistency and depth over time. A full achievement system has also been added alongside these, with more achievements tied to tours and other milestones still coming.
A scenery scanner has also been added, which reads your installed MSFS and X-Plane scenery and makes those airports available as filters in the schedule generator. If you’ve invested in a particular region or airport, FlyHub will now let you build routes around it rather than ignoring your library.
Tiers and Pricing
FlyHub uses a freemium model. The free Cadet tier includes flight tracking, a rotating selection of five airlines per week, one additional airline you can lock in personally each month, and access to 100 historical routes. The Captain tier, at €5 per month, unlocks VIP Ops, the full active and historical airline and route database, unrestricted scheduling, unlimited logbook history, and priority Discord support. The tours system and the type ratings are available to everyone.
You can sign up and download the desktop client at flyhub.app.
