Passive Income Specifics

[Subicsaint]

I've read that in order to get a passive income, one must have two planes. Now is that 2 planes in the same company or just 2 planes? I currently have a Light Cargo company with my C172 and am saving up to purchase a Diamond D62 (?) and start a VIP Shuttle company.

I guess basically I'm asking that when I start my VIP Charter Co with my 3mil Diamond turboprop, will I then have passive income?

[[EVO] Dan]

2 separate planes (can be in same company or different ones), crew mod needs to be enabled, and they need to be in a flyable state too.

They will only generate passive income whilst you are flying too (not when the game is in menu or not running).

Not sure how effective the 172 is for passive income though, as when I tried it last time the plane got quite damaged from each flight, but this may have changed by now.

[Eva]

You need two planes but they can be in different companies. The one you want to generate passive income should be set to crewed. The one you want to fly must be set to NOT have a crew.

Passive income will be generated each day at 0 UTC (i.e. currently 7pm Eastern). You must NOT be in the game at that time.

I would suggest for your second plane get a Vision G2 instead of the Diamond. They cost only 710 grand new, they are fast, they are easy to fly, and they have relatively few bugs. You will generate back the cost quickly if you do any significant amount of VIP charter with it.

My experience is that C 172s are quite good at generating passive income. I currently have a fleet of 2 C 172s flying cargo, and 3 vision jets flying charter. The one vision jet is uncrewed and is what I actually fly. 3 hours of flying a day generates roughly 250 thousand credits passive income. The 3 hours flying will generate that and more.

[Subicsaint]

Thank you very much for the info. I'll take your advice on the Vision G2. I currently have 5/10 VIP missions I have to complete before I can start the new company. They seem to come up few and far between. I refuse to fly a DH2 on a long flight since as far as I can tell it has no autopilot.

[vfirestormv]

Also make sure to shut the sim down before 12 UTC time, 7 pm est or the passive income will not tally for that day. You can start the sim up at 12:01 UTC, but I would wait until 12:05 UTC just to make sure.

This is likely a bug and will get fixed in a future update.

[Subicsaint]

Thanks. 4pm Pacific for me...

[kimmy]

Originally posted by Subicsaint:

Thank you very much for the info. I'll take your advice on the Vision G2. I currently have 5/10 VIP missions I have to complete before I can start the new company. They seem to come up few and far between. I refuse to fly a DH2 on a long flight since as far as I can tell it has no autopilot.

+1 on the Vision G2 - ONLY 710k, autopilot + autothrottle = practically flies its self from initial climb to final, cruises at ~310kt, relatively powerful engine, chartered flights can be completed in ~20-30mins with increased sim rate, excellent ground handling compared to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ C172/C208 who can't turn, and the least buggy of all the planes i've tried in career mode.

the down side of it though is it only earns 150-250k/trip where the C208 on medium cargo can get you 1M/trip... but the C208 is an ass to fly lmao

by the way.. i haven't seen a single Chartered VIP mission.. all i've got so far are the Private chartered missions.

[Eva]

The VIP missions use a different set of planes. I haven't bought one of them yet, so not surprised I'm not getting them. I have done the gold mission that kicks it off.