UPSVO GUIDE · AIRCRAFT AND PLANNING

Choosing a freighter for flight simulation

Choosing a freighter involves more than its appearance or advertised range. Start with the UPSVO fleet overview, then distinguish the aircraft family, the eligible registration and the simulator add-on you will operate. Public specifications are a comparison aid, not a dispatch clearance.

Family, variant and registration

A family name groups aircraft; it does not make every variant interchangeable. A passenger conversion and a purpose-built freighter may have different loading arrangements. The registration selected in Flight Center identifies the provider aircraft for the booking. Your flight-planning profile must be compatible with the aircraft you actually simulate.

Range is not a payload guarantee

Published range and cruise figures describe a reference aircraft. Fuel, payload, weather, routing and the selected profile affect a particular plan. Do not read a range label as permission to carry any cargo weight over that distance. Respect payload and aircraft weight limits together.

Check the cargo once

The provider’s cargo total includes the MINA shipment subset. Do not add the manifest weight a second time. If the planner changes payload or uses an incompatible airframe, stop and reconcile the inputs rather than overriding a limit.

Explore before committing

1. Compare aircraft families and their published specifications in Fleet.
2. Explore route connections in Network.
3. Use your authorized Flight Center to check actual registration and route eligibility.
4. Confirm the simulator variant and planning profile before flight preparation.

This guide explains the selection concepts. It does not certify a particular add-on, substitute for aircraft documentation or claim that an untested dispatch case has passed.

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