To say that it has been busy over the last two weeks would be an understatement, finally the past 18 months is starting to pay-off and Aeroconomy is now starting to rollout (which finally feels great!)

New flight achievement: Tribute to James Lovell: Navigator of the Impossible

For all you pilots that love our FsHub achievements, JimG has added another (single-leg) flight achievement earlier today and is now available for all pilots to fly and obtain the bage. Feel free to head over to FsHub and check out the achievement details and requirements.

We welcome JimG to the official FsHub Support team!

Some of you may already have seen JimG responding to and helping our users in our Discord or community forums, and, in the past, Jim has been involved with curating many of the Flight Achievements that you all enjoy flying.

Jim has officially accepted a role within the official FsHub support team today and will join the rest of the team in continuing to support FsHub and the amazing communtity that we have here, but in a more official way.

Welcome to the team Jim!

The Aeroconomy World Event (Greek Islands Wildfires 2025) synopsis

For 48 hours, as mentioned in my previous blog post, we rolled out another Aeroconomy feature – The “World Event” feature, and we’re pleased to say that it was a raging success.

The event (the World Relief Fund) paid out a grand total of $9,256,094 to all of the pilots that took part in the two-day event.

You awesome pilots competed a total of 514 flights, evacuating 138,242 citizens and delivering 12,951 tonnes of critical care packages (cargo).

I think we can all agree that the event was a ton of fun, and I wanted to congratulate all those pilots who took part in the event.

A few FsHub members have asked for a few stats to be published and so, I’ll be publishing these shortly on the “World Relief Fund” website – so keep ya eyes peeled!

Unfortunately, there appeared to be some issues with MSFS2024 pilots experiencing CTD’s when using JoinFS – We’re hoping that a support ticket or bug report (reported via GitHub) can be fixed really soon, but we’ll keep an eye on things!

Would you like to join the FsHub Support team?

We have been feeling the pressure a tad more recently with the recent rollout of Aeroconomy, and with many of the new features we’ll be rolling out soon, we suspect that we could do with an extra pair of hands (in addition to Jim joining the team).

Ideally, we’re looking for a member of the FsHub community who has been active for more than 2 years, flies regularly and is confident in how FsHub and other tools and services (such as LRM) work.

Some of the roles and responsibilities that this voluntary (unpaid) role consists of is as follows:-

• Actively seek to respond to and assist users on our Discord server and community forums with issues they may be having with FsHub, the LRM client and going forward, Aeroconomy too!
• Assist with data entry (such as Aircraft technical data – All data can be found on Google 😉), curating global achievements, reviewing ICAO change requests and soon, approving Aeroconomy-related requests such as “Property planning permission” requests.
• Regularly Monitor our official support ticket system and triage (assign tickets to Bobby) or respond back to assist users where possible.
• Action other requests utilising our backend admin panel (for FsHub-related requests such as airport data corrections, account deletion requests and virtual airline archival requests.

If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you. Please drop me (ballen) a DM on Discord if you would like to put forward your interest.

What are we working on next?

Personally, I’m pushing hard on preparing the “Property portfolio” feature that I promised would be released on the 1st of September (and will be).

We will also be ramping up on finalising and configuring the “technical data” for the many other aircraft that are not yet “Aeroconomy-compatible” – We have 542 aircraft still to work through, research on, and submit the missing “technical data” that will then make these aircraft available in the Aeroconmy world and to date, we have completed 111 so far!

In addition to the above, you can expect many more jobs, aircraft types, and customers to be added to Aeroconomy between now and September 1st, too!

I’m also looking at replacing the current forums with a more modern, mobile-responsive forum solution – something that will, no doubt, be very useful with all of the Aeroconomy-related discussions that will likely start “cropping up” very soon, with the upcoming and additional features in Aeroconomy! Discord is great but a modern forum is probably more useful for deeper discussions and advertising sale items, etc!

I’m also desperate to make further improvements to the main FsHub website too, such as developing an improved Radar maps (for the global radar and virtual-airline-specific radar pages). I realise that we have several more, experienced software engineers using the platform and so, if you have the skills and would like to contribute to FsHub, to save me some time (develop replacement radar pages) please drop me (ballen) a DM on Discord.

Well, for now, I’m going to head to bed and feel sorry for myself (that I’m starting the first of seven nightshifts tomorrow!

Bobby and the FsHub Team!