Career tools for Microsoft Flight Simulator have become their own genre. We’ve covered the logistics grind of NeoFly, the ambitious scope of Clear2Land, and more recently the more specialized proposition of FS Kingpin and JetCard. Most of them, though, share a common assumption: that what you really want is to build an airline, manage a fleet, and chase revenue targets. FrontierWings starts from a different place entirely.
The platform, which launched in Early Access about a month ago, describes itself as a structured layer on top of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, built specifically around bush flying. You don’t have to manage a fleet, hire employees, or handle any kind of economy. The idea is simpler than that: pick a mission, fly it, earn rewards, and carry on with your independent bush pilot activities.
Behind the project is a developer called Matt, who has held a real-world glider pilot certificate since the late 1990s and has been using flight simulators since the late eighties. He’s also been running a group bush flying community at FlightSimSafaris.com for the past year or so.
FrontierWings isn’t a product built to fill a market gap. It’s something the developer says he’s wanted to build since the days of Flight Unlimited II, a long-term bush flying career that doesn’t get in the way of the flying itself.
What the platform actually offers
FrontierWings gives you access to dynamically generated bush trips and routes from around the world, a career progression system based on skill and effort, leaderboards, monthly awards, and a dedicated Windows client for mission tracking and upload. The platform says missions are primarily built around small to medium aircraft, so if you’re flying Cessnas, Kodiaks, or Beavers, this is where it’s most at home. That said, you’re free to fly whatever you like, and there are no aircraft ownership requirements or restrictions.
Alongside the dynamically generated missions, there are hand-crafted tours that give the platform some of its personality. Currently available tours include “Lord of the Wings,” a 14-leg journey ferrying tourists around New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings filming locations, “Ring Road Rally Over Iceland” at 18 legs, and “Simplon Orient Express,” which traces one of the world’s most iconic railway routes from the air. Each tour is flown one leg at a time, you can still take other missions between legs, and completing a tour earns you a special award.
Since launch, the platform has moved quickly. Helicopter and seaplane support were added in early May, with new mission filter options for both. A May 10th update introduced custom personal airfields, letting you add up to 500 add-on or custom airstrips to your database for use in mission creation. Found a remote lake you want to return to? You can save it as a personal landing spot.
The most recent significant update, published just last week, introduces player-run aviation companies. Matt is upfront about what this isn’t: “We’re not talking about a complex company management system where the goal is to make as much money as possible. There’s no fleet management, no salaries and no taxes.” Instead, the company system is built around grouping up with like-minded pilots, flying missions together, and climbing the leaderboards collectively. Further features for companies are planned in the coming months.
Matt is explicit about what he’s deliberately leaving out of the platform more broadly: no forced aircraft selection, no spreadsheet-heavy workflows, no personnel to manage. The comparison he draws is with tools like NeoFly, OnAir, or FS Economy, which he describes as solid but often focused on airline-style operations with a level of complexity that doesn’t fit bush flying.
Pricing and access
FrontierWings runs on a subscription model, with a 7-day free trial that requires no payment details. After the trial, plans run at €6.99 per month or €69.99 per year. There’s also a one-time lifetime option at €199, which the developer says is the most direct way to support the project long-term, and which comes with a special badge on your public profile.
Worth a look!
FrontierWings may be in its early stages, but spending some time with it, the simplicity starts to feel like the point rather than a limitation. The mission structure is clean, the tours give you actual places to go, and the fact that each mission picks up where the last one finished means your career has a geographic thread running through it. You’re not just flying missions, you’re slowly making your way somewhere.
It’s easy to imagine how that loop becomes its own motivation. A reason to fire up the sim, hop in a Kodiak, and push a little further into a corner of the world you’d never have chosen for yourself. For simmers who’ve bounced off the complexity of other career tools, or who just want a bit of purpose behind their low-and-slow flying, FrontierWings is worth the seven days it takes to find out.
You can sign up and explore the platform at frontierwings.eu.
