Every flight you have ever taken, someone did this job first.
Ground Ops: Turnaround puts you on the apron of Northstar International, a mountain airfield where the weather has opinions, as the ground crew who makes departures happen. A flight is inbound and it has your stand number on it. Bring her in on the docking guidance, chock the nose gear, cone the wingtips, and work the turnaround: stairs or jetbridge, bags, fuel, water, catering, boarding, pushback. Every machine is yours to drive. Every job is yours to do properly, or to rush, and learn what rushing costs.
The equipment does not come to you. Steps, belt loaders and tractors live in the equipment yard, and fetching them is part of the job. So is keeping the restraint area clear before an aircraft will come onto the stand at all.
Winter is the boss fight. When the snow comes down, a finished de-icing treatment only holds so long. Work the boom through the orange heat of the first pass and the green anti-ice coat of the second, watch the coverage, mind the holdover clock, and get her off the stand before the weather takes back everything you sprayed.
And sometimes it goes wrong. Fuel goes on the ground. A wing catches. The stand becomes an incident scene, the tender is across the field with its beacons off, and the clock that matters now is the one between the first flame and your first water.
Days with weight: 38 scenarios, from a quiet first morning to the shift that decides your season. A six-day duty roster that saves the worst for last. Free Operations with seeded shifts, so you can quote a seed and hand a friend the exact same morning. And full co-op: one aircraft, one clock, a whole crew on the same stand.
A field that lives: a continuous day-night cycle, floodlight pools after dark, fog lying low over the grass at dawn, rain that darkens the apron until the terminal lights swim in it, and a career that pays for the gear you will want next winter.
In your language: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol. Menus, radio subtitles, every lesson and every briefing.
