Hello there! The current base version of Self-Loading Cargo is "1.6, The Interactivity Update"!
Be sure to check out the changelog to see what's new and the development roadmap for information on future releases!
😊 RELEASE UPDATE - 31st August 2026 0000z - Please ensure you are running the latest 1.6.7.3 release update. See changelog for release info!
Self-Loading Cargo - Line Pilot

Join your favourite airlines, generate multi-leg flight schedules and manage persistent cabin maintenance issues for your flight simulator fleet.
- Join Your Favourite Airlines
Over 5,000 real-world airlines to choose from with no limit on the number you can join - just make sure you have time to fly! - Manage Your Aircraft Fleets
Want to fly your favourite addon aircraft? Add them to your fleet and start flying immediately - no grind required. - Generate Flight Schedules
Not sure where to fly? Use the flight generator to automatically build the sectors for your day based on over 60,000 real-world and community generated routes - Flight Turnarounds
Seamlessly transition between flight sectors and dispatch your next flight while you wait for people to deboard and baggage to offload! - Aircraft Maintenance Issues
Each aircraft cabin is now persistant across flights - if someone breaks a seat recliner in the cabin, it'll need to be fixed or the next passenger may not be happy! - Checkrides To Maintain Your Flying Standards
Climb the ranks using the Self-Loading Cargo™ Scoring system and face mandatory checkrides if your airline feels you're slipping! - Awards System
Get recognition for flying into challenging or dangerous airports, flying consistently and performing well for your airlines.
What is Line Pilot?
Line Pilot is an addon for Self-Loading Cargo™ which allows you to fly for multiple airlines, generate multi-sector flights (including turnarounds), manage your aircraft fleets and climb the ranks by passing promotion checkrides based on your flying competency.
It also brings a persistent cabin to each of your flight simulator aircraft so that any damage that occurs to components such as seat trays, window blinds, recliners etc during a flight also affects subsequent flights (and passenger satisfaction) until the issues are resolved.
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Fly for as many airlines as you like!
Line Pilot allows you to join airlines, generate your own flight schedules and fly your favourite addons as you like while gaining reputation, climbing ranks and managing aircraft issues for each flight.
Ranking & Promotion / Demotion Checkrides
Starting as a "Second Officer" you can work your way all the way up to "Senior Captain" by flying at competency levels demanded by each airline, with mandatory checkrides determining your continued eligibility for service if your piloting is not up to standard.
Detailed Pilot Statistics
Line Pilot keeps a record of all of your flights and shows stats for each pilot across all of your flights including your average flying grade, passenger satisfaction and of course the all-important landing rate.
Career Awards
Earn awards for flying into dangerous airports, flying multiple-sectors and pulling off perfect landings.
Pilot Evaluation
Monitor your progression through the ranks of each of your airlines on the evaluation section of your profile page.
See your reputation climb or fall if you fly or miss scheduled flights, and see how well you're doing on your path to promotion based on both your flying competency and meeting landing rating requirements for the airline during your previous flights.
Detailed Statistics
A summary of your activity for each airline from the statistics section of your profile page.
See your favourite aircraft, departure and arrival airports along with your average landing rates and how many passengers you've transported.
Oh - and don't forget to take some time off if you've got leave available!
Awards System
Flown a mountainous approach or landed so smoothly that your passengers barely noticed?
Line Pilot comes with an award system built in to help recognise the achievements you're most proud of - from smooth landings in bad weather to flying multiple sectors at a time or landing at the world's most dangerous airports - we see you!
Fleet Management
Manage a fleet of aircraft for each of your airlines, with persistent cabin models that receive damage from passengers and affect subsequent flights unless maintenance is performed.
Unlimited Fleet Aircraft
Add your favourite aircraft straight into Line Pilot with no "grind" required to earn the right to fly them.
Each aircraft also has a selectable cabin layout tied to its livery that is persistent across sessions, with individually simulated components accruing damage from passengers that affects subsequent flights.
Simple Identification
Take a screenshot of your aircraft to easily identify which one you want to fly when setting up your schedules.
Line Pilot will also automatically detect the aircraft to use when you're ready at the gate ensuring you're always generating statistics for the correct airframe and your passengers are affected by any issues within it's cabin.
Persistent Cabin Damage
Every cabin has a story with random passenger damage occuring while they use the onboard facilities.
From seat recliners being stuck to personal fans not working, each item causes problems for passengers on subsequent flights - at least until maintenance receive the parts required to fix the issues.
Aircraft Maintenance / Tech Log
Damage to the aircraft cabin is an inevitable consequence of carrying passengers and sometimes things need to be repaired - sometimes it can be done in-situ, sometimes you'll need to return the aircraft to base for more major repairs. You'll need to pay attention to ensure your aircraft is in tip-top condition or else your passenges might start getting a little fed up with things being broken.
Whenever there's damage to any of the components in the cabin an engineer from flight maintenance will enter a log item showing you the problem, how long parts will take to order and where the aircraft need to be positioned for maintenance to be performed..
Automatically Generate Multi-Sector Scheduled Flights
Line Pilot tracks the location of your aircraft fleet and can generate multi-sector scheduled or charter flights for you to fly (including turnaround support) which are fully customisable.
One-Click Schedule Generation
Not sure where to fly? Simply select the number of sectors you want to fly, what time you want to start your schedule and click "Generate".
Line Pilot will search through it's route network and set up sectors and turnarounds for you automatically and if you're not happy, just click "Regenerate" to try again.
Easy Sector Customisation
You can easily modify generated schedules to your liking by editing the details of a suggested sector to match what you need if it's incorrect.
Simply click "Edit" to changed the suggested arrival airport details - departure times for subsequent flights will be recalculated based on the specified flight and turnaround times.
Schedule Modification
If you'd like to customise your schedule further, you can insert new arrival locations between existing sectors or add new sectors to the end.
Simply provide the details for the new sectors and they will be added to your schedule either as sectors between existing ones or as additional flights at the end of the day.
Integrated SimBrief Dispatch
Dispatch your scheduled flights in-app with SimBrief saving the hassle of having to open and close mulitiple applications while you set up your flight.
SimBrief Integration
Automatically generate and dispatch your flight for your other addons without leaving Line Pilot.
Line Pilot will automatically add your aircraft details and flight information into Simbrief for instant generation of your flight which can then be imported into your aircraft and tools such as GSX, Beyond ATC and more.
Flight Dispatching
Generate maps, weather information and NOTAMs for your flight so you're fully prepared before takeoff.
SimBrief will calculate your flight routing and fuel requirements based on the enroute weather and that at both your departure and arrival airports as well as a backup routing in case of diversion.
Instant Importing
Line Pilot will instantly import your dispatch information once generated and apply it to your schedule.
If you want to change anything about the flight you can simply regenerate it via SimBrief before continuing but if you're happy, you can accept the dispatch information and it will automatically import to your schedule.
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Charter Flights, Pre-Flight Briefings & Turnaround Support
Along with being able to generate scheduled flights you can manually enter your own flight plans. A flight briefing is shown before each flight showing airport, rank and cabin maintenance information to prepare you for the flight.
You can use the Dispatch system to prepare for your next sector during turnaround with a seamless transition to the next flight.
Charter Flights
If you have a flight in mind that you'd like to fly, you can manually add it to your schedule.
Use the built-in planner tool to prepare your flight details then dispatch it via Simbrief with the information pre-filled for those ad-hoc flights you want to fly outside of a generated schedule.
Pre-Flight Briefing
Line Pilot will show you what you need to know to make sure you're prepared for every aspect of your flight.
From up-to-date departure and arrival weather to a summary of any cabin-related maintenance issues, you'll get a summary of everything you need to know before you fire up your engines.
Integrated Turnaround Dispatch
Save time getting ready for your next flight while the passengers are deboarding and baggage is offloading.
Line Pilot allows you to use the planner and SimBrief tooling during turnaround so that you can dispatch your next flight without having to wait for turnaround to complete.
Company Messaging System
Receive messages from your airline regarding checkrides, rank requirements and any awards you receive.
You'll also need to request holiday leave from HR if you want to stop flying for a while - hopefully you have some days left!
Locally-Stored Flight History
A local copy of your flight history for each of your airlines.
See where you did well, where you could improve and filter by your favourite aircraft to quickly find the flights you're interested in.
Free, Continuous Updates As Self-Loading Cargo Develops
Line Pilot is powered by Self-Loading Cargo™ so future updates are automatically incorporated.
Check out the Self-Loading Cargo product roadmap to see what's coming next!
Ready to make Self-Loading Cargo™ Even Better?
Head on over to the buy page to activate Line Pilot in your installation straight away with nothing extra to download!
BUY NOW, £19.99One Time Payment!
You must already own a copy of Self-Loading Cargo to purchase and use this addon. Local sales taxes may apply
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Self-Loading Cargo™ required to use Line Pilot?
Yes - Self-Loading Cargo™ powers the flights, aircraft, cabin layouts, cabin crew simulation and pilot scoring used within Line Pilot.
Can I purchase Line Pilot if I don't own Self-Loading Cargo™?
You cannot purchase Line Pilot unless you are logged into your Self-Loading Cargo™ account because the Line Pilot license is linked to it.
Where do I download Line Pilot from once I've purchased it?
You don't have to download anything - Line Pilot is activated within Self-Loading Cargo™ immediately after purchase.
Can I still use the "normal" version of Self-Loading Cargo™?
Of course - you can choose "Single Flight Mode" instead of "Line Pilot Mode" when starting a session and Self-Loading Cargo™ will function as it always has done allowing you to perform a single flight with either full-fat "Captain and Cabin Crew" mode, or the "Cabin Crew Only" mode.
Do I have to work my way up from smaller aircraft before I can fly larger ones?
No. Line Pilot doesn't have any requirements regarding aircraft - you can fly whatever you like and whatever you own. We felt this was important for two reasons: First, you're role-playing a line pilot so it's reasonable to assume you'd be qualified to fly an airliner in that 'world'. Secondly, we didn't want to restrict peoples' usage of their high-fidelity addon aircraft which are sometimes very expensive to buy. It would be a shame for them to be sat rusting in a hangar for weeks on end before you get to use them - so by all means enjoy them!
Can I use the "Cabin Crew Only" mode in Self-Loading Cargo™ with Line Pilot?
No - Line Pilot is focused on the pilot and how well you perform - it would make no sense to have no Captain simulated throughout the flights. You can however still use the "automatic" communications mode if you wish to have a hands-off experience - you just won't receive credit for any score items related to pilot communications in your flight reports.























