Project 2F
SimRoster started as a career simulator. It is about to become something bigger.
There is something we have been thinking about since the early days of SimRoster. It did not make it into the first version, or the following updates, and that was intentional. Getting the core experience right had to come first. The rosters, the rank system, the airline themes, the logbook. That foundation needed to be solid before we could build what comes next.
It is solid now.
So today we want to talk about what comes next. We are calling it Project 2F.
What SimRoster is today
SimRoster is a career simulator. You sign a contract with an airline, you get a roster, you file PIREPs, you build hours, you earn rank, you unlock new routes and new aircraft. The experience is structured because real airline life is structured. A commercial pilot does not wake up and decide to fly to Sydney on a whim. They show up, they fly what operations gives them, and they log it.
That structure is what makes SimRoster feel real. It is also, by design, what constrains it.
What it is about to become
Project 2F introduces a second mode of flying inside SimRoster. A mode with no airline. No roster. No departure time you did not choose. No aircraft assigned by someone else.
You pick the airport. You pick the destination. You pick the aircraft.
That is the premise. The rest, we are keeping close for now.
What we can say is this: Project 2F will live inside the app you already have, accessible from the same screen you use every day. It will not replace the career experience. It will sit alongside it, as a distinct way to fly, for the days when you want something different from what your roster gives you.
We designed it to feel like a second product, not a second tab. That distinction matters to us.
Why now
Two things converged to make this the right moment.
First, SimRoster is ready for it. The work we have already shipped around routes, aircraft, your logbook, and simulator preferences now supports a broader kind of flying than a single airline roster alone.
Second, the feedback has been consistent. Pilots who use SimRoster every day have told us, in various ways, that they want to fly outside their roster. A long-haul on a quiet Sunday. A route their airline does not operate. An aircraft their current rank has not yet unlocked. We have been listening.
Project 2F is the answer to that.
What gets logged
Flights completed in Project 2F will appear in your logbook. Your total flight time will reflect them. The same logbook that records your easyJet turnaround from Gatwick to Geneva will record your 2F session, cleanly separated, clearly labelled.
What will not change is your career progression. Rank, carrier hours, and airline stats are tied to your contracted airline and your roster. 2F does not interfere with that. It is a parallel track, not a shortcut.
Your record stays clean. Your logbook stays honest.
A question we expect to get
Will Project 2F be part of the current plan, or will it require a more expensive tier?
No price increase. Project 2F will be available on the current plan, the same one starting at $4.99 per month. If you are a subscriber today, you will have access to it when it ships. Nothing to upgrade, nothing extra to buy.
We want to be straightforward about that because it is the kind of thing that is easy to obscure in a product announcement. So: no new tier required, no add-on, no separate purchase. It is part of SimRoster.
When
We are not giving a date today. We would rather ship something good than ship something on time.
What we can say is that Project 2F is not a distant concept. The direction is set, the decisions are made, and the work has begun. When it is ready, it will arrive as an update to the app you already have. No reinstall, no migration.
If you are a subscriber, you will be the first to know.
One more thing
Project 2F is the first of two major additions we have planned for SimRoster this year. We are not announcing the second one today. But if you have ever thought about what a flight simulator platform could look like if it stopped being only about managing a roster, you are thinking in the right direction.
More soon.
The SimRoster Team