The Explorer
The Explorer is the flight search tool you've always wanted. No more hunting through Flightradar24 or FlightAware to find your perfect flight. Now you can search for exactly what you want with infinite options and no limitations.
Why use The Explorer?
Access to over 500 real airline schedules
Our database includes all your favourite airlines, airports and aircraft.
Search for flights like never before
Search for schedules using multiple inputs to find exactly what you want to fly.
Accurate data that's refreshed monthly
Our schedule data is refreshed every month and is as accurate as possible.
Super-low cost and 100% usage based
Buy credits only when you need them, with no limits or hidden conditions.
What is The Explorer?
The Explorer is a flight-schedule finder built for simmers who want realism without the hassle. Filter by departure and arrival airports, airlines, aircraft types, durations, and times of day to instantly discover real-world schedules.
How is it different?
The Explorer is built for flight planning, not plane-spotting. Quickly scan results for route, flight number, equipment, and duration, then open a detailed view with operating days plus local and Zulu times—perfect for planning that next VATSIM / IVAO hop or a long-haul in your favourite airframe. It’s fast, precise, and made to get you from idea to takeoff in just a few clicks.
Easy Dispatching
Seamless SimBrief Integration. The Explorer connects directly to SimBrief for effortless flight dispatching—pick a schedule, hit Dispatch, and your flight details (airline, callsign, aircraft type, route, and local/Zulu times) are instantly pre-filled in SimBrief. It’s the fastest way to turn a real-world schedule into a ready-to-fly OFP.
Is it a Subscription?
No - From now on all of our cloud-based products will use credits. These credits will be linked across all the products we produce and will mean you, the user can have complete control on how much you want to spend.
Below shows exactly how credits are charged to you.
- 1 search result = 1 credit used
- 1 schedule viewed = 20 credits used
Search results are also cached for 1 hour and schedule pages for 24 hours so you wont be charged on repeat searches in this timeframe.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? Check out our FAQ section below for quick answers to the most common queries regarding credits and The Explorer.
The Explorer is 100% credit based. So you choose how many credits you would like to add to your account, and you're only charged when you use the search features. We estimate the average simmer would use 1,000 credits per month - this equates to £5 GBP.
Our current functionality allows search by one or all of the following:
- Departure Airport(s)
- Arrival Airport(s)
- Airline(s)
- Aircraft Type(s)
- Flight Duration(s)
- Time(s) of Day
Nope — this tool is completely cloud based. Meaning all of the data can be accessed on any computer or phone with your preferred browser. Simply login, search, dispatch and use the data in any flight simulator of your choosing.
Yes — on each schedule page there is a button to dispatch with SimBrief. Simply link your account on the Dashboard and go wild. You also have the ability to override the scheduled aircraft type with other airframes and any custom airframes in your SimBrief account.
Great question. With the Explorer, you can filter and search based on exactly what you want to fly. Every detail you search is based on your own choices. There's no need to click on 10 plane icons to find something you might like to do. This ease-of-use and search power you get with the Explorer is unlike any other tool.
Yes — each credit pack expires 12 months after purchase, giving you plenty of time to use them. We'll remind you when credits are nearing expiry.
Not at all. You can enable auto top-up, which will automatically purchase your preferred pack when your balance drops below a custom threshold.