New releases: Multiple Pilot Profiles

Published 2026-07-20 17:59 UTC ยท Releases

Updates for client and web platform

Sometimes I feel a little embarrassed by not coming up with rather obvious ideas. One of those is to have multiple pilot personas per account. Thanks for AEarthbound who came around with that one and helped me test and figure it out.

If you're like me, constantly looking for great locations to fly all over the planet, it's likely that over time you develop a love for certain regions. Some of them are obvious backcountry paradises like Alaska, Idaho, The Canadian Rockies, Papua New Guinea, Himalayas etc. There are also lesser known or frequented areas like Iceland (my personal favorite!), Namibia, Patagonia, Guyana, Kamchatka (spectacular terrain!) and others.

Thing is, constantly switching between these places with one pilot persona feels unnatural. No bush pilot would transfer from Alaska to PNG to do a couple of hops over South East Asia and fly back on the next day to hunt Kodiaks in a Kodiak. Sure, technically it's possible in FrontierWings to do just that (thanks to magic teleportation buttons), but it just doesn't feel right.

One solution is to maintain several pilot personas who can remain in different regions for their own continuous little bush flying stories. And if they all join a group/company you founded within the FrontierWings system, your flying hours from each if your pilots will count towards your flying company.

At some point it might make sense to also have account statistics, so that accumulated hours from all pilots belonging to an account will also be a visible number. Gonna have to think about that.

Anyway: If you feel so inclined, have fun developing your split personalities, and let me know if you have thoughts or suggestions. Happy bush flying!