Here's the whole path — seven steps from creating your account to filing your first report out of St. Louis. No entry test and free tools. HR will quickly review your application.
Create your account on CFEnet, our crew portal. There's no entry test. HR will quickly review your application, and once you're welcomed aboard you can sign in with your pilot ID.
Our Discord is where the community lives and where every flight posts in real time. Drop into the welcome channel and say hello — it's also the fastest place to get help on your first flight.
Our ACARS client is Stratos. Setup is in the Operations Manual once you are signed in. It tracks your flight and files your report automatically.
SimBrief is built into the portal. Generate a flight plan for your route and you'll get realistic fuel, routing, and payload for your aircraft. New to SimBrief? You can skip it for your very first flight and just fly — but it's worth setting up early.
Three ways, and all of them count: VATSIM for live human ATC, SayIntentions.AI for AI ATC any time of day, or fully offline on your own schedule.
Flying SayIntentions? Open its Settings and select Confluence Air as your virtual airline. If you skip this one step, your callsign and the branded cabin announcements won't fire — nothing will recognize you as Confluence Air. It takes ten seconds and only has to be done once.
Your first leg is CFE100, KSUS → Chicago O'Hare (KORD) — about 70 minutes in a CRJ-550, CRJ-700, CRJ-900 or ATR 42. Bid it in the portal and load it in Stratos, then fly it like the real thing: brief it, fly the procedures, talk to ATC if you're online.
The portal only offers aircraft that can fly the flight. When you're ready, CFE101 brings the aircraft back to St. Louis. It makes a good first rotation, but it isn't required.
When you park and end the flight in Stratos, it files your PIREP automatically. It's accepted automatically too — the only thing that bounces a flight here is a landing harder than about 1,000 ft/min. No check flights, no waiting on a reviewer.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024, or X-Plane 12. X-Plane pilots are full members — we don't lock you out.
Stratos tracks your flight and files the report.
A free SimBrief account for flight planning, and our Discord for the community. Both optional to start, both worth it.
Register, install Stratos, and fly CFE100 out of St. Louis.
Register & fly CFE100