Buy → collect → fly → sell

A purchase is not a completed delivery. Collect the correct stock, transport it, and confirm the sale or delivery action.

1. Check aircraft and current rules

Open CargoLife. You need a delivered cargo aircraft; pending aircraft do not count. Confirm access, capacity and actual aircraft location.

Read the current notice. Supplier rules include purchase caps, rolling purchase limits and changing prices. Use the live allowance and quote, not a quantity remembered from another visit.

2. Compare supply and demand

  1. Open Market and select a commodity.
  2. Inspect available stock and purchase terms at a supply airport.
  3. Compare destination demand and sale value.
  4. Subtract purchase, flight, storage and quoted logistics costs.
  5. Choose a quantity supported by your aircraft, cash and collection plan.

Demand changes as deliveries occur. A map price difference is not guaranteed profit.

3. Buy and locate the stock

Review the purchase order and confirm once. In Storage Manifest, find the ready-to-collect purchase and check commodity, quantity, airport, collection window and possible fees.

Under current supplier rules, expired, cancelled or abandoned stock can return to the supplier without a refund. Buy only what you can collect and move.

4. Prepare the tracked delivery

Use Demand Planner and the offered Fly Now workflow. Confirm aircraft, source inventory, quantity and destination, then follow simulator setup and preflight.

Choose CargoLife in freight setup rather than an unrelated contract source. Check the onboard manifest. An empty-aircraft transfer is not a cargo-delivery method and loaded CargoLife aircraft can be blocked from it.

5. Complete and reconcile

  1. Fly to the intended airport and complete the tracked flight.
  2. Inspect the cargo location and sale or delivery manifest.
  3. Confirm the applicable action and read its result.
  4. Check remaining stock and Cargo Log before starting another job.

A warehouse is not required for the basic manual loop, but is required for warehouse storage. Supplier trust follows a completed manual supplier cycle, not simply more purchases.

Next: storage and warehouses.