Open Flying
Choose the Cascade routes and aircraft you enjoy. Build hours and progress through the normal rank structure without a prescribed commuter-to-widebody path.
CASCADE AIR / VIRTUAL AIRLINE
Fly your way.
Or build a career.
Cascade Air is a Pacific Northwest virtual airline built around two ways to participate. Open Flying lets you choose the routes and aircraft you enjoy. Guided Career adds personal, step-by-step progression from commuter flying toward larger aircraft, longer missions, and more responsibility.
OPENfly what you enjoy
GUIDEDpersonal career progression
KGEGhome hub
MSFS · X-PLANEsupported simulators
ABOUT
Built around how you want to fly.
Some pilots want a good airline, a route, and an airplane they already love. Others want a defined path and somebody to notice their progress. Cascade supports both. Every pilot starts with zero Cascade hours, shares the same airline and community, and uses the same live FlightLinq network.
TWO PILOT TRACKS
Structure is optional. Belonging is not.
Pick the flying experience that sounds good to you. Both tracks are full Cascade membership, and you can change tracks later.
Guided Career
Start with commuter flying and work toward larger aircraft, longer assignments, and greater responsibility. Progress is reviewed personally and advancement is managed with you, not just by an automated threshold.
One airline
Both tracks use the same routes, community, economy, and Cascade hour record. We do not import legacy virtual-airline hours; everybody starts their Cascade record at zero.
Your choice is not permanent
If your flying style changes, talk to us. Move into or out of Guided Career without turning your hobby into an HR incident.
CASCADE SUPPLY RUNS
Different airplane. Different destination. Go move the boxes.
Cascade Supply Runs are rotating short-haul cargo missions from Spokane to smaller and harder-to-reach communities around the region. Inspired by bush and supply flying, destinations change regularly, with routes that may include places such as Tonasket, Omak, and other smaller airports where getting there is half the point.
These are not permanent scheduled cargo routes. They are short, changing missions designed to give pilots a break from long passenger sectors and passenger-service workflow while creating more opportunities for piston and turboprop flying, shorter fields, changing weather, terrain, and airports that do not usually appear on the main network.
LIVE FROM FLIGHTLINQ
Current airline data.
FlightLinq supplies current fleet availability, pilot activity, flight records, and recent PIREPs.
Pilots1
Fleet available3 / 3
Approved flights11
Flight hours32.7
Recent flights
APPROVED PIREPS152
KGJT-KGEGA319 · N16185
904
KAVL-KGJTA319 · N16185
352
KBWI-KAVLA319 · N16185
901
KGEG-KBWIA319 · N16185
904
KAVL-KGJTA20N · N11224
352
KBWI-KAVLA20N · N11224
Operations
CASCADE AIRHISTORY
Cascade Air Transport and Air Blue Ridge retired in September 2026.
CAT's flexible approach and ABR's procedural standards now operate under Cascade Air, with a single network that is much easier to maintain than two airlines.
CASCADE AIR