Review, Stabilise and Grow Your Company
The learning sequence ends with a repeatable review. Before adding another route, aircraft or production line, establish that the current commitments can finish and the next operating period is funded.
Step 1. Confirm context and urgent work
Read the active company, world and personal/VA context. Review pending jobs, running work orders, regular-route occurrences and contract deadlines. Distinguish a draft, an accepted obligation, an operation in progress and a completed result.
Deal first with the next time-sensitive requirement. A profitable future route does not rescue a contract that cannot be delivered before its current deadline.
Step 2. Check aircraft and people
For the next departure, verify location, status, inspections, failures, configuration and crew. Check rest, training and transport before counting an employee as available. Reopen dispatch for the actual fuel and load calculation.
For the tutorial company, keep N5454S, Hina and the Academy C172 group as separate records: owning the aircraft and saving a crew preset does not mean a flight has run.
Step 3. Check facilities and supplies
Inspect FBO construction, usable fuel and pending deliveries. Review factory inputs, food, staff, output and activity. Check owned-airport kit stock at the airport where payment is due.
The tutorial's EDHL FBO has construction stages, LFPT holds a 30-ration reserve, and the Food Mixer remains unbuilt. Those are specific checkpoints to revisit, not completed production capacity.
Step 4. Reconcile the money
Read Current Cash, then use the ledger to explain significant changes. Compare operating performance over consistent periods and read the Balance Sheet's report date. Include recurring wages, aircraft charges, loans and facilities in the cash reserve.
Treat unsold output, outstanding contract payments and available cash as different things. A good-looking inventory total does not pay an imminent fuel invoice until it becomes spendable cash.
Step 5. Review actual results
Use flight records, contract progress, factory logs and transactions to assess what happened. Compare the same operation across those records using dates, references and aircraft registrations.
Screenshot placeholder RG05 — complete operating review. After the tutorial's actual flights and first production cycles, capture their registered results and financial entries. Add a short comparison with the original estimates. Leave this pending while those operations remain unperformed.
Step 6. Choose one next improvement
Select the constraint that most affects reliability: missing crew, long repositioning, insufficient fuel coverage, unsuitable job loads, poor input supply or uncollected output. Improve that constraint before adding another dependent activity.
Use a small trial and compare the result over a defined period. Expand a route when its actual demand, capacity and operating costs support expansion; expand industry when supply and collection can keep the additional machine productive.
Step 7. Leave a clear handover
Before ending a session, note active commitments, their deadlines, construction and delivery ETAs, and the next required action. Leave no ambiguous confirmation open. If another operator uses the same company or Companion, state which actions were completed and which were only quoted.
The appendices provide concise checklists and routes back to the relevant lessons. Return to them when adding complexity, and keep the flight-dependent placeholders visible until real evidence replaces them.