Getting Started

Last updated: 15 June 2026

FS Kingpin runs alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 as a companion app. It watches your flight over SimConnect and handles your career, missions, and economy. This guide covers getting into your own aircraft early, connecting to MSFS, and installing the in-sim EFB tile by hand if it does not appear on its own.

How do I fly my own aircraft from the start?

There are a few ways to fly your own aircraft at early levels.

Take a loan. The bank in the tablet unlocks at Level 2. Borrow, then buy your aircraft from the Showroom.
Rent an aircraft. Sit in an aircraft in MSFS and accept a mission. You pay to rent it, provided it is an aircraft within your unlocked class level.
Use the sandbox. Settings has a sandbox option that grants $50,000. It is there if you want it, but it sidesteps the career, so it is not recommended.

Connecting to MSFS

FS Kingpin connects to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 automatically over SimConnect whenever the sim is running. The connection is read-only. FS Kingpin only reads telemetry, it never writes to or controls the simulator, so it cannot change your aircraft, weather, or settings.

Start MSFS 2024, then start FS Kingpin (or the other way around). Once you are in the sim with an aircraft loaded, the app picks up your position and flight data. If it is not connecting, make sure MSFS is fully loaded into a flight rather than sitting on the main menu.

FS Kingpin EFB tile, manual install

On some builds the in-sim EFB tile does not always install itself. A fix is in progress. In the meantime you can add it by hand. You can undo it any time by deleting the folder.

Step 1. Copy the EFB add-on from FS Kingpin

Right-click your FS Kingpin desktop shortcut and choose Open file location. If you land on a list of shortcuts, right-click FS Kingpin again and choose Open file location. You should see FS Kingpin.exe and a folder named resources.
Open resources. Inside is a folder called fskingpin-efb.
Right-click fskingpin-efb and choose Copy.

Step 2. Open your MSFS 2024 Community folder

Open File Explorer, paste one of these into the address bar at the top, and press Enter:

Bought MSFS 2024 on Steam:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\Packages\Community

Got it from the Microsoft Store, Xbox app, or Game Pass:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community

Whichever one opens a folder (you will see your other add-ons, or it may be empty) is your Community folder. If both say "can't find the path", you have moved your packages to another drive. See "Moved your packages?" below.

Step 3. Paste and restart

In the Community folder, right-click and choose Paste. You should now have ...\Community\fskingpin-efb, and inside it three items: html_ui, layout, manifest. Make sure it is not double nested, that is, not fskingpin-efb\fskingpin-efb.
Fully close MSFS 2024 to Windows and reopen it. Just backing out of the EFB is not enough.
Open the EFB tablet. The FS Kingpin tile should now be there.

Moved your packages to another drive?

Your Community folder is wherever you put it. To find the exact location:

Press Win+R, paste the matching line, and press Enter, then open the file in Notepad:

Steam:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024\UserCfg.opt

Microsoft Store:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\UserCfg.opt

Find the line InstalledPackagesPath "...". Your Community folder is that path with \Community added on the end. Paste fskingpin-efb in there, then do Step 3.