Comfort tracking
Passengers keep a running comfort score that reacts to G-forces, hard landings, steep turns, and turbulence — but not everyone reacts the same way. Each passenger carries their own sensitivity, so a bumpy climb might leave one passenger anxious while the rest of the cabin stays perfectly comfortable. Fly recklessly enough and the whole cabin can end up airsick before you're even on the ground — but comfort recovers over smooth, steady flying, so a shaky climb doesn't have to define the rest of the trip.
Landing scoring
Every touchdown is graded from its vertical speed and G-force, from a greaser down to a very rough arrival — and a bad one doesn't just look bad in the log, it hits passenger comfort directly and follows you into your career stats.
Automatic phase detection
Manifest reads your aircraft's own datarefs to know exactly what flight phase you're in, and the thresholds adjust by category — business jets are treated as reaching cruise past FL180, while GA aircraft switch over at 10,000 feet — so the phase, audio, and comfort logic all line up with how that type of aircraft is actually flown.
Phase-based audio
Boarding, taxi, takeoff, cruise, and landing each carry their own sound cues, mixed to match how many passengers are actually on board.
Doors & boarding
Manifest opens the main door for boarding and closes it once everyone's on board, with passengers moving through it on their own schedule rather than a fixed animation that ignores what's happening in the cabin.
Career persistence
Comfort history carries across flights, so a rough landing today can follow you into tomorrow's charter — built to pair naturally with career and job-based flying.
Adjustable difficulty
A single difficulty slider controls how forgiving the whole system is — higher settings mean harsher comfort penalties, slower recovery, and more diversions, so you can tune Manifest from a light touch up to a genuinely unforgiving passenger experience.
Realistic pre-flight checks
Turn on realistic timing and clicking "Start boarding" doesn't board anyone right away — you start cold and dark with engines off and the parking brake set, then have roughly 8–16 minutes to run your own flows, programming the FMS, checking weather, working the checklist, while Manifest counts down preflight in the background. Once that window closes, the door opens and passengers begin boarding automatically. This pre-boarding realism is currently available for business jet profiles only.
Stays out of your way
The panel is fully resizable to fit however you like to arrange your cockpit view, and closing it doesn't stop anything — Manifest keeps tracking your flight in the background, and you can bring the window back anytime through FlyWithLua's context menus. It also registers its own command with X-Plane, so you can bind opening and closing it to any joystick button, yoke switch, or key, right from X-Plane's own control bindings.
Built for real-world quirks
Resilience handling for aircraft that don't correctly report parking brake or altitude state, so Manifest stays reliable outside of Laminar's default fleet.
