What Is the Captain's Club on MSFS Addons?

The Captain's Club is MSFS Addons' members-only tier. According to the site's own editorial announcement, it is a paid membership feed that the team rebuilt around a deals tracker powered by FS Addon Compare, and it now bundles discounts from third-party flight sim services such as StrataWx and iFly Schedules. If you already buy MSFS add-ons regularly and want price comparisons plus member pricing in one place, it is aimed at you. If you only fly default aircraft and freeware, the value is much thinner.

What the membership actually includes

Based on the announcement post ("A deals tracker and new member discounts: our Captain's Club keeps growing"), three things define the current offering:

• A rebuilt members-only feed. The club's content stream was reworked, not just refreshed, so members get a dedicated place to see add-on deals rather than digging through the public news pages.
• A deals tracker built with FS Addon Compare. This is the core utility: it surfaces the best current prices on add-ons. The stated purpose is to help members avoid overpaying across the various stores that sell MSFS content.
• Member discounts from partner services. The announcement names StrataWx and iFly Schedules as new perk providers, with the phrasing "and more" indicating the list is still expanding.

The post frames all of this as a growing program, so treat the partner list as a snapshot rather than a fixed catalog.

How it fits alongside the free site

MSFS Addons publishes daily news, airport and aircraft coverage, and full reviews openly — for example, its iniBuilds Chicago O'Hare review and the Dreamflight Studios Jackson Hole V2 review are both public. The Captain's Club sits on top of that as the commercial layer.

That split matters for deciding:

So the club is not a paywall on the journalism. It is a shopping and perks layer.

What to check before joining

The announcement does not state a price, billing terms, or whether a free trial exists, and the site's pricing signals are limited to the word "premium" appearing in unrelated airport product names. That means you should confirm current cost and cancellation terms on the membership page itself rather than assuming.

A practical test: list the add-ons you have bought in the last six months and what you paid. If a tracker plus partner discounts would plausibly beat the membership cost across that same spend, it is worth it. If your purchases are occasional or mostly freeware, the free site already covers the research you need.

Where the club is heading

The announcement's framing — "keeps growing" — signals the intent is to keep adding partners and perks. For a membership like this, the useful question is not what it includes today but whether the partner list keeps expanding at a pace that outruns the fee. Watch the editorial category on the site; new perk announcements appear there alongside the regular airport and aircraft news.