How SkyRewards works

A flight in five steps

1. 1Flight plan

   Add this remark. Without it, your flight stays invisible to SkyRewards.

   RMK/SKYREWARDS
2. 2Connection

   The site reads the network every 15 seconds and spots you as soon as you connect.

3. 3Airborne

   Your track is recorded point by point, and you can follow your flight live on the site.

4. 4At the gate

   Land, then disconnect on the ground: that's what triggers the verdict.

5. 5Verdict

   The flight is judged right away. If it completes your current leg, its rewards are paid to you.

The three verdicts

• ✓Validated

  If it matches your current leg, the leg is completed and its rewards paid.

• …Under review

  A case the system can't settle alone: an administrator decides.

• ✕Rejected

  The reason is shown on the flight page. In doubt? Write to support.

If you get disconnected

A disconnection isn't the end of the flight. It all depends on where you were.

From start to finish

1. 1Choose

   The catalogue sorts tours by category. Each tour page shows its legs on a map and what they pay.

2. 2Start

   One click on “Start tour”. Some tours first ask you to pick a team: its airport is the departure or arrival of some legs. That choice becomes final once the first leg is validated.

3. 3Prepare the leg

   The briefing gives the route and, when the leg imposes them, the allowed aircraft or callsigns. It also prepares your flight plan: one click opens it in SimBrief.

4. 4Fly it

   Only one leg is open at a time. As soon as it's validated, the next one takes its place.

5. 5Finish

   The last validated leg completes the tour and pays its completion bonus.

What a tour pays

• Every legXP, credits, 1 booster

  XP follows what you actually flew. The booster belongs to the tour's collection.

• End of the tourBonus, 1 booster

  The XP and credit bonus shown on the tour page, plus one last booster.

• The badgeTour and collection

  When the tour has one, it goes to the pilot who finished it and completed its card collection.

Leaving a tour

Good to know

• Several tours at once

  You can run several. A flight counts for one leg only: if two tours expect the same route, the one started first goes first.

• Only once

  A finished tour can't be started again.

• Coming soon

  An announced tour can be viewed before release: legs, rewards, cards. It can be started on its date.

From licence to contract

1. 1Get a licence

   A type rating is obtained once and for all, at the price shown in credits. It opens the airlines seen flying that aircraft.

2. 2Choose an airline

   Filter by licence or continent, or search by name or code.

3. 3Build the contract

   A tour that never goes back through the same airport, or rotations from a base. You choose the leg length, the number of legs and your deadline.

4. 4Sign

   Don't like the offer? Ask for another. Once signed, the contract can't change, and you hold only one at a time.

5. 5Fly its routes

   With the airline's callsigns. Every leg pays XP and credits, but no booster: a contract has no collection.

Airlines created by SkyRewards

Alongside real airlines, SkyRewards puts together its own: a name, a fleet, a network. They are signed like the others.

• A designed network

  Their routes and flight numbers are chosen by SkyRewards rather than recorded from real traffic. Licence, deadline, reputation and ranks follow the same rules.

• A callsign that is sometimes free

  On some routes no number is imposed: you pick your own, as long as it starts with the airline ICAO code. Each leg tells you so.

SkyRewards Executive, business aviation

An in-house operator with no fixed routes: as in real business aviation, you fly wherever the mission sends you, anywhere in the world.

• One licence, the whole fleet

  The Business aviation licence opens all 11 aircraft of the fleet: Cessna Citation Longitude, Cessna Citation X, Cessna Citation Latitude, Cessna Citation CJ3, Cessna Citation CJ4, Embraer Phenom 300, Bombardier Challenger 350, Pilatus PC-12, Daher TBM 900, Beechcraft King Air 350, and Daher Kodiak 100.

• One aircraft for the whole mission

  You choose it before signing, and every leg is flown with it. The callsign is up to you.

• Round trip or multiple legs

  One destination and back to the departure, or a chain of 2 to 10 legs that never visits the same place twice.

• Your departure, your distance

  You depart from the airport of your choice and set the leg distance with a slider, from 60 NM up to the aircraft's range.

• Airfields you can land at

  The mission only sends you to airfields where your aircraft can land and that exist in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Never to a military base.

• A career like anywhere else

  Deadline, reputation and ranks follow the same rules as with an airline: SkyRewards Executive has its own ladder.

The deadline is a bet

The deadlines offered depend on the size of the contract. The tighter yours, the more reputation the contract earns.

• TightReputation × 1.5

  Fewer days, and the most reputation.

• NormalReputation × 1

  The reference pace.

• RelaxedReputation × 0.75

  More time, less reputation.

When the deadline comes

• ✓Contract fulfilled

  It leaves your list and gives you one reputation point per leg, multiplied by your deadline.

• !Reminders

  You're notified 5 and 2 days before the deadline.

• ✕Abandoned or overdue

  Flown legs stay yours, but you lose the reputation the contract would have earned.

Your career at each airline

Reputation is counted airline by airline. Each rank raises the XP and credits of that airline's contracts, and only that airline's.

1. Line Training0 pointsNo bonus yet
2. First officer15 points+5% on rewards
3. Captain40 points+10% on rewards
4. Instructor80 points+15% on rewards
5. Chief pilot150 points+20% on rewards

Taking part

1. 1Find it

   Events have their own category in the catalogue, with their organiser and a link to follow them when there is one.

2. 2Sign up

   With the “Join” button, before the window closes.

3. 3Take off on time

   Times are in Zulu (UTC). Only the takeoff time counts: you can land after the window closes.

4. 4Collect

   The XP and credits set by the event, the same for every participant.

How a leg is counted

With today's settings, for a 300 NM leg flown in 60 minutes under IFR:

The bonus is 0 % under IFR and 50 % under VFR. The distance counted is the one you actually flew.

Other earnings

• Tour completion bonus

  Extra XP and credits, paid with the last leg.

• Airline rankUp to +20 %

  On contract legs, depending on your reputation with the airline.

• Events

  A fixed amount, announced in advance.

Levels

Each level takes a little more XP than the one before, up to level 100. Each one pays 1,000 credits, plus a universal booster every 5 levels.

1. Level 2+500 XP+1,000 credits
2. Level 3+1,250 XP+1,000 credits
3. Level 4+2,200 XP+1,000 credits
4. Level 5+3,250 XP+1,000 credits, +1 booster
5. Level 6+4,400 XP+1,000 credits

The figure on each step is the XP to earn from the previous level.

What credits are for

Credits come from your flights and your levels, and are spent here:

• Licences

  To open new airlines for contracts.

• Shop

  Boosters to complete your collections.

• Market

  The cards you're missing, sold by other pilots.

• Trades

  The tax on a card trade between friends.

Where boosters come from

• Validated tour leg+1 booster

  The booster of the tour's collection.

• Tour finished+1 booster

  One more, with the last leg.

• Every 5 levels+1 booster

  A universal booster that draws from several collections.

• The shop

  For credits.

Opening a booster

1. 1Open

   From your inventory. A roulette spins for each draw.

2. 2Draw

   Each draw has a 15 % chance of giving nothing, and each opening a 5 % chance of an extra draw.

3. 3Paste

   New cards wait in your inventory. Paste them into their collection's album.

4. 4Duplicates

   A spare copy doesn't go in the album: sell it or trade it.

Your odds by rarity

The share of each rarity when a draw gives a card.

The draw picks the rarity first, then the card: these shares don't depend on the size of the collection. Duplicates are possible.

The tour badge

Three places

Only spare copies can be sold or traded: a card pasted in your album stays yours.

Selling on the market

1. 1List it

   From your inventory, at the price you set, never below the rarity's floor price.

2. 2A pilot buys

   They pay the listed price. Each card's page shows its last sale and the average of the last ten.

3. 3You get paid

   The sale price, minus the 8 % fee.

Floor prices

No card can be sold below its rarity's price:

• Common200 credits
• Rare600 credits
• Epic1,000 credits
• Legendary1,500 credits

The shop

The site sells boosters there for credits. A tour's booster only appears once you've finished that tour, and some items are limited per week.

Trading with a friend

1. 1Become friends

   A trade can only be offered to a friend.

2. 2Propose

   Choose what you offer and what you ask for, among your duplicates and theirs. Up to 5 pending offers.

3. 3They answer

   They have 7 days to accept or decline. After that, the offer expires.

4. 4Deal

   The cards change hands, and each side pays the 8 % tax.