Group flights

The flight of the day, the challenge of the day or a route of your own can be announced in advance to call in the others: «today at 18:00 UTC we fly UUEE→URSS». The announcement lives in the Community section and is visible to any visitor, including one who has not signed up yet. The others press Join, and before departure everyone can see who is going. Once the flying is done the event leaves more than a line in the feed: the platform works out the results itself and shows who made it, how long it took and how they landed.

How it works

1. 1Schedule a flightThe “Call for one” button in Community → Group flights. You pick what you fly: the flight of the day, the challenge of the day, or a free route between any two airports.
2. 2Set the timeYou enter the time in your own zone, and the same moment is printed in UTC right below the field — that is what everyone else reads. The section keeps one agreement, and it is in UTC.
3. 3Say where to find youYou can call people to our Discord, give your own invite, or describe it in words. Only known platforms are accepted as links: Discord, Telegram, Guilded and ts3server://; anything else can be written out as text.
4. 4Answer someone's callUnder each announcement there is a Join button and the list of pilots already going: the names are visible to everyone, guests included — except for pilots who hid themselves from public listings. Changed your mind — Leave, any time before the scheduled hour. The organizer does not leave their own call: in place of Leave they get “Call off” — the same spot everyone else has Leave. Everyone signed up sees it, and it cannot be undone: change your mind and you call for a new one.
5. 5FlyEveryone takes their own aircraft and flies their own airline's flight — there is no shared booking, and those who signed up do not need one. Money, experience and the score are counted as always; there is nothing to check in with afterwards.
6. 6See the resultsOnce the last pilot on the list files a report, the platform closes the event — usually within a quarter of an hour of landing. If someone never makes it, the event waits for them until twelve hours after the scheduled time and then closes with whoever is there. The flight page then shows a table: air time, score and landing — both descent rate and touchdown load — for each pilot. Nothing needs to be claimed; the results are read from accepted reports, and an event where everybody made it is labelled just that — “all arrived”.
7. 7Show your shotsAt the bottom of a past event page sit your photos from that flight — the same ones as in its debrief. A click shows a shot in the shared event gallery or takes it out; either way it stays in the debrief. You can add a shot right here — pick a file, drag it into the window, or paste it from the clipboard — and it lands in the flight album too. The gallery is open to everyone, account or not.

A group flight pays neither money nor XP, and that is deliberate: the flight of the day already gives double experience. The only reward is a profile badge, and it counts only for a meet that at least two pilots completed — an announcement put up for your own ordinary flight, with nobody joining, earns nothing. The section exists for something else — so that there is someone to fly with in the evening, and until now there was no place to agree on a time.