Starting again with the same pilots

Watch the video: Handing over or starting again

The airline's owner can clear the airline's flights and PIREPs, and if they choose its routes and fleet, and keep every pilot. Use it for a fresh start: a new season, a new schedule, or after test flights.

Turn it on

It is off until you turn it on. Open Staff → Airline settings → Optional features, tick Start again with the same pilots under Airline running, and save.

Start again

1. Open Staff → Airline settings → Ownership and data. Only the owner sees this page.
2. Under Start again with the same pilots, press the button.
3. Read what will be removed, with the numbers: PIREPs, bookings and flight claims always go. Tick Also remove the routes and Also remove the fleet if you want them gone too (both are ticked at first).
4. Type the airline's name exactly as it is written, tick the box, and press Start again.

A copy of your data is saved first. If it can't be saved, nothing is removed. A booking a pilot makes while the reset runs is removed too, and isn't in the copy.

What is removed

• Always: your pilots' PIREPs (with their tracks, comments, photos and scores), bookings, flight claims, duels, trips, tour progress, the income and costs recorded with each flight, the cost of aircraft bought with that money, bank loans and the starting money.
• Routes, if ticked: every route, charters included, and the rosters built on them.
• Fleet, if ticked: every aircraft and its delivery flights.

What stays

• Every pilot, with their account, pilot ID, hub, staff roles, transfer hours and awards.
• Ranks, aircraft types, hubs, events, tours, news, documents, pages, settings and the activity log.
• Everything at other airlines.

Pilots' hours, points and ranks start again from their transfer hours and the points staff gave by hand. Points spent in the shop or on jumpseats before the reset no longer count against the new balance, up to the flight points the reset removed: what a pilot spent beyond those came from points staff gave by hand, which stay, so it stays spent (as one order, "Points spent before the reset"). An order still waiting at the reset is charged as usual. Returning the points of an order handed over before the reset takes them off that one order, as far as it goes. Each pilot's activity period starts again on the day of the reset, so nobody is marked inactive because their flights were cleared. Active pilots get a notification.

The copy of your data

Before anything is removed, Vaeroly saves the same ZIP as Export your setup and records: the setup (fleet, routes, ranks and more) and spreadsheets of pilots, PIREPs, bookings and finances. Download it from the reset page for 30 days. To bring the fleet and routes back, import its setup.json in Import & export → Vaeroly JSON. Flights and PIREPs can't be brought back: a reset can't be undone.

When it can't start

• One of your pilots is flying right now: wait until they have landed and filed.
• Another airline's pilots have bookings, claims or plans on your routes or aircraft (codeshares) and you chose to remove them: keep the routes or the fleet, or wait.
• The airline was reset less than a day ago.

The activity log keeps a line with what was removed.