Airport tips

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If your airline has switched on Airport tips, pilots can share short, practical tips about an airport, such as "On VATSIM, ask ground for the remote stand when the terminal is full". Each tip says which network it's for: VATSIM, IVAO or Offline.

Tips show on the airport page (open any airport, for example from your booking). Next to them you see the VATSIM controllers online at that airport now, with their frequencies and the ATIS letter.

These aren't the crew tips under Our crew here, which only your own airline's pilots see once staff approve them. Airport tips are tagged by network and shared between airlines.

Read the tips

Open an airport page.
Under Airport tips, pick All, VATSIM, IVAO or Offline to show only the tips for the network you fly on.
Check Controllers online at ICAO now to see which positions are staffed. This comes from the networks' public data and refreshes about every minute.

Leave a tip

Under Leave a tip, choose the network the tip is for.
Write the tip: up to 280 characters, with no links.
Press Add tip.

Your name and airline aren't shown with your tip, only the network and the date. You can write up to five tips a day, and Delete removes your own tip. Write tips in your own words: never paste charts or text from paid chart or guide providers.

Report a tip

If a tip is wrong, rude or spam, press Report. The staff of the airline whose pilot wrote it will look at it. A tip reported by three people is hidden until they do.

For staff

Switch it on under Staff → Airline settings → Optional features → Airport tips. Then Staff → Community → Airport tips lists your pilots' tips, with how many times each was reported. You can Hide a tip, Show again a hidden one, or Delete it.

Tips are shared with the other airlines that use Airport tips, without names. To keep tips to your own airline, untick Share tips with the other airlines that use Airport tips on the same page. Your pilots then see only your airline's tips, and your tips show only to your pilots.

Controller data comes from the VATSIM public data feed. Vaeroly isn't affiliated with VATSIM or IVAO.