Competitions, leagues and seasons

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Besides your own flying, there are several ways to compete: against another pilot, with your airline towards a goal, in teams, and across Vaeroly.

Duels

Open Events & tours → Competitions and the Duels tab to challenge another pilot at your airline to fly the same route.

Pick the pilot, the route and how the duel is decided: softest landing or most points.
They have 3 days to accept. Once accepted, you both have 7 days to fly it.
When both flights are accepted, the better one wins, and the winner gets the airline's duel bonus (20 points unless your airline changed it).

If only one of you flies in time, that pilot wins. If a flight flown in time is still waiting for staff when the 7 days end, the duel shows as waiting for review: it's settled once staff decide, or after 7 more days with what counted by then. A flight accepted after the duel was settled can change the result. Either of you can call a duel off until someone has flown. If a flight in a duel is later rejected by staff, the duel opens again and any bonus it gave is taken back.

Community goals and team challenges

If your airline has them switched on, they show as tabs next to Duels on the Competitions page.

Community goals are targets the whole airline flies towards (hours, flights, distance, points or soft landings) over a few weeks. When a goal ends, everyone who helped gets the bonus for each tier reached.
Team challenges split pilots into teams (by hub, by rank, at random, or chosen by the pilots). The standings update as flights are accepted.

As with duels, a goal or challenge with a flight filed in its dates that is still waiting for staff when it ends is settled once staff decide, or after 7 more days with what counted by then.

Airport kings

The pilot with the most landings at an airport each month holds its crown: see Airport kings.

Airline leagues

Every month, airlines listed in the public directory are ranked against each other on the public League page: most flights, most hours, softest landings, happiest passengers, most punctual and most active pilots. The overall table adds up each airline's places, so a small airline that lands softly and on time can beat a big one. An airline needs at least 3 accepted flights in the month to be ranked.

Vaeroly Cup

The Cup page (in the main site's menu, for signed-in members) is a monthly competition between pilots of every airline. Taking part is your choice and off until you join: press Join the Cup there, or press Take part in the Vaeroly Cup on your Profile. If you chose Leave me off leaderboards, you never appear, even after joining.

The whole month counts: joining in the middle of a month brings in your accepted ACARS flights from its start too.
Only accepted flights filed by ACARS count: not manual PIREPs, approved claims, flights you imported into your own logbook, or a co-pilot's copy of the captain's flight. Your flights at every airline count together.
Softest landing: the average of your 5 softest measured landings in the month. You need at least 5 measured landings that month.
Most countries visited: the countries of your departures and arrivals that month.
Most hours and Longest streak (the most days in a row with a flight, within the month).

After a month ends, its first three places in each category are decided once and kept. Winners get a notification, the Past winners table names them, and their places show on their public profile.

Your airline's year (staff)

With Year in review turned on under Optional features, Reports → Year in review shows your airline's calendar year: flights, hours, distance, pilots who flew, countries, top routes and aircraft, the busiest month and the pilots with the most hours. Pilots who chose to stay off leaderboards are counted but never named. Pilots see their own year under Year in review in the main site's menu (see Your passport, awards and public profile).

Network seasons

If your airline takes part, Standings → Network season shows Vaeroly's quarterly season: pilots from every airline taking part, in divisions by the hours they had before the season started, ranked by the hours they fly during it. Each airline scores points its own way, so from the 2027 Q1 season the table counts hours, the same for everyone; earlier seasons stay ranked by points.

Pilots who chose to stay off leaderboards (on their Profile) are left out of leagues, seasons, the Cup and team standings.