Real-world pilot badge

Watch the video: VATSIM and the real pilot badge

If you fly for real, staff at your airline can verify it. You then get a Real-world pilot badge on your profile and in the mentor lists, so new pilots know who to ask. Staff turn it on under Staff › Airline settings › Optional features › Real-world pilot badge.

Nobody gets the badge unless they ask for it, and you can remove it whenever you like.

Ask for the badge

Open your profile (your name in the menu).
In the Real-world pilot card, write what you fly, for example "PPL, Cessna 172" or "A320 first officer". Only staff see this line.
Press Ask staff to verify me.

Staff get a notification. They'll ask to see your licence on a call or in a message (on Discord, for example). Vaeroly never stores a copy of your licence, and you don't upload anything.

When staff verify you, you get a notification and the badge shows straight away. If they decline, you're told and you can ask again once you've sorted out what they need.

Take it back

Cancel my request stops a request that's still waiting.
Remove my badge takes the badge off your profile and the mentor lists. To get it back you ask again, and staff check again.

For staff

Staff › Real-world pilots (for staff who can edit pilot records):

Waiting: each pilot who asked, what they fly and when they asked. Check their licence outside Vaeroly, then press Verify or Decline. Please don't keep a copy of anyone's licence.
Verified: every pilot with the badge. Remove badge takes it away, and the pilot is told.

With the Mentor programme on, verified pilots show the badge in the list of mentors and next to their name on their new pilots' Mentoring page. Turning the feature off hides every badge; turning it on again brings them back.

Every request and decision is in the airline's activity log.