Training path

Watch the video: Training

Some airlines let you earn bigger aircraft by showing skills on your flights. The Training path is a list of steps, such as a stable approach, a soft landing or a go-around flown well. ACARS measures each one on your flights.

Following your path

1. Open Training › Training path. Each step says what to do and how many flights it needs.
2. Fly with ACARS as usual. After each flight, every step it shows counts once. One flight can count for several steps.
3. A step marked Unlocks the A320 (for example) keeps that aircraft locked until you finish every step up to and including it. Your rank and type ratings still apply as well.
4. When a step is done it shows ✓ Done. When the aircraft is unlocked, you can book it as usual.

Good to know:

• Only flights flown with ACARS count, and only flights filed after staff added the step.
• If staff reject or invalidate a flight, it stops counting toward your path. If they accept it again, it counts again.
• The booking page tells you when a flight's aircraft waits for your Training path.

The skills

• Stable approach: stable at 1,000 and 500 ft on the approach.
• Soft landing: touch down at the step's target or softer (300 fpm unless staff set another).
• One clean touchdown: land without a bounce.
• Clean handling: no stall, overspeed, steep bank or tail strike.
• Go-around: go around, then land from a stable approach with clean handling.
• Fuel plan: burn within a few percent of the planned fuel (5% unless staff set another).
• Online flight: fly on VATSIM or IVAO.

For staff

Turn on Training path (Staff › Airline settings › Optional features). Staff with the Type ratings and checkrides permission build it on Staff › Training › Training path:

1. Add step: pick the skill, the target where it has one, how many flights it needs, and optionally the aircraft type it unlocks.
2. Move steps up or down, change them, or remove them. Removing a step also removes the flights and sign-offs that counted for it.
3. The Pilots table shows where each pilot stands (✓ done, ✓* signed off by staff, or flights so far).
4. Sign off a step for a pilot who already knows the skill, or take a sign-off back.

Pilots who fly a type today can't book it once a step unlocks it, until they finish the steps, so sign the steps off for them if needed.