How to Join Activities

Activities are time-limited flying challenges organised by your Virtual Airline. They range from single-flight events to multi-leg tours, competitive challenges, and airline-wide community goals. This guide covers how to find them, what each type involves, and how to sign up.

Where to Find Activities

Most activities appear under Events in the Phoenix navigation. This page lists all current and upcoming activities you are eligible for — events, focus airports, tours, and rosters all appear here. Each activity card shows its name, dates, type, point reward, and your registration status.

Community Goals and Community Challenges are the exception — they live under Community → Community Goals instead. When a goal or challenge is active, it may also appear as a top-level menu item.

Curated Rosters are also separate — you will find them under Flight Centre → Curated Rosters.

Filtering the List

The Events page includes filters to help you narrow things down:

• Event Type — Show only specific types such as events, tours, or rosters

• Categories / Tags — Filter by tags your VA has applied to activities

• Only Where I'm Registered — Narrow the list to activities you have already signed up for

Click any activity card to open its detail page, where you can see the full description, map, airports or legs, restrictions, and registration controls.

Events

Events are the most common activity type. They run for a defined period and reward you for flying specific routes or between specific airports.

There are two styles:

• Airport-based — Fly between designated departure and arrival airports. The activity page shows which airports qualify and may display an interactive map with the eligible connections.

• Route-based — Fly specific routes from the schedule. The qualifying routes are listed on the activity page and you can book directly from there.

To participate, simply fly a qualifying flight while the event is active. If the event requires registration, you must register first. Points are awarded based on when your flight takes off and/or lands relative to the event window — check the detail page for the exact timing rule.

Tours

A tour is a multi-leg activity where you fly a sequence of flights in order. Think of it as a road trip with scheduled stops — you must complete each leg before moving on to the next.

Each leg defines a departure and arrival airport (and sometimes a specific route). The activity page shows a table of all legs with their status: Incomplete, Booked, or Completed. A map visualises the route across all visible legs.

Tours always require registration. After registering, you can book each leg directly from the activity page using the Book Flight button next to each leg. Legs must be flown in order — you cannot skip ahead.

Points for tours can be awarded per leg as you complete them, or as a lump sum when you finish the entire tour — it depends on how your VA has configured it.

Rosters

Rosters work like tours but with an important addition: each leg assigns a specific aircraft. When you book a roster leg, the designated aircraft is automatically selected at dispatch and cannot be changed. This simulates a realistic pilot schedule — a "day in the life" flying a particular airframe.

Like tours, rosters require registration. The activity page table shows each leg with its departure, arrival, callsign, flight time, distance, and the specific aircraft registration you will fly. Book and fly the legs in order.

Curated Rosters

Curated Rosters are a streamlined variant of rosters that appear under Flight Centre → Curated Rosters rather than the Events page. They represent a specific aircraft schedule — for example, "A Day in G-LUJA" — and show the map and leg list for that aircraft.

Registration for curated rosters is optional and only tracks your progress. Curated rosters do not award bonus points.

Focus Airports

A Focus Airport activity highlights a single airport. Any flight that departs from or arrives at that airport during the active period earns you points — no registration required (unless the VA has set it up that way).

The activity detail page shows the featured airport, a map, connected airports with routes, and Book Flight From / Book Flight To buttons so you can quickly dispatch a flight without leaving the page.

Focus Airports may also appear as markers on the Book Flight and Destination maps if your VA has enabled that option.

Community Goals

Community Goals are collective targets where every pilot in the airline contributes. Rather than individual completion, the entire airline works towards a shared objective — for example, transporting 1,000,000 passengers or flying 50,000 nautical miles.

Goals can track:

• Passengers transported

• Cargo transported

• Number of flights

• Distance flown

• Time flown

There is no registration — every qualifying PIREP you file automatically counts towards the goal. The Community Goals page shows a progress bar, the overall target, how many pilots have contributed, and your personal contribution. If the goal reaches 100%, a completion bonus may be awarded.

Your VA may set filters that determine which flights qualify — for example, only flights above a certain distance, or only flights using specific aircraft. These requirements are listed on the goal page.

Community Challenges

Community Challenges add a competitive twist to community goals. Instead of one shared target, pilots are split into teams that compete against each other. The team with the highest progress — or the first to reach its target — wins.

Teams are formed automatically based on criteria set by your VA. For example, Team Longhaul vs Team Shorthaul, or Day Flights vs Night Flights. Your PIREPs are assigned to a team based on the flight you flew — you do not choose a team manually.

Like community goals, there is no registration. Every qualifying PIREP is evaluated and assigned to a team. The challenge page shows each team's progress, participant counts, and — once the challenge ends — the winner. Pilots who contributed to the winning team earn bonus points.

You can contribute to more than one team if your different flights match different team criteria. Your personal contribution, flights count, and ranking within each team are all visible on the challenge page.

How Registration Works

Some activities require you to register before you can earn points. Tours and rosters always require registration. Events and focus airports may or may not — check the activity card or detail page.

Registering for an Activity

1. Open the activity from the Events page

2. Look for the Registration section in the right-hand sidebar

3. Click Register

4. For tours and rosters, a logbook is automatically created to track your leg-by-leg progress

Registration is only possible during the registration window — the activity page shows when registrations open and close. If you arrive after registrations have closed, you will not be able to sign up.

Cancelling Registration

You can cancel your registration at any time by clicking Cancel Registration on the activity page. For tours and rosters, cancelling also removes your progress — your logbook entries for incomplete legs are deleted. You will be asked to confirm before this happens.

Who Can See Your Registration

Activities that require registration display a list of all registered pilots. Your entry is highlighted in the list. Other pilots can see who has signed up.

Restrictions

Activities may have restrictions that limit who can participate or what flights qualify. These are always shown on the activity detail page under a Restrictions section:

• Ranks — Only pilots holding certain ranks can see or join the activity

• Callsigns — Flights must use specific callsign prefixes

• Fleets — Flights must use aircraft from specific fleets

• Networks — Flights must be flown on specific networks (VATSIM, IVAO, offline, etc.)

• Landing rate — Some activities require your landing to fall within a certain range, which also means manual PIREPs / claims are not accepted

If an activity is rank-restricted and you do not hold the required rank, it will not appear in your Events list at all.

Points and Rewards

Completing an activity earns bonus points. The amount is shown on the activity card and detail page. Points can be a fixed value or a multiplier applied to the points your PIREP already earned.

For tours and rosters, points may be awarded per leg or only when you complete the entire activity — check the detail page.

Some activities can only be completed once. If repeat participation is not allowed, you will see a notice on the activity page and you will not be able to register again after completing it.

For repeatable tours and rosters, once you finish all legs you can start again from the activity page if the activity is still running.

Tracking Your Progress

Each activity page includes a Logbook section that shows who has completed or started the activity. For tours and rosters, this includes a per-pilot breakdown of how many legs have been completed.

For tours and rosters, the legs table shows your personal status for each leg. Completed legs link to the corresponding PIREP so you can review the flight.

For community goals and challenges, your personal contribution (total contributed and number of flights) is shown on the goal or challenge page, along with your ranking and tier if applicable.

Quick Reference

Activity Type	Where to Find It	Registration	How to Participate
Event	Events page	Optional	Fly qualifying routes or airport pairs
Focus Airport	Events page	Optional	Fly to or from the featured airport
Tour	Events page	Required	Register, then fly legs in order
Roster	Events page	Required	Register, then fly legs in order with assigned aircraft
Curated Roster	Flight Centre → Curated Rosters	Optional (tracking only)	Fly legs with assigned aircraft; no points awarded
Community Goal	Community → Community Goals	None	Fly qualifying flights; contribution is automatic
Community Challenge	Community → Community Goals	None	Fly qualifying flights; team assigned automatically