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How your flight is scored

The Virtual Airline flight tracking system scores your flight on a number of parameters when you finish a flight. Those parameters are shown on the flight report as a series of ticks, and culminate in an overall score.

The score is primarily calculated by a number of tests - which (if failed) reduce your score by a ratio.

Scoring Parameters

The tests are as follows:

1. Landing rate was over 200 ft/min - score reduced by 5%

2. Landing rate was over 250 ft/min - score reduced by 7%

3. Landing rate was over 500 ft/min - score reduced by 10%

4. Crash detected - score is set to 0

5. Landing lights on above 10,000ft - score reduced by 1%

6. Landing lights off below 10,000ft - score reduced by 1%

7. Aircraft overspeed detected - score reduced by 10%

8. Slew detected - score reduced by 20%

9. Taxi overspeed detected - score reduced by 5%

10. Overspeed above 250kt below 10,000ft - score reduced by 5%

11. Beacon Off, Engine On - no affect on score

12. Stall detected - score reduced by 25%

Beyond these procedural tests, there are other factors, which will be covered soon.

Notes

• The landing rate failures are cumulative - i.e. if you land at 280ft/min, your score will be downgraded by 12% (5% + 7%)

• Due to incompatibility with some of the 3rd party aircraft in Flight Simulator, we have lowered the penalty for the Beacon Off / Engine On test - because false positives were being reported.

• We have lowered penalty for the landing light test because it is unfair on GA aircraft (ACARS cannot differentiate between GA and commercial aircraft).

• Remember this is just for fun!

And finally...

When recording flights either with ACARS, or manual PIREPs, you will be expected to record fair, accurate, and representative information. This is based on trust.

• You will not manipulate time (through acceleration or deceleration) within the simulator

• You will not use SLEW, teleportation, or any other method of artificially moving your aircraft

• If filing a manual PIREP your report will be as accurate, fair, and as representative as reasonably possible