Airport visits now count for missions, and for continents
Airport visits went live this morning: fly low around an airport for two minutes and the visit is yours, once per airport per day, with each new day moving that airport up a tier. Since then they gained a list of pilots on every airport page and a card on your profile. The last piece for today ties them into missions and achievements.
A daily mission. "Visit an airport in flight" joins the pilot missions. When it is in your set for the day, one visit closes it, and it pays like any other daily mission. The Go button opens the map with the airport layer on, so you can pick a field nearby, tap it to see its zone and fly there. Any airport counts, including one you have already visited many times, as long as it is a new day for that airport.
A weekly mission. "Visit 5 airports in flight" can be the week's mission. Five visits on any days this week close it. The same airport on two different days counts twice, because each of those is a separate visit. Two passes over the same airport on the same day still count once.
A new achievement. Continent Hopper counts the continents of the airports you have visited. The tiers are 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 continents, and the top tier pays 10 tridents. It sits next to the two airport achievements that were already there: Airport Hopper for different airports and Border Hopper for their countries. The continent comes from the airport's country, using the same country table as the rest of the site, so an airport in a country the table doesn't know yet simply doesn't add a continent.
If you visited airports this morning, your earlier visits already count toward the new achievement: the next visit recounts everything and sets the number. The new missions count from the moment they are handed to you, the same way all missions work.
We did not add an airport step to the Pilot chapter of your path. Chapters have five steps, and many pilots have already finished theirs; a sixth step would turn a finished chapter into "5 of 6" with no way to pay for it.
To start, open the map, tap an airport and press "Fly here". The airports page lists every airport the network hears if you want to plan a route across a border, or across an ocean.