Paint your PIP: looks that grow with it, flags of where you've flown
Until today every PIP looked the same apart from its gear. Now open PIP's card and press Paint. A panel opens under PIP, and whatever you tap is tried on right there in the window, so you see it before you save.
Looks that come with growth
Each stage of PIP adds a row of looks:
- Chick: the classic white and cyan.
- Scout: six glow colours for the lights, the cheek signals and the visor: lime, magenta, amber, violet, red and white.
- Radio: six pastel bodies (mint, sky, lilac, peach, sand, rose).
- Navigator: six two-tone schemes (night, storm, ocean, sunset, forest, cherry) and your own colours, described below.
- Ace: gold. Gold lights, gold visor and gold metal stay the Ace's alone, so a gold PIP still means 300 new cards caught with it.
Locked rows are greyed out with the stage that opens them. If you're not sure how PIP grows, the first PIP post explains it.
Flags of where you have flown
Every country you fly to adds its flag. We count the airports and cities you visit in flight, and your home country counts from the start. A flag look puts the flag's largest colour on PIP's body, the next one on the wing edges and the third on the belly. Visit a new country and its flag is waiting in the panel next time you open it.
Metal from your rank
The metal parts (wing cuffs, headset, backpack) follow your pilot rank: titanium for everyone, bronze from Spotter, silver from Navigator, platinum from Jetstream and black chrome from Stormrider. There is no gold here on purpose, because gold belongs to the Ace. The ranks page shows how far you are from the next one.
Your own colours
From the Navigator stage you can go further: pick a slot (body, wing edges, belly, glow or tech parts) and give it any colour from a palette of 24. These sit on top of the look you chose, so you can start from a flag and change just the glow.
Who sees it
Your paint is saved to your account and goes out to the flock, so pilots flying near you see your PIP the way you painted it. The small PIP pictures in the menu chip and on your profile stay classic for now. Painting needs an account. Guests keep the classic look until they sign in.
Open the card, press Paint and see what your PIP looks like in your home colours.