Your first week: seven steps, ten Tridents
The first flight is now a short list. The first week has its own list too, with a reward at the end.
If you signed up less than 14 days ago, open your missions and you'll see a card called Your first week under the streak. It has seven steps:
- Catch your first aircraft or ship.
- Pick your home city. That's what the daily "Yesterday over your city" line is about.
- Catch one of each, an aircraft and a ship.
- Fly into cities in two countries. The world is real, so a cross-border hop counts.
- Close 3 daily missions in total, on any days.
- Finish a race. Any track, any time.
- Reach a 5-day streak.
Do all seven before day 14 and you get 10 Tridents and the First Week title, which you can wear from the Exchange. The bell tells you when it lands.
No penalty for a missed day
The steps go in any order and on any days. Skip a weekend and nothing resets; the card just keeps counting. We picked steps that show what the game has rather than steps that test whether you log in every morning. The streak step asks for five days in a row, but you have two weeks to find them.
Steps that need a place in the game have a Go button: it takes you to the sky, opens the map or brings up the race list. Home city has a link to set it. In flight, the 🔥 chip shows a "First week 3/7" line and opens the same card.
A receiver counts as a step
Some of you came to Skydex because you run an ADS-B or AIS receiver, and you may never fly a race. So connecting a receiver that delivers data counts as one of the seven. A feeder who catches a plane and a ship, sets a home city, closes three missions and keeps a streak can finish without touching a race at all.
If none of our stations is within about 100 km of your home city, the card says so: nobody hears that city yet, and a receiver on your roof would cover it for every pilot. The same note now shows up in the daily home-city line in the bell. It only appears when we know there's no station nearby. If we can't check, we don't say anything.
How to connect a receiver takes a few minutes with a cheap USB stick, or with an AIS decoder if you live near water.
What happens after day 14
The card disappears quietly. Steps you finish later still count for everything else in the game (achievements, missions, your collection), but the First Week reward is only for the first two weeks. If you've been flying with us for longer, you won't see the card, and that's on purpose.
New here? Take off and look for the card on your missions page.