What are contracts
Here we explain how contracts work on FlightDeck
Add extra purpose and challenge to your flights.
Contracts are special assignments you can accept in FlightDeck that add a goal or condition to your flight.
They can be based on airlines that you have set up during your onboarding. Don't remember or want to change/add airlines? You can do so via your account settings.
Completing a contract successfully earns you bonus XP.
Think of contracts as your mission board — they give you something to work towards beyond just flying from A to B.
How Contracts Work
In your Dispatch you will find your Contracts. At any given moment, you will have 5 contracts available to accept. However, you only have 3 slots for accepted contracts. This means that you can't just accept everything at a time.
Which airlines are shown, depends on your preferences that you set during onboarding. You can always change your favourte airlines in your settings menu. Note that only 3 out of 5 contracts shown are chosen from your preferences, the other 2 are random to challenge you to fly something else.
The contract which will earn you the most XP is always on top and highlighted. In the contract you will also see how much XP is given for a specific flight. All contracts are based off of real airline routes.
Once you accept a contract, it will move to one of your empty slots on the right, and you will be able to generate a flight plan for it via our SimBrief integration.
Accepted contracts will last for 24 hours before disappearing again. An accepted contract cannot be declined. If you wish not to fly a contract, you will have to let it expire.
Offered contracts are refreshed every 3 hours (starting from 00:00, 03:00, etc).
Fly the Assigned Route
The only thing that matters to fulfil your contract is to fly the designated route. The airline, aircraft or callsign used eventually does not matter. This means that if you accept a Ryanair flight but fly it as Easyjet, you will still be able to complete the contract.
After landing, FlightDeck checks your flight against the contract requirements.
If you meet all conditions, you’ll receive your XP and any additional rewards.
Contract XP works as a bonus
For every flight you fly, you always get standard XP first. Contract XP is a bonus on top of this. Learn more about this here.
Keep in mind
You must accept the contract before departure for it to count.
You can have multiple contracts active but can only complete one per flight.