# My current obsession: SkyCards! Anyone else play? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 11, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818 "2026-06-11T07:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/481 "2026-10-03T01:02:20Z")
I missed the Stratolaunch, but appreciate you posting about it. I’ll keep an eye out for it the next few days. > [@CaveMike](#): > > This morning I had a chance to catch my final country, Comoros near Madagascar,… You might want to double check that. I had only 2 countries left for the Globetrotter trophy. Now I need 6; Antarctica, and United States Minor Outlying Islands (same as before), plus Åland, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Those (and maybe others) must have been added with a recent update. Strangely though, I’m not seeing the new trophies that were mentioned upthread. I still think a Cabin Pressure trophy would be fun. ETA: the Long Hauler trophy might have changed, too, or there’s a bug in the app. I was at least one flight short of completing that, and now I have all 10. I think there was a Perth-to-London flight that has not been operating since the Iran war broke out. I now have a green check mark for that; very odd. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/482 "2026-10-03T01:25:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > You might want to double check that. I had only 2 countries left for the Globetrotter trophy. You’re right. I wondered by Christmas Island wasn’t included. I’m actually glad there are some new ones – a few more to do before Antarctic flights start up. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I now have a green check mark for that I don’t have a checkmark for London / Perth; maybe you caught it somehow? > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Strangely though, I’m not seeing the new trophies that were mentioned upthread. I didn’t see them at first either until I did the update in Google Play Store. Maybe double-check that. I hadn’t thought to check Globetrotter before the update. It seems possible that you could get additions to existing trophies without a software update. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/483 "2026-10-03T14:49:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I now have a green check mark for that; very odd. I also do not have a checkmark for that flight - you may have caught it by accident? And several people on Reddit have said they had to manually choose to update the app in the play store, it wasn’t doing it automatically. And speaking of the Stratolaunch, someone on Reddit posted a [video](https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyCards/s/wQ6Z22laao) of it doing a touch-and-go yesterday. What an utterly bizarre plane - it just doesn’t look like it should work. I can’t imagine what trying to land it is like. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/484 "2026-10-03T15:11:21Z")
> [@liirogue](#): > > it just doesn’t look like it should work It looks like something you’d see in a movie or cartoon that’s meant to be high-tech and you’d think to yourself “that’s dumb, that would never work”. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/485 "2026-10-06T16:46:43Z")
U2 near Edwards AFB if anyone is interested: > **[N806NA · Lockheed U-2](https://skycards.app/flight/U2/1107293324)** > > 🇺🇸  EDW · Edwards    →    🇺🇸  EDW · Edwards Also 2 of these near Miami: > **[N405AX · Iai KFIR](https://skycards.app/flight/KFIR/1107309311)** > > 🇺🇸  RSW · Fort Myers    →    N/A These are on the Speed Demon trophy: ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/486 "2026-10-09T00:53:53Z")
Flight to Norfolk Island: > **[VH-VZA · Boeing 737-800](https://skycards.app/flight/B738/1107937258)** > > 🇦🇺  SYD · Sydney    →    🇳🇫  NLK · Norfolk Island ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/487 "2026-10-09T15:59:42Z")
Thanks for posting these! It makes it really easy as I can follow the link in the email notification and it pulls the flight right up. It’s been busy at work so I haven’t been able to play much this week. I might try hopping over to London for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/488 "2026-10-09T16:34:15Z")
Sure thing. London is great because there are tons of interesting planes and, like NYC, constant blue skies. * * * I managed to catch Christmas Island last night. Although it’s easier to catch Sunday night (US time); since it travels from Perth there is 3-4 hours to catch it. Now I have everything for Globetrotter except Antarctica. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/489 "2026-10-09T17:02:18Z")
I finally got Antarctica earlier today. I guess it starts to get more possible at this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/490 "2026-10-10T05:28:04Z")
I’ve been playing this a while now. Right before they adjusted the way the rarity is calculated I got the last orange aircraft, so at that point the only new cards I could get were red ultra-rares. I got the Rare Master trophy. Then all of a sudden I had like 6 more rare craft to find. I still had the trophy, but 6-ish craft that had been red became orange. I eventually found all of those, too, to legitimize my trophy again, but it can happen when they add stuff I guess. Just tonight I caught a flight to Wallis, and I thought that by completing Wallis and Futuna that I just needed Wake Island. Wrong, I’ve now got 9 total territories to find for the Globetrotter trophy! ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/491 "2026-10-10T05:30:33Z")
Which airport did you get? So far I’ve only got King George Island. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/492 "2026-10-10T14:47:04Z")
Looks like another couple of flights are on their way to Antarctica right now, just south of Argentina. > [@BomTek](#): > > Which airport did you get? So far I’ve only got King George Island. I got Novolazarevskaya Station. ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/493 "2026-10-10T15:59:16Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Novolazarevskaya Station Gesundheit. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/494 "2026-10-10T22:05:35Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Looks like another couple of flights are on their way to Antarctica right now, just south of Argentina. Thanks for the heads-up! I tracked them, but unfortunately wasn’t able to get them. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/495 "2026-10-11T06:35:13Z")
> [@BomTek](#): > > I’ve been playing this a while now. Right before they adjusted the way the rarity is calculated I got the last orange aircraft I’ll have to figure out how you did that. I’ve been stuck at around a dozen rare aircraft left for quite a while. I think I’ve only found one new rare aircraft in the last six weeks or so. > [@BomTek](#): > > I eventually found all of those, too, to legitimize my trophy again, but it can happen when they add stuff I guess. Just tonight I caught a flight to Wallis, and I thought that by completing Wallis and Futuna that I just needed Wake Island. Wrong, I’ve now got 9 total territories to find for the Globetrotter trophy! I was down to only two countries left, and then the update happened and now I need six. I haven’t had the time to figure out when to catch flights to those new destinations. Lately I’ve just been trying to rack up points to get to level 30; only 20,000,000 to go. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/496 "2026-10-11T13:05:09Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve been stuck at around a dozen rare aircraft left for quite a while. I’ve been stuck on 4 rare for a while. The last rares I caught were in Africa – some less common commercial aircraft. I’ve found some by scanning regions I don’t explore a lot (Russia, Africa, SE Asia). ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/497 "2026-10-11T14:48:00Z")
Thanks! I also tried but couldn’t time it right. Real life has really been in the way this week! There was also supposed to be an air show yesterday a couple of towns over. Either most of the planes didn’t turn on their transponders, or it was a bust - the few I did see flying in the area are all local and not exciting. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/498 "2026-10-11T16:32:23Z")
Those two planes are close to landing at a second Antarctic airfield. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/499 "2026-10-11T17:17:26Z")
Got the first one; thanks @Fiendish_Astronaut! There is still time for the second one if anyone missed this one. ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818/500 "2026-10-11T17:21:04Z")
Got it too. After missing it yesterday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-current-obsession-skycards-anyone-else-play/1030818.md?page=26)