I don’t have any platinum yet. Heck, I only have one gold.
One of today’s missions is to catch a flight going faster than 600 knots. I’m not quite sure what to do about that. I found a couple going eastbound over the north Atlantic but I didn’t want to spend a Catch Anywhere if I don’t have to. I’m hoping to find someone with a good tailwind over Halifax or Moncton, visit that airport, and catch them there. I’m keeping an eye out for biz jets, since I think they tend to be a bit faster.
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You’ll get there. Depending on where you live, you’ll likely accumulate XP on planes faster than you will on helicopters… I’ve been playing for almost a year and a half and I often have insomnia, so I’m probably on this game more than is healthy sometimes, and I still just got my first platinum helicopter. Meanwhile, I have 15 cyber cards (750k XP) for planes and gliders.
Catching a craft traveling 600+ knots is gonna be tough today. I’ve only got like 16 cards with a speed greater than 600, and they’re all yellow or rarer. Maybe check near Air Force Bases or over the deserts of Nevada, I guess?
I thought of that, but I’ve only seen one or two fighters since I started using this app. (Well, not including a couple of P-51s.) I don’t know how fast they fly on their training flights.
I have seen planes over 600 kts over the Atlantic, and some have been teasingly close while flying over Halifax.
On that subject, does anyone know how the cost of visiting another airport is calculated? I figured JFK would be super expensive because of all the different aircraft types and destinations I could get from there, but it was relatively cheap. Halifax was more expensive (except I just checked it again and it’s only 16 coins now).
Similar to a suggestion upthread - you could use a custom filter in Flightradar24 to find the planes traveling that fast and then switch back to SkyCards to catch them.
On of the things I find a little disappointing about this game is that it is tied to the Flightradar 24 data. They honor the voluntary block lists that the open source flight trackers do not. There have been a number of times when I’ve seen something cool on my own ADS-B feeder, only to find out FR24 isn’t showing it.
I have Vancouver free for 3 more days, so I’m grinding that area right now. Loads of DHC-3 Otters of various types. Also, a decent amount of Intl traffic to open up airports in Asia.
If anyone wants to add me as a friend (not sure what that does?), my profile name is SpeedyD.
There is a small airstrip south of Midlothian, Texas, from which many gliders and motor gliders operate on days with favourable weather. I’ve even caught a couple of ultra-rare ultralights out there such as the LAK-17.
I’ve been poking around at Flightradar24, but didn’t know there was a way to filter for speed.
As it turned out, I found an Italian Air Force trainer over the Tyrrhenian Sea, so I paid 69 coins to travel to Rome, caught the trainer (a type I didn’t already have), completed the mission, and caught a bunch of new types and airports. It was a little bit trickier than that. That trainer must have been doing aerobatics or something; the speed was varying from 300 to 700 kts. I waited and caught it at 708.
Glow is a semi-magical status a random given flight might have. There’s no indication before you catch the plane that it has glow, you’ll only know that after you’ve taken it’s photo. It makes that plane card look sparkly and fun, and the becomes a property of that plane card from then on, even when the next time you catch that type it’s a ‘regular’ flight.
The thing is, for now, glow is only a collectible attribute. It doesn’t give you any benefits, either in regular gameplay or in battles. Devs have said that might change.
Having played for a couple weeks or so I’m up to 314 aircraft. I’m curious where that puts me among the dopers. I rarely use the travel feature but certainly will now that I’m stagnating in my local area.
My current stats (Have been playing for 2 weeks) :
Location: Cleveland. Cleveland Hopkins, Burke Lakefront, and Cuyahoga County airport are all in my radar range without having to actually locate to those airports.
Level: 23
Tropies: 6 - Bronze Age, Silver Surfer, Common Master, Decathlon, Helicopter Spotter, Sir Coconut.
I think I found a couple of “dogfight” setups yesterday, one in Saskatchewan (Alpha Jets vs A-4 Skyhawks), and the other outside of Phoenix (Mirage F1s vs F-5s) . Must be fun!
Another interesting flight I caught: N20080, the first production B777-9, on the way up towards the North Pole for a long-duration test flight (11+ hrs). I snagged it later on the way back down to Everett as it passed over Vancouver, where I’m currently grinding flights with a 3-day free location.
We’re somewhat similar (and I was born in Cleveland to a Cuyahoga family).
I’m in north metro Atlanta with Hartsfield-Jackson, Dobbins ARB, and a half dozen regional airports.
Level: 23
Trophies: 6
Aircraft: 317
Airports: 279
Fleets: 90 (not sure why you have so much more than I; while ATL is Delta-heavy, it has many other airlines too)
Most surprising to find in my area (for me) were the below, and each especially surprised me that their rarity score was much lower than I’d expect:
IAI KFIR (10.01)
North American B-25 Mitchell (9.83)
P-51 Mustang (just today) (8.71)
North American T-6 Texan (7.45)
That’s most like due to you not travelling too much. I have a somewhat-strategy of saving up my coins to buy an 30-min unlimited photos pass and a 30-min travel to a hub, and then do as many captures a possible. I can usually at least break even on the coins that i spent, and you can capture a lot of new airports and fleets that way. I’ve done it for Tokyo, Paris, and L.A.
