Earning Aeros

Think of the daily cap as a paycheck, not a punishment. Your Wallet shows a Todaybar that fills as you fly and idle, coloured by where the Aeros came from. When it's full, that half of your day is done — nothing is lost or penalised, and it resets at midnight UTC.

The cap exists to keep a machine left running overnight from out-earning a person actually flying. It deliberately does not apply to exploring.

The first five different airports you visit each day each pay a bonus, and the bonus grows with every new field:

You don't have to land

A visit counts the moment you're inside the airport's boundary below 100 ft above the ground. The boundary is the whole airport area — the circle you build inside, from 1.8 km across a starter strip out to 5 km across on a big field — so you don't have to line up with the runway. A low pass, a go-around, a touch-and-go or a full-stop landing all count the same. Come, see the field, move on.

Your session needs at least a minute of real flight time before a visit counts, so spawning on a runway and quitting earns nothing. Normal flying always qualifies; teleports and slew tricks don't.

Say you sit down for an evening with an ATC client and a nav app running (two add-on categories, so a 2× flight multiplier), and you fly a short tour of four fields you've never visited:

Flying with a richer setup pays more per minute. The companion app (if you opt in) recognises well-known sim companions — ATC clients, online networks, career trackers, nav tools, weather engines — and counts how many categoriesyou're running alongside a live flight. That count sets your multiplier:

When someone else visits your published airport, you get paid — and how much depends on how much you've built. Like the explore bonus, it doesn't count against your cap, so a field people want to fly to is genuinely the best income in the game.

Every Aero you put into the field raises what each visitor is worth. At the top end a single visitor pays you more than their visit pays them — the builder is the business.

You're paid once per visitor per day, so a friend flying circuits over your strip pays you once, not twenty times. Build somewhere people want to fly — scenic, well-decorated, near other fields — and see Public airport pages for getting it listed.