Creating your account

To make an account takes a short time, and it is free. There is no separate step to sign up. Your first sign-in makes your account automatically.

Ways to sign in

• Email: give your email address. Then we send you a link that you can use one time. Click the link, and you are in. You do not need a password.
• VATSIM: sign in with your VATSIM account. This connects your VATSIM CID. Therefore, when you fly on the network, your ATC activity appears with your flights.

How to select a user name

• At your first sign-in, Tailstrike asks you to select a user name.
• Your user name is your public identity on the network. It appears on the leaderboards, in the flight logs, and on your hangar.
• You can change it later, in your settings.

Your hangar and your TailID

• After you sign in, you have a hangar. It is your pilot profile and your home page on the network. It is empty at the start. It fills with statistics, records and badges while you fly.
• Tailstrike also gives you a TailID: a short pilot code. It appears on your profile, and you can search for it in the pilot directory. It is also your invitation code.

How to learn the app

• The app opens on a dashboard. The dashboard adapts to you: it shows aircraft that you can fly, your active lease when you have one, and the live activity of the network.
• The important pages have a Show me around button. The button starts a short tour of the page. The tour also starts automatically at your first visit to each page.
• The quick start in the app shows the same steps as Your first flight.