Getting Started

Introduction

Clear2Land is a career progression engine for Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane 11, and X-Plane 12. This documentation covers installation, features, and account management.

What Clear2Land is

Clear2Land connects sim pilots through a live relay, shared leaderboards, and a structured career system, from student hours to ATPL. It supports MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, X-Plane 11, and X-Plane 12. It sits between lightweight career mods and full virtual airline platforms: deeper than the former, more accessible than the latter.

There are two tiers, and the line is simple: what runs on your machine is free, and what runs on our shared servers is community-funded. Ground Crew is free forever: the full career engine, jobs, logbook, FBO, certs, FAA currency tracking, the world map, leaderboards, landing competition, and multiplayer. Flight Crew is a Ko-fi contribution that funds the relay: shared cockpit and formation flying, the live co-flying that runs on our shared servers. The app is free. The servers cost money. Flight Crew is how the people who use those features keep them running.

Components

Three pieces work together:

yfce.uk: the community web presence. Login, profile, leaderboards, map.
Clear2Land (C2L): the Windows companion app. Connects your MSFS or X-Plane session to the relay while you fly.
YFCE Discord: the community hub. Also handles identity via Discord OAuth.

What you need

A Discord account
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024 (Steam or Microsoft Store), X-Plane 11, or X-Plane 12
The C2L companion app (free)

No separate YFCE account. Discord OAuth handles your identity. Sign in with Discord and your tier applies automatically.

Getting Started

Quick Start

Zero to flying with the community in under ten minutes.

Sign in with Discord

Click Download Free on the homepage. You'll be redirected to Discord to authorise the YFCE app. Your account is created automatically on first sign-in.

Join the Discord server

After sign-in you'll receive a server invite if you're not already in. Community announcements, support, and events live there.

Download and install C2L

Get the latest installer from the releases page. Install it on Windows. It runs in the background alongside MSFS, X-Plane 11, or X-Plane 12.

Sign into C2L with Discord

Open C2L and click Sign in with Discord. Same account as the website. Your tier is applied automatically.

Load your sim and fly

With C2L running, your presence goes live on the map and stats start logging as soon as you're airborne.

After loading in, check the world map. Your aircraft should appear within a few seconds of going airborne.

Getting Started

Install Clear2Land

The C2L companion runs on Windows alongside MSFS, X-Plane 11, or X-Plane 12. It connects your sim session to the relay in the background while you fly.

System requirements

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024, X-Plane 11, or X-Plane 12
Internet connection (optional, required only for relay, map, and community features)

Installation

Download the latest installer from the releases page
Run the installer. The default path is %APPDATA%\Clear2Land
Launch from Start menu or desktop shortcut
Sign in with Discord to link your YFCE profile

Start C2L before loading your sim. If MSFS or X-Plane is already running when C2L launches, it may not detect the session. Start C2L first.

Relay status

The status bar at the bottom of the C2L window shows relay connection state. Green means your presence is live. Amber or red means a connectivity issue: check your connection and consult #c2l-status on Discord for any known relay outages. C2L works offline in single player. Relay and community features require a connection.

Updates

C2L checks for updates on launch and prompts when a new version is available. Updates are full installer replacements. Settings and flight data are preserved.

Tiers

Ground Crew vs Flight Crew

What each tier includes.

Ground Crew is free and always will be. Live map, leaderboards, solo play.

Flight Crew unlocks multiplayer, career tools, and analytics. Supported via Ko-fi. No subscription required, one-time or recurring both work.

Feature comparison

Feature	Ground Crew	Flight Crew
Live world map	✓	✓
Leaderboards	✓	✓
Solo play	✓	✓
Discord OAuth sign-in	✓	✓
Community Discord	✓	✓
Shared cockpit multiplayer	—	✓
Career log	—	✓
FAA 61.57 currency tracking	—	✓
Job system	—	✓
Certification ladder	—	✓
Flight analytics	—	✓

Tier is re-checked every time you sign in. If you upgrade via Ko-fi and your tier hasn't updated, sign out and back in.

Tiers

Upgrading to Flight Crew

Supported via Ko-fi. How the upgrade works and what to expect.

How to upgrade

Visit ko-fi.com/yfce
Make a one-time or recurring contribution
Ko-fi will ask for your Discord username at checkout
Sign out of YFCE and C2L, then sign back in
Your tier will show as Flight Crew

Your Discord username at Ko-fi checkout must match the account you use to sign into YFCE. If they differ, post in #support and it'll be sorted manually.

How long does it take?

Upgrades process via Ko-fi webhook, typically within seconds. If the tier hasn't updated after 5 minutes, sign out and back in. Still showing Ground Crew after that? Open a support ticket in Discord.

One-time vs recurring

Both grant Flight Crew access. A one-time contribution grants access for as long as YFCE runs. Recurring membership keeps access live and supports ongoing development. Either is valid.

Features

Feature Overview

Everything C2L tracks and enables, single player offline and multiplayer online.

Offline

Single Player

Works fully offline. No account, no relay, no internet connection required. Install C2L, load your sim, and fly.

Feature	Description	Tier
Flight Logging	Every flight is recorded automatically: departure, arrival, aircraft type, block time, distance. Logged from first airborne event to touchdown or sim exit.	Ground Crew
Flight Analytics	Cumulative flight hours, nautical miles, flights completed, aircraft types flown, and per-aircraft breakdowns. All tracked across sessions and simulators and visible on your profile.	Ground Crew
Certification Ladder	Structured progression from Student Pilot through PPL, CPL, IR, and ATPL. Rank advances automatically as hour and route milestones are met.	Ground Crew
FAA 61.57 Currency	Rolling 90-day takeoff and landing counter by aircraft category. Night currency tracked separately using civil twilight for your position. Visual warning when currency is within 14 days of lapsing.	Ground Crew
Job System	Generated route assignments with simulated pay in YFCE credits. Multipliers for night ops, long-haul, and high-demand airports. Jobs expire if abandoned mid-flight.	Ground Crew
YFCE Credits	Career score earned through completed flights, jobs, and milestones. Not redeemable, used as a career progression metric.	Ground Crew
Multi-Pilot Profiles	Multiple pilot profiles on one install. Switch between them at any time. Each profile has its own logbook, career progress, and settings.	Ground Crew
Difficulty Modes	Casual, Intermediate, and Hardcore. Controls pay multipliers, FTL enforcement, medical requirements, and cold & dark validation. Switch per pilot profile.	Ground Crew
Aircraft Scanner	Automatically detects installed aircraft from your MSFS community folder. Categorises by type, filters non-aircraft objects, and populates your available fleet.	Ground Crew
Multi-Sim Support	MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, X-Plane 11, and X-Plane 12. Stats and career progress carry across all sims under one profile.	Ground Crew
Hobbs / Block / Flight Time	Three independent timers per aviation standards. Hobbs (engine on/off) for rental billing. Block (first movement to parked) for your logbook. Flight (wheels up/down) for records.	Ground Crew
Flight Time Limitations	Full FAA/EASA FTL rules: duty period limits, rest requirements, fatigue accumulation with circadian rhythm modeling, and violation penalties. Visual warnings before limits are reached.	Ground Crew
FBO Rental	Rent aircraft from Fixed Base Operators at major airports. Hourly Hobbs billing, security deposits, certification requirements enforced, late return penalties.	Ground Crew
Aircraft Marketplace	Buy and sell aircraft. Pricing by category and performance. Owned aircraft available for all jobs and free of hourly rental fees.	Ground Crew
Passenger Simulation	Individual passenger profiles with satisfaction scoring based on G-forces, on-time performance, and cabin events. Affects tips, reputation, and available job quality.	Ground Crew
Component Wear	Engine and airframe wear tracked across flights. Maintenance scheduling, reliability degradation, and optional failure simulation.	Ground Crew
Cold & Dark Detection	Validates engines, battery, and avionics are off at session start. Prevents hours fraud. Contaminated sessions are flagged in the logbook audit trail.	Ground Crew

Single player stats sync to the relay when you next connect. Your career record is never lost due to offline sessions.

Online

Multiplayer & Community

Requires an internet connection and a YFCE account via Discord OAuth. Ground Crew features are free. Flight Crew unlocks via Ko-fi.

Feature	Description	Tier
Live World Map	Real-time positions of every online YFCE pilot. Position, heading, altitude, and aircraft type update every few seconds. Toggle presence off to fly invisible. Stats still log.	Ground Crew
Leaderboards	Community rankings by total hours, total distance, flights completed, and career rank. Updated in real time as flights are logged.	Ground Crew
Community Profile	Public pilot profile on yfce.uk showing career rank, total hours, aircraft flown, and recent flights.	Ground Crew
Discord Integration	One login via Discord OAuth. Your Discord identity links yfce.uk and C2L. Tier applied automatically on sign-in. No separate registration.	Ground Crew
Friend System	Follow other pilots, see when they're online, get notified when they push back. Friends appear highlighted on the world map.	Ground Crew
Flight Following	Share a live link to your current flight with anyone, including non-members. Shows position, altitude, heading, and aircraft type in real time.	Ground Crew
Shared Cockpit	Two pilots, one aircraft. Full telemetry sync via the C2L relay. No external voice tool required. Both pilots log the flight to their career record.	Flight Crew
Formation Flying	Leader/wingman sync with live position offsets and formation scoring. Tolerances tracked and logged. Multiple wingmen supported per formation.	Flight Crew
Group Flights & Fly-ins	Scheduled community events with a set departure airport and time. All participants appear together on the map. Organiser controls route and timing.	Flight Crew
Custom Events	Race between airports, spot landing competitions, low-and-slow tours. Live leaderboard for each event. Results logged to career record.	Flight Crew
Virtual Airline (VA)	Full VA toolset: fleet management, scheduled routes, dispatch board, hub airports, and pilot rankings within the VA. Dispatchers assign flights, pilots complete them.	Flight Crew
ATC Overlay	Text-based comms layer between pilots in the same airspace. No external app required. Frequencies and handoffs handled within C2L.	Flight Crew
Livery Showcase	Upload and link liveries to your pilot profile. Community ratings and downloads. Tied to aircraft type in your hangar.	Flight Crew
Career Sync	Career rank, job progress, and YFCE credits visible on your public profile and updated live on the leaderboards.	Flight Crew

Shared Cockpit and Formation Flying require all participants to be Flight Crew. If a pilot downgrades, active sessions complete normally but new sessions cannot be started.

Features

World Map & Presence

Every online YFCE pilot in real time. Ground Crew

How it works

When C2L is running and you're in an active sim session (MSFS, X-Plane 11, or X-Plane 12), your position, heading, altitude, and aircraft type transmit to the relay every few seconds. The relay broadcasts this to the world map and to other C2L clients.

What's visible

Aircraft position on the global map
Aircraft type and callsign
Altitude and heading
Pilot username and tier badge

Privacy

All YFCE members can see all online pilots. To fly without appearing on the map, toggle Relay → Broadcast presence off in C2L settings. Stats still log locally. Presence clears automatically on sim exit.

Features

Leaderboards

Global rankings. Updated live. Ground Crew

Rankings

Total hours: cumulative airborne time across all flights
Total distance: nautical miles flown
Total landings: all logged touchdown events
This month: all three, filtered to the current calendar month

How stats count

C2L records from your sim session. A flight starts on becoming airborne and ends on touchdown or sim exit. Partial flights count toward hours and distance. Positions update every 15 minutes.

Stats only count when C2L is running and connected. Flights made without C2L are not recorded retroactively.

Features

Career & Flight Log

A full persistent flight history. Every flight counts toward your career record. Flight Crew

What's logged per flight

Departure and destination (ICAO)
Aircraft type and category
Block time and airborne time
Distance (nm)
Maximum altitude
Landing rate (ft/min)
Date and time (UTC)

Viewing your log

Accessible in the C2L Career tab and on yfce.uk in your pilot profile. Searchable by date range, aircraft type, and airport.

Aircraft type hours

Hours group by category (SEP, MEP, turboprop, jet, helicopter). This feeds directly into FAA 61.57 currency tracking and certification ladder requirements.

Features

FAA 61.57 Currency

Know before you brief. Flight Crew

What FAA 61.57 requires

14 CFR §61.57 requires at least 3 takeoffs and 3 landings within the preceding 90 days in the same category and class to carry passengers. Night currency requires those 3 T&Ls to be full-stop, between 1 hour after sunset and 1 hour before sunrise.

C2L currency tracking is for simulation and career realism purposes only. It does not constitute a legal logbook for real-world aviation.

How C2L tracks it

C2L records each takeoff and landing event from your sim, timestamped in UTC. The currency tracker counts T&Ls by aircraft category over the rolling 90-day window. Night events are identified by comparing position and local time against civil twilight.

Status display

Current: 3+ T&Ls in the last 90 days
Expiring soon: within 14 days of lapsing
Not current: with days since last qualifying T&L

Features

Job System

Cargo and passenger routes gated on your hours and currency. Flight Crew

How jobs work

Jobs are generated routes (cargo or passenger) with an aircraft category requirement, route, and pay rate. Accept a job, fly the route with C2L running, and it completes automatically on landing at the destination.

Gate requirements

Jobs are gated by career progression:

Minimum hours in the required aircraft category
Currency: you must be current in that category
Completed jobs in lower categories (career ladder)

Pay and credits

Jobs carry a simulated pay rate in YFCE credits, a career score, not redeemable for anything real. Night operations, long-haul routes, and high-demand airports carry multipliers.

Abandoning a job (sim exit before landing at the destination) marks it incomplete and returns it to the pool. Repeat abandonments reduce your available job pool temporarily.

Features

Shared Cockpit

Two pilots. One aircraft. Full telemetry sync. Flight Crew

How it works

Both pilots must be Flight Crew and have C2L running. One pilot creates a session and shares the session ID. The second pilot joins via C2L → Multiplayer → Join Session. The relay handles position and state synchronisation.

What syncs

Aircraft position and attitude
Control inputs (pilot flying / pilot monitoring roles)
Avionics state (autopilot, nav radios, transponder)
Fuel state

Voice

C2L does not include built-in voice. Use Discord, TeamSpeak, or any external voice tool alongside a shared cockpit session.

Both pilots must be in the same aircraft type for the session to sync correctly. Mismatched aircraft types will produce unexpected behaviour.

Account

Discord OAuth

One login. No passwords. Your Discord identity is your pilot identity.

Why Discord

YFCE is a Discord-first community. OAuth means no separate account to manage: your Discord identity links YFCE and C2L. Tier follows you automatically across both without reconfiguration.

What YFCE requests

identify: your Discord user ID, username, and avatar
guilds: to verify YFCE server membership

YFCE does not access your messages, friends list, or any other Discord data.

Signing out

Signing out revokes the session token from the relay. Your Discord authorisation remains in place. Next sign-in won't require re-authorisation with Discord unless you've revoked the YFCE app from Discord settings.

Revoking access

Discord User Settings → Authorised Apps → YFCE → Deauthorise. You can re-authorise at any time by signing in again.

Account

FAQ

Common questions.

Is Ground Crew actually free forever?

Yes. No time limit, no trial, no feature degradation. Free. No ads. No tracking. Your progress is yours.

Which simulators are supported?

MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 (Steam, Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass PC editions), X-Plane 11, and X-Plane 12.

Does C2L affect sim performance?

C2L runs as a separate Windows process. On MSFS it uses SimConnect; on X-Plane it uses the XPLM plugin interface. It does not inject into either sim. Typical usage is under 50MB RAM and less than 1% CPU.

My tier still shows Ground Crew after upgrading via Ko-fi.

Sign out of YFCE and C2L, then sign back in with Discord. The relay re-checks your tier on each authentication. If it's still wrong after that, post in #support with your Discord username and Ko-fi transaction date.

Can I use YFCE without joining the Discord server?

You need a Discord account for OAuth. Active participation in the Discord server is optional: the server is the community hub but not a requirement for using the product.

Is my flight data stored?

Career stats, flight logs, and leaderboard data are stored on the relay to persist across sessions. Live position data used for the world map is not stored. It streams in real time and clears when you go offline.

Can I delete my account?

Yes. Post a deletion request in #support or email the team. All flight logs, career data, and profile information are removed within 48 hours.

What's Next

Roadmap

What's live, what's in active development, and what's planned. Updated as work progresses.

Now

Live

Features available to all users today.

Single Player Live

Flight Logging & Analytics

Hobbs/Block/Flight timers, full logbook, per-aircraft breakdowns.

Live

Certification Ladder

Student → PPL → CPL → IR → ATPL progression with checkrides.

Live

FAA 61.57 Currency

Rolling 90-day counters, night currency, medical tracking.

Live

Job System

Dynamic route assignments across 6 job types with YFCE credits.

Live

FBO Rental & Aircraft Marketplace

Rent from 6 FBOs, buy and sell aircraft. Full financial ledger.

Live

Passenger Simulation & Component Wear

Cabin satisfaction, G-force scoring, engine wear, maintenance scheduling.

Live

Flight Time Limitations

Full FAA/EASA FTL with fatigue modeling across Casual, Intermediate, and Hardcore modes.

Live

Community & Relay Live

Live World Map

Real-time pilot positions, heading, altitude, and aircraft type.

Live

Leaderboards & Community Profile

Rankings by hours, distance, flights. Public pilot profiles on yfce.uk.

Live

Discord OAuth

One login. Discord identity links C2L and yfce.uk automatically.

Live

Shared Cockpit

Two pilots, one aircraft. Full telemetry sync via C2L relay.

Live

Active

In Development

Work underway now. Expected in upcoming releases.

Multiplayer Expansion In Dev

Friend System

Follow pilots, see online status, friends highlighted on the world map.

In Dev

Flight Following

Shareable live flight link for anyone, including non-members.

In Dev

Formation Flying

Leader/wingman sync with position offsets, tolerances, and scoring.

In Dev

Flight Planning In Dev

Route Planning

Great circle and airway routing via 71,524-airport waypoint database.

In Dev

Fuel Calculations

Trip fuel + FAR 91.167 reserves by aircraft performance profile.

In Dev

OFP & MSFS .pln Export

Operational flight plan output + direct .pln file generation for MSFS.

In Dev

Weather / METAR

METAR parsing, alternate airport selection, ceiling and visibility filtering.

In Dev

Coming

Planned

Confirmed for the roadmap. Designs in progress or queued after current work lands.

Community Features Planned

Virtual Airline (VA)

Full VA toolset: fleet, scheduled routes, dispatch board, hub airports, pilot rankings.

Planned

Group Flights & Custom Events

Scheduled fly-ins, airport races, spot landing competitions, and tour events with live leaderboards.

Planned

ATC Overlay

Text-based frequency comms between pilots in shared airspace. No external app required.

Planned

Livery Showcase

Upload, link, and rate liveries tied to aircraft type in your hangar.

Planned

The roadmap reflects confirmed work. Timelines aren't published: features ship when they're done and tested. Follow #c2l-dev on Discord for build updates.