Clear2Land User Guide

Welcome to Clear2Land. This guide walks you through everything from your first download to flying paying jobs, owning a fleet, and flying multiplayer with other crews.

What is Clear2Land

Clear2Land is a career addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and X-Plane 12. It runs as a standalone desktop application alongside your simulator. You earn jobs, fly them, get paid, build hours, climb the certification ladder, buy aircraft, and grow a flying career one logbook entry at a time. Single-player is free and complete, and multiplayer is free too: sign in to a free YFCE account at yfce.uk to connect to the relay, see the live leaderboard, and join landing competitions. The optional Flight Crew membership adds formation flying.

Getting Started

You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), one of MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, X-Plane 12, or X-Plane 11, about 400 MB of free disk space, and an internet connection for multiplayer and auto-updates (single-player works fully offline).

A free YFCE account at yfce.uk is optional. It connects you to the multiplayer relay for the live leaderboard, landing competition, world-map presence, and multiplayer, all free. The optional Flight Crew membership adds formation flying. The career, marketplace, logbook, and every other single-player feature work fully offline without an account.

Installing Clear2Land

1. Go to yfce.uk/download and click the download link
2. Save the ZIP anywhere convenient
3. Right-click and choose Extract All; pick a destination folder, for example C:\Clear2Land\
4. Open the extracted folder and double-click Clear2Land.exe

There is no installer. Clear2Land is portable: the folder you extracted is the install, and to uninstall you delete the folder.

The first time you run the application, Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt. Click More info, then Run anyway. Career data lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clear2Land\, so your installation folder stays clean.

First Launch: Welcome Screen

When you start Clear2Land for the first time you land on the Welcome card with a single Create Your First Pilot button. The full app is free for everyone -- no license key, no sign-in gate. Click the button and the create-pilot wizard runs.

A free YFCE account is optional and only needed to connect to the multiplayer relay: the live leaderboard, landing competition, world-map presence, and multiplayer, all free. The optional Flight Crew membership adds formation flying. You can sign in or sign out at any time from System > Settings -- it does not block access to anything else. If you sign in, Clear2Land caches your session for seven days of offline use, then asks you to sign in again on the next internet connection.

First Launch: The Career Wizard

The create-pilot wizard runs at first launch. It asks you for three things.

Callsign

Pick a callsign of four to eight letters and digits. This is the name you will see throughout your career, and it is how other pilots will see you on the world map and in multiplayer sessions. You cannot change it once your career has started, so choose one you want to keep.

Difficulty mode

Three modes are offered. The mode you choose shapes the entire career.

• Casual starts you with $55,000 and pays jobs at 2.5 times the base rate. Flight time limit rules are off, medical certificates are not enforced, and aircraft do not need to be cold and dark when you start a duty session. Pick this if you want to enjoy the career without financial pressure or paperwork.
• Intermediate starts you with $40,000 and pays jobs at 1.5 times the base rate. Duty hours are capped at 14 per period and basic medical certificates are tracked. A balanced challenge.
• Hardcore starts you with $5,000 and pays at 1.0 times the base rate. Full flight time limit rules apply, including rolling 7-day, 28-day, and 365-day flight time caps. Medicals must be current. Aircraft must be cold and dark at duty start or the session is flagged as contaminated and no hours are logged.

You can adjust some of these from Settings later, but the starting balance is fixed by the mode you pick now.

Home base

Pick your starting airport. Larger airports give you more job variety and more rental aircraft on day one. Recommended starters:

• KJFK, KSEA, KORD, KLAX (United States)
• EGLL, EGCC (United Kingdom)
• EDDF, EDDM (Germany)
• YSSY, YMML (Australia)

Anywhere your simulator has detailed scenery is a fine choice. You can always reposition by ferrying or by accepting a job that ends at a new airport.

Click Create Pilot and you are dropped onto the dashboard.

First Launch: The Onboarding Tour

A floating card appears in the bottom right of the window. The tour walks you through the seven essential screens (Welcome, Dashboard, Navigation, Job Board, Flight Planning, My Fleet, Pilot Profile) in about 90 seconds.

You can click Skip Tour at any step. The tour will not show again once finished. To replay it, open System > Settings. The tour is non-blocking, so the full UI stays usable behind the card while you read.

Touring the Main Window

The title bar at the top shows your callsign, balance, and the simulator connection status. The indicator turns green when Clear2Land has detected a running simulator.

The left sidebar is your navigation hub, split into sections:

• MAIN: Map
• CAREER: Pilot Profile, Logbook, Airline Employment, Job Board, Flight Planning, Checklist, Aircraft Marketplace, Bank Loans, Hub Services
• HEADQUARTER: Headquarter Statistics, My Fleet, Establish a Hub, Manage Hub, Contract Board, Competitor Intel
• AIRCRAFT: Cabin Layout Preview, Scan Aircraft, Aircraft Library, Scan Airport Scenery
• MULTIPLAYER: Landing Competition, Formation Flying, Leaderboard
• VIRTUAL TOURS: Tour Browser, My Tours
• SYSTEM: Settings, Switch Pilot, About / Legal

Click any section header to collapse or expand it. The main content area to the right shows the page you selected. Pages open inline, not as pop-out windows.

Connecting to Your Simulator

Clear2Land connects to your simulator automatically once both applications are running.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 or 2020

No extra setup needed. Launch MSFS and load a flight. In Clear2Land, the simulator dropdown in the title bar should show MSFS, and the connection indicator turns green within a few seconds. Click the indicator to retry if it stays red, or restart Clear2Land with MSFS already running.

X-Plane 12 or X-Plane 11

X-Plane needs the Clear2Land plugin in your X-Plane 12/Resources/plugins/ folder.

The plugin ships inside the Clear2Land download. After unzipping Clear2Land, copy the Clear2Land folder from the install directory into your plugins folder. It should contain win_x64/Clear2Land.xpl (plus lin_x64/Clear2Land.xpl for Linux).

That is the only plugin needed. No third-party connectors required.

Launch X-Plane and load a flight. In Clear2Land, choose X-Plane 12 from the simulator dropdown and the connection indicator should turn green. If it does not, open Plugins > Plugin Admin in X-Plane and confirm "Clear2Land DataRef Bridge" is enabled.

Scanning Your Aircraft

Before you can rent or buy aircraft, Clear2Land needs to know what is installed in your simulator.

1. Open Aircraft > Scan Aircraft in the sidebar
2. The Community and Official folder paths are auto-detected for both Steam and Microsoft Store installs of MSFS, and for X-Plane 12
3. Click Start Scan. The first scan takes two to five minutes; later runs are much faster
4. Review any aircraft the scanner could not classify and assign a category (single piston, multi piston, turboprop, regional jet, narrow-body jet, wide-body jet, super heavy, helicopter)
5. Click Apply Changes

Scanned aircraft now appear in the Aircraft Library, the Marketplace, and rental listings. Run the scan again whenever you install new aircraft in your simulator.

Passenger versus cargo classification

The scanner reads the aircraft title and the manufacturer-provided configuration to decide whether each aircraft is treated as a passenger airframe or a cargo airframe. This is what determines which job types appear when the aircraft is rented, owned, or selected for a job.

Sometimes a third-party aircraft is misclassified, most often when a freighter variant shares its title prefix with a passenger variant (for example A330-300 cargo versus A330-300 passenger). The Aircraft Library does not currently support manually overriding the role for a single aircraft. If the classification is wrong, click Send Feedback from System > Settings with the aircraft title and the correct role, and the team will tighten the scanner heuristics for the next release.

If you have detailed third-party scenery for specific airports, run Aircraft > Scan Airport Scenery to make Clear2Land aware of it. This is optional; the application ships with reference data for every airport in the world.

Your First Flight

This walkthrough covers a short, low-pressure first job.

Step 1: Rent an aircraft

Open Career > Hub Services. The page lists rental aircraft at your home base. As a student pilot, you are restricted to single-engine piston rentals at $150 to $250 per hour.

Click an aircraft, review the rental terms, and click Rent Aircraft. A security deposit of two rental hours is held and refunded when you return the aircraft.

Rental billing runs on Hobbs time (engine running). The longer your engines stay on, the more you pay, so plan your taxi accordingly.

To return a rental, open Career > Hub Services and click the FBO browser. If you have an active rental, the rental summary surfaces automatically at the top of the detail panel with a Return Current Rental button; the dialog opens to the Aircraft Rental tab so the Return action is visible without hunting.

Step 2: Pick a job

Open Career > Job Board. The board lists every contract available at your current airport that matches your certification.

Filters across the top of the page let you narrow by:

• Distance: 50, 100, 200, or 500 nautical miles
• Job type: Training, Ferry, Cargo, Charter, Passenger, Scenic Tour, Survey, MEDEVAC, VIP, Military
• Sort order: by pay, distance, or expiry time

A green checkmark next to a job means you meet the certification, medical, and aircraft requirements.

For your first flight, look for a Training Flight under 100 nm. Pay is low but the reputation gain is solid and the pressure is minimal.

Click a job to see the briefing, then click Accept.

Step 3: Plan the route (optional)

Open Career > Flight Planning if you want a full flight plan. Clear2Land syncs flight plans with SimBrief. Enter your departure and destination, pick the airframe, and the plan generates with weight and balance, fuel calculation, and a route.

For a short VFR hop, you can skip this and just fly direct.

Step 4: Set up in the simulator

Load your rented aircraft at the departure airport in your simulator.

If you are on Hardcore difficulty, the aircraft must be cold and dark before you start the duty session:

• All engines off
• Battery master off
• Avionics master off
• All exterior lights off

Casual and Intermediate modes do not require cold and dark. Start however you like.

Step 5: Start the duty session

Click Start Duty Session in the Clear2Land toolbar. The console confirms the session validated. Three independent timers begin:

Step 6: Fly

Taxi, take off, and fly to the destination shown on the job briefing. While in flight, you can monitor:

• Duty time and fatigue in the sidebar
• Passenger satisfaction in the cabin monitor (passenger jobs only)
• Weather and forecast at your destination
• The live world map in the MAIN > Map page

Smooth flight pays better. Hard turns, rapid altitude changes, and rough landings all reduce the bonus pool. The landing scorer evaluates touchdown rate, centreline tracking, airspeed accuracy, glideslope adherence, and crosswind correction.

Step 7: Complete the job

After landing and shutting down at the destination:

1. Click Complete Job to see your performance summary
2. Base pay plus on-time, smooth-landing, and passenger-satisfaction bonuses are credited to your account
3. Click End Duty Session to close out the duty period

Your logbook, balance, fatigue, and currency tracking all update automatically.

The Live World Map

Open MAIN > Map for the live world map. It shows:

• Your aircraft, with heading, altitude, and groundspeed
• Other Clear2Land pilots flying at the same time (sign-in required)
• Airport markers that split into individual gates as you zoom in
• Live VATSIM and IVAO traffic
• Live ATC positions and FIR boundaries
• Your active flight plan as a route line

At continental zoom, pilots cluster into bubbles with player counts. Zoom in and the bubbles split into individual aircraft markers.

The map updates in near real time when you are connected to a simulator. It works as a flight planner even when you are not flying.

Checklists

Open Career > Checklist for the checklist page. Clear2Land ships checklists for the most common aircraft types and runs them in three phases: pre-start, in-flight, and shutdown.

Many items tick themselves as the simulator state changes. The auto-tick covers parking brake, gear, master battery, avionics, seatbelts, beacon, navigation lights, strobe lights, landing lights, taxi light, pitot heat, transponder, autopilot master, and fuel quantity. As you flip a switch in the cockpit, the matching checklist item ticks in Clear2Land.

Items the simulator cannot detect, such as briefing the passengers, must be ticked manually. Click the checkbox next to the item to mark it complete.

A summary at the bottom of the checklist shows how many items remain in the current phase.

Career Progression

Your certification level controls which aircraft you can fly and which jobs you can accept.

The certification ladder

To advance, you build hours by flying jobs, then take a written exam and a practical checkride from the Pilot Profile page. The exam is multiple choice with unlimited attempts (a small fee per attempt). The checkride is a standardised flight that the automated examiner scores against the rating standards.

Pass both and the new rating activates immediately.

Type ratings and endorsements

Larger aircraft need a type rating on top of the base certificate. All type ratings require a CPL or ATPL plus the Instrument and Multi-Engine ratings, with hour minimums per family: 300 for E-Jets, 500 for the B737 and A320 families, 1500 for the B747, B777, B787, A330, and A340 families, and 2000 for the A380.

Endorsements unlock smaller capabilities: high performance (over 200 hp), complex (retractable gear and constant-speed prop), tailwheel, and high altitude (above FL250). The Pilot Profile page tracks your progress toward every rating and endorsement.

Medical certificates

Higher certifications need higher classes of medical certificate. Casual mode does not require medicals. Intermediate and Hardcore both do.

Renew from the Pilot Profile page. An expired medical blocks paid work until renewed.

Currency

To stay current and unlock the full job board: a Flight Review every 24 months (auto-satisfied after 10 hours), day currency (3 takeoffs and landings in the last 90 days), night currency (3 night takeoffs and landings, for night passenger work), and instrument currency (6 approaches in 6 months, for IFR jobs). The Pilot Profile page shows what is current and what is about to expire.

The Job Board

Jobs are dispatched based on your location, certification, and rented or owned aircraft. The board refreshes regularly.

Job types

Pay rates are multiplied by your difficulty mode multiplier and can include bonuses.

Bonuses and completion

Three bonuses can stack on top of base pay: on-time arrival (up to 20% for landing inside the departure window), smooth landing (up to 10% for touchdown rate under -200 fpm), and passenger satisfaction (variable, passenger jobs only). A job completes automatically when your engines are off and the aircraft has been stationary for ten seconds at the destination. Click Complete Job to see the breakdown, then End Duty Session to close the duty period.

The Marketplace

Open Career > Aircraft Marketplace to browse aircraft for sale. Once you have the cash or the credit, owning an aircraft eliminates hourly rental costs.

What the marketplace lists

The marketplace stocks two streams.

The used market has aircraft that have flown before. Each listing shows total airframe hours, condition, and asking price. Used aircraft are cheaper but require maintenance sooner.

Factory deliveries have specific aircraft fresh from the manufacturer. The delivery airport is the real-world factory or delivery centre for that type:

• Boeing wide-bodies (747, 777, 787) deliver from Paine Field
• Boeing narrow-bodies (737 family) deliver from Renton
• Airbus narrow-bodies (A318, A319, A320, A321) deliver from Brookley (Mobile Aeroplex)
• Airbus A220 delivers from Mirabel
• Pilatus PC-6, PC-12, and PC-24 deliver from Buochs
• Quest Kodiak delivers from Sandpoint

Each factory has a real-world runway, and the marketplace validates the aircraft against its operating limits at minimum block fuel for the ferry flight. You will not see deliveries that cannot legally ferry out from the factory.

After buying a factory delivery you fly it home yourself. The flight counts toward your hours and your logbook.

Buying

Click an aircraft, review the details (price, operating cost, seat configuration, payload, certification required), and choose a payment option:

• Cash purchase, pay the full price up front, no interest
• Loan, borrow up to 80% of the value over one to five years. Interest rate depends on your credit score, certification, and experience.

Once purchased, the aircraft appears in My Fleet at the airport where you bought it.

Selling

To sell, open Headquarter > My Fleet, select the aircraft, and choose Sell. The aircraft is listed for sale. You receive the proceeds minus a 5% broker fee. If financed, the loan balance is paid off first and you receive the remainder.

Bank Loans

Open Career > Bank Loans to manage borrowing. You can borrow up to 80% of an aircraft's value over one to five years. Your interest rate depends on your credit score (300 to 850), certification level, reputation, and hours flown. Pay on time and your credit score climbs, lowering future rates. Miss payments and it drops. The page shows your current loans, monthly payments, and total interest paid to date.

My Fleet

Open Headquarter > My Fleet for every aircraft you own. Each row shows the current location, condition (a percentage that drops as the aircraft accrues hours), maintenance status (next 100-hour, next annual, any open repairs), fuel quantity, and total airframe hours. Aircraft stay where you parked them; to use one, fly to its location or accept a job that starts there.

Maintenance comes in three flavours: a 100-hour inspection (required every 100 flight hours, 2% to 5% of value), an annual inspection (yearly, 3% to 8% of value), and damage repair (billed by severity, $500 to $50,000). An aircraft is grounded during scheduled maintenance and repair, and the schedule shows when the next inspection is due.

Every flight burns fuel and wears the engine, and insurance and hangar rent bill monthly. The My Fleet view rolls up the monthly fixed costs so you can see what your fleet costs to keep.

The Logbook

Open Career > Logbook for the record of every flight you have flown. Each entry shows date and time, departure and arrival ICAOs, aircraft registration, Hobbs/block/flight time, day and night landings, pilot in command status, and the job (if the flight was for a contract).

Free-flight hours count even without an active job. Take off and land in your simulator and Clear2Land logs it. The logbook filters by date, aircraft type, and ICAO, and exports to CSV from the export button at the top of the page.

Hub Services and FBO Ownership

You can operate from any airport, but for recurring passive income you can establish your own Fixed Base Operator. Open Headquarter > Establish a Hub. Cost depends on airport size: $75,000 at a large airport, $38,000 medium, $12,500 small, $8,000 heliport. You can own one FBO per airport.

The FBO generates daily passive income scaled to airport size and FBO rating: $800/day large, $400 medium, $150 small, $80 heliport. Income accumulates for up to 30 days when you are not playing.

Upgrades available:

Manage upgrades and check daily income from Headquarter > Manage Hub. Once your FBO has aircraft based there, you can hire AI pilots from the hiring panel; each has experience, skill, and a specialisation, and they split revenue with the FBO. Open Headquarter > Contract Board for long-term contracts that run on top of the regular Job Board, paying a recurring fee for committing to specific routes.

Flight Time Limits and Fatigue

Clear2Land tracks duty time and enforces realistic flight time limits. Enforcement strictness depends on your difficulty mode.

The core rules: maximum duty period 14 hours, maximum daily flight time 8 hours (Hardcore only), minimum rest between duties 10 hours. Rolling caps stack on top: 32 hours over 7 days, 100 hours over 28 days, 1,000 hours over 365 days.

The fatigue meter accumulates at 5 points per hour of duty plus 2 extra points per hour of flight. The fatigue widget shows your state: green (under 30) is fresh, yellow (30 to 60) is caution, red (over 60) is fatigued and triggers performance penalties. Fatigue resets after a full 10-hour rest period.

Exceeding duty limits or flying while fatigued generates fines and reputation damage on Hardcore. Casual mode tracks the meter for information only.

Achievements

Clear2Land tracks 50 achievements across milestones, career goals, certifications, and hidden challenges. Examples: First Flight, Ten Flights, Fifty Landings, Ten Hours, Hundred Hours, First Job, Ten Jobs, Ten Thousand Balance, Hundred Thousand Earnings, Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Airline Captain. Fourteen hidden diamond achievements unlock for unusual flying or career patterns and stay locked until you trigger them. The Pilot Profile page shows your progress; a toast notification appears in the corner of the window when one unlocks during play.

Multiplayer

The MULTIPLAYER section of the sidebar is always visible. Sign in with a YFCE account from System > Settings to connect to the multiplayer relay; without sign-in the multiplayer pages still open but cannot reach other pilots.

All multiplayer features connect through the relay at relay.yfce.uk. No port forwarding or firewall configuration is needed.

Landing Competition

Challenge another pilot to a head-to-head landing contest.

1. Open Multiplayer > Landing Competition
2. Create or join a competition
3. Both pilots fly the same approach to the same runway
4. Each landing is scored on touchdown rate, centreline offset, crab angle, and G-force
5. The composite score determines the winner

Results display side-by-side with a detailed breakdown so you can see where the technique difference came from.

Formation Flying

Open Multiplayer > Formation Flying to set up a group flight with shared waypoints, flight plan, and chat. Formation flights track position relative to the lead aircraft so you can practice formation work or just enjoy a sightseeing flight together.

Leaderboard

Every landing logged in Clear2Land is scored automatically. The Multiplayer > Leaderboard page ranks every pilot by their landing quality, with filters for aircraft type, runway, and time period. Top landings are featured with their full score breakdown.

If the leaderboard server is offline, the page falls back to your local landing history. You see up to 50 of your own recent landings with the same score, FPM, centreline, and runway data.

Virtual Tours

Open Virtual Tours > Tour Browser for curated multi-leg routes: bush flying through Alaska, scenic tours of European capitals, ferry challenges across continents, and tourism destinations worldwide. Pick a tour, accept the first leg, and each completed leg unlocks the next. My Tours tracks tours you have started. Tours run alongside the regular career, so you can fly legs between paid jobs.

Integrations

SimBrief and Navigraph. Navigraph integration is being replaced with YFCE-native charts in a future release. The "Connect to SimBrief / Navigraph" button in Settings is disabled for now. The Navigraph desktop app continues to work alongside Clear2Land for manual chart access, and SimBrief flight planning works in your browser as normal; they're just not directly integrated in this build.

Little NavMap. If you use Little NavMap as your moving-map tool, point Clear2Land at its airport database from the Settings tab. Clear2Land then uses it as a higher-quality airport reference for the job board and the flight planner.

SayIntentions AI. If you use SayIntentions for your sim ATC, Clear2Land pushes your career context to it at the start of each job: callsign, certification, total hours, current job, departure, destination, and aircraft. SayIntentions tailors radio calls and co-pilot chatter accordingly. Configure this from the SayIntentions tab in Settings.

VATSIM and IVAO. Live VATSIM and IVAO traffic and ATC positions display on the world map alongside Clear2Land pilots. No setup needed; the map pulls the network feeds automatically.

Settings

Open System > Settings for the configuration page. Settings are organised into tabs by topic. The most common categories are General (language, UI scale, auto-update), Simulation and Realism (difficulty fine-tuning, cold and dark enforcement, time tracking), Multiplayer and Network (relay URL, online/offline toggle), Data Tools (Little NavMap path, MSFS and X-Plane scenery scans, custom aircraft management; the SimBrief / Navigraph connection panel is disabled pending the YFCE-native charts surface in a future release), SayIntentions, and Language.

A separate Tools tab launches one-shot actions like rescanning airports, repopulating the marketplace, or capturing a controller button. Click any setting label for a tooltip explaining what it does.

Switching Pilots

You can run multiple pilot careers in parallel. Open System > Switch Pilot to see your roster. From there you can continue an existing pilot, create a new one (runs the career wizard again), archive a pilot you no longer fly, or delete one permanently. Each pilot has separate balance, hours, fleet, FBOs, achievements, and reputation.

Resetting a single pilot

To reset one pilot without affecting the others, open System > Switch Pilot, select the pilot, and click Delete. Confirm the deletion and the pilot is removed from the roster permanently. You can then create a new pilot from the same screen.

This is the right path when you want to start over on one career while keeping your other pilots intact.

Wiping everything and starting fresh

If you want a completely empty install (no pilots, no fleet, no saved settings), use the wipe-and-reinstall procedure:

1. Close Clear2Land
2. Optionally back up %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clear2Land\ somewhere safe in case you change your mind
3. Delete the entire %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clear2Land\ folder
4. Delete %USERPROFILE%\.config\clear2land\auth_token.json to clear the cached sign-in session
5. Optionally delete the install folder and re-extract a fresh ZIP from yfce.uk/download (the install folder only holds the application binaries, not your career data, so you can keep it if you want to skip re-downloading)
6. Start Clear2Land

You will see the first-launch Welcome card, then the create-pilot wizard, exactly as you did the first time you ran the application. Auto-update preferences, simulator paths, and all custom settings are also reset.

This wipe removes everything Clear2Land has stored locally. If you have a YFCE account at yfce.uk, the account itself is unaffected; only the local cache is cleared and the next sign-in will pull a fresh session.

Auto-Updates

Clear2Land checks for updates on every launch. When a new version is available, a notification appears in the title bar. Click Download Update, then click Yes to install when the download completes. The application closes, replaces itself, and relaunches with the new version. Your pilots, settings, fleet, and progress carry over automatically.

If you prefer to update manually, download a fresh ZIP from yfce.uk/download and extract over the existing folder.

Sending Feedback

Clear2Land has a one-click feedback path. When you close the application, a feedback dialog asks for an experience rating (one to five) and a free-text description. Tick the diagnostics box if you want logs included, then click Send. There is nothing to package or attach. You can also trigger the dialog any time from System > Settings > Send Feedback.

Diagnostics include the application log from the current session, your difficulty mode and Clear2Land version, the connected simulator, and any recent crash dumps. Diagnostics never include your sign-in token or any data from outside the Clear2Land folder. Your name and email are only sent if you put them in the message.

The privacy policy at yfce.uk/privacy has the full detail.

Troubleshooting

Simulator will not connect. For MSFS, make sure the simulator is running with a flight loaded, then click the connection indicator to retry. For X-Plane, open Plugins > Plugin Admin and confirm the Clear2Land DataRef Bridge plugin is loaded.

The job board is empty or shows no jobs at my homebase. The job board filters jobs against three criteria, and a miss on any of them will leave the board empty:

1. Certification level. A Student Pilot only sees Training and short Cargo at small fields. Major airports like KSMF, KJFK, KLAX only spawn jobs once you reach PPL or higher. Check Career > Pilot Profile for your current rating; if you are Student level, expect a thin job list at large airports until you advance.
2. Aircraft availability. Jobs need an aircraft you can fly. If you have not rented or bought one yet, open Career > Hub Services and rent something appropriate to your rating.
3. Distance filter. The default is 100 nm. Widen it to 200 or 500 nm from the dropdown at the top of the Job Board.

If all three look correct and the board is still empty, click Refresh Jobs at the top of the Job Board to force a regeneration. If you have established an FBO, the Headquarter > Contract Board is a separate stream of long-term routes that runs alongside the regular Job Board, and is often busier at smaller fields.

Your regulatory governance setting (FAA, EASA, or TC) under System > Settings also affects which jobs are legal under the chosen rules. It is not a region filter, but it can exclude jobs that conflict with the regulatory regime you have selected.

Job generation should never spawn an invalid airport pair (for example, a route to a nonexistent ICAO). If you see one, send feedback from the Job Board with diagnostics so the team can correct the reference data.

Session shows contaminated (Hardcore). The aircraft must be cold and dark at duty start. Shut down all engines, battery master, avionics master, and exterior lights, end the current duty session, wait ten seconds, and start a new one.

Hours are not logging. A contaminated Hardcore session records no hours. Always click Start Duty Session before flying, and check the connection indicator is green.

My pilot's location was stuck on an unknown airport code. Older builds could record an invalid placeholder code as your current location after certain landings, which then blocked the relocation panel because the source was invalid. v0.22.24+ refuses to write placeholder codes at all, and existing affected pilots are auto-healed on next app launch — your location resets to your headquarters' primary airport (or KJFK if you have no headquarters yet). No manual action needed.

My hub shows a large negative balance after creating a new pilot. This is being investigated. The hub balance system uses airport size as one of its inputs, and a few entries in the airport reference data appear to be mislabelled. Send feedback from System > Settings > Send Feedback with the homebase ICAO and your current pilot certification so the team can reproduce it. The Pilot Profile shows your current account balance directly; that is the authoritative number for any financial decisions.

An aircraft is showing the wrong job type (passenger when it is cargo, or vice versa). The scanner read the aircraft as the opposite role. There is no in-app override for the role yet; send feedback with the aircraft title and the correct role from System > Settings > Send Feedback and the team will tighten the scanner heuristics for the next release.

Aircraft scanner did not find an aircraft. Run Aircraft > Scan Aircraft again after installing new aircraft. If the scanner finds an unknown type, assign it a category manually. Heavily modified aircraft can be added by hand from Settings > Data Tools > Custom Aircraft.

Auto-update will not download. Check your internet connection and make sure your antivirus or firewall is not blocking Clear2Land. As a fallback, download a fresh ZIP from yfce.uk/download and extract over the existing install.

Multiplayer will not connect. Sign in with a YFCE account from System > Settings. If sign-in works but sessions do not, confirm relay.yfce.uk is reachable from your network.

I lost my career. Career data lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clear2Land\ and auto-saves every 30 seconds. If a pilot has gone missing, check the Switch Pilot page for archived pilots. If a save was interrupted, the previous auto-save loads on next launch. Send feedback with diagnostics if something has gone seriously wrong.

Where Things Live on Disk

To uninstall, delete the install folder and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Clear2Land\.

Support

The Clear2Land community lives on Discord. Join at discord.gg/P9E3PE6fgR for help, suggestions, and conversation with other pilots.

For reference and downloads, visit yfce.uk.

For bug reports, use the in-app Send Feedback button. It bundles the relevant logs automatically and routes them to the team.

For privacy and data handling, see yfce.uk/privacy.

If you'd like to support ongoing development, you can tip the team at ko-fi.com/yfce.

Credits

Clear2Land is built by YFCE. World map tiles come from OpenStreetMap contributors, weather data from Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), and airport reference data from OurAirports (ourairports.com).

Thanks to every pilot who has flown a job, found a bug, suggested a feature, or shared a screenshot. The career grows because you fly it.

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