Flight Path: Ranks, Points, and the Leaderboard

Flight Path is the rank ladder that tracks how active you are in SkySuite. Everything you do — flying missions, delivering to clients, helping the community — earns activity points, and points are what move you up the ladder and up the Leaderboard.

To open your own Flight Path:

1. In the left menu, click Office › Community › Leaderboard.
2. Click your card (or, if you’re not on the board yet, the Flight Path link in the note at the top). Your Flight Path page opens.

The direct link is /flightpath. On a phone, it’s also “Flight Path” in the “Me” sheet.

The ten ranks

The ladder runs from the bottom up:

1. Recruit
2. Cadet
3. Aviator
4. Flight Lead
5. Captain
6. Squadron Leader
7. Wing Commander
8. Ace
9. Commander
10. General

Captain and up are the officer ranks. The top rank, General, is honorary — it’s the build team, not an earnable seat.

How you advance

A promotion isn’t just a points total. Each rank has its own requirements to clear — a set of challenges across flying, community, data, and business activity — plus a time element: how long you’ve been on the platform, how long you’ve held your current rank, and how many community meetings you’ve attended. When you’ve met everything a rank asks for, you’re promoted on the next review. Your Flight Path page shows your next rank and a checklist of what’s left.

Earning points

Points come from real activity. The main ways to earn (open the full list any time: Office › Community › Leaderboard → “🪙 Ways to Earn Points”):

• Fly a mission — 15 points each
• Send a delivery to a client — 25 points each
• Get a support ticket accepted — 20 points each
• Attend a community meeting — 50 points each
• Record an accepted tutorial — 50 / 100 / 150 points by length
• Bring in a referral that activates — 50 points (plus 1 point for each mission flown by a pilot you brought in, up to 25 per pilot)
• Community advocacy — 50 points (awarded by an admin, e.g. for sharing SkySuite)
• First-time milestones — 1 point each, once: binding a controller, pushing a mission to the field, joining or creating a team, running a Leads search, contacting a prospect, sending an invoice, adding a CRM contact, adding equipment, and posting in the community
• Set your @username and add a profile photo — 10 points each
• Time in service — 1 point a day, just for being here

The Leaderboard

Office › Community › Leaderboard · /office/community/leaderboard ranks the community by activity points — not time on the platform. It’s split into standing groups (founders and the top-20 race, lifetime and annual subscribers, and everyone else), with pilots who have no activity yet shown in a grey group at the end. Each card shows a pilot’s name, @handle, points, and service badges; click one to open that pilot’s Flight Path and see the points behind their standing. Company leadership sits in its own “Leadership” box and is kept out of the ranked standings.

The weekly muster

Several ranks — from Aviator up to Ace — have a limited number of seats. Once a week the muster re-seats them by current standing, so those ranks always reflect who’s most active right now. Between musters your rank holds steady. A few rules keep it fair: you can only hold a rank you’ve actually earned, a sitting officer isn’t bumped by a hair (a challenger has to clearly out-point them), and if you do lose a seat you slip just one rank rather than tumbling.

Common questions

Why did my rank change without me doing anything? The weekly muster re-seats the limited ranks by standing. If someone out-pointed you for a seat you slip one rank; climb back by earning points.

Does watching tutorials or reading the leaderboard earn points? No — points are for doing: flying, delivering, helping. Recording a tutorial earns points; watching one doesn’t.

Can I reach General? No — General is honorary for the build team. Commander is the top earnable rank.