Teams: Join or Start a Pilot Community

Teams are the community groups pilots form inside SkySuite — a regional mapping crowd, a shared-interest circle, whatever brings you together. Find them at Office › Community › Community, on the “Teams” tab · /office/community?tab=teams.

A Team is not the same as a Crew: Crews (Office › Work › Field › Crews) are for staffing jobs, while a Team is a community you belong to. Joining or creating one is also a small Flight Path milestone.

Find and join a team

1. In the left menu, click Office › Community › Community.
2. Click the “Teams” tab. It has two sections: “Your teams” (the ones you’re in) and “Discover” (teams open to new members).
3. Under “Discover”, click “Request to join” on a team. The button changes to “Requested” while a team manager reviews it.

Private teams are invite-only and don’t show a join button.

Start your own

1. Go to Office › Community › Community and click the “Teams” tab.
2. Click “+ New team”. The “New team” box opens.
3. Fill in “Name” and a short description.
4. Set “Visibility” — Private (invite only) or Discoverable (others can request) — and “Max members” (25 to start).
5. Click “Save”.

You become the team’s owner. To manage it, click “Manage” on your team’s card. The team page has “Settings” (with “Save settings”), “Join requests” (“Approve” / “Deny”), “Members”, and “Group chat”. Join requests also show on your team’s card on the Teams tab, with “Approve” / “Decline”.

Team chat

A team’s group chat is opt-in — it isn’t created automatically. On the team page, under “Group chat”, click “Enable group chat”. It then lives alongside your other conversations in Office › Community › Chat (see Chat).

Common questions

What’s the difference between a Team and a Crew? A Team is a community you belong to. A Crew is for staffing an actual job. The Teams tab says so right at the top.

I requested to join but nothing happened. Join requests wait for a team manager to approve them. Until then your request shows as “Requested”.

Can I make my team invite-only? Yes — set “Visibility” to Private when you create it, or later: click “Manage” on your team’s card, change “Visibility” under “Settings”, and click “Save settings”. Private teams don’t appear with a join button under Discover.