Your landing scorecard
Every flight you file with CAVacars 2 gets a landing scorecard: an image of your touchdown with a score out of 100, ready to save or share.
Where you'll see it
- In CAVacars 2, in the summary that pops up after you file (CAVacars 2 1.0 and later). Click the card to open it full size, or Save image to download it.
- On the website, at the top of the Touchdown section on the PIREP details page, with a Download scorecard link.
- In Discord, in the arrival post for your flight, together with your score.
Anyone with the link can open your scorecard, so you can paste it anywhere. The link only works for that one flight.
The scorecard uses the touchdown data that CAVacars 2 records. Flights filed with other ACARS apps, and manual PIREPs, don't have one. See Achievements: Your Landing Data for how each number is measured.
What's on the card
- Score and grade, in the ring on the left.
- Rate (fpm) and G-force, the two numbers that count most.
- Notes: short tags for what went well, such as Butter, or what cost you points, such as Bounced or Wing low.
- Pitch, bank, crab, bounces, crosswind and speed at touchdown. Next to the crosswind is the headwind or tailwind, and next to your airspeed is your ground speed.
- Weather at touchdown, if it was raining or snowing or the visibility was low, and the wind.
- Your flight number, route, aircraft, sim and network, if you flew on VATSIM or IVAO.
Overheard in the cabin
Your passengers have opinions too. Every scorecard comes with two or three short comments from the cabin about your flight, for example:
“Did we land yet?” — Seat 14C
“I counted 3 landings. Do I get 3 sets of miles?” — Seat 22D
“That sunset on approach! I took forty photos.” — Seat 9A
They're made up, just for fun, and they never count toward your score. What the passengers talk about depends on how the flight went:
- The landing, always: a greaser, a firm or hard arrival, bounces, a wing low, a crab you didn't take out, or a straight landing in a strong crosswind.
- The ride, for flights flown with CAVacars 2: a smooth flight, turbulence or high G, steep turns, a quick descent, a stall warning, time acceleration or a long pause. If nothing stood out, you get some cabin small talk instead.
- Something extra, when it fits: rain or fog on arrival, landing at night, sunrise or sunset, a very short hop or a long haul, or flying online on VATSIM or IVAO.
On a cargo flight the cargo does the talking, and on a ferry flight there's only the crew member riding along in seat 1A. A flight counts as cargo when it was booked as one, or when its tour, event, ferry flight or aircraft mentions cargo or freight.
You'll find the comments in the post-flight summary in CAVacars 2, on the PIREP details page (all of them), and on the scorecard image (the first two). The same flight always gets the same comments.
How the score works
You start with 100 points and lose some for each thing that wasn't ideal. Nothing below the "free" limit costs anything. Above it, the penalty grows steadily up to the maximum.
| What | Free up to | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Rate | 120 fpm | Up to −10 at 300 fpm, −40 at 600 fpm, and −60 at 1,000 fpm or more |
| G-force | 1.3 G | Up to −20 at 2.0 G |
| Bounces | none | −10 per bounce, −20 at most |
| Bank | 2° | Up to −15 at 7° |
| Crab | 3° | Up to −10 at 8° |
| Pitch | 0 to 9° nose up | −10 for touching down nose low (below 0°). Up to −15 at 12° nose up, where tail strikes start |
A crash scores 0.
| Score | Grade |
|---|---|
| 90–100 | Excellent |
| 75–89 | Good |
| 60–74 | Firm |
| 40–59 | Hard |
| 0–39 | Very hard |
A normal landing scores well. An airline-style touchdown of 150–250 fpm with the wings level and the nose lined up lands in the 90s. You don't need a greaser for a top score, so don't float down the runway chasing one.
The score is for fun and bragging rights. It doesn't decide whether your PIREP is approved (see Filing your PIREP), and it doesn't count toward achievements on its own.
The notes
| Note | When |
|---|---|
| Butter | 0 to −60 fpm, 1.15 G or less, under 2° of bank and no bounce (the same as the Butter achievement) |
| Smooth landing | A score of 90 or more with nothing to flag |
| Firm touchdown / Hard touchdown | Harder than 300 fpm / harder than 600 fpm |
| High G | Over 1.3 G |
| Bounced | One or more bounces |
| Wing low | Over 2° of bank |
| Not de-crabbed | Over 3° of crab |
| Nose wheel first / Tail strike risk | Pitch below 0° / above 9° |
At most three notes are shown, worst first.