VectorHeavy / Career
One quiet contract tower. Your first clean shifts. Then the next facility, and the next. Build an air traffic control career, one certification at a time.
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ST. LOUIS / KSTLA facility patch you can earn.
The center is its real runway layout.
How Career works
01 / Your first facility
Begin at a contract tower such as Jefferson City. You arrive as Developmental, learning the facility and working toward your first position certification.
2 of 5 clean shifts. Every shift is a little more familiar.
02 / Your first patch
Work five clean shifts to certify a position. Certify every position at the facility to become a CPC and earn its patch.
A patch records the facility you certified.
03 / Your next facility
Bid up through FAA levels 4 to 12. Review your transfer offers, choose a facility, and work toward its certifications.
Offers never expire.
Keep working where you are until you are ready to move.
The career ladder
At each new facility, certify its positions. Your earned patches stay with your career. A prior-service route is also available.
A patch for every place
Round for contract towers. Cut corners for FAA facilities. A shield for prior service. At Level 12, a double gold border marks the summit.
Every center shows that field's real runways, drawn north-up from runway data. These are VectorHeavy's own patch designs.
Sample earned patches. Every one is a real field you can work toward in Career.
The career boards
The boards rank listed careers by the highest FAA level held as a CPC, count this week's clean shifts, and keep a roster for every facility. A career is on them only if its player lists it, under a callsign. Never an email.
Before you start
Up to three active careers. Keep separate paths at different facilities and switch between them.
No. Offers never expire. Stay at your current facility, decline the offers, or move within your rung.
Certified Professional Controller. In Career, you become a CPC at a facility after certifying every position there.
Career needs a free account, 13 and over. Everything else stays open with no sign-in. What an account is for
Your first facility is waiting
Start at a quiet tower. See how far you want to go.
Career needs a free account, 13 and over. Everything else stays open with no sign-in.