How to three-star Mission 1 of Mini Airport: push back 2 departures with a tug, taxi, line up, take off and hand them off to Departure in the Radar View.
- Goal
- Get 2 aircraft airborne
- Clock
- 4 minutes
- Gates
- 5
- New in this mission
- Pushback and departures
What Mission 1 asks
Mission 1 has no arrivals at all. Two aircraft wait at the gates, and you have four minutes to get both of them into the air and hand them off. It teaches the departure half of every flight, which you'll repeat hundreds of times later.
Step by step
Every departure follows the same five taps. Nothing moves until you give the instruction, so you can take your time on this first mission.
- Tap an aircraft at its gate, then Push back. A tug drives over and pushes it onto the taxiway.
- Hold the throttle in the tug view and tap the compass direction the tower asks for.
- Tap Taxi, and the aircraft rolls to the hold-short line of the runway.
- Tap Line up, then Take off.
- Once it's airborne, open the Radar View (the thumbnail in the bottom-right corner) and tap Hand off.
Getting three stars
One star for finishing, two for reaching the score target, three for doing it without go-arounds you ordered or late departures. On Mission 1 that means facing the tower's cleared direction on both pushbacks for the bonus, and handing each flight off as soon as the button appears.
Questions
How do you hand off a departure in Mini Airport?
Open the Radar View with the thumbnail in the bottom-right corner, then tap Hand off on the departure's flight strip. The button appears 8 seconds after the take-off roll starts.
Can I turn off the pushback minigame?
Yes. Turn it off in Options and pushbacks happen automatically.