Welcome to part 3 of the Pocket Planes FAQ and Walkthrough. Click here to go back to part 1 or click here to go back to part 2 of the Pocket Planes FAQ and Walkthrough.
Getting new planes
Getting airplanes is a whole different story. One entire plane costs multiple bux, anywhere from 16, into the 30s and beyond, depending on how advanced the aircraft is. An aircraft part normally costs 3 or 4 bux, and both can be found in the Menu tab under Market. If you don’t like what you see in the Market tab, it refreshes every 5 minutes.
You can also go to the “Parts” tab under Menu in order to build your own aircraft. To build an aircraft you need the engine, controls and body all from one aircraft. Once you have this down, go to the sub-tab “Build” under Parts, and the option to build it for around 3 or 4 bux will appear next to it. To add another airplane slot, if you run out, go to the airplane tab (the one that is right next to the map tab) and buy another one using coins.
Menu button
The menu button is seemingly teeming with convoluted menu options, but they are all actually fairly straightforward.
The stats button takes you to the stats page about you and your career controlling air traffic. This one is obvious. Events shows you which cities have an event, positive or negative. A negative event can slow down or stop a city, but a positive one can foster a major traffic increase in that city for as long as the duration of that event would last.
The bank allows you to trade bux for coins, The Airpedia button shows what airplanes you have already unlocked, while the Logs button shows you haw many flying horus have beem run over multiple times and the air trafficl
More on the menu
The Market button has already been explained. The flight crew button lets you set up with your very own “flight crew” of friends and race to see who can make the most money and fly the most jobs or miles.
The hangar is where decommissioned old aircraft go when they are no longer in use. You can also sell the aircraft to get the parts back for it, and when you sell those parts, you make quite a hefty profit.
Scores allows you to keep track of your totals vs other players’ totals using GameCenter, while Awards lets you comopete against your friends for more wards, just lie GameCenter) Settings let you chance sound and notification settings, while Bitbook lets you read game related tweets, and also tries to get you to sign up for twitter itself so that you can tweet and retweet yourself. Finally, the “games” icon lets people try and find new games on the iOS to play.