Fuel Exhaustion in Emergency Landing: Badge & Meaning

Fuel Exhaustion has 1,327,030 awards and about 650 a day, making it the most-awarded badge in the fuel cluster. It also has one of the clearest definitions in the set, because the game separates it from fuel starvation.

Fuel Exhaustion badge data

What is fuel exhaustion in aviation?

Fuel exhaustion means the aircraft has no usable fuel left. Fuel starvation is different: there is fuel on board, but it is not reaching the engines, often because of a closed valve, a blocked line or an unselected tank. The distinction is a classic exam question and a genuine cause of accidents, because a starvation problem can be fixed in flight while exhaustion cannot.

How does it appear in Emergency Landing?

The description reads “Experience running out of fuel on board!” and the game keeps five related badges: Fuel Starvation, Fuel Leak, Fuel Lines Failure, Fuel Tank Explosion and Spilled Fuel Explosion. Together they cover the ways a fuel system can end a flight, and the award counts show that running dry is far more common than a line failure.

In real-world terms this is also the emergency that most often ends in a total loss of power, which is why the Total Engine Failure badge is a plausible next step rather than a separate story.

Related emergency badges

Fuel Starvation has 246 awards a day and Fuel Leak 238, so the three main fuel badges are awarded at comparable rates. Fuel Lines Failure sits at 271 a day, slightly ahead of both. The two explosion badges are rarer still.

Where to read next

• All 93 emergency badges for the full list with award counts.
• All 238 badges for the complete badge set.
• Milestone badges for the survival and death ladders these events feed.