How to Earn Badges in Emergency Landing (Realistic Route)

This guide is unofficial and fan-made. It is built from the game’s public badge data, so it can tell you which badges other players actually have — not which ones the developer intended to be easy.

What is the fastest way to earn badges in Emergency Landing?

Take one short domestic flight. That single flight can award the welcome badge, the aircraft badge, the flight-type badge, and your first death badge, because all four trigger on the same session. Everything after that is either a counting ladder or a specific emergency you have to run into.

The badges almost everyone has

Win rate is the share of the game’s players who hold the badge, so this table is really a list of things that happen to most players whether they plan for them or not.

What one flight can realistically cover

• The welcome badge, which is the game’s join notification.
• One aircraft badge, whichever plane the route assigned.
• One flight-type badge, usually Domestic or Regional.
• One landing-site badge, depending on where you end up.
• At least one emergency badge, since the three most common emergencies all sit above 32%.
• First Time for Everything if the flight ends badly, which it usually will.

That is six badges from a single round without targeting anything.

Which ladders are worth grinding?

Not all ten tiers of a ladder are equal. Here is how the counts thin out:

The practical targets sit a few tiers down: 100 Deaths has 33,995 awards, 10 Arrests 2,927, 500 Survivals 1,400, 1,000 Flights 1,245 and 100 Fires 1,058. Revives and extractions thin out sooner — 500 Revives has 33 awards and 100 Extractions has 80. The tiers above those are evidence of how few players stick with a single activity long enough to reach 10,000 of anything.

Which badges are effectively unattainable?

These sit at four awards or fewer in the API snapshot:

• 250 Ambulance Rescues, 500 Ambulance Rescues, 500 Extractions, 1K Extractions and 1K Arrests — zero awards each.
• 500 Arrests — one award.
• 10,000 Flights and 1K Revives — two awards.
• 5,000 Survivals, 100 Ambulance Rescues, 250 Extractions and 4K Deaths — three awards.
• Extinguish 1K Fires! — four awards.

A zero on the ambulance ladder is worth flagging: 100 Ambulance Rescues has three awards but 250 and 500 have none, which suggests the higher tiers may not be reachable at all rather than merely unpopular.

Are any badges literally impossible?

Three are blocked for documented or observable reasons:

• Ice Lake Landing — its description ends with “Temporarily unattainable” and it has zero awards per day.
• ATR 42 — its description says the aircraft is only available in private servers.
• ??? — no description beyond six question marks, 9,635 awards and a reported 0% win rate. This site does not claim to know the trigger.

Everything else in the 238 is earnable in principle. “Rare” in this game almost always means “requires a lot of repetitions”, not “requires a secret”.

Where to read next

• Badge data explained for what the counts and win rates actually measure.
• Milestone badges for every ladder with all ten tiers.
• Emergency badges for the 93 events you have to run into.
• All 238 badges for the complete list.
• Beginner guide for your first session.