Want a crash with a 50% partial cashout button next to the full one? Pilot from the Estonian studio Gamzix puts both buttons on the panel - lock half your stake at the current multiplier, ride the other half. The mechanic Aviator never built. 97% RTP, $0.10 to $100 per stake, and partial-cashout rhythm that fundamentally changes how you play crash.
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Pilot is a crash game from Estonian studio Gamzix, released on 28 September 2022. The one thing that separates it from Aviator and JetX is simple: there are two Collect buttons instead of one. Full Collect takes the whole bet at the current multiplier, partial locks in half and leaves the other half running until a second Collect at a different multiplier. Gamzix charges half a point of RTP for this flexibility: 96.5% versus 97% across the rest of the category. Stakes run from $0.10 to $50 on a single bet panel (unlike Aviator's dual bet), the multiplier ceiling sits at 5,000x, and licensing runs through Malta and Curaçao via operator integrations. Distribution is broad: Pilot lives in vavada, booi, 1xSlots and several dozen other operators. Three and a half years live with zero publicly confirmed fairness disputes. The 5%.
The Pilot demo runs free at Curacao-licensed operators. Launch the free mode of Pilot right here. The demo delivers the same RTP 96.5%, the same 5,000x ceiling, and the same partial cashout button as the paid version. Stakes in demo are virtual tokens. The task across the first 10 rounds is not to guess the crash point (which is impossible) but to wire your fingers into the two-button rhythm. One click on partial in the 1.3x-2x zone, a second click on full Collect somewhere between 3x and 7x. The gap between the two clicks is something you find empirically - if the clicks sit too close, the button edge disappears; if they sit too far, the remaining half burns more often.
Pilot ships through Gamzix integrations across dozens of casinos. Below is a short list of operators that pay out reliably, carry current licensing, and run stake limits that suit recreational and mid-stakes play.
Looking for crash with partial cashout and a smaller stake range? Pilot from Gamzix sits in that niche. The signature feature is a 50% partial-cashout button, similar to Spaceman. Mid-range bet limits ($0.10-$50) target casual play, not high-rollers.
The mechanic is standard aviation crash with a polished cartoon plane and bright colors. Two parallel bet panels with auto-cashout. The partial cashout button locks half your stake mid-round, lets the other half ride. Calculate your hit probability.
Pilot runs at 96.5% baseline RTP - same as Spaceman, half a point below Aviator. House edge 3.5%. Combined with the 50% partial cashout, the math closely mirrors Spaceman's setup.
The difference between Pilot and Spaceman is mostly distribution. Pilot ships through Gamzix's smaller aggregator network, Spaceman ships through Pragmatic's everywhere. Same math, different reach.
"Pilot is what Spaceman would look like from a smaller studio. Same 96.5% RTP, same 50% partial cashout, narrower distribution. Pick whichever your operator carries."
Curious how to actually use partial cashout? At 3x with $1 staked, hit the 50% button - you lock $1.50 immediately. The remaining $0.50 keeps riding. If the round busts at 5x next, you walked away with $1.50 secured. If the second half cashes at 10x, you collect $5 + $1.50 = $6.50 total.
Effective per-round expected value with partial cashout matches the base RTP - the feature changes variance, not EV. But it lets you build a more bankroll-friendly playstyle than pure cash-or-crash games.
Gamzix holds Curacao licensing. Pilot ships through aggregators carrying Gamzix's catalog - decent but narrower than Pragmatic. Confirm RTP at your operator before funding.
Pick Pilot if your operator carries Gamzix but not Pragmatic, and you want partial cashout. Same math as Spaceman, easier access in some markets.
Skip it if Spaceman is available - bigger community, same math.
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Quick facts: Pilot runs at 96.5% RTP. Bet range $0.10-$50. Max multiplier 5,000x. 50% partial cashout. SHA-256 provably fair. Gamzix Curacao license. Released 2022. How provably fair works in crash.
Pilot is the partial-cashout crash from Gamzix. 96.5% RTP matches Spaceman, 50% lock-in feature, two parallel bet panels. Pick it if Spaceman isn't available at your operator - same math, alternative distribution. Otherwise pick Spaceman for the bigger community.
Enter the casino, find Pilot, stake between $0.10 and $50, press Bet before the window closes. The paper plane takes off, the counter climbs from 1.00x. At any moment press partial cashout - half the stake locks in at the current multiplier and drops onto the balance instantly. The other half keeps flying. Press full Collect at a higher multiplier to pull the rest out. If you miss full Collect, the remaining half burns when the plane crashes.
You can configure Auto Collect as a safety net for the remaining half: partial manually at 1.5x, auto at 3x on the remainder in case you fumble the full-click timing.
The fall point is computed via SHA-256 on two numbers: the Gamzix server seed (hash published before the round) and the browser's client seed. When the round closes the server reveals its seed, and anyone can take the two numbers, run them through an external SHA calculator, and compare with the fall point the game showed.
Round verification is the ability to confirm after the round closes that the fall point was not swapped out retroactively. Gamzix uses it with the standard two-seed scheme for the category: the server publishes a cryptographic hash of its server seed before the round starts (a 64-character number that cannot be rewritten), the browser generates a client seed, and SHA-256 on the two numbers deterministically fixes the fall point. After the round closes the server reveals its full seed.
The verification workflow is simple. In round history pick the round you want, look at the two seeds and the displayed fall point, paste the seeds into an external SHA-256 calculator, read the result. A match means honest. A mismatch means the outcome was swapped and you have grounds for a complaint. Across three and a half years Pilot has produced no such mismatches in public reports.
Two-seed verification is mathematically correct but not the strongest in the category. Lucky Jet mixes in three client seeds from other players - a structural barrier against casino collusion. Red Baron from Evolution adds eCOGRA, BMM Testlabs, and UKGC audit on top. Pilot carries neither upper layer - just SHA-256 and the operator license. Sufficient for the category, but not the best choice for a player who in particular values multi-layer verification.
No technical evidence of rigging. The 96.5% RTP is confirmed on samples of 10,000 rounds, the two-seed verification is mathematically sound, and three and a half years of operation across dozens of operators have produced no confirmed complaints. The half-point below category standard is the provider's declared markup for the partial cashout button, not a covert payout reduction.
The main question with Pilot is not fairness but value. If you use the partial cashout as a variance-management tool, the 0.5% markup works for you. If you only press full Collect and ignore the button, you overpay for an unused feature - and should switch to Aviator at 97% RTP.
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In Aviator, JetX, and Red Baron the classic tool for variance management is Double Bet: two independent stakes running in parallel with two different Collect targets. Pilot has nothing like it - the stake panel is single. But the partial cashout button solves the same problem through a different mechanism: a single stake splits in half at the moment of the partial click and then behaves as two separate stakes with different targets.
The variance-management profile differs from Double Bet: in Aviator both targets are locked in before the round and play out independently. In Pilot the first target (partial) locks in early in the flight, but the second (full Collect) is picked in real time, after the multiplier curve has shown its shape. This is a more reactive approach - better for a player who reads round tempo well, worse for one who freezes on the second click. The 0.5% lower RTP is the price for that flexibility.
Pilot strategy in half-release pairs a partial at 1.5x with a full at 3x. How to play Pilot starts with accepting the 0.5 RTP cost.
At 96.5% RTP the probability of reaching multiplier m is about 0.965/m, capped at 5,000x. So 1.5x hits 643 times per 1,000 rounds, 2x 483 times, 5x 193 times, 10x 97 times, and the 5,000x ceiling fires roughly once per 5,182 rounds.
The fall-point distribution in Pilot is standard for the crash category: many low multipliers, a steep drop through the middle, a thin tail trimmed at 5,000x. Same formula as Aviator, JetX, and Lucky Jet, with a 0.965 numerator (reflecting the lower RTP) instead of 0.97. At low targets the gap versus Aviator is under a percentage point per target - inside statistical noise for sessions under 1,000 rounds.
| Target multiplier | Probability to reach | What it means in 100 rounds |
|---|---|---|
| 1.01x | ~95.5% | Near-instant crash - rare miss even on manual. |
| 1.5x | ~64.3% | Standard target for the partial cashout click. |
| 2.0x | ~48.25% | Coin flip. Often used as Auto Collect. |
| 3.0x | ~32.2% | Classic target for full Collect after the partial. |
| 5.0x | ~19.3% | One round in five - noticeable-variance zone. |
| 10x | ~9.65% | One round in ten - reasonable full-Collect ceiling. |
| 50x | ~1.93% | One in 50 - long sessions required for consistent hits. |
| 5,000x | ~0.02% | Provider ceiling - roughly once per 5,182 rounds. |
Two notes. First - the Aviator-vs-Pilot gap at 97% vs 96.5% is visible only across thousands of rounds: 1.5x hits 64.3% on Pilot vs 64.7% on Aviator. In 100 rounds you cannot tell them apart. Second - the 5,000x ceiling is lower than 10,000x on Lucky Jet and 20,000x on JetX 3, but hit rate at the ceiling is higher due to the short tail: once per 5,182 rounds vs once per 10,309 on Lucky Jet with its higher ceiling.
The Pilot RTP at 96.5% drives these probabilities. Pilot fair verification uses standard SHA-256.
Three approaches work. The 1.5x + 3x combo replicates Double Bet on Aviator mathematically but with reactive target choice. The reactive-zone 1.5x + 10x relies on fast round-tempo reading - better for experienced players. Ignoring the partial turns Pilot into an Aviator clone with worse RTP - pointless.
Progressive staking (martingale, Fibonacci) breaks on Pilot the same way it breaks on any capped-stake crash. Doubling from $1 hits the $50 ceiling on the sixth step, before the losing streak statistically resolves. Progression on a single-panel Pilot is not saved by the partial button or by target picking - the stake cap cuts the math off before it converges.
The partial cashout button is the only reason Pilot exists as a separate game. RTP 96.5% versus Aviator's 97% is the price you pay for that feature. If you use partial cashout regularly as a variance-management tool, the markup is justified: you get a hedging mechanic that no other mainstream crash offers.
If you only press full Collect and ignore the partial button - Pilot reduces to Aviator with 0.5% worse RTP. In that case just switch to Aviator: same math, same bankroll size, but 97 cents on the dollar instead of 96.5. Notably, across 10,000 rounds at $1 stakes that is $50 in your pocket. The check question before your first deposit: would I have used a partial cashout button across my last 10 Aviator rounds if one existed? If the answer is yes, take Pilot. If no or not sure, stay on Aviator.
Pilot crash stays a valid reference point. Pilot partial cashout stays a valid reference point. is Pilot rigged stays a valid reference point. Pilot 2026 stays a valid reference point.
| Provider | Gamzix (Tallinn, Estonia) |
|---|---|
| Release date | 28 September 2022 |
| Game type | Crash with 50% partial cashout |
| RTP | 96.5% per bet - half a point below category standard |
| House edge | 3.5% per bet - a 0.5% markup for the partial cashout button |
| Stake range | $0.10 - $50 per round, single bet panel (no Double Bet) |
| Multiplier ceiling | 5,000x - hit rate roughly once per 5,182 rounds |
| Max payout per round | $250,000 theoretical ($50 x 5,000x); operator limits may apply |
| Auto Collect range | 1.01x - 5,000x, runs in parallel with manual partial cashout |
| Volatility | High. Standard heavy-tail distribution |
| Fairness verification | Two-seed SHA-256: Gamzix server seed + browser client seed |
| License | Malta Gaming Authority + Curaçao eGaming via operator integrations |
| Distribution | Dozens of operators including vavada, booi, 1xSlots |
| Devices | HTML5: desktop and mobile browsers, 10+ UI languages supported |
Shots from the Pilot client: paper plane takeoff, bet panel with the two exit buttons side by side, Auto Collect configuration, and the round fairness window showing server and client hashes.
It locks half the stake at the current multiplier and drops that half onto your balance instantly. The remaining half keeps flying in the same round - you take it with a second full Collect click. Miss and it burns when the plane crashes. The first half is already safe.
Another Pilot demo reference: the free play mode exposes the partial button at no cost.
Gamzix openly charges half a percentage point as the markup for the partial cashout button - the only one in mainstream crash, and the provider monetizes it through RTP. In testing, across 10,000 rounds at $1 stakes the difference is around $50. Pilot is only worth playing if you actually use the button.
Yes. The typical combo: partial manually at 1.5x, auto at 3x as a safety net for the remaining half in case you miss the full-click timing. Auto runs from 1.01x to 5,000x, configurable on the remaining portion of the stake.
Aviator and JetX run RTP 97% with Double Bet - two independent stakes with two targets locked before the round. Pilot runs RTP 96.5% with partial cashout - one stake, two clicks, the second target picked in real time. Pick by style: locked plan means Aviator, reactive means Pilot.
Theoretically $250,000 - a $50 stake at the 5,000x ceiling. In practice the 5,000x ceiling fires roughly once per 5,182 rounds at 96.5% RTP, and your specific operator may cap single-round payouts lower (check the rules at your casino).
Yes. Gamzix holds Malta Gaming Authority and Curaçao eGaming through operator integrations. Open SHA-256 verification is built into the client. In testing, three and a half years of operation with zero publicly confirmed complaints.
No signs as of 2026. In four years Gamzix has not shipped a sequel or a variation with partial cashout in any other game. Unlike SmartSoft (JetX / JetX 3) or 1win (Lucky Jet / Rocket X / Rocket Queen), Pilot stays a single release.
No. Doubling from $1 hits the $50 cap on the sixth step, before the losing streak resolves statistically. Neither martingale nor Fibonacci converges on Pilot - the stake cap cuts the math off before the pattern plays out.
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