Virtual airline

A virtual airline (English Virtual Airline, abbreviated VA ) is a virtual organization that uses flight simulation to simulate the operation of an air carrier as a model. Virtual Airlines usually have a presence on the Internet, similar to a real world airline. There may be several thousand participants interact at any one time.

Content

The Virtual Airline simulating the flight operations of airlines using flight simulators such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, FlightGear and the like. For this purpose, you can register as a pilot and flights on the basis of a flight plan with fly after the mentioned simulators, which often resemble the real air traffic very much. Often you undergoes virtual careers, at the beginning of the fly is with smaller aircraft types and you can switch to larger machines with increasing number of flight hours and experience. Although most virtual airlines seek such a model, deviations are the rule.

More and more virtual airlines offer the pilots access to Flight IVAO or VATSIM networks like. Meet here and the two groups ' Virtual pilots and airlines "and" Virtual Air Traffic Controls " and add up to a virtual air traffic. It should be noted that this - as opposed to real air traffic control - usually only in the evenings and especially flown in the Northern Hemisphere, is also being increasingly in emerging markets, interest and participation in this hobby grows.

Virtual airlines are purely fictitious in general and have no relation to real-world airlines, since many real airlines do not tolerate VAs with their name. However, there are individual cases in which airlines have the use of the name and logo for a virtual version of the company allowed.

Benefit

In a virtual airline, the virtual pilot deepen his knowledge and document its flown at the computer routes. At various virtual airlines flying community is at the forefront, open cooperation of the pilots, mutual help in a common hobby and the exchange of experiences. A virtual airline can be so to the virtual home of a pilot.

Function

The registration of completed flights mostly runs on a PIREP system. There are several programs in the Free and Paywarebereich that can be used by VAs. These combine for example a flight log system for the simulator with an online database, so that the data can be automatically collected and transmitted to the VA. Other VAs use a self-programmed web-based system, in which the required data must be entered manually by the pilot.

• Flight Simulator
• Hobby
• Virtual Aviation