1) Michelle Ockers, Founder & Chief Learning Strategist, Learning Uncut ( Aer lingus, Air Hong Kong, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Dragon, Cathay Pacific, Comair, Fiji Airways, Finnair, Firefly, Iberia, Iberia Express, J-Air, Japan Airlines, Japan Transocean Air, Jetstar, Kulula. I found a page where you can fly for many airlines. Wizz air virtual - Welcome - Wizz Air Virtual Airline Sorry for providing such a lengthy answer to a simple question, I didn’t intend for such a long answer but kept finding subjects that I felt were necessary in the response and beneficial for others fairly new to the Flight Simulation community. These days there’s communities all over the place and everyone has their own Discord but in previous years, The internet was a lot smaller and getting involved in a VA was a way of you finding new friends who shared a passion in the same field (Generally towards an Airline)īeing involved in a larger VA as well, offered better opportunities to hold events on services like VATSIM as well. The other side of it as well, is to be part of a community. To an extent, It’s almost like running a live ‘Airline Simulation’ business which is a game genre of its own. Some people are also passionate about the management side of a Virtual Airline, sometimes more so than the actual flying and like participating in creating and managing content and providing a service in an almost business like situation with people.

Shared Cockpit is a fairly new ‘item’ to Flight Simulator but VA’s have generally embraced this as another function which can be easier than your general match-making gaming services, having other people with the same passion within a set group.Īnother side of VA’s is management/staffing on a Virtual Airline. ‘Real’ Dispatch, where you ‘sign on’ and receive your work package (Flights etc) for that time period, rather than you selecting what you want to do. Other functions or features can include Type ratings and training - Getting trained as you gain hours to fly larger or more complex aircraft, Some VA’s specialise in ‘realism’ to the extent of being able to offer internal procedures of the Airline they’re emulating. I know one I was involved in, One of the things you could redeem your currency for was for Paints/Liveries or Sceneries made by their team. This virtual currency is generally useless in the real world but in some models, It can be redeemed for software or items created specifically for or by that virtual airline. More recently, You have log books and virtual currency. The way they work and operate has changed over the years. Airlines have existed in some form or another almost as long as Flight Sim has.

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