Virtual airline

A virtual airline or Virtual Airline (VA for its acronym in English) or virtual flight school, is a fictitious entity that emulates the activities of a real or fictitious airline, through a flight simulator.

They are non-profit organizations. Some take the name of a real airline (many are even sponsored by their "real" counterpart). The organized structures of virtual airlines often include presidents, vice presidents, pilots, ranks, and even real routes in addition to other features that real airlines also have. All these people and organizations dedicated to simulated flight come together in virtual aviation or simulated aviation.

Virtual aviation

Aviation is understood to mean infrastructure, industry, personnel and organizations whose main activity is aviation, itself. In this sense in which the activity and its material or personal means are encompassed, a first differentiation can be made between civil aviation and military aviation, depending on the nature of its objectives be precisely civil or military.

Within Simulated Aviation there are two large rubles such as Flight Simulator and Air Traffic Control, from the point of view of home training, to support the first ruble we find air simulators which are nothing more It recreates the concept of aviation in a system that attempts to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft in the most accurate and realistic way possible.

Simulated Aviation today is reflected in Pilots who fly from their homes and/or offices with Flight simulators such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, from the Microsoft company for its Windows operating system.

Virtual communities

There is a large user community for Microsoft Flight Simulator, partly derived from the simulator structure which allows for numerous modifications to be introduced. There are also many virtual companies and organizations, where pilots can do their tasks as virtual pilots in a virtual airline company. When the Internet appeared, Virtual Aviation communities began to appear, which were nothing more than shared servers where users who flew in Microsoft Flight Simulator could fly together and even exchange text messages through window messaging, then they began to leave tools that elevated the concept of simulated aviation further and not only allowed us to talk between virtual pilots (online), but systems came out that developed the other important ruble mentioned above which is air control, where now you could not only live the experience of flying, but also of being an air traffic controller, with a radar system installed on your PC.

Among the flight communities, the most important and well-known is IVAO, today with more than 36,000 Pilots and Air Controllers.

Operation

Virtual airlines operate through a flight simulator such as Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane, generally connected to a network specialized in flight in line such as the case of IVAO (International Virtual Aviation Organization) or VATSIM (Virtual Air Traffic Flight Simulation Network) recreating commercial, civil and even military aeronautics as much as possible (fleets, flight plans, communications, itineraries, meteorology, etc.).

Since 2010, the sandbox game known as Roblox also began creating virtual airlines, with virtual groups that offer a virtual flight experience. In addition to each of these hiring, having ranks (such as Presidents, Pilots, Executives, Stewardesses, etc.), having its own fleet of airplanes, and having its own scenarios used as airports. An example of virtual airlines in this game could be LeMonde Airlines.

In general, they simulate the operations of real or virtual airlines, just as the means and resources necessary for online air traffic control are provided.

Many virtual airlines have registered pilots who report their flight hours (accumulating hours for themselves and the airline) through a website, although some more innovative ones already have automatic reporting software such as VAFS, COMPETE VA, AGV, FSAIRLINES and AIRLINES ADMIN or own systems developed by the VA.

Virtual airlines

• Airvalence - Spanish Virtual Airlines, the largest Valencian, certified in VATSIM and IVAO.
• Aerofast Virtual - Chilean Virtual Airlines
• Aerocat Virtual - Virtual Airlines in Catalonia
• Airlines Cobra Virtual (breakable link available on the Internet Archive; see history, first version and last). - Virtual Carter Airline.
• Virtual Aerojet – Virtual Airlines with VIP Private flights
• South Virtual Airlines, - Latinamerincan Virtual Airline
• AirBilbao Virtual – Spanish Virtual Airlines
• AirNubeiro - Virtual Airlines in Galicia, Spain.
• AirHispania - Spanish Virtual Airline
• AirSpain - Airlines Virtual Española
• AirTenerife - Airlines Virtual Canaria
• Alair Virtual Airlines - Aerolina Virtual Española
• AlAndalus Airlines - Spanish Virtual Airlines (www.airalandalus.org)
• Virtual Albatros - Spanish Virtual Airline
• American Flight Airways Virtual Airlines – Latin America
• Anyway Virtual Airlines - Spanish Virtual Airlines
• Argavirtual Airlines - Spanish Virtual Airlines.
• Breogan Airways - Galician Virtual Airline
• CASvirtual - Santiago Virtual Air Club
• Coljet VA - Virtual Colombian Airlines / Coljet.com.co
• Colombian VA - Colombian Virtual Airlines / ColombianVA.com
• Community Flight Simulator Airline School, - Spanish Virtual Airline
• Virtual Airlines Cup, - Panamanian Virtual Airline
• Clickair Virtual – Aerolina virtual Spanisha
• Europe Airways - Spanish Virtual Airline
• FlyScoot Europe VA Archived on July 19, 2021 at Wayback Machine. - Spanish Virtual Airlinesa
• Flyant Virtual - Spanish Virtual Airlines
• Costa Rican Airlines (Lacsa)- Costa Rican Virtual Line
• Perseo Airlines VA - Spanish Virtual Airlines
• Pivico Air VA - Virtual Pilots Colombia
• SAV Colombia - Virtual Air Services of Colombia
• National Air Services s.a (Sansa)- Costa Rican Virtual Line
• SouthVirtual - Ex LanVirtual.com
• SkyJet Virtual Airlines - Latin American Holding
• [1] Travel Sky Alliance Virtual - Sky Airline
• Spantax LAV - Spanish Virtual Airline
• SUR AIR System - Since 1996 it has been the first virtual airline of Latin American origin. HUB's Mexico and Argentina. Next opening of HUBs for all countries
• TAME Virtual - Ecuador's Virtual Airline
• Transport Global Aircraft TAG - Multiplatform Airline
• VirtualWings - Chilean-based Spanish-speaking Virtual Airline that simulates fictitious flights worldwide. (does not imitate any real airline.)

Simulation software

• Microsoft Flight Simulator (flight mixer, civil aviation)
• X-Plane (flight mixer, civil aviation)
• FlightGear (flight mixer, aviation in general)
• Lockheed Martin Prepar3D (flight simulator)

Related topics

The main concepts that are related to aviation, and that are treated in specific articles, are listed below:

Planes and helicopters

• Fixed-wing aircraft
• Helicopters
• Control instruments (aircraft)
• Flight simulators

Professionals

• Pilots
• Air technicians
• Passenger cabin crew
• Air controls
• Aircraft shipper

Facilities

• Airports
• Aviation camps
• Heliport
• Landing tracks
• Radioayuda

Flight procedures

• Air navigation
• Air traffic control

Environment

• Meteorology
• Aerodynamics
• Cartography

Regulations

• Aviation law
• FAA (United States Civil Aviation Administration)
• International Civil Aviation Organization

Companies

• Airlines
• Aeronautical industry

History

• History of aviation