Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines

Welcome to Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines's web site. We are a group of flight simulation enthusiasts who fly Air France and its alliance partners' routes using Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2002, 2004 or Flight Simulator X (including Steam Edition), as well as Laminar Research X-Plane and Lockheed-Martin's Prepar3D. We are in no way affiliated with Air France.

Since May 2003, we have received over 5,351,624 visits and received 62,999,566 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 1,774,508,675,859 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 37 messages in our discussion forums in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 6 days , 9 hours and 46 minutes.

Please feel free to browse around our web site. Once you join Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines' active pilot roster, you may submit flight reports and contribute to our image library. If you are interested in a serious virtual airline, designed for both the experienced pilot and the novice (and all of us that are in between!) we welcome your interest. Click Here to join Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines.

If you are interested in a virtual airline with primarily North American operations, we encourage you to visit our sister airline Delta Virtual Airlines.

08/05/2018	A warm welcome to all new pilots who joined us in July.	Paul Hale
The following new pilots have joined us here at Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines this past month. • AFV 1046 Kiran Singh Birk • AFV 1047 Mazmur The • AFV 1048 Willem Stolwerk • AFV 1049 Duko Philipsen • AFV 1050 Orjan Polman • AFV 1051 Marcel Teljeur • AFV 1052 Sam Kuppens • AFV 1053 Mía Villalba • AFV 1054 Mikhail Petersen • AFV 1055 Mytho Leal • AFV 1056 Lorenzo Nesta • AFV 1057 Jakob Mees • AFV 1058 Kristoffer Johansen • AFV 1059 Antonio Jn Coelho On behalf of all AFVA staff, we wish you the warmest of welcomes and hope you have a long and successful virtual career with us. If any of you have any queries that need answering, please contact your respective Chief Pilots or alternatively, file a help desk issue using this URL https://www.afva.net/helpdesk.do Again, welcome aboard and we look forward to seeing you in our virtual skies. Best regards, Brian Hankey Paul Hale Silvian Baltac Senior Staff Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines
05/28/2018	Air France/KLM Virtual Airline Operational Updates	Paul Hale
Dear Pilots/Staff Some operational changes have been made effective 28th May 2018, these are designed to relax the rules slightly, allow more freedom within our structure and ultimately gain us new pilots. You will have already seen that a new NOTAM has been sent out updating our current charter policy. In addition to this we have decided to relax the rules regarding which program new pilots can enter when first joining the airline. Previously new pilots were automatically put into Stage 1 (ERJ190) or stage 2 (B738 and A320) programs and had to work through the ranks to reach and be able to fly stage 3,4 and 5 aircraft Due to the many new payware aircraft that have been released in the past few months/years it has become a trend noticed online through various forums that many pilots simply put will not want to rise through the ranks, complete X amount of legs etc before flying their newly purchased payware aircraft with us. Therefore effective immediately, entry into our airline can now be done via a number of different programs, Pilots can choose to join us and begin their careers in the following programs: Stage 1 (ERJ190) Stage 2 (B738, A320) Stage 3 (A330, B707, DC-3) Stage 4 (A340, B747, B777, B787) The operational process will still be the same as before IE: A pilot joins us and starts in the 747 program to allow them to enjoy their new PMDG 747, they then purchase the FSLabs A320 and Qualitywings 787, they would still have to request the A320 or 787 ratings and complete the A320 or 787 checkride before being able to fly those aircraft with us. This rule simply changes the entry requirements so that pilots can fly their PMDG 747, 777 or QW787 with us from day one of joining. Please share this news with everyone you know who is a flight simulation enthusiast , we will always welcome new pilots who previously may have overlooked us due to our old entry restrictions. In addition to this, a new and up to date Pilots Manual is available for download here. https://www.afva.net/library/afva%20pilot%20manual%202018%20final.pdf If you have any questions regarding these updates please do not hesitate to create a help desk ticket or email one of us directly. Kind regards and blue skies! Brian Hankey Silvian Baltac Paul Hale Senior Staff Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines
05/11/2018	Widerøe Schedule Update	Silvian Baltac
Dear All, I am pleased to announce the addition of 210 unique flight routes serving 46 Norwegian airports. This is due to the recent codeshare of KLM with Widerøe. Combine these flights with the recent release of Orbx Norway scenery and you will have some great scenic flights in a variety of different aircraft types! However, I encourage you to enjoy those flights responsibly as many airports feature very short and narrow runways (in some case below 3,000 feet). It is thus crucial that aircraft larger than the DHC-8 / ATR-72 are not used in and out of airports with runways shorter than 5,000 feet as any violation may compromise the safety of the flight and could result in the PIREP being held and possibly rejected. Enjoy the new addition and stay tuned for more Operations updates. Silvian Baltac Executive Vice President of Operations
02/23/2018	Various Airline News	Paul Hale
Dear Pilots, We want to update you on some important staff changes within the AFVA staff structure and also the announcement of the closing of one of our programs. A320 Assistant Chief pilot: We received a higher than normal amount of applications for this position and all candidates were extremely strong and had some excellent merit points to join our staff, thank you to all that applied for the position and we sincerely hope the fact that you were not successful on this occasion will not stop you applying for future positions. After some excellent interviews and a really difficult decision we have selected our candidate. Please join me in congratulating Conner Pierce into his new staff role as A320 Assistant chief pilot, an extremely well deserved promotion. Boeing 767 Program: This program will be discontinued with immediate effect due to the fact that neither Air France or KLM or many of our code shares fly the 767 as a primary aircraft any longer. Boeing 707 program Due to the retirement of the 767 program, Its Chief Pilot Kalev Kadek has been reassigned to the Historical Boeing 707 Program as Chief Pilot. Silvian Baltac stands down as temporary B707 Chief Pilot to concentrate solely on his senior staff duties. Any active pilots in the 767 program, please contact myself or Silvian and we will transfer you to a program of your choice that you are qualified and rated to be in. DC-3 Program Please welcome aboard Ethan Fortier as our new DC-3 Chief Pilot, Ethan has been working alongside current staff in recent months, updating manuals and grading PIREP's to help out existing staff members, With Silvian, as mentioned above stepping away from acting Historical Chief Pilot duties to concentrate solely on Senior Staff duties it was a natural choice for Ethan to gain promotion and recognition for the hard work he has done behind the scenes. Congratulations to Conner and Ethan on their new positions and Kalev for his inter-airline promotion! Best regards, Brian Hankey Silvian Baltac Fabien Bergeret Paul Hale AFVA Senior Staff
01/17/2018	Career Opportunity Opening: A320 Assistant Chief Pilot	Paul Hale
A career opportunity to join the staff at AFVA has been opened. We are currently seeking an Assistant Chief Pilot to join our A320 program Please read thoroughly through the job description and eligibility criteria before making your application. https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x2e All applications must be made online via the above link. Good luck and please do not hesitate to email me with any questions. Best Regards, Paul Hale Assistant Vice President Of Human Resources. phale@afva.net

Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines CONGRATULATES
Antonio Jn Coelho	Promoted to First Officer, A320 on 08/03/2018
Paul Hale	Promoted to Senior Captain, Concorde on 07/02/2018
Fredrik Martensson	Promoted to First Officer, B777-300 on 05/29/2018
Michaël Desmedt	Promoted to First Officer, A320 on 05/19/2018
Paul Hale	Promoted to Assistant Chief Pilot, B787-9 on 05/15/2018

If you have questions or comments, please direct them to our Corporate Offices at info@afva.net.

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