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04/28/2023 Final days of April Daniel Duhon
Hello all,

It is hard to believe how fast this year is going! With 2 more days left in April, here is a brief stats Update:

Total Legs: 354 flights
Total Hours: 1266.9 hours
Online legs: 158 flights


Top 5 pilots:
1. Mahendra Putut: 62 reports
2. Alan Barber: 53 reports
3. Teodor Negru: 34 reports
4. Matt Mulhall: 27 reports
5. Calum MacDonald: 26 reports


Top 5 Aircraft:
1. B737-800: 47 reports
2. B787-9: 32 reports
3. A320: 32 reports
4. B747-8F: 31 reports
5 A320neo: 20 reports

Let's see how many flights we come up with in the next 2 days!

Have a great weekend everyone!
04/18/2023 April Stats Update: Week of April 17th Daniel Duhon

Hello everyone!

Now for your next weekly stats update:

  • Total flights to date: 236 legs
  • April hours: 799.6 hours
  • Distance: 338,516 miles
  • Tour legs: 77 legs
  • Online legs: 103 legs

We are now on track for about 393 flights this month. Can we get back up to 400?


Here are the pilot standings so far for the month:

#PilotFlights
1Mahendra Putut43 reports
2Alan Barber32 reports
3Teodor Negru24 reports
4Matt Mulhall21 reports
5Frederic Fleuren17 reports


And now for the best landings in the past 30 days:

#PilotDateFlightEquipmentTouchdownDistanceScoreAirport
1Calum MacDonald3/29/2023AF7493 Leg 1ERJ-190-250 ft/min1,223 ft99.65Paris-De Gaulle France Runway 26L
2Teodor Negru4/08/2023KL1893 Leg 1B747-400F-236 ft/min1,286 ft99.07Graz Austria Runway 35C
3Mahendra Putut4/05/2023HV6609 Leg 1A330-200-257 ft/min1,303 ft99.05Innsbruck Austria Runway 26
4Frederick Fleuren4/13/2023AY875 Leg 1A320neo-237 ft/min1,307 ft98.77Paris-De Gaulle France Runway 27R
5Orjan Polman3/22/2023SU2112 Leg 1B737-800-260 ft/min1,173 ft98.54Athens Greece Runway 03L


Once again, good job to everyone this month!

Congratulations to Mahendra Putut for earning his 747 wings! Congratulations as well to Ethan Fortier for recently achieving the Historical 500 Club!

Keep up the great work and we hope to see you all in the virtual skies very soon!

AFVA Staff

04/12/2023 Major Equipment Program Updates Daniel Duhon

Hello everyone,

There are several important updates in this article so bear with me!

Following a discussion between Senior Staff members, and the Chief Pilots, I have some exciting new updates to share with you regarding equipment programs. In order to follow current real-world trends and simplify our Equipment Programs, we are updating several programs and reorganizing management of them.

First off, I would like to announce the retirement of the A380 and updates to the Historical Program. Following the real world retirement of the A380 from the Air France Fleet, we have decided it is time to move the A380 to the Historical Fleet at AFVA. With this move, instead of adding it to the already long list of ratings in the DC-3 Program, we decided to also change up how the Historical Program is structured.

Effective immediately, the Historical program is now split into a Historical Props rating and a separate Historical Jets rating under the new A380 Program. These programs will be organized as follows:

The Historical Props Program will have the following Primary Aircraft:

DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, DC-6A, DC-6B, DC-7, DC-7C

As well as the following secondary ratings:

B1900, B377, BAE ATP, Br 763, CV-340, CV-440, Constellation, D.338, DC-2, DO-228, EMB-120, F100, F27, F28, F50, HS-748, JS41, L-10, L-100, L-188 Electra, MB.220, S-307, S340, SD-360, Super Connie

The Historical Props Program will remain a Stage 3 Program and is open to all Stage 2 Captains or higher.



The Historical Jets Program will now have the following Primary ratings:

A380-800, B707-120, B707-320, Caravelle

As well as the following secondary ratings:

A300-200, A300-600, A310, Avro RJ-85, B720, B727-100, B727-200, BAE-146, CV-880, CV-990, Comet, DC-10-10, DC-10-30, DC-10-30F, DC-10-40, DC-8-11, DC-8-21, DC-8-33, DC-8-42, DC-8-51, DC-8-61, DC-8-62, DC-8-63, DC-8-63AF, DC-8-71, DC-8-72, DC-9-14, DC-9-32, DC-9-40, DC-9-50, DO-328JET, F100, F70, L-1011-100, L-1011-500, MD-11, MD-11F

This program will replace the A380 Program and remain a Stage 5 Program, meaning you must be a Captain in Stage 4 before becoming eligible for these ratings.



The next update is an update to the B787-9 Program. In order to maintain consistency between type ratings, we have added the B757 and B767 families to be included in the B787-9 Program. These types are still used by Delta Airlines and Japan Airlines in our schedules. Pilots in the B787 program should have already received these extra ratings along with the update. If you do not have these ratings but believe you should, please submit a Help Desk Issue requesting these ratings and we will get them added to your profile.



Thirdly, we have updates for the A330 and A350 Programs. We have decided to merge these two programs into a single Stage 3 program. This program will contain the following Primary Ratings:

A330-200, A330-300, A330-900, A350-900

And the following Secondary Ratings:

A340-200, A340-300, A340-500, A340-600

This is to follow real life similarities between the aircraft and shared type ratings.



Lastly, following the above changes, we will have a few staff changes to accommodate this reorganization. After moving the A380 to the Historical Program, Frederic Honnart will be leading both Historical Programs as the Chief Pilot of these.

Leading the new combined A330/A350 Program is Teodor Negru as Chief Pilot.

Florian Barea will remian on Staff helping with PIREPs and filling in areas that are needed.

Brian Hankey and myself will no longer be required to maintain dual roles in Senior Staff and Chief Pilots so we will be focusing on our roles there.



Finally, I would like to reiterate that these changes will not remove ratings from pilots. If you already have the Historical Ratings, for example, you will retain any ratings you already have. If ratings have been added to your program, then you will receive those additional ratings as well. If you have any question, concerns, feedback, or issues, please submit a Help Desk Issue and we will answer all your questions individually!

We are excited for these changes and look forward to the future of this great VA!

Brian Hankey

President & CEO

Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines

bhankey@afva.net

Daniel Duhon

Executive Vice President

Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines

dduhon@avfa.net

AFVA Staff

04/11/2023 April Stats Update Daniel Duhon

Hello everyone!

A quick stats update for the month of April:

  • Total flights to date: 156 legs
  • April hours: 576.8 hours
  • Distance: 250,210 miles
  • Tour legs: 54 legs
  • Online legs: 63 legs

We are on track for 425 flights this month, let's see if we can beat that!

Here are the pilot standings so far for the month:

#PilotFlights
1Mahendra Putut24 reports
2Teodor Negru24 reports
3Orjan Polman16 reports
4Frederick Fleuren14 reports
5Alan Barber13 reports

Great effort to all! It already looks like a close race, who will end up on top come April 30?

Also congratulations to two pilots who have recently been promoted, Frederick Fleuren to Captain in the A320 and Mahendra Putut to Captain in the 787!

Keep up the great work and we hope to see you all in the virtual skies very soon!

AFVA Staff

04/06/2023 Best Landings Update Alan Barber

Hi Pilots,

And we have a new entry at No. 2! Calum Macdonald showing why he is Chief Pilot of the Regional Airliners Program

#PilotDateFlight #AircraftLanding ScoreAirport
1Pedro Costa03/05/2023JL408 Leg 1A330-90099.91Tokyo-Narita Japan Runway 34R
2Calum Macdonald03/29/2023AF7493 Leg 1ERJ-19099.65Paris-De Gaulle France Runway 26L
3Ádám Balogh01/21/2023AF271 Leg 1B787-999.63Paris-De Gaulle France Runway 08L
4Frederic Honnart 01/29/2023UX1930 Leg 1A32099.43Lisbon Portugal Runway 03
5Brian Hankey03/05/2023VA142 Leg 1B737-80099.33Auckland New Zealand Runway 05R

Pedro still leading the way!

AFVA Staff

Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines WELCOMES OUR NEWEST PILOTS
AFV1191 Captain Leonardo Caporal (B737-800)
AFV1190 First Officer John Deepblue (A320)
AFV1189 First Officer Daniel Chanel Mouzita (A350-900)
AFV1188 Captain Frederick Fleuren (A350-900)
AFV1187 First Officer Gabriel Amaral (A320)
AFV1186 First Officer Gabriel Moradillo (A320)
AFV1185 First Officer Floris Van Den Biggelaar (B737-800)
AFV1184 First Officer Koushik Baratam (A220-3(CSeries))
AFV1183 First Officer Olivier Butler (B737-800)
AFV1182 First Officer Pieter Slabberts (A320)

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


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