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 12,796,391 visits and received 96,493,963 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 2,322,547,437,609 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 10 messages in our discussion forums in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 47 days, 6 hours and 44 minutes.

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11/28/2024	Happy Thanksgiving 2024!	Daniel Duhon
Greetings all, On behalf of all the AFVA Staff, I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Even though this is primarily a US Holiday, it is good for everyone to reflect on what they are thankful for and we wish you the best as the year is nearing its end. We hope you are all doing well! Cheers, AFVA Staff
11/05/2024	August-October Stats Update	Daniel Duhon
August-October 2024 Stats Total Legs: 766 reports (average 255 legs/month, up 88 legs over previous 3 months) Total Hours: 2604.5 hours (average 868.2 hours/month, up 214.9 hours over previous 3 months) Online legs: 300 reports (average 100 legs/month, up 79 reports over previous 3 months) Top 15 pilots (from 95 days ago to 5 days ago): 1. Brian Hankey: 100 reports 2. Marcio Costa: 67 reports 3. Fernando Antao: 59 reports 4. Giancarlo Pascalis: 52 reports 5. Mahendra Putut: 50 reports 6. Matt Mulhall: 38 reports 7. Florian Barea: 32 reports 8. Daniel Duhon: 28 reports 9. Ismael Gbian: 27 reports 10. Ethan Fortier: 26 reports 11. John Exel: 24 reports 12. Silvian Baltac: 23 reports 13. Ben Maskell: 21 reports 14. Georges Eid: 20 reports 15. Teodor Negru: 19 reports Congratulations Brian Hankey for achieving the top spot for total flights in the past 3 months! Top 15 Aircraft: 1. A320: 126 reports 2. B777-300ER: 97 reports 3. B737-800: 74 reports 4. B737-BBJ1: 56 reports 5. B737-900ER: 53 reports 6. A321: 50 reports 7. B737-600: 46 reports 8. A319: 42 reports 9. B737-700: 25 reports 10. ERJ-190: 20 reports 11. B727-200: 19 reports 12. ATR-42: 17 reports 13. A320neo: 17 reports 14. B777-300: 12 reports 15. B747-400: 12 reports Here are the top 5 landing rates this month: 1. Ethan Fortier 10/21/2024 MF8576 Leg 1 B737-800 -250 ft/min 1,260 ft 99.89 Xiamen China Runway 05 2. Matt Mulhall 09/17/2024 GLO9715 Leg 1 B737-700 -232 ft/min 1,242 ft 99.31 Cochabamba Bolivia Runway 32 3. Silvian Baltac 08/27/2024 GUY251 Leg 3 B727-200 -273 ft/min 1,252 ft 99.17 Castries Saint Lucia Runway 09 4. Giancarlo Pascalis 08/12/2024 KL1127 Leg 1 B737-800 -232 ft/min 1,299 ft 98.70 Copenhagen Denmark Runway 04L 5. Georges Eid 10/18/2024 WF730 Leg 2 ATR-42 -241 ft/min 1,176 ft 98.62 Trondheim Norway Runway 09 6. Natanael Farias 10/12/2024 SU1861 Leg 1 B737-900ER -288 ft/min 1,254 ft 98.41 Moscow-Sheremetyevo Russia Runway 06R 7. Brian Hankey 09/21/2024 UTA144 Leg 4 B737-BBJ1 -276 ft/min 1,201 ft 98.34 Marseille France Runway 13R 8. Fernando Antao 10/14/2024 KL1724 Leg 1 B737-600 -275 ft/min 1,303 ft 98.32 Amsterdam Netherlands Runway 06 9. Marcio Costa 09/07/2024 GLO1713 Leg 1 A320 -287 ft/min 1,231 ft 98.27 Sao Paulo-Guarulhos Brazil Runway 09R 10. Kostas Kollias 10/15/2024 UX7505 Leg 1 A320 -281 ft/min 1,208 ft 98.22 Palma de Mallorca Spain Runway 24L Congrats to Ethan for claiming 1st place! Thank you all for your participation in our great Virtual Airline! Also, please be aware that I will be moving towards more of a quarterly stats update (similar to this one) starting January 1, 2025. We hope you have a wonderful November as we approach the winter holidays (for those of us north of the equator)! AFVA Staff
08/04/2024	July 2024 Stats Update	Daniel Duhon
July Stats Total Legs: 254 reports (up 31 reports) Total Hours: 1014.7 hours (up 247 hours) Online legs: 96 reports (up 10 reports) Top 10 pilots: Marcio Costa: 35 reports Brian Hankey: 26 reports Fernando Antao: 26 reports Mahendra Putut: 25 reports San Lin: 24 reports Giancarlo Pascalis: 16 reports Florian Barea: 14 reports Daniel Duhon: 11 reports Marcel Teljeur: 10 reports Ben Maskell: 8 reports Quite the tight race this month! Congratulations to all that made the top 10 list! Top 10 Aircraft: A320: 48 flights B777-300ER: 45 flights B777-300: 20 flights B737-800: 19 flights B747-8: 15 flights B787-9: 14 flights A320neo: 14 flights TBM930: 13 flights B737-BBJ1: 12 flights B747-400: 11 flights Here are the top 5 landing rates this month: 1. Fernando Antao 05/29/2024 AFH323 Leg 6 MD-88 -248 ft/min 1,277 ft 99.61 Niamey Niger Runway 27L 2. Matt Mulhall 05/13/2024 DL5305 Leg 1 A320 -267 ft/min 1,268 ft 99.22 New York-Kennedy NY Runway 22L 3. Natanael Farias 05/27/2024 AF459 Leg 1 B787-9 -270 ft/min 1,240 ft 99.20 Paris-De Gaulle France Runway 09L 4. Florian Barea 06/01/2024 AF1367 Leg 1 A319 -240 ft/min 1,205 ft 99.08 Paris-De Gaulle France Runway 26L 5. John Exel 07/16/2024 DL5623 Leg 2 B737-700 -222 ft/min 1,287 ft 98.44 New York-La Guardia NY Runway 04 Congrats to Fernando for re-taking the top place for the month and holding his lead for the year! We hope you are all continuing to do well! AFVA Staff
07/11/2024	June 2024 Stats Update	Daniel Duhon
June Stats Total Legs: 222 reports (up 27 reports) Total Hours: 764.4 hours (up 171.4 hours) Online legs: 85 reports (up 47 reports) Top 10 pilots: Mahendra Putut: 27 reports Fernando Antao: 25 flights San Lin: 22 flights Ismael Gbian: 18 flights Matt Mulhall: 18 flights Giancarlo Pascalis: 17 flights Georges Eid: 13 flights Brian Hankey: 10 flights Ben Maskell: 10 flights Florian Barea: 8 flights Top 10 Aircraft: A320: 57 flights B737-800: 41 flights B737-900ER: 19 flights B747-8: 16 flights B787-9: 11 flights B777-300ER: 11 flights B737-BBJ1: 9 flights MD-88: 8 flights A340-600: 8 flights A320neo: 8 flights Here are the top 5 landing rates this month: 1. Mahendra Putut 06/29/2024 DL057 Leg 1 B747-8 -233 ft/min 1,175 ft 98.30 Salt Lake City UT Runway 34R 2. Matt Mulhall 06/28/2024 VS001 Leg 1 B777-300ER -247 ft/min 1,109 ft 97.57 New York-Newark NJ Runway 22L 3. Georges Eid 06/12/2024 AR1784 Leg 1 B737-800 -306 ft/min 1,266 ft 97.26 Resistencia Argentina Runway 03 4. San Lin 07/06/2024 MF8681 Leg 1 A320 -227 ft/min 1,389 ft 96.85 Macau Macau Runway 16 5. Fernando Antao 06/14/2024 KQ440 Leg 1 A320 -184 ft/min 1,209 ft 96.29 Bujumbura Burundi Runway 17 Congrats to Mahendra for making the top of the list this month! Fernando Antao still leads 2024! Who will challenge the reigning champion? We hope you are all doing well! AFVA Staff
06/04/2024	May 2024 Stats	Brian Hankey
May Stats Total Legs: 195 reports Total Hours: 593 hours Online legs: 38 reports Top 10 pilots: Brian Hankey: 38 flights Natanael Farias: 24 flights Mahendra Putut: 18 flights Fernando Antao: 18 flights San Lin: 17 flights Matt Mulhall: 14 flights Fabrice Ayrault: 7 flights Giancarlo Pascalis: 7 flights Frederic Honnart: 6 flights Ben Maskell: 6 flights Top 10 Aircraft: A320: 71 flights B737-900ER: 29 flights B737-800: 23 flights B747-8F: 12 flights MD-88: 10 flights B787-9: 10 flights B747-400: 5 flights A321: 5 flights A320neo: 5 flights A319: 5 flights Here are the top 5 landing rates this month: 1. Gerald Plotts May 5/23/2024 AF148 Leg 1 B737-800 -183 1,065 ft 93.57 Lagos Nigeria Runway 19R 2. Fernando Antao May 5/8/2024 UU422 Leg 1 B737-800 -189 1,359 ft 95.4 St Denis Reunion Island Runway 14 3. Fabrice Ayrault May 5/20/2024 AF1834 Leg 1 A320 -192 1,228 ft 97.06 Berlin-Brandenburg Germany Runway 07R 4. Fernando Antao May 5/29/2024 RK033 Leg 2 MD-88 -195 1,425 ft 94.48 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso Runway 22 5. Giancarlo Pascalis May 5/25/2024 AZ3016 Leg 1 A320 -200 1,391 ft 95.43 Milan-Malpensa Italy Runway 35L Congrats to Fernando for making the list twice in two months. Congrats to Fernando Antao for the top score so far in 2024. He rules the leaderboard with a 99.61 landing score at Niamey in Niger. Our all-time leader is still Ben Maskell, with a 99.96 landing score at Cloncurry, Australia.

Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines WELCOMES OUR NEWEST PILOTS
AFV1217	First Officer Xavier Roy (B787-9)
AFV1216	Captain Dick Neufeglise (A320)
AFV1215	Captain John Exel (B737-800)
AFV1214	First Officer Mohamed Daouloungou (A320)
AFV1213	First Officer Thomas Nouyer (B737-800)
AFV1212	First Officer Jan Varada (B787-9)
AFV1211	First Officer Manav Parekh (B787-9)
AFV1210	First Officer Bence Tomopulosz (A320)
AFV1209	Captain Fabrice Ayrault (A320)
AFV1208	Captain Randy Simmons (B737-800)

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