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 5,662,898 visits and received 64,350,026 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 1,796,715,661,435 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 25 messages in our discussion forums in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 2 days , 9 hours and 31 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.

09/28/2018	Three new Assistant chief Pilot Vacancies now available	Paul Hale
Three new career opportunities to join the staff at AFVA have now been opened. These positions are open to ANYBODY in the airline who meets the criteria listed in the job descriptions. We are currently seeking Assistant Chief Pilots to join our Boeing 737 program, Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 program Please read thoroughly through the job description and eligibility criteria before making your application. Boeing 737 Assistant Chief Pilot: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x30 Boeing 747 Assistant Chief Pilot: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x32 Boeing 777 Assistant chief Pilot: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x31 All applications must be made online via the above links. Good luck and please do not hesitate to email us with any questions. Best Regards, Brian Hankey bhankey@afva.net President & CEO, Air France Virtual Airlines Paul Hale phale@afva.net Executive Vice President Air France Virtual Airlines
09/28/2018	Recent changes within the management structure of AFVA	Paul Hale
All, Following recent meetings at Senior Staff level, We wanted you all to be aware of changes that are being implemented within the AFVA management structure. Senior staff have been monitoring the airline from a distance in the past months and have decided to make some strategic decisions that we believe will be of benefit to the entire airline moving forward. With that being said, the following changes are effective immediately: Transfers: Silvian Baltac is transferring from Senior Staff to become B707 Chief Pilot, We would like to say a huge thank you to Silvian for all the hard work he has put in at Senior Staff level in the past months and years. Daniel Healy is resigning from his Director of Operations role to focus solely on being Concorde Chief Pilot. Daniel also has many real world commitments that need to take priority over his virtual career. Retirements and Separations: Fabien Bergeret has repeatedly requested to retire as Vice President HR due to his real world commitments at medical school. We have reluctantly agreed to this but only after we have recruited his replacement. Massive thanks Fabien to your contributions to the AFVA senior Staff in the past years and good luck with your career to become a doctor! Terry ‘Iron Man’ Ward has requested to retire and become a Senior Captain. We can't thank Terry enough for the huge amount of commitment he has put into the airline over the past years in a huge variety of different roles at staff level. Terry has set an extraordinary standard at AFVA logging 5860 flights, a number that may never be surpassed by any other pilot. Thank you Terry and we wish you a very happy retirement but still hope to see you in our virtual skies from time to time! Kalev Kadak leaves his position as B707 Chief Pilot and becomes a Senior Captain. Kalev has become more and more busy with his real life professional career and as such now wishes to keep his spare time he gets flying with us rather than concentrating on staff duties. Thanks for all your hard work Kalev! Daniel Han leaves his position as Boeing 777 Assistant Chief Pilot and becomes a Senior Captain Christophe Bouville becomes a Senior Captain but will continue to help out with the Social Media channels. Following on from this announcement, a variety of new staff positions are shortly to be advertised which will be open to all active pilots (Subject to minimum criteria being met) so If you want to further your virtual career and potentially take a step into helping us manage this amazing Virtual Airline, please keep your eyes posted for further announcements. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact either of us. Thanks and Best Regards, Brian Hankey bhankey@afva.net President & CEO, Air France Virtual Airlines Paul Hale phale@afva.net Executive Vice President Air France Virtual Airlines
09/18/2018	A warm welcome to our new pilots who joined in August	Paul Hale
The following new pilots have joined us here at Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines this past month. • AFV1060 Timilehin Akanbi • AFV1061 Joseph Johnston • AFV1062 Romain Cavalli • AFV1063 Jan Rabas • AFV1064 Stephen Parry • AFV1065 Ahmed Elagati 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
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

Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines WELCOMES OUR NEWEST PILOTS
AFV1067	First OfficerFratean Rares-Adrian (B787-9)
AFV1066	CaptainMuthuraj Krishnasamy (B737-800)
AFV1065	CaptainAhmed Elagati (A320)
AFV1064	First OfficerStephen Parry (A320)
AFV1063	First OfficerJan Rabas (B747-400)
AFV1062	First OfficerRomain Cavalli (A320)
AFV1061	First OfficerJoseph Johnston (A320)
AFV1060	CaptainTimilehin Akanbi (B737-800)
AFV1059	First OfficerAntonio Jn Coelho (A320)
AFV1058	First OfficerKristoffer Johansen (B737-800)

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

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