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 8,021,571 visits and received 77,713,216 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 1,968,425,646,668 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 40 messages in our discussion forums in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 10 days, 20 hours and 51 minutes.

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08/31/2020	MSFS Support (Updated)	Brian Hankey
ACARS support has been implemented for all AFVA flights. Please make sure to update your ACARS to at least ACARS 3.4 Build 150 Beta 15. This is the first version that incorporates MSFS Support. Manual PIREPs for MSFS (showing a different sim) will be accepted until MSFS support has been released as Build 151 Keep the flights coming in!
08/17/2020	MSFS Support	Fredrik Martensson
With the much anticipated release of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on the 18th August, we wanted to share that at this time, there will initially be no ACARS support for this sim due to compatibility issues between MSFS and ACARS and the lack of FSUIPC or Simconnect support at release, If you want to use the new sim to fly AFVA flights these can be submitted as a MANUAL PIREP, and you must add the comment "MSFS2020". Note: All Normal flight rules apply (Flight in the schedule, you are airframe type rated etc). We will provide updates as they become available
12/26/2019	New Historical Airline - Air Alpes Historical	Brian Hankey
Thanks to the hard work of Paul Hale in continuing to research some of the former airlines that eventually made up today's Air France, we have the pleasure of announcing a small contributor that eventually was absorbed into Air France - Air Alpes. Air Alpes was a founded in 1961, with its registered office at Chambéry Airport. Operations were initially with a Piper PA-18 Super Cub, mainly offering flying lessons and carrying supplies into the mountains. Glacier skiing drop-offs were very important during the first years of Air Alpes' operation. The company built its own airstrips, called altiports at various high-altitude locations. Landings could only be achieved with guidance from the ground. A very close cooperation was established between the company and ski-instructors and guides from the various ski-resorts. The main glaciers of Mont Blanc, the Tarentaise Valley, the Vanoise massif and Oisans were now accessible. For each flight only a maximum of six customers and their guide could be accommodated. After mountain operations proved insufficient to keep the airline afloat, they became agents of both Air France and UTA (forerunners to today's codeshares). By 1978, even that wasn't enough to keep the airline afloat, and it was acquired by TAT and absorbed into the larger TAT group. The new destinations in the schedule include L'Alpe d'Huez, Courchevel. Meribel, Megève, Annecy, and Annemasse France. Please note that Dash-8s are the largest type that are approved for these flights.
12/16/2019	A350 program launched today, Staff changes and New career opportunity	Paul Hale
Hello pilots, I am extremely pleased to announce that today marks the launch of the A350 program, and brings the programs at AFVA up to date, it also marks the closure of the old A340 Program. The opening of the new A350 program means a number of staff changes need to be made. Firstly Fredrik Martensson has been transferred across from 747 Chief Pilot to head the new program as A350 Chief Pilot, Alan Barber previously 777 Chief Pilot has switched programs to fill the void left behind by Fredrik and is the new 747 Chief Pilot, lastly and by no means least Daniel Duhon has been promoted from 777 Assistant Chief Pilot to 777 Chief Pilot. Congratulations to all 3 of you and we wish you good luck in your new respective programs. Following on from these changes, we are also on the lookout for a new member of staff to take over the Embraer 190 program as Chief Pilot, this position is open to all staff and line pilots but we particularly encourage applications from pilots who are keen to step into a first staff role within the airline, a full job specification can be found here: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x34 Lastly, we wanted to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a fantastic Christmas and a prosperous new year! Best regards and seasons greetings, Brian and Paul Brian Hankey President & CEO Paul Hale Executive Vice President Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines
05/17/2019	New Boeing 747 Chief Pilot	Paul Hale
Pilots, It gives me great pleasure to announce our new Boeing 747 Chief Pilot will be Fredrik Martensson Fredrik has done a fantastic job as Chief Pilot in the entry level ERJ190 program and also as our X-Plane X-pert but showed a real passion to run our "Queen of the skies" program Please join me in congratulating Fredrik on his well deserved promotion. Fredrik's promotion leaves a gap for a Chief Pilot to join the staff in the ERJ program and a new career opportunity post for that role will be advertised in the near future. Best regards, Brian Hankey President & CEO Paul Hale Executive Vice President Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines

Air France / KLM Virtual Airlines CONGRATULATES
Gary Fournerat	Promoted to Captain, B737-800 on 09/16/2020
Ben Maskell	Promoted to Chief Pilot, B747-400 on 05/31/2020
João Melo	Promoted to First Officer, B777-300 on 04/28/2020
João Melo	Promoted to First Officer, B747-400 on 04/23/2020
Terry Ward	Promoted to Chief Pilot, B747-400 on 04/20/2020

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

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