April Stats

Total Legs: 305 reports
Total Hours: 991.5 hours
Online legs: 92 reports

Top 10 pilots:

1. Brian Hankey: 46 flights
2. Fabrice Ayrault: 35 flights
3. Natanael Farias: 32 flights
4. Fernando Antao: 31 flights
5. Mahendra Putut: 27 flights
6. Daniel Duhon: 21 flights
7. San Lin: 12 flights
8. Pedro Costa: 12 flights
9. Ismael Gbian: 11 flights
10. Marcel Teljeur: 10 flights

Top 10 Aircraft:

1. A320: 86 reports
2. B737-800: 41 reports
3. B737-BBJ1: 30 reports
4. A320neo: 25 reports
5. B747-8F: 20 reports
6. An-225: 16 reports
7. DHC-6 : 10 reports
8. B747-400:10 reports
9. A330-200: 9 reports
10. B737-900ER: 7 reports

Top 5 Landing Rates:

Congrats to Fabrice and Fernando for both making the list twice.  
 

Our all-time leader so far this year is Fernando Antao with a 99.61 landing score at Niamey in Niger.

Airline Stats November 2023

Top 10 Pilots

Well done Casey for earning this month's top spot! And great job to everyone else, spots 5-10 this month were a close race!

Top 5 Aircraft

Great job last month! Can we bring December to even higher counts? On behalf of all of AFVA Staff, we hope you have a great month as we draw near to the end of 2023!

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:

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

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

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

Daniel Duhon

Executive Vice President

Air France/KLM Virtual Airlines

AFVA Staff

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:

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

Hi Pilots,

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

Pedro still leading the way!

AFVA Staff

Hi Pilots

A BIG THANK YOU from all of the AFV staff for everyone's efforts in March, we came home with a total of 470 legs flown which is the most since April 2021 - Great Stuff!

Starting in April we shall be awarding a "Top Pilot" Discord Role for the Pilot who completes the most legs each month. If you haven't joined our Discord yet, here is an invite link: https://discord.gg/jcFJnPej

So, without further ado here are the final standings for March, congratulations to Clarence who comes out top in a tight race

Thanks to all the VA is undergoing a major resurgence with a great sense of community, let's keep it going!

Image courtesy of Daniel Duhon

AFV/KLM Staff

Hi Pilots

We are curently looking to fill the above role.

The A320 program is the busiest and is where most pilots get their first taste of life in the VA

For more details and how to apply please head here: https://www.afva.net/job.do?id=0x39

Thank you in advance for your interest!

AFVA/KLM Staff

Hi Pilots

Gmail

Please be aware that we will be reducing the number of news items for a while. This is because we have incurred the wrath of the Gmail spam gods who have decreed that as the AFV email domain send out notification emails then it must be spamming. What would be of help is if pilots with a Gmail address can review their notification settings in their AFV profile and perhaps turn off notifications for News items, the latest ones are always at the top of the home page anyway.

Discord

A reminder to all that we have a very active Discord Server where you can ask questions about AFV, Flight Simming in general etc etc.

You can join here: https://discord.gg/FdQGM2p5

This link is valid for one week from today but a new link will be posted weekly.

Top Pilots

With a little under a week to go in March there have so far been 397 legs flown which is by far the most for some time, the increase since November 22 when there were 146 legs flown is phenomenal, thank you all for your commitment and effort.

If you have any feed back on the VA we’d be happy to hear it together with any suggestions for improvements you may have.

In the meantime here are the top Non-staff pilots so far for March:

It’s a close run thing this month!

Top Approvers

Of course, all these PIREPS need to be reviewed and approved, here’s the state of play for top approver:

More neck and neck stuff here!

Tours

The next tours coming your way will be “Any landing you can walk away from” and “Liu Bang Part 4”. We are also planning a tour to coincide with the release of WU13 for MSFS2020, which will be set in the Pacific Islands, watch this space for that one.

Many thanks again to all pilots for their commitment and efforts!

AFVA/KLM Staff

Image: More ERJ Love courtesy of Calum MacDonald

Hi Pilots

The Liu Bang Tour part 3 is now available for everyone to fly.

This part ot the tour will find you in the very scenic Xianjiang Province.

More details including the briefing note can be found here: https://www.afva.net/tour.do?id=0x26

Pilots are also asked to read NOTAM 49 before starting this and other tours: https://www.afva.net/notams.do

Good Luck and have fun

AFVA/KLM Tours

Hi Pilots

The Out of Africa Tour is now available for everyone to fly.

This tour goes hand in hand with the AFV Under African Skies Accomplishment; Complete the tour = You get the Accomplishment!

More details can be found here: https://www.afva.net/tour.do?id=0x24

Pilots are also asked to read NOTAM 49 before starting this and other tours: https://www.afva.net/notams.do

Good Luck and have fun

AFVA/KLM Tours

Hi Pilots,

Here are the top PIREP approvers so far this month:

A double two horse race developing for top spots this month!

AFVA/KLM Staff

Hi Pilots,

With two thirds of March out of the way here are the current standings for top pilot:

At the time of writing we are well on course for between 400-450 legs this month, which is an outstanding effort by all, thank you.

Screenshot: 787 Night Landing EHAM Rwy 18C

AFVA/KLM Staff

Hi Pilots

The AN-225 Tour is now available for everyone to fly.

More details can be found here: https://www.afva.net/tour.do?id=0x23

Pilots are also asked to read NOTAM 49 before starting this and other tours: https://www.afva.net/notams.do

Enjoy this special tour!

AFVA/KLM Tours

Hi Pilots

And just like that another week has gone! Here's how things are looking to date:

Pilots

Approvers

168 legs flown in total so far this month, and we're not yet half way through, 400???

ERJ Cockpit image courtesy of Calum MacDonald

AFVA Staff

Hi Pilots,

And we have a new No. 1! Pedro Costa leads the way, we knew it would take something special to usurp Ádám and Pedro has managed it!

It's gonna take a real 'Hold my beer' moment to knock Pedro from top spot, good luck all!

AFVA Staff

Hi Pilots

Here are the standings so far this month:

Pilots

Approvers

We are currently looking at around 280-290 legs flown this month. Lets try for at least 300!

AFVA Staff

The 50 State Club Tour Part 2 is now available for all pilots.

More details can be found here: 50 State Club Part 2

We hope you enjoy.

AFVA Tours

February Statistics:

Flight Report Stats:

Total legs in February : 334 legs

Total Hours in February: 887.3 hours

VATSIM Legs: 112 legs

Tour Legs: 125 legs

Total Distance: 298,912 miles

An all round great effort from everyone this month! Let's try for 350 or maybe even 400 in March

1. Alan Barber: 72 reports
2. Teodor Negru: 57 reports
3. Calum Macdonald: 39 reports
4. Mahendra Putut: 34 reports
5. Frederic Honnart: 23 reports

1. Teodor Negru: 107 reports
2. Alan Barber: 88 reports
3. Frederic Honnart: 67 reports
4. Calum Macdonald: 34 reports
5. Daniel Duhon: 20 reports

AFVA/KLM Staff

Hi Pilots

Our target for February was 300 and we came home with 334!

An excellent effort and a big thank you for the contributions made by all.

Top pilots/approvers to follow

Well done all!

400 in March?

AFVA Staff

So here are the best landings in 2023 so far. Ádám is still solid as a rock at No. 1

AFVA Staff

As we head towards the end of February, here is the state of play:

Legs Flown

PIREP Approvals

We're very close to 300 legs flown in February which is an awesome effort. One last push to get there!

AFVA Staff

Well, I missed out last week, so to make up for it here a this weeks stats a day early.

It looks like a we have woken by a sleeping giant with the AFV Veteran, Ted, leading the way in both fields!

In terms of the month as a whole we are on course for 300+ legs flown, which for a short month is a great effort, lets make sure we get there!

Flights

Approvals

AFVA Staff

I thought pilots might find it interesting to see the top 20 Aircraft used in terms of legs flown since the inception of AFVA. Any surprises in the list?

Here are the best landings so far this year. I think Ádám is going to be quite hard to dislodge from top spot! But we've got over 10 months to try!

(1 entry per pilot)

Hi All

If you're looking for a change of pace then keep an eye out for a two part tour covering the top 50 freight hubs around the world.

More details to follow but you can preview what's in store here: Details

Alan Barber

AFVA

Hello All!

The Middle Earth tour is now available! It is open from now until December 31, 2023.

Click here for details

Enjoy!

(Tip: If you use MSFS2020, there is a NZ World Update coming soon. I would recommend waiting for that to start this tour.)

February Week 1 Stats:

Flight Report Stats:

Total legs in February so far: 51 legs

Total Hours in February: 183.2 hours

VATSIM Legs: 14 legs

Tour Legs: 9 legs

Total Distance: 77,894 miles

That's an average of about 8.5 flights/day. This would equate to 238 flights by the end of the month if that average stays the same thorughout the month. Can we make it to 250?

1. Mahendra Putut: 12 reports
2. Calum MacDonald: 6 reports
3. Martin Zelikovitz: 5 reports
4. Florian Barea: 5 reports
5. Brian Hankey: 5 reports

1. Alan Barber: 16 reports
2. Frederic Honnart: 15 reports
3. Teodor Negru: 12 reports
4. Ben Maskell: 8 reports
5. Ethan Fortier: 3 reports

AFVA/KLM Staff