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New Tours, Schedules, Aircraft, Liveries, and Software

It's been another busy few days as our start-up airline continues to grow - confounding all expectations along the way.

Sep 28, 2022
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Airbus A320Neo - VirtualFlight Express Livery Pack Microsoft Flight Simulator

Wow… what a week it’s been. At the time of writing we’re heading towards 400 pilots, two thirds of a million miles flown, and from a standing start have almost logged more hours than any similar airlines on the internet.

It’s all down to you - the pilots - and your continued ideas, suggestions, enthusiasm, and patience. Yes - patience. We are still not completely over the infrastructure issues that have been going on for the last week - although things are getting better every day.

Rather than write endlessly about not very much I would just like to extend a huge thank you to everybody involved in VirtualFlight.Online so far - particularly those that contribute their time and effort to help others. Your efforts are noticed.

Best regards,

Jonathan Beckett
Founder, VirtualFlight.Online


New Tours

This week we opened up a number of new tours for aviators to explore. The Canadian tours pre-empt the arrival of World Update 11, which includes Canada.

Canada West Coast Regional Tour

rocks near ocean

An airport hopping tour starting out at Whitehorse, and working it's way down the west coast of Canada towards Kelowna. Leg lengths vary from 75 to 150nm, designed for GA, transport aircraft, and small jets.

The Maritimes Regional Tour

white and red lighthouse on brown rocky shore under blue sky during daytime

A regional tour taking us around Nova Scotia, to Price Edward Island, and across Newfoundland. Leg lengths range from 60 to 120nm - perfect for GA, transport, and small jet aircraft.

New Zealand North Island Regional Tour

white wind turbines on hill near body of water

A series of GA flights taking you from the far north of the island, departing Kaitaia, following the East coast down to the Capital City of Wellington, then heading back to the north visiting a variety of airports. The final destination is Auckland International. The legs are best completed in GA aircraft - with a Cessna 172 estimated to complete most legs in between 25 to 45 minutes. Some of the airports have grass Runways.

Rallye Toulouse St Louis Historic Tour

Aeropostale | Simanaitis Says

Re-creating the routes of Aéropostale, and the first air-mail pioneers, the Rally from Toulouse to St Louis du Senegal and back forms the basis of this tour.

Aéropostale (formally, Compagnie générale aéropostale) was a pioneering aviation company which operated from 1918 to 1933. It was founded in 1918 in Toulouse, France, as Société des lignes Latécoère, also known as Lignes aeriennes Latécoère or simply "The Line".


New Scheduled Flights

The Alps

mountain filled with trees during daytime

This week we connected many of the airfields throughout the Alps to each other with scheduled flights for aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan, the Kodiak, and the Twin Otter.

Search the schedules by departure airfield, aircraft type, or flight number - all of the Alps routes begin with “A”.

The connected airfields are:

  • LIMA Aeritalia

  • EDDO Agathazell Airfield

  • LFLB Aix-Les-Bains

  • LFKA Albertville

  • LSPM Ambri

  • LFLI Annemasse

  • LIMW Aosta

  • LIDA Asiago

  • LICH Aviosuperficie Chavez-Marini

  • LIQM Aviosuperficie Passo Del Tonale

  • LIYL Aviosuperficie San Felice

  • LSZE Bad Ragaz

  • LSZB Belp

  • LJBL Bled

  • LIPB Bolzano

  • LIPN Boscomantico

  • LSZC Buochs

  • LFLE Challes-Les-Eaux

  • LFLJ Courchevel

  • LOIH Dornbirn

  • LSGE Ecuvillens

  • LOWK Flughafen Klagenfurt

  • LOLU Gmunden-Laakirchen Airport

  • LOWG Graz

  • LOWI Innsbruck

  • LFHU L'Alpe D'Huez

  • LFUK La Motte Du Caire Glider Field

  • LFLG Le Versoud

  • LSZL Locarno

  • LSZA Lugano Airport

  • LOGM Mariazell Airport

  • LIDT Mattarello

  • LFHM Megeve Airport

  • LFLP Meythet

  • LFHZ Mont Blanc

  • LSPU Munster Airport

  • LOGO Niederoeblarn Airport

  • LOKL Nikolsdorf Airport

  • EDPL Ohlstadt Airfield

  • LSTA Raron

  • LSGR Reichenbach

  • LSGK Saanen

  • LFNC Saint Crepin

  • LFMR Saint Pons

  • LOWS Salzburg

  • LSZS Samedan

  • LSZX Schanis Airport

  • LSGS Sion

  • LILO Sondrio Caiolo Airport

  • LSZR St Gallen Altenrhein

  • LOIJ St Johann

  • LFNA Tallard

  • LOGI Trieben

  • EDUE Unterwössen Airfield

  • LSPV Wangen-Lachen

  • LOWZ Zell Am See

  • LSTZ Zweisimmen


New aircraft join the fleet

This week two new aircraft join the fleet - the Beechcraft Model 18, and the deHavilland Tiger Moth.

Beechcraft Model 18

LOCAL LEGEND V: BEECHCRAFT MODEL 18 - Microsoft Flight Simulator

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world's most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military aircraft.

deHavilland DH.82 Tiger Moth

Ant's Airplanes Releases Tiger Moth for MSFS - FSElite

The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and other operators as a primary trainer aircraft. In addition to the type's principal use for ab initio training, the Second World War had RAF Tiger Moths operating in other capacities, including maritime surveillance and defensive anti-invasion preparations; some aircraft were even outfitted to function as armed light bombers.


This Week’s Group Flight

shallow focus photography of map

The Sunday night group flight will be hosted by Emanuelle (MisterO, of Flight Simulator livery making fame) this week - exploring the Pyreneese mountains. To find out details of the route, keep an eye on the #events channel in Discord later in the week.

If you’ve not taken part in group flights with us before, it’s all very relaxed. We gather at the departure airfield at the time detailed in the flight notes, join the voice chat in Discord, and fly a route together. The only real “rule” is to keep voice chat family friendly.

We usually aim for flights to finish within two hours, performing touch-and-gos at airfields en-route, and stopping for a few minutes half-way to re-fill glasses, or take a comfort break.


New Liveries

Airbus A320Neo - VirtualFlight Express Livery Pack Microsoft Flight Simulator

MisterO has been busy creating new corporate liveries for the VirtualFlight.Online fleet over the last several weeks - the following are now available for download:

  • FlyByWire A320 Neo

  • Cessna C208B Grand Caravan

  • Black Square Cessna C208B Analogue Grand Caravan

  • Daher TBM930


Transmitter gets an upgrade

The little application that started it all saw several small updates this week - culminating in version 1.0.1.9. The latest version improves the connect/disconnect logic within the application, and introduces a news feed to keep users up-to-date with the latest news from VirtualFlight.Online.

If you’ve not already installed it, you can download it for free from FlightSim.To:

  • https://flightsim.to/file/18920/virtual-flight-online-transmitter


Help Support VirtualFlight.Online

person in red sweater holding babys hand

While the platforms and facilities offered by VirtualFlight.Online are free to all members, running them is not. If you are in a position to help support VirtualFlight.Online, we have a Patreon account:

  • https://patreon.com/virtualflightonline

All contributions are gratefully received. Huge thanks to those already supporting us - you’re helping to make everything we do possible.

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