Joined two new virtual airlines

Due to technical problems with the software running my own VA (the original developer abandoned the project leaving thousands of bugs) I had to discontinue Copa Virtual :( and now there is already a Copa Virtual registered by some other person on IVAO :( so I guess I will have to fly something else. Their admissions requirements are just too unreal (200 hours of flight time!!!) as if this was real life. I have a social life to keep up.

OK, so far I have some 80 hours built up in online flights on IVAO. Most of my flights are declared on the all-purpose Virtual Pilots organization.

I was looking for something a little bit more exciting and exploring other VAs. While on the FS Weekend 2007 in the netherlands I visited the booth of KLM-VA (http://www.klm-va.nl/) and liked it, they even had nice informative fact sheets for sim flying.

So, I signed up for KLM-VA and passed the theoretical exam. Then I had to do a visual (VFR) circuit around Groningen airport in a cessna using charts and all (they check if you know what you were supposed to do and how) so I did and sent the flight video. Now I am a full member of KLM-VA but still need to make my inaugural flight. The problem is you can only fly KLM routes so there the small letters :( I hope to do my 1st flight next week. I am KLM623 on that VA. Amazingly enough during the FSWeekend I noticed they also have a female sim pilot, nice to see the women getting interested in this exciting learning hobby (better than shooting virtual bullets like a madman).


Also, that same week on the IVAO forums I noticed a post from EuroHarmony VA (http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/) announcing their fleet of FSX compatible aircraft and also their brand new Airbus A380 for FS2004 !!!! looked fantastic. So, I joined this VA also and downloaded the planes. Took the A380 for a checkride out of Tocumen (MPTO) and liked it.

Unfortunately I cannot fly my usual Boeings 737/767 which I use on the IVAO because on this VA too you have to begin from the bottom of the pilot food chain. So, unless I build up 4 hours of flight in one of two specific small turboprops I can't promote to larger aircraft, the Boeings are on the Class 3 category so that means some 14 hours on EuroHarmony before I can use the a/c I like to fly online. I am EHM-2198 on EuroHarmony.

So, to get me up to speed I downloaded the EuroHarmony's Sukhoi SU-80 GP twinprop aircraft.

I still can declare these flights on Virtual Pilots which remains my authoritative flight logbook.