Delta Virtual Airlines

Welcome to the Delta Virtual Airlines web site. We are a group of flight simulation enthusiasts who fly Delta Air Lines and its alliance partners' routes using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator X (including Steam Edition) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. We also support Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D v1-5 and Laminar Research X-Plane 10/11/12. We are in no way affiliated with Delta Air Lines.

Since May 2003, we have received over 23,743,029 visits and received 592,621,499 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 21,502,054,255,424 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 34 messages in our Water Cooler discussion forum in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 8 days, 14 hours and 1 minute.

Please feel free to browse around our web site. Once you join the Delta Virtual Airlines active pilot roster, you may submit flight reports and contribute to our discussion forums and 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 Delta Virtual Airlines.

Delta Virtual Airlines WELCOMES OUR NEWEST PILOTS
DVA14155	First Officer Joe Forti (B757-200)
DVA14154	First Officer Daniel Slayer (B757-200)
DVA14153	First Officer Johnny Hayes (B757-200)
DVA14152	First Officer Joseph Carfora (A320)
DVA14151	First Officer Peter Synnott (B757-200)
DVA14150	First Officer Japhet Tegtmeyer (A320)
DVA14149	First Officer Brian Fung (B737-800)
DVA14148	First Officer Jeremy Seteroff (A320)
DVA14147	First Officer Nick Gilbert (MD-88)
DVA14146	First Officer James Zobel (CRJ-200)

11/19/2022	Jon Prenovost is our New Chief Pilot for the L1011-100 Program	David Vega
It's my pleasure to announce that Jon Prenovost is now the Chief Pilot for the L1011-100 program. Jon joined DVA in August of 2007, getting promoted to Captain in the L1011 in August of 2012. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with the L-1011 both in terms of PC simulation and real-world simulators. Jon is also an FAA-certified and experienced Advanced Ground Instructor teaching Glider, Recreational, Sports, Private, and Commercial, with Instrument not far off. He also holds an FAA Part-107 Commercial Drone Pilot's certificate. We will all benefit from Jon's leadership in what he calls "... the finest "triple tuber" in the history of commercial aviation at the best VA in the world."
11/18/2022	FlightSim Community Survey by Navigraph 2022 now Online!	Joe Burner
Good morning Delta Virtual Airlines Pilots, Today I am pleased to announce that the FlightSim Community Survey by Navigraph for 2022 is now online. This year's FlightSim Community Survey is a bit different, in terms of virtual organizations participating, and I am pleased to announce that this year Delta Virtual Airlines have partnered with Navigraph to provide and contribute questions for the 2022 FlightSim Community Survey. What is the the FlightSim Community Survey by Navigraph? Nov 18 to Nov 28 Navigraph is conducting a FlightSim Community Survey together with several major addon developers and organizations within the flight simulation community. The survey, the largest of its kind, aims to gauge the prevailing flight simulation trends and users’ requests for future development. Like previous years, this survey has an emphasis on the major flight simulators such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, Lockheed Martin Prepar3D and Laminar Research X-Plane, but the survey also includes questions about add-ons, tools, and flight simulation consoles. This is the largest and most comprehensive flight simulation survey in the world! By participating you are influencing the future of the FlightSim community. The results from the survey will be presented on https://blog.navigraph.com Mid-December, but also by the partners participating to this survey (to the extent they wish to do so). To take the survey please follow the link below. (you may have to copy and paste the link) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/flightsimsurvey2022?partner=delta_virtual_airlines Here are some of the addon developers and organizations who have contributed with questions to this years survey. • Aerosoft • Airfoillabs • BelGeode • BRAVO737 • Carenado • Cruiselevel.de • Delta Virtual Airlines • Fenix • Flight1 • FlightGear • FlightSim.com • FlightSimulator.blog • Fly By Wire • FSElite • FSA/FSExpo • FSHub • FSMagazine • FSNews24 • GeoFS • Glass Cockpit • HeliSimmer.com • Honeycomb • Infinite Flight • IVAO • Laminar Research • MSFSAddons.com • Orbx • PilotEdge • PMDG • RealSimGear • SimFlight • SimWorks Studios • The Flight Lounge • TorqueSim Aircraft Development • VATSIM To comply with GPDR this survey is: • The survey is anonymous and no personally identifiable information is collected. • The results will only be presented in aggregated form. • The data is collected in the legitimate interests pursued by Navigraph and its partners. • Thank you for your participation! We are all very excited about the results
11/15/2022	Ken Webber is our New B727-200 Program Chief Pilot	David Vega
It's my pleasure to announce that Ken Webber is now the Chief Pilot for the B727-200 program. Ken has been very active in Delta Virtual Airlines since he joined in 2015. He was selected as Assistant Chief Pilot for the B727-200 Program in December 2019. On May 2021, he became the Chief Pilot for the DC-8 Program. Ken was also selected as an Assistant Director of Operations in August of this year. Ken is a flight sim enthusiast dating back to the "Original Microsoft Flight Simulator for the Commodore 64/Atari 880 computers. He's also a student pilot taking Part 141 Private Pilot lessons, as well as working as a long-haul truck driver using his job to fund his Aviation and Flight Sim hobby. Welcome back to the B727-200 Program, Ken.
11/11/2022	Staffing Changes	Joe Burner
Good morning Delta Virtual Airlines Pilots, We want to inform you all that there have been some staffing changes within Delta Virtual Airlines staffing this week. Kevin Lundy was was serving as Assistant Director of Operations and Chief Pilot of the 727-100 Program advised he had to step down due to real world commitments outside DVA. Kevin as many of you all know was our former Vice President of Operations, then Assistant Director of Operations and served as our Chief Pilot in the 727 program. We are sad to see Kevin step down but we totally understand the commitments outside DVA and we want to wish Kevin the best in his future endeavors. We want to inform you of another staffing change Alan Cluff advised earlier this week that he has to step down as Vice President of Training due to personal reasons and commitments outside Delta Virtual Airlines. Alan as many of you know served on DVA staff years ago in operations as an Assistant Director of Ops, and was instrumental in excelling Delta Virtual Airlines mission and vision forward in the various duties and roles at DVA. We are sad to see Alan step down but we totally understand the reasons and commitments outside DVA and we want to wish Alan the best in his future endeavors. We want to inform you of another staffing change. Andrew Vane had to step down from Chief Pilot of the L-1011 equipment program. Andrew advised due to work and commitments outside DVA, he announced he needed to step down. Andrew as many of you all know was very instrumental in moving the DVA mission and vision forward years ago when he served as Vice President Of Operations years ago and later as Chief Pilot of the L-1011 equipment program. While it is difficult to see our friends and colleagues step down from their roles as we have grown to form a close bond and friendship over the years with these individuals. Needless to say, Andrew, Alan, and Kevin will be missed. We want to thank each of these gentlemen and wish them the best in their future endeavors. With this announcement I am pleased to announce that taking over as Vice President of Training, is Eric Dziura. Eric has been with Delta Virtual Airlines for just over two years. With this Eric has a great wealth of contributions in the flight simulation community. Eric has served on staff at Vatsim Pilot Training Department, and Vatsim Member services. He brings 20+ years of teaching, mentoring, learning experience to the table and has a background in engineering and aviation. Eric also holds the PPL certification in the real world and holds the IR rating at Vatsim. Eric has over 5000 hours online flying with IVAO and Vatsim combined. With this experience, Eric has been identified as a strong candidate to serve as Vice President of Training and oversee the Delta Virtual Airlines Flight Academy, and Pilot Training. We are excited for Eric to step into this role and we are excited to have him on board with the Senior Leadership team here at Delta Virtual Airlines. When we have identified other strong candidates for the Chief Pilot positions of the 727 and L-1011 programs and Operations we will make another announcement. - DVA Senior Leadership - Joe Burner; President - Chris Frasure - Vice President; CFO - David Vega; Vice President of Operations - Jim Pray; Vice President of Human Resources - Luke Kolin; Vice President of Technology
11/08/2022	The DVA Events Survey is now Ready for you!	David Vega
The Delta Virtual Airlines Events Team would like to hear your thoughts on how future DVA events could be more interesting for all. They have prepared a short, 5-minute survey for all DVA members. Whether you regularly participate in the events, occasionally, or even not at all, this is your chance to tell our Events team what you like and don’t like about our events, what could be improved, and what other types of events would motivate you to participate even more. The survey will be open through next Monday, November 14th. You can find it here: https://forms.gle/hmLJqmLmoQNK5pH87 For more information, see the DVA Water Cooler posting here: https://www.deltava.org/thread.do?id=0x24483

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