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. We are in no way affiliated with Delta Air Lines.

Since May 2003, we have received over 23,362,318 visits and received 586,087,294 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 21,387,274,742,699 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 9 messages in our Water Cooler discussion forum in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 18 days, 8 hours and 58 minutes.

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
DVA14128	First Officer Bernie Parker (A320)
DVA14127	First Officer David Majchrzak (A320)
DVA14126	First Officer Phil Mack (B757-200)
DVA14125	First Officer Darren Ormond (B737-800)
DVA14124	First Officer Justin Schroeder (A320)
DVA14123	Captain Nate Kotila (A320)
DVA14122	First Officer Lucas Mariejoseph (B737-800)
DVA14121	First Officer John Landes (CRJ-200)
DVA14120	Captain George Zhukov (A320)
DVA14119	First Officer Jehu Luna K. (A320)

08/07/2022	Delta Virtual Airlines Operations Personnel Changes	Joe Burner
Good morning all, As many of you know our President Terry Eshenour announced his retirement and my appointment as President of Delta Virtual Airlines. We are forever grateful for all the work Terry has accomplished within the airline. Since becoming appointed as President, I had to take on a dual role for a short time as we were seeking someone to take over as Vice President of Operations. Today I am pleased to announce that Senior Captain David Vega will be stepping into the office as Vice President of Operations effective immediately. David as many of you all know has been around since the early days of Delta Virtual Airlines. Joining on December 2001, he has served the DVA community by a variety of excellent contributions to the community. He has assisted our pilots in the water cooler with a variety of topics to include simple assistance with simulator platforms to even creating freeware scenery for our member pilots. Please join me in giving a big round of applause for David's dedication and hard work to this community and to take on greater responsibilities. We are ever excited for the future of Delta Virtual Airlines as we continue into the future. We are still seeking to fill the position of Vice President of Training, and we will make an announcement once we identify a suitable candidate. Joe Burner President; Delta Virtual Airlines
08/02/2022	Retiring Senior Management and New Appointments	Terry Eshenour
August 1, 2022 Good Morning all, On behalf of your Senior Staff leadership team, we are announcing that Vice President of Training Scott Clarke is retiring effective July 31st, 2022. Scott as many of you know is one of the founding members of the Delta Virtual Airlines flight academy. Back in 2006, George Lewis started the Delta Virtual Airlines flight academy and Scott was one of the first students to go through the Delta Virtual Airlines Flight academy. Scott led a team responsible for creating and developing all of our virtual pilot training programs. He was interested in aviation since he was a child. Outside Delta Virtual Airlines, Scott is a real world commercial multi-engine, instrument-rated pilot. Scott joined the Senior Staff and has served as Vice President of Training here at DVA. We are ever thankful for Scott for his sixteen years of dedicated service to this community and he will be missed. We also announce that our President Terry Eshenour is retiring as President of Delta Virtual Airlines and Treasurer of Global Virtual Airlines Group. Terry served the Delta Virtual Airlines community in senior leadership positions for 18 years. Terry who is a retired food and beverage industry executive was instrumental in leading Delta Virtual Airlines to where it is today. He has helped numerous pilots and is a mentor to many. His dedicated service to this amazing community of pilots and members will be missed, and we are forever thankful for Terry and his years of dedicated service. Our new President to lead Delta Virtual Airlines is Joe Burner. Joe as many of you all know has served on staff at Delta Virtual Airlines since 2018. He became Assistant Chief Pilot in the 757 program, then was promoted to Chief Pilot of the DC-6 program when Jim Daigneau had to step down. Joe was then promoted to Assistant Director of Operations in October 2019, and in November 2021 promoted to Vice President of Operations. Joe has been identified as a strong leader with a vision to shape Delta Virtual Airlines into the future of flight simulation and aviation. Our new Treasurer for Global Virtual Airlines Group is Chris Frasure. Chris as you may know has served in various roles and capacities here at Delta Virtual Airlines. He served as Assistant Chief Pilot and then later as Chief Pilot in the 757 program, the MD-11 program, and currently is the Assistant Director of Operations and the Chief Pilot of the Airbus A320 program. Chris has an excellent record with Delta Virtual Airlines and his extensive qualifications have been recognized to better serve the Delta Virtual Airlines and Global Virtual Airlines group as the Treasurer. Chris will no doubt help shape Delta Virtual Airlines and Global Virtual Airlines group's mission and vision for the future of flight simulation and aviation. Please join us in extending a big Thank You to each of these amazing staff members for their continued support of Delta Virtual Airlines. We are currently seeking to fill the Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Training positions soon. We will inform you when the right candidate is selected. Senior Management Team
05/13/2022	David Vega joins DVA Operations as Assistant Director of Operations	Joe Burner
Good evening all, On behalf of your Delta Virtual Airlines Operations team I am pleased to announce that Senior Captain David Vega is appointed as Assistant Director Of Operations here at DVA. David as many of you has been active with Delta Virtual Airlines for over twenty years. Joining DVA in December of 2001, David has seen many changes within DVA. He has obtained many accomplishments and was recently nominated and promoted to the rank of Senior Captain this year. Over the years David has been very instrumental in assisting our member pilots with a variety of flight simulation topics and issues they faced, and David even contributed many long hard working hours into creating airport scenery files for missing airports in the simulator platforms. Senior Captain David Vega has been a tremendous help and support within the DVA community, and there is not one member pilot who has not benefitted from his service to the DVA community. We are happy and excited to have David on board with the DVA operations team to help move the DVA mission and vision forward. - DVA Operations team, Joe Burner; Vice President of Operations Chris Frasure; Assistant Director of Operations Andres Honegger; Assistant Director of Operations Kevin Lundy; Assistant Director of Operations
05/02/2022	New Stage 5 Equipment Program - A350-900 program and operational staff changes	Joe Burner
Good afternoon All, On behalf of your entire Delta Virtual Airlines Operations Team, I am pleased to announce that we have a new equipment type program here at Delta Virtual Airlines. The A350-900 equipment program. As the real world Delta Air Lines has made new and exciting changes to their equipment fleet, we are also making changes to our virtual airline equipment programs. This was a project that was a topic of discussion a couple of years ago and was a great suggestion from one of our member pilots who gave operations the idea for the implementation of some new equipment programs. Many hours of research has gone into this A350 project. Today we are pleased to announce the A350-900 program is now an official operational equipment program here at Delta Virtual Airlines, with yours truly (Joe Burner) stepping up to oversee the daily operations of the A350 program as Chief Pilot. The rating for the A350 are as follows: Primary: A350-900 Secondary: A350-1000 We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this project to include, Our President Terry Eshenour for his awesome work on the AOM formatting, Assistant Chief Pilot Pablo Fraga for the needed information and technical specifications for the A350 fleet, Chief Pilot Ken Webber for providing some insights and a possible sim aircraft to be utilized for the A350 program. We are excited to see this new equipment program grow in the coming years. Should you have any questions about this program please reach out to ops@deltava.org or ChiefPilotA350@DeltaVA.org Taking over the reigns for the DC-6 program is Jay Marin. Jay has been a huge help in overseeing the DC-6 program as Assistant Chief Pilot and no doubt he will make the DC-6 program one of the great historical programs here at Delta Virtual Airlines. We want to extend a huge congratulations to Jay for his promotion to Chief Pilot and we want to extend a huge thank you to Jay Marin for being willing to oversee the DC-6 program as Chief Pilot. Joe Burner; Vice President of Operations Chris Frasure; Assistant Director of Operations Andres Honegger; Assistant Director of Operations Kevin Lundy; Assistant Director of Operations
04/27/2022	Operations Staffing Changes	Joe Burner
Good afternoon all, We want to announce some staffing changes within our operations and equipment program staff changes. Assistant Director of Operations Soonho Lee is stepping down from his Assistant Director of Operations role and Assistant Chief Pilot in the 757 program. Soonho in his time since joining DVA back in 2013 has amassed 3,271 flights with DVA, 2,885 of those were flown online. He served in various roles here at Delta Virtual Airlines. He served as Assistant Chief Pilot in the 757 program, and helped the 757 program excel further, he then later was appointed as Assistant Director of Operations where he was a tremendous help in moving DVA's mission and vision forward. He also oversaw the DVA dispatch program as Director of Dispatch. He has earned every rating DVA has to offer and has obtained numerous accomplishments. Soonho's service and dedication to Delta Virtual Airlines will be remembered for many years to come. We are extremely thankful for Soonho Lee's dedicated service to DVA and we wish him well in his future endeavors. Another staffing change which has happened is Assistant Chief Pilot Yisrael Wealcatch is stepping down from Assistant Chief Pilot in the DC-8-61 equipment program. Yisrael in his years of service since being hired on with staff in 2016 has helped move the DC-8 program forward. While the DC-8 equipment program is a historical program here at DVA, he helped move the equipment program forward, by working to help get the program where it is today, by assisting with the checkride instructions for the DC-8 program. Yisrael's service and dedication to Delta Virtual Airlines will be remembered as well for many years down the road. We want to extend a huge thank you to both Soonho and Yisrael for their service to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we wish both of them the best in their future endeavors. Joe Burner; Vice President of Operations

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