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 and Flight Simulator X (including FSX: Steam Edition). We offer partial support at this time for Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D v1-3 and Laminar Research X-Plane 10. We are working to implement more features of these programs into our aircraft programs, and VATSIM approved Flight Academy.We are in no way affiliated with Delta Air Lines.

Since May 2003, we have received over 18,432,679 visits and received 491,585,559 hits. During this time, our servers have sent out over 19,754,074,740,118 bytes worth of data. Our members have posted over 49 messages in our Water Cooler discussion forum in the past 24 hours. Our web server has been running for 18 days, 5 hours and 5 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.

10/28/2018	Yahoo and AOL Registered Pilots	Terry Eshenour
Attention pilots with registered email using Yahoo and it’s affiliated services like Ymail, AOL, Verizon and possibly others, Yahoo is blocking messages from our server because they incorrectly classified us as a bulk mailer. This means that you are not receiving notifications, flight report reviews, password resets and email verifications from our mail server. While we are attempting to correct this with Yahoo, it is necessary for you to change your email address to Gmail, the only dependable free email service. Some ISP services are dependable, like Comcast, ATT, Earthlink,but occasionally without warning reject our mail. Note, Microsoft’s domains, Outlook, MSN, Live, Hotmail, are not dependable. Should you experience difficulty updating your address, send the new email address to info@deltava.org Staff will contact you using private email. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes, but we need to be sble to communicate with you. A working email address is critical. Thank you for your understanding. Terry Eshenour President
09/04/2018	Delta FLY! Publication to Resume with a New Editor - Shane Reilly	Terry Eshenour
After 6 years absence, the publication of Delta FLY! will resume with Shane Reilly as Editor. Initially, we are hoping to publish at least two editions annually with the first one by year's end. The publication experienced several updates over its history. There are many factors attributable to its sporadic publications mainly it is lack of content. We are excited that Shane volunteered his time and is enthusiastic about taking on a new challenge, it is important that our members provide him with stories, articles and other content relevant to Delta Virtual Airlines and flight sim. There are more than 1,000 active pilots. Each of us has stories to share with our like-minded aviation enthusiasts. Write a few sentences to share with your buddies. Don't be concerned if your latest epistle did make the New York Times bestseller list, we can assist in getting your thoughts in presentable form. Take advantage of this opportunity to get your story published. If you need ideas, refer to prior Delta FLY! Newsletters that can be found in the Pilot Center. You will learn more about Shane's plans in the forthcoming weeks. Drop him a line at Editor@DeltaVA.org Enjoy! Terry
02/11/2018	Delta Virtual Airlines FAQ updated	Andrew Vane
We are proud to announce that we have updated our FAQ. Hopefully this document will help prospective and new pilots find answers to basic questions about our organization and how we operate. DVA Operations
10/06/2017	Support For X-Plane and Lockheed Martin Prepar3d Users	Andrew Vane
Delta Virtual Airlines includes staged programs based on pilot's skill and experience with advancement accomplished via exams and check rides. Our ACARS program, check ride structure and flight academy are focused around FS2004, FSX and FSX Steam Edition. At the present time, we are working to improve and implement more functionality of these facets of our virtual airline for pilots who use Lockheed Martin Prepar3d and Laminar Research X-Plane. We welcome all new pilots but want to be clear that presently, your pathway may be limited in the short term if you use X-Plane 10 or use Prepar3d v1-3. Since X-Plane 11 and Prepar3d v4 are newly released simulator platforms, functionality with these platforms within our programs and opportunities to advance through stages are more limited at this time. Staff are making significant progress with our own ACARS program and in our Flight Academy courses in this regard but the work will still take some time. Check the Water Cooler for future announcements especially with regard to aircraft compatibility. Thank you all for being a part of our Virtual Airline, now in its 16th year of existence. We continue to see new pilots join us daily and are putting forth our focus and efforts to continue to grow and serve this great hobby that has brought us together. We appreciate your support and involvement. Stay tuned for more developments announced in the water cooler. Sincerely, Delta Virtual Airlines Operations Department
06/25/2017	Stage 2 B737 and A320 Programs Now Accept X-Plane for Check Rides	Andrew Vane
Thanks to the hard work of Salem Gbian and Luke Kolin, we are pleased to announce that we can now accept X-Plane (version 11) as a simulator for check rides in the B737 and A320 programs. The default X-Plane 11 737 may be used for the 737 program check rides and the payware X-Plane 11 JarDesign 320 and A330 may be used for check rides in the A320 and A330 programs, respectively. The latest version of ACARS v3.2 (Build 120 as of 6/24/18) can be obtained in the fleet library via the pilot center. We realize that one of these aircraft is payware requiring financial investment but we're working on the freeware versions as fast as we can. This is too good news to keep to ourselves and an amazing accomplishment given the absence of support from the developer. Please keep in mind that all necessary data must be captured during the check ride by ACARS in order for the Chief Pilots to evaluate the check ride, regardless of the simulator version used. If for some reason not enough data is captured by ACARS which is essential to evaluate the flight, the check ride cannot be approved. We are continuing to add more aircraft as we go through the testing phase. We are also working to get ACARS to acknowledge enough information to accept x-plane aircraft in the Flight Academy and to verify it works with XP10. This addition to DVA opens up a huge opportunity for our DVA pilots to advance and we're very appreciative of the efforts of Luke and Salem to bring this feature to our virtual airline. Stay tuned for more announcements in the X-Plane channel of the water cooler including what hopes to be a growing list of compatible x-plane aircraft. We will also be updating the DVA Pilot's Manual in the near future. Please also used the x-plane channel of the cooler to share screenies, ask questions, and provide general feedback on ACARS so we can continue to improve upon it. DVA Operations (on behalf of A330 Chief Pilot Salem Gbian and DVA Web Programmer Yoda Luke Kolin)

UPCOMING Delta Virtual Airlines ONLINE EVENTS
City Chasin' FNO	VATSIM	12/14/2018 18:45 ET - 12/14/2018 23:00 ET	Denver CO (DEN) - Chicago-O'Hare IL (ORD)
Fly and See Santa 2018	VATSIM	12/15/2018 12:00 ET - 12/15/2018 18:00 ET	Amsterdam Netherlands (AMS) - Rovaniemi Finland (RVN)
Holland America Line: Boston >>> Amsterdam	VATSIM	12/15/2018 12:00 ET - 12/16/2018 23:59 ET	Boston MA (BOS) - Amsterdam Netherlands (AMS)
Bremen Christmas Fly-In	VATSIM	12/16/2018 12:00 ET - 12/16/2018 16:00 ET	Nurnberg Germany (NUE) - Bremen Germany (BRE)
Cross the Caribbean South Bound	VATSIM	12/16/2018 14:30 ET - 12/16/2018 19:30 ET	Miami FL (MIA) - Caracas Venezuela (CCS)

If you have questions or comments, please direct them to our Corporate Offices at info@deltava.org.

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