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DVA7689
Captain, MD-11

Joined on August 26 2009
Long Beach 500 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Eight Century Club
Online Eight Century
Event Half Century Club

Castaic, CA USA

864 legs, 1,784.5 hours
838 legs, 1,732.0 hours online
863 legs, 1,783.2 hours ACARS
52 legs, 103.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 10:26 ET by Jon Bullock

This is really a dumb question but I'm new to DeltaVA and have always noticed the DALxxxx aircraft id's on VATSIM. I've been assigned the DVAxxxx aircraft id. Is this the new id for all new DeltaVA pilots?

Jon Bullock (DVA7689)

DVA6863
Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on December 29 2008
50 State Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Everett 500 Club
Millennium Club

Nashua, NH

1,085 legs, 2,955.0 hours
76 legs, 215.8 hours online
1,062 legs, 2,896.3 hours ACARS
5 legs, 13.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 10:35 ET by Dylan Dworsky

personal preference from what i understand, you can use the flight # of your flight, or DAL7689 or DVA7689

Dylan Dworsky

Captain, MD-11

DVA1580
Captain, B767-300
COMM

Joined on March 16 2004
Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Caryville, TN USA

199 legs, 476.5 hours
70 legs, 168.4 hours online
84 legs, 232.9 hours ACARS
4 legs, 10.4 hours event
27 legs dispatched, 71.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 11:35 ET by Scott Breuer

Most of the time everyone uses DALxxxx when flying online. If you start using flight numbers one day you will end up using someones ID and they wont be able to use it themselves. Its a courtesy thing, I always fly using DAL1580, that way you have an idea who each other is by the ID number. My thoughts are not required by the way, just guidlines.

Scott Breuer (DVA1580)

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 13:25 ET by Jon Bullock

Thanks Scott and Dylan. The thought about using DAL and my DeltaVA id number (DAL7689) makes good sense to me.

Jon Bullock (DVA7689)

DVA4180
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on March 08 2007
Online Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Have A&P - Will work for peanuts!"
Van Buren Charter Township, MI

351 legs, 783.1 hours
193 legs, 388.4 hours online
340 legs, 759.3 hours ACARS
20 legs, 41.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 14:10 ET by Joseph Schwab

http://www.deltava.org/library/Online%20Flying%20Manual.pdf

It answers a whole lot of questions.

Joseph Schwab (DVA4180)

DVA7373
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on May 31 2009

"Howdy"
Southeastern United States

72 legs, 187.6 hours
32 legs, 85.4 hours online
67 legs, 153.2 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 15:53 ET by Nicholas Taylor

Well DAL is Delta Airlines and DVA is Discovery Airways.

Not much ticks me off more when I'm controlling than a guy with a "DVA" call sign calling himself Delta.

Nicholas Taylor

Captain, B757-200

DVA1038
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL

Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club

"Celer, Silens, Mortalis"
Summerville, SC USA

169 legs, 1,008.2 hours
56 legs, 288.5 hours online
25 legs, 221.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 5.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 17:39 ET by Kevin Cornish

Unfortunatley, not many people know that DVA is Dicovery. The first thing they think of is Delta Virtual. So in a way, thats a compliment to us here. That people more readily associate DVA with, well, DVA than with Discovery. And Jon, after you've been with us for awhile flying online, you'll find that what Scott said is very true. Just about everyone here who flies online uses the DAL callsign with their pilot id, for instance whenever I fly online I use DAL1038. That way too, other DVA pilots can pretty much tell if you're someone they know or just someone with the same name as someone here.

Kevin Cornish

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 17:45 ET by Jon Bullock

Thanks Kevin. And my apologies to you Nicholas if I ticked you off because, well, if anyone can do that...it's me. Just ask my wife!!!

Jon Bullock (DVA7689)

Posted onPost created on August 31 2009 18:40 ET by Joseph Schwab

If you look at my vataware info, you will see i just recently started to use DAL instead of DVA just for that reason... A controller got ticked, and made my experience bad that night, so I changed to DAL.

Joseph Schwab (DVA4180)

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