Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - PPL and COMM ratings?

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | PPL and COMM ratings?

DVA13398
Captain, CRJ-200
OLP, PPL1

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Iwakuni-shi, Yamaguchi-ken Japan

1,081 legs, 1,803.6 hours
838 legs, 1,415.3 hours online
1,055 legs, 1,741.8 hours ACARS
53 legs, 97.5 hours event
243 legs dispatched, 641.9 hours

Posted onPost created on August 24 2018 05:24 ET by Nicholas Marcantonio

Hey, I see on a few people's profiles that there may have used to be a PPL and COMM course.

As a real world pilot I'm interested in the programs. I'd like to go through them and then perhaps help with the Academy as well.

Are those programs still available? All I see as available at the Academy is the 737 ATP course.

Nicholas Marcantonio

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA12617
Chief Pilot, A350-900
OLP, VFRADV
DISPATCHER
E-MAIL

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Herriman, UT

1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours
391 legs, 810.3 hours online
1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours

Posted onPost created on August 24 2018 22:22 ET by Joe Burner

I too am interested in these courses as well. Nicholas I do know the staff are working on more Vatsim approves courses. I’m actually excited for these. smile

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
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Charlotte, NC

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837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 25 2018 07:48 ET by Andrew Vane

The PPL was a former shared cockpit course. It eventually became the self-study P1 course we have. The COMM course was a short-lived step up from the PPL. The problem was that the programmer who offered the software for sharing the cockpit wouldn't sell it, stopped supporting it, and we were all left with no way to share the cockpit in the E120, our training aircraft. We may resurrect these in some form in the future. Many who have these ratings have been here log enough to have gotten them.

The FA is currently focusing on rolling out the P3 course. We are almost there. We were close and then revamped the course to allow offering it in P3d and XP and also brought in additional aircraft. It will be one of its kind when its done.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on September 01 2018 19:24 ET by Nicholas Marcantonio

Well, let me know if I can help out. I'm a P1-P5 instructor at VATSTAR as well. We don't do shared cockpit there, but we watch the students fly using teamviewer or discord.

Nicholas Marcantonio

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA3794
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP

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Antarctica

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3,131 legs, 7,039.5 hours online
3,251 legs, 7,332.7 hours ACARS
478 legs, 964.8 hours event
65 legs dispatched, 72.4 hours

Posted onPost created on November 16 2018 12:32 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci

Nicholas Marcantonio wrote:

Well, let me know if I can help out. I'm a P1-P5 instructor at VATSTAR as well. We don't do shared cockpit there, but we watch the students fly using teamviewer or discord.

Hi Nicholas,
just applied to VATSTAR.... I'm interested in the P4-P5 ratings.

Vincenzo Musumeci (DVA3794)

Posted onPost created on November 18 2018 11:03 ET by Nicholas Marcantonio

Let me know if you need any help figuring out their system. It's pretty simple. Each of those will require 2 checkrides with an instructor monitoring as you fly.

Nicholas Marcantonio

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA13131
Captain, B737-800
OLP

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397 legs, 543.1 hours ACARS
22 legs, 60.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 20 2018 11:11 ET by Thomas Tucker

I see the latest Pilot Manual includes the aircraft for the P3/P4 rating (C172SP, B58, King Air). Any clues as to which versions will be supported? I don't have any of these in my P3Dv4 hanger and would hate to miss a holiday sale or worse yet buy the wrong one.

Thanks.

Thomas Tucker

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on December 20 2018 13:01 ET by Andrew Vane

There will be a chart in the P3 manual once its available.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

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