What is a virtual airline?
This is not a new idea and most of you may know virtual airlines. As flight simulations (most of all Microsoft Flightsimulator and SUBLogic ATP) have become so realistic, the idea was right at hand and realized some years ago in electronic communication networks. There are virtual airlines in most international nets like Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy, Internet and FSFan.
Virtual airlines are formed and work in very different ways. Some are trying to simulate a company as realistically as possible, others have a more, relaxed, fun, style. In some airlines you have to apply to become a member and have to wait before you can fly for the airline. Others are more open and you can start flying at once. Virtual airlines offer flight assignments. You fly the assignment and report to the airline by mailing a flight report into the network, usually by sending an e-mail message to the airline office. Assignments could be flying lines between two airports anywhere in the scenery-world, assignments also could be adventure-like missions, where you have to be successful in fulfilling some tasks. After reporting to the airline office, usually you will receive some kind of reward: you are paid with virtual money and/or are listed in a ranking list, where you can step up, when you have done some work for the company.
How to join Trans European Virtual Airlines?
First of all, you need Microsoft Flight Simulator 98, and you should download the
Luxembourgish Airport, aviable on this page. To join Trans European Airlines you should read the small text now. As a pilot of Trans European Airlines, you should fly at least 2 or 3 lines per month. But you can fly as many as you want. This two lines are send to you by e-mail. You could find the list with the lines, and the flight plans on our homepage. After having flown your lines, you have to write a short report and send it to us by e-mail. This is the list of the European Lines with two flight plans:+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| European Lines |
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| Line 001: Luxembourg-Munich |
| Line 002: Munich-Luxembourg |
| Line 003: Luxembourg-Paris |
| Line 004: Paris Luxembourg |
| Line 005: Luxembourg-London |
| Line 006: London-Luxembourg |
| Line 007: Luxembourg-Amsterdam |
| Line 008: Amsterdam-Luxembourg |
| Line 009: Luxembourg-Moscow |
| Line 010: Moscow-Luxembourg |
| Line 011: Luxembourg-Madrid |
| Line 012: Madrid-Luxembourg |
| Line 013: Luxemburg-Brussels |
| Line 014: Brussels-Luxemburg |
| Line 015: Luxemburg-Frankfurt-Luxemburg |
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Your flight flight report could look like this one:
Trans European Airlines: flight report
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Line : 001
Date : 5/6/98
Name : Mike Medinger
Callsign: MadMike
EMail : MikeM@hotmail.com
Pilot Nr: 0235
# Aboard: 154 (=Number of passengers)
VFR/IFR : IFR
AircrafT: Boeing 737
Depart. : Luxemburg Intl Rwy 06
Destin. : Munich
Dep.time: 09:00 UTC
Enrout : 1:05
Route1 : DIK; KIR; RID; WUR; TGO; WLD; Munich
Route2 : N.A.
Speed : 450
Altitude: 25000
Remarks : It was a good flight!
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As soon as you have flown your lines, and we recived your flight report, you will be paid in Virtual Euros (VE) and all will be remitted to your TEA account, which is send to you by e-mail.
Department Payment/Hour
European Lines 100 VE
American Lines 200 VE
Asian Lines 200 VE
Intercontinental Lines 300 VE
Cargo Lines 300 VE
Parts of flight hours, broken by more then 10 minutes, will be counted as a whole hour. This pays for your flight preparation.
To join Trans European Airlines now or to ask for more information, mail us: