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Hello everyone,
I'm sure you've all heard of a Virtual Airline, or VA for short.
Most people fly with an VA to add some more realism to simulators like Flight Simulator and/or X-plane.
Some people are also using these simulators to add more realism to their Orbiter missions (at least I do). So I was wondering of anybody would be interested in a Virtual Airline, dedicated to Orbiter!
My plan is as follows:
By installing a small program that records your flight, and uploads the results the webserver, you'll get virtual money which you can use in your VSA operations (I know some people have some excel sheets and calculate the costs of their virtual space program).
I'm not aiming to be a big VA, this is just internally for O-F members to add some more realism to their VSA. I will only put effort in it when there are enough members willing to join the VA. You are not required to fly online or to fly at least one mission every month, again this is just for fun.
This can also lead to some interaction between different VSA's, like VSA 1 flying a cargo mission (satellite to launch site) for VSA 2.
Please let me know if there is any interested in this, as well as other things you would like to see or add to the plan.
I'm sure you've all heard of a Virtual Airline, or VA for short.
Most people fly with an VA to add some more realism to simulators like Flight Simulator and/or X-plane.
Some people are also using these simulators to add more realism to their Orbiter missions (at least I do). So I was wondering of anybody would be interested in a Virtual Airline, dedicated to Orbiter!
My plan is as follows:
- A website for the VA itself (something like obiterva.com/.net)
- Within that website (which will be using phpvms) define airlines for the various VSA's
- Add flightplans, ranks, economics, aircrafts, etc... just like any other VA out on the World Wide Web
By installing a small program that records your flight, and uploads the results the webserver, you'll get virtual money which you can use in your VSA operations (I know some people have some excel sheets and calculate the costs of their virtual space program).
I'm not aiming to be a big VA, this is just internally for O-F members to add some more realism to their VSA. I will only put effort in it when there are enough members willing to join the VA. You are not required to fly online or to fly at least one mission every month, again this is just for fun.
This can also lead to some interaction between different VSA's, like VSA 1 flying a cargo mission (satellite to launch site) for VSA 2.
Please let me know if there is any interested in this, as well as other things you would like to see or add to the plan.