Introducing VA Dispatch!

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I am happy to announce the official release of VA Dispatch!

VAs are a great way to have fun, meet new people, and make Infinite Flight more realistic.

Enter VA Dispatch.
VA Dispatch is a brand new way for VAs to bring a whole new level of realism to their pilots, and at the same time, allow player who do not pay for Pro to participate in their Virtual Airline.

How does it Work?

  1. Pilot Requests Flight Plan
  2. Dispatchers receive an email with the Pilot’s Flight Information
  3. The dispatcher makes a flight plan, fills out a form so VA Staff can see the plan, then PMs it to the Pilot on Slack/Discord.

What's The Point?

  • Enhanced Realism
  • Realistic Fuel Calculations through fuelplanner.com
  • Best and most Realistic Flight Plans through expert dispatcher training

Register your VA

http://va-dispatch–spaceguru01.repl.co/register.html

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Is this better than FPLtoIF.com?

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This is not intended to compete with FPLtoIF.com, nor do I believe it’s similar. This is designed specifically for VAs, and does not generate the flight or fuel plan, it simply is a convenient way to communicate it, while at the same time giving VA Staff control over what goes on.

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What about simbrief?

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So, pilot sends you what route they’re taking, their aircraft, etc. and the dispatchers make a flight plan based off of that and send it to the VA, or am I missing something here?

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To @Hinata -
We are not in competition with simbrief as we do not make the flight plans, the dispatchers are free to use Flight Plan Database, Simbrief, FPLtoIF.com or make the flight plans by hand, as said above this is just an easy and convenient way to send those flight plans between pilots and dispatchers, while at the same time allowing VA Staff to oversee it all.

To @DiamondGaming4 -
Yes. That’s exactly how it works.

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Im skeptical of how beneficial this will be for VAs. Just expressing my opinion and experience but VA staff are usually pretty busy and this would just add to to their schedule. I know a few VAs that use Simbrief for flighplans and when thye can pulling the flight plans from Flightaware and inputting them into simbrief. On top of that some VAs us phpvms to manage their VAs or have PIREPs that are filled out at the end of a flight to determine the flightplan and such to make sure the flight is acceptable. Just giving my honest opinion

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While I appreciate the feedback, I think you may have misinterpreted what I have said.

As the COO of Virgin America Virtual I cannot deny that this is very true, but the function of viewing the flight plans is just for a record of flights if they want it.

That is true, however the benefit of this is the possibility for staff to have a record of what’s happening, as well as it is only used when it is needed, ie. staff do not have to make flight plans for every flight on the schedule, only the ones that are flown.

I don’t think phpVMS can make sure a flight plan is acceptable or generate one.

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I think this is a good idea. As said before, these flights plans are made by actual people - not some computer generated stuff that 90% of the time gets messed up.

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People who don’t have pro don’t have the entire globe to fly. Very limited route options available inside regions.

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The idea is that if they don’t have Pro, they can be dispatchers.

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Ah, okay. Misunderstood that. Cool idea!

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I must admit I am not sure what this will achieve? In my VA we use either online-Flight-planner or sim brief to generate the flight plan, so from our perspective as both a pilot as well as a VA staffer I can’t see how this would add value unless I am missing the idea?

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I agree with @David_Lockwood , as part of the staff of Alitalia Virtual, I don’t understand how this would work constructively.
(How to make real life routes, what many VAs are based off if there is the region?)
I honestly think a flight logging helper would be more useful and efficient.

However, thanks for your effort to improve the VA world!

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Yes away of recording flights like an ACARS system would be a big help to VAs, recording flight details including landing rates and also ful consumption etc would be a big help for VAs.

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How would this be better than just allowing the pilots to fly their own routes, as before? I’m a little confused about what the purpose of this is…

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@natedog508 think about this for the VA.

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@anon36571935 @David_Lockwood @Johannes_koelsch What I believe he is trying to do is that VAs can add dispatchers si non live people can still be in the VA. He also made it so that pilots can fly any route but make it more realistic

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Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? I may look into it.

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Monitor your flight parameters, flight events and penalties which can then be linked to a VAs Management system to be able to confirm and rate flights (replace manual PIREPs)

Flight parameters: IAS, GS, Vertical Speed, Altitude, Latitude, Longitude, Fuel On Board, Fuel used,ZFW, Distance to arrival,Flaps position, % of flight done, Aircraft lights.
Flight Events: Engine(s) on/off, push-back, taxi initiated, flaps up/down, gear up/down , Take off, landing
Critical events: Pause, Slew, Refuel , aircraft change, stall, over speed, engines running & beacon light off, lights on/of above/below 10.000 FT, IAS >250 below 10.000 FT
Landing analysis: Touch vertical speed, Touch IAS, G Force, Bank angle, Pitch angle, Landing lights on/off, Flaps position, wind direction & intensity, landing heading

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