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Air India Virtual

About Air India Virtual

An airline built by the people who will fly it.

Air India Virtual is a flight simulation community assembling a complete virtual airline — a published schedule, a coherent fleet, a pilot career and the software to run all of it. This page sets out what we are building and, just as importantly, what has not been built yet.

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Mission and vision

Mission

Give Indian aviation the virtual airline it deserves.

Indian routes are some of the most rewarding sectors in simulation — dense domestic trunk flying, demanding terminal areas, and long crossings out to every continent. Our mission is to run that network properly: a real timetable, a fleet that makes sense, and standards that respect both the operation and the people flying it.

Vision

A complete operation, not a spreadsheet with a logo.

We are working towards an airline you can see running: flights booked from a live schedule, reports filed automatically by our own ACARS client, careers that progress, and a map showing the whole fleet in the air. Everything on the roadmap below exists to make the airline feel alive between your own flights.

What makes AIV different

Plenty of virtual airlines exist. Here is our case.

We are not trying to be the biggest community in simulation. We are trying to be the one where the flying, the tooling and the people all point in the same direction.

  • Built around the Indian network

    Most virtual airlines treat India as a handful of long-haul destinations. We start from the domestic trunk routes — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata — and build outwards, because that is where the flying actually is.

  • Software built for our pilots

    The portal, the booking system and the ACARS client are being written specifically for AIV rather than rented from a generic platform. That means we can fix what our pilots complain about instead of waiting for someone else to.

  • Honest about what exists

    Every feature on this site is labelled with whether it is available today or planned for a later phase. We would rather tell you exactly where we are than advertise a platform that has not been built.

Our approach

Realism without unnecessary complexity

Realism should make a flight better, not turn it into administration. We keep the procedures that shape how a sector actually feels and drop the ones that only exist to look serious.

  • Procedures that matter

    Published routes, sensible fuel planning and standard callouts. The things that make a flight feel like an airline operation, kept because they add something.

  • No busywork

    No compulsory paperwork before every flight, no exams to unlock a narrow-body, no penalties for flying at your own pace. Complexity has to earn its place.

  • Your simulator, your setup

    Fly the simulator and the aircraft you already own. We publish what the network expects and let you meet it however your setup allows.

How we operate

Community-first operations

An airline is only as good as the people on its roster. Ours is being built to be a calm, welcoming place to fly — for pilots with an hour a week as much as for pilots with an hour a night.

  • People before statistics

    Hours are a record of enjoyment, not a leaderboard to defend. Nobody is removed from the roster for having a quiet month.

  • Staff who fly

    Everyone on the founding team flies the line. Decisions about the network are made by people who will be flying those sectors themselves.

  • A calm place to fly

    Respectful conduct on the networks and on our server is the one hard rule. Everything else is negotiable; this is not.

What Air India Virtual stands for

A route earns its place by being interesting to fly, not by making the map look busy.

How the schedule is built

Planned technology

Four systems, built in order.

Rather than renting a generic virtual airline platform, AIV is writing its own. It is slower, and it means we launch in phases — but it also means the tools fit our operation instead of the other way round.

Purpose-builtPilot-led

  • Pilot Portal

    Accounts, profiles, ranks and the crew directory — the system every other tool hangs off.

  • Booking and dispatch

    Search the timetable, reserve a sector and collect a briefing with route, fuel and aircraft assignment.

  • AIV ACARS

    A desktop companion that records the flight in your simulator and files the report without paperwork.

  • Operations map

    A public view of every AIV aircraft in the air, so the airline is visible even when you are not flying.

Roadmap

Where we are, honestly

Six phases from public website to live operations map. Only the first is finished — everything else is either being written now or queued behind it.

  1. 01

    Public Website

    Complete

    The public face of the airline — who we are, what we fly, where we fly and how to join.

    • Brand identity and public site
    • Fleet and preview route network
    • Event programme and founding pilot registration information
  2. 02

    Pilot Portal

    In progress

    Pilot accounts, profiles and the roster that turns a community into an airline.

    • Pilot authentication and profiles
    • Founding pilot onboarding
    • Crew directory and rank display
  3. 03

    Booking and Rosters

    Planned

    Reserve a flight from the published timetable and fly it on your own schedule.

    • Live schedule search and flight booking
    • Personal roster and dispatch briefing
    • Aircraft availability across the network
  4. 04

    PIREPs and Career Progression

    Planned

    Flight reports, verified hours and the rank structure that rewards consistent flying.

    • Flight report submission and review
    • Logbook, statistics and hours
    • Rank progression and type qualifications
  5. 05

    AIV ACARS

    Planned

    A desktop companion that records the flight and files the report automatically.

    • Desktop application for supported simulators
    • Automatic flight recording and landing analysis
    • Hands-free report filing to the portal
  6. 06

    Live Operations Map

    Planned

    See the whole airline in the air at once, in real time, from anywhere.

    • Live aircraft positions across the network
    • Flight detail and progress view
    • Public operations dashboard

Founding pilots shape phase two.

The roster that arrives before the Pilot Portal launches gets first say in the schedule, the standards and the fleet plan.

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