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These days you do not need to physically fly in an aircraft to experience airline travel. Virtual airlines are available all over the Internet to experience flying an aircraft. Virtual airlines are online simulated airlines including all of the staff required to run an airline efficiently. They are a method for flight simulator players to arrange and run a virtual airline organization.

Every person in the organization has a different job to do, just as a genuine airline would have many different employees. Positions such as pilots, hub managers, dispatchers on the ground and many more are available for employment. Anyone wishing to be part of the virtual airline needs to apply for the jobs which are still open.

There are two kinds of virtual airlines. The first kind is the same as actual airlines like Delta, American, Ava and United. These airlines are modeled on the original, with the same number of aircraft flying the same routes. The other kind of airline is imaginary. It has been designed and created by members of the virtual organization.

These virtual airlines operate very seriously, like the real thing. Your applications are looked at and the position is given according to merits and flying experience. You can apply to be a pilot to fly the pre-determined routes that the virtual airline has. When you have flown for the virtual airline and gained some sought after experience you could possibly be chosen for a promotion.

Virtual airlines use all of the well known flight simulation software packages. The virtual airline runs from an internet website, however the virtual airline flights use a flight simulator like FlightGear, Microsoft flight simulator, X-Plane or one of the others.

If you have a yen for flying, try joining a virtual airline. It is best to first get some practice on your own with your flight simulator so that you have some flying experience. Then apply for the applicable position and fly the pre-scheduled routes given to you. It is a great way to feel what it is actually like.

Long gone are the days of pong and other arcade games that made you feel like technology was advancing at a rate well beyond your means of understanding. What can be done today with computer animation and graphic design makes pong look like the stone age and cavemen carvings on the wall. Just think about what has been done with flight simulators today.

Back before it was accessible online, flight simulators were used by pilots in the armed forces and commercial sector of flight where you could simulate what it was like to actually fly a plane. This gave pilots the experience and practice needed to fly a plane through different conditions but without any of the risk of crashing the plane.

However, things were different when flight simulation first started. Conditions weren’t often shown but told to the pilot through the text in the simulator. This is a far cry and an ancient way of doing things from the way it is done nowadays. Flight simulators can now simulate actual conditions by adding rain, thunder, lightning, and other conditions and have it look like they are actually happening. They can also simulate what you might see looking out the window of an airplane from the grand canyon to New Jersey luxury apartments and just the vast green fields you see from 10,000 feet high.

What’s more is they can simulate the real workings of an airline in the way that they will give you a flight log, a flight map and even have other planes that are taking off, in flight, and landing to contend with. This is so that pilots get top notch experience without having to spend the money on fuel and maintenance of flying a real airplane. It’s just another way that technology really makes a difference.