What VA would embrace a family?

[Calvin Waterbury]

By now, it is no secret I have a large family and I try to allow us to participate together whenever possible. Recently, we (my family) have been talking about participating in a VA. Unfortunately, the VA's I am familiar with do not allow for smaller GA aircraft. Sometimes I do like to try and fly the big iron to see if what I *think* about how a large aircraft model is how it is in the virtual reality. I am desirous that my young flyers would also have the chance to test their metal (no pun intended).

Can anyone recommend a VA that has the opportunity to fly all classes of aircraft you think would be suitable for our family participation?

Thanks in advance.

PS - Yes, I know I have enough pilots I could start our own VA!

[ronnyeicher]

Hi Calvin
I fly for 2 Va's that you may like. The first (Eagle Valley Air) caters mostly to the ORBX covered areas flying Bush and Charter flights. No jets. Mostly an older crowd and all very nice and helpful.
The second is Mirage Air. They are fairly new and quite abit younger but still have several old codgers like me. I fly there because they fly not only Bush but also Charter Jets up to the 737NGX.
Below are the links and let me know if you have any questions.
http://miragechartersva.com/home
http://eaglevalleyair.com/

Ronny

[arb65912]

Hi Calvin, I am not going to make any suggestions but you can take a look if you want to

https://www.virtualpilots.org/ ( VATSIM, IVAO, any simulator supporting VATSIM or IVAO flying AFAIK)

http://www.californiaair.net/website/index.php ( X-Plane based)

Enjoy, cheers, AJ

[Calvin Waterbury]

Thank you for your suggestions. Through the cause-and-effect of evaluating the suggested offerings we came across "Free World Airways."

[arb65912]

Ronny, I took a look at http://miragechartersva.com/home , I liked what I saw. Would you mind to share a bit more on the subject? Do they accept X-Plane users? How do they track the flights? Forums? Thank you. Cheers, AJ

[ronnyeicher]

Hi AJ
There are a few XPlane users at MECva from what I'm told. The flights are tracked using VAFS which BTW should be updated sometime in the near future. XPUIPC is needed but you may be using that anyway. Great forums allthough the interface is not my favorite. Thur night IFR group flights and Sunday Bush flying happens on a regular basis.
Hope this helps
Ron

[arb65912]

Thank you very, much Ronny. I will definitely take a closer look. Cheers, AJ

[Calvin Waterbury]

Thank you for your suggestions. Through the cause-and-effect of evaluating the suggested offerings we came across "Free World Airways."

I missed a niggling little detail of FWA only accepting 16 yrs-old and up which would exclude my 13 yr-old daughter. So, back to the search.

I'm going to check out Ron's suggestion of Mirage Executive. At least they accept children at thirteen.