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You do realize that there are as much, or even more virtual airlines than there are real airlines?

You just need to look around and find one that suits you

As for the time compression, I don't know, but as some of them try to be as realistic as possible, I would say no, but I wouldn't know.

If you don't have time to fly for an hour and a half flight, I would say make more time

Well for starters this post will soon be moved. But I have flown for several VA'S and for the most part they frown upon using slew to speed things up. Since most va's copy some form of a real airline they try to operate the same way using actual schedules the real airline does with the same equipment and same time frames but not all va's are this way.
I currently fly for AIR source and they do not really follow any airline but do have a scheduled section where you can fly flights for just about all of the airlines out there. They also have a Bid section and a ASHA section with the ASHA section considered a Humanitarian section where you fly flights like flying supplies to the sunami area or to Mississippy for the huricane victims and that kind of thing.
If interested just go to http://www.air-source.us
You are required to register and only need to make 1 flight a month to stay active. The things I like about air source is you do not need to down load there aircraft as long as you currently have something similar and I like the little program called active air source that will keep track of your flight and at the end it automaticaly sets up to PIREP the flight ( fancy word for file the flight)
But there are a ton of VA'S out there some good some not so good. 8)

Gary, do I need to join Vatsim to fly with Airsource?  Looks pretty interesting.  What happens when your computer crashes during a flight?  Can you describe the overall process of joining and how often you fly?  Thanks, Todd

I was in the same predicament a few weeks ago. I found  http://flynet.en-studios.de/ ;
I fly for Ionathan Airlines with hubs in Greece and Britain. There are several airlines with hubs across the globe. Its quite flexible, but also very realistic and gratifying. Check it out if you're not already flying.

Check your private messages.

No you do not need to join VATSIM that is up to you if you wish to fly on line. As for pausing the sim while flying if you are using active air source it will pause as well and adjust your flight time. Example if you are in the middle of a 1 hour flight and have to pause it for say 2 hours and you unpause and finish the flight it will be report the actual time you flew which in this case will be 1 hour or less. On the Bid and ASHA flights you usually do not use air source but all you have to do is jot down the time you back out of the gate & the time you pause and unpause the sim so you make an accurate time frame for the flight.

Ramos: Could you explain a little more about the way this works?  You said that you could download the Skyteam, oneworld, and star alliance flight tables... do you fly these offline?  How do you report back the scheduled time and are these flights all IFR?

Thanks

Ok, since I started this thread, let me tell you where I ended up.

I've started flying at FlyNET (http://flynet.en-studios.de/), I like the fact that I can flying at compressed rates a huge plus for me and it works best.  I'm not overly thrilled with the client that goes with it because I've had some issues with it, but it's going ok.  The financial system they have in place works fine as long as you are flying big birds with at least 50 seats or more, it really doesn't support private flying or cargo as of yet, but they are working on it.

I've also started flying offline with a program my kids and I had started a year ago and we had never carried through which does support private flight.

Finally, I'm trying out a product called FsPassengers.  This allows for a full VA offline with a complete economic system built in and you can build a pilot career.  Only problem is my CH Flight Yoke went belly up the minute I installed the software, so this is an issue that needs to be worked out before I go any further.

Thanks everyone for your input and thoughts.  I even opened my own VA website at http://mmouseair.sullingers.com/