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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

(Last update: 11 November 2024, 11:02:22)

I. General

1.1. Caracteristicas of ACV?
Hundreds of flight-routes across the world.
Cargo jobs (routes, dailies, charter) with several legs to fulfill.
Sound Module, cockpit crew commenting on flight situations (AI voices)
Flight maintenance costs depend on your touch-down FPM rate.
Dynamic flight route generation (payload, price, time).
ACVacars - objectivity in automatic flight evaluation.
Industrial flights included. Loving the Beluga? Jump in!
Beautiful short haules over Alaska, Iceland, Caribbean, Hawaii and Australia.
Flight-sim enthusiasts sharing their passion for freighter aircraft.
Challenging hubs with beautiful but tricky weather and landscape conditions.
Own acars program developed for flight tracking/auto-assessment.
Loving turbo props or to be a bush-pilot? Join us!
Rank and award system for long time motivation.
Being type-rated and instructor feature.
Compatible with P3Dv5, XP12 and FS2020.
Membership for free.
Membership can be terminated at any time.

1.2. What are the aircraft of the ACV-fleet?

General NOTE:
Rank->Aircraft restriction partially deactivated. All ACV pilots are currently privileged to fly the following aircraft:
A-330-300P2F; B-747-200CF; A-300-600ST;


Short / Mid haul:
Aircraft Link FS2024 FS2020 P3Dv5 P3Dv4 XP12 XP11 flyable for Candidates
C-208F Asobo x Yes, always
BAe 146-300QT JF_MSFS, JF_P3D x x x Yes, always
B-727-200F FSS x Yes, always
B-737-700BSF PMDG x Yes, always
B-737-800BCF PMDG, Zibo XP11, LevelUp, Zibo XP12 x x x x x Yes, always
B-757-200PF Captain Sim x x Yes, always
B-757-200SF Flight Factor x x Yes, always
A-300-600ST Beluga iniBuilds x x No

Long haul:
Aircraft Link FS2024 FS2020 P3Dv5 P3Dv4 XP12 XP11 flyable for Candidates
B-707-320C MS/AH x Yes, always
A-300-600F iniBuilds x x x Yes, always
A-330-300P2F Laminar (mod) x Yes, always
AN-225 iniBuilds/MS/Asobo x No
B-747-200CF Felis (Mod) x x No
B-747-400F PMDG x x No
B-767-300F Flight Factor x x No
B-777F PMDG x x No
MD-11F Rotate x x No

Upcoming:
Aircraft Link FS2024 FS2020 P3Dv5 P3Dv4 XP12 XP11 flyable for Candidates
B-777F PMDG / Flight Factor x x No
MD-11F TFDi x No
ATR-72-600F MS/Asobo x Yes, always
E190/195F FSS x Yes, always
PC-12 Legacy Cargo SWS x Yes, always
A-330-200F Laminar (mod) x No
DC-6 Cargo PMDG x Yes, always
DC-10-30F Aero Dynamics x No

1.3. How realistic do you fly at ACV?
Medium to higher flight-sim realism (for medium experienced, advanced and expert sim-pilots). We perform a flight by respecting minimum flight criterias of ACV and some standard flight rules. Working-off checklists is recommended but not a must. Lots of different pilot-mistakes/errors during an ACV-flight get detected by our ACVacars tool and result in time-penalties or in refusal of flight acceptance.

For more information about our ACVacars - Click here

1.4. ACV-flight modalities?
An executed ACV-flight is only accepted under certain minimum criterias. If a flight fulfills the minimum criterias but contains pilot-errors, the counted flight-time will be reduced. The penalty-reduction of the counted flight-time depends on the severeness of the penalised pilot-errors. A flight can only be flown if the pilot has reserved/bidded it. A bidded flight cannot flown by more than one ACV-pilot at once. Each ACV-pilot cannot bid for more than two flights at the same time. Not flown bidded-flights are unbidded automatically after a short time.

1.5. Consequences of a penalized pilot-mistake during an ACV-flight by ACVacars?
Pilot mistakes during a flight are assessed and penalized by our ACVacars software. Each penalty results in a reduction of the creditable ACV-flying-time of the respective flight. The more severe a pilot mistake is, the higher is the creditable flight-time-penalty therefor. This is handled/executed by our ACVacars automatically. Each ACV-member gets treated equally.

1.6. Time-limit before receiving pilot-error-penalty?
In most cases, yes. The most pilot-errors must be held up during a specific period of time before receiving a penalty therefor.
For example, if you forget to deactivate the landing-lights above an altitude of 10'000ft, you have a time-frame of 30sec to recognize and to correct this mistake. Only if you do not correct this pilot-error during this period of time, the penalty will be given by our ACVacars.
But, for another example, if you lower the landing-gear at 300kn, the penalty will be given immediately.


II. Flight-Sim Pilot-Career at ACV

2.1. Money payed?, Contract closed?
Regard the membership at ACV as possibility to feel better entertained while using civil flight-simulations or to take ACV as a possibility to improve your flight-simulator pilot skills. But that is it. Of course you are NOT legally hired as (virtual) pilot or the like.
The use of real currency symbols is just for fun, does not mean anything and is only for increasing the simulation atmosphere within ACV.
NO real money gets payed and NO employment contract will be closed thereby.

2.2. Do I have to pay something? Free to leave?
The ACV-membership is free.
No payment of contribution has to be payed.
Every member of ACV is free to terminate his/her ACV-membership whenever he/she wants.
ACV is free to remove an ACV-member at any time.

2.3. Minimum criterias as candidate?
- Minimum age of 18;
- Being able to fly one of the candidate-aircraft from A to B (flight-route);
- The will to appear from time to time on our forum and on Discord;
- Being able to communicate in English;
- Free ACV-pilot slot available;
- Respecting ACV-rules.

2.4. How often do I have to fly? Deactivation and deletion of an ACV-membership when?
You may fly as often or seldom as you want. But:
- Without flying, a candidate may be deactivated/deleted after 20 days.
- The membership may be deactivated after an inactivity of 90 days.
- The membership may be deleted after an inactivity of 360 days (exceptions possible).

2.5. ACV membership, something for me?
What type of candidates is ACV looking for?
Generally, ACV welcomes every flight-simmer being at least 18 years old.
But the past shows that flight-simmers with the following intentions do not seem to be a match to ACV:
- "I just want to have fun without taking any flight rules into consideration";
- "I want to fly a flight-bid with whatever aircraft I have installed on my PC";
- "I do not have the will to get to know how the ACV-website and ACVacars work";
- "When I fly, I do not really take care of my flying behaviour. Turning with bank angle at 90 degrees, pushback with reverse thrust, taxiing with 50kts, touch-down with -700 fpm, etc., do not bother me."

On the other hand, ACV is an interesting and pleasing option for people who want to perform virtual airline flights with reality as a role model as part of a group.

2.6. Flying hours of other VA's creditable?
No. Flying hours of other virtual airlines (VA) are not creditable.

2.7. Flying for another VA during ACV-membership?
Yes, It is not a problem if you are flying for another virtual airline too. Each VA has different advantages.
But if you are the founder/boss of another VA, it's not possible to be an ACV member at the same time.

2.8. Use of own flight-plans?
Yes, of course. You can use your own flight plans. But pre-given and by that mandatory are the following parameters of an ACV-flight: departure-ICAO, departure-time, arrival-ICAO and arrival-time. Else it is up to you, how you reach the arrival destination.

2.9. Usage of an (online) ATC-tool mandatory?
No. An ACV-flight can also be performed offline with or without the ATC possibilities of the chosen flight-sim.

2.10. Appearance on ACV-forum/ACV-Discord?
It is expected that an ACV-member appears from time to time on our forum and/or on our Discord channel. A steady absence from our forum and our Discord can result in an ACV-membership cancellation.

2.11. How many pilot-slots are existing?
The number of ACV-pilot-slots depends on the number of aircraft of ACV. Within ACV each ACV-flight can only be flown by one pilot at the same time. The purpose is to get as many pilots as needed for having the fleet-aircraft flown steadily but not as many that some pilots do not have an airplane free to fly with.