Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

- 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.

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).

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.

No. Flying hours of other virtual airlines (VA) are not creditable.

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.

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.

No. An ACV-flight can also be performed offline with or without the ATC possibilities of the chosen flight-sim.

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.

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.