Turkish Virtual is Celebrating It's 20th Year Anniversary !

[Erhan M. Artuc]

 

Dear vPilots,

This month we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Turkish Virtual Airlines. Turkish Virtual, which started in 2001, has grown into one of the rarest, most comprehensive and largest virtual airlines today; reaching a recognised and respected leadership in its field, not only for its size and number of pilots, but also for its professionalism and the friendships that its members have developed among themselves. Both its pilots and all the staff working at its administrative levels, have played a major role in bringing Turkish Virtual to this level. Turkish Virtual has taken a great place in the lives of all of its members with each and every member of Turkish Virtual having its own different story of how this hobby has affected their lives, being an unforgettable experience.

 

As Turkish Virtual, we have come a long way since the beginning. We have crossed very difficult paths and have managed to survive together with a collective effort. Sometimes we aided schools in need, and other times we gathered the money for a small piece of jewellery that we would gift to our friends during their marriage by virtue of the team’s contributions all around the world. When in times of need, the team rushed to help, doing whatever they could for the issues at hand. Everyone used every means available to help test the coding that was created by volunteers who had never made any software, at the expense of losing by failing to complete the flights, and everyone willingly did what they could. As a result of the team’s great spirit, our families never buckled.

 

As of today, Turkish Virtual has grown from only a couple of pilots, up to hundreds and thousands, filling the virtual skies. We have a great team comprised entirely of volunteers who are professional and dedicated to Turkish Virtual. We have a highly advanced flight recording software (our unique Flight Data Recorder), which we have developed since 2001 with our own means, with great effort, and which is open to developments, quickly adapting to the changes in the simulator world. In addition, we also have a very complex yet sophisticated website infrastructure. Unlike the software used by many virtual airlines which are no different from each other, the software we currently use allows us to customise and develop them according to the needs of virtual pilots. Our pilots have the opportunity to access one of the largest and most widespread route systems in the world among all virtual airlines, and thanks to the hard work and dedication of our operations personnel, we allow our pilots to explore every corner of the world using our own software and provide them with up-to-date route information. We also have one of the largest virtual squadrons on the internet, allowing them to fly all types of aircraft, from single-engine aircraft to the A380. We offer every field of aviation to our pilots. Even for the small number of pilots that are interested, we have worked day and night to offer perhaps the best quality for the helicopter virtual airlines among the very few in the world.

 

Turkish Virtual Airlines has always been at the forefront of pilots who want to learn more about aviation. From the very beginning, we chose to build the pilot hierarchy based on our rank, seniority, quality flight scores, written/oral exams, Checkrides with real life pilots, and control flights, rather than the traditional system based on flight hours. While the system we implement forces our pilots to learn more, it still ensures that we have some of the most knowledgeable pilots flying in Vatsim under the name of Turkish Virtual. Turkish Virtual Management is also working to bring together a brand new training program designed with our pilots in mind.

 

If we need to reiterate some of the issues that we always express; for 20 years we walked side by side with Vatsim, we did not deviate from Vatsim at any stage and we did not allow anyone to fly offline outside of Vatsim. This is one of the most important features that makes Turkish Virtual special. As a virtual airline that has adhered to Vatsim as a rule for 20 years and never compromised, we think that only a few virtual airlines can celebrate such an important milestone. As the Turkish Virtual Airlines family, we proudly reveal the statistical data we have created over the years, without hiding it from anyone.

 

As Turkish Virtual, for our 20th anniversary celebrations, we will be sending two of our willing pilots to the “IFTC Training Centre”, the simulator facility in Istanbul, where real pilots and pilot candidates are trained for an exciting training event. Detailed explanation on this subject will be coming soon for our pilots.

 

We thank all Turkish Virtual pilots for everything they have done to make our community exist, get better, and develop. In the coming days, our Event department will organise a special event to celebrate the 20th anniversary. We would also like Vatsim pilots who wish to come to our event to be a part of this celebration.

 

Happy 20th Anniversary…

 

Kind regards,

Turkish Virtual Board of Administrators

www.turkishvirtual.com

Edited September 21, 2021 at 06:18 AM by Erhan M. Artuc

[HAYRI BUBERCI]

Although I cannot participate too much lately due to other engagements (still related to simulation), I enjoy flying for Turkish Virtual Airlines as it is one of the best managed va in the simulator world.

I wish you all the best and keep up the good work.

Hayri.

[Samet UZUN]

For a long time to spend on IVAO then I've meet TurkishVirtual which is the best for me and for numerous members to enjoy flying with VATSIM based. I'm also proud of be a member of TurkishVirtual. I'm sure that we are going to see 30th and more anniversary. TurkishVirtual's will be the best and biggest Virtual Airlines soon. It's already so for me 🙂  Our power is safe flight, safe flight is TurkishVirtual's power.

We would be happy to see you among us soon