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Welcome to Northwest Virtual

 

Are you a fan of Northwest Airlines or aviation in general?

Northwest Virtual, also known as Northwest Virtual Airlines, is one of today's leading virtual airlines for flight simulator enthusiasts. 

We offer our members a first class virtual airline experience using the latest technology and an experienced management team.

What is a Virtual Airline (VA)?

A virtual airline simulates a real-world airline, flying its own aircraft and routes in the virtual world of Flight Simulator. Pilots join the airline and choose flights which they then fly in Flight Simulator. After the flight, pilots report their flight in a Pilot Report (PIREP) on the Northwest Virtual website, and the hours of the flight are automatically added to their pilot logbook. As flight hours accumulate, pilots consequently progress through the ranks at the airline. 

But why?

 

Instead of flying aimlessly in your flight simulator world, virtual airlines aim to bring together a community of FS pilots, and provide them with a fun and educational environment in which to fly.

 

About Northwest Virtual

 

This virtual airline is operated by flight simulator enthusiasts and aviation buffs. We are also fans of Northwest Airlines, their awesome fleet. Delta Virtual operations mirror the real life counterpart, Delta Airlines. All routes are taken from their official timetables, giving us maximum realism.

 

Northwest Virtual strives to be the benchmark for US based virtual airlines. Our objective is simple: To be the best virtual airline in the US whose pilots are highly recognized by the virtual airline industry. These goals are accomplished with experienced pilots and an advanced aircraft type rating system.

 

Our website uses the latest technology for a virtual airline. We provide our pilots with a fully automated system allowing our pilots to log flights instantly. Our pilots have access to an automated roster, pilot submitted flight reports and individual pilot flight logs. We also provide on-line pilot type rating exams and check flights to ensure that our pilots are the best trained in the VA world.

 

Some of our services

 

  • Really cool automated pilot services using ASP technology and a powerful SQL database. The other Northwest VA uses a slow database and the 3rd one doesn't even have an online database.

  • Advanced Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS). FlightTracker and FlightKeeper ACARS programs are the best on the market and they are integrated with this website.

  • VATSIM Division for on-line flying, but we are not VATSIM snobs.  Online flying is optional.

  • Type rating program with our ATP mode.  Members who want a challenge have to be rated on any aircraft they fly.

  • Ranks are not only hours based.  Your rank depends on hours, number of flights, seniority, PIREP performance and ratings.

  • Member of the SkyTeam Alliance offering our pilots a huge selection of routes and aircraft including Delta, Air France, Korean Air and CSA.

  • Northwest Airlink Division for commuter flights.

  • We are one of the most active communities of flight simulator fanatics in the world. Last we checked we're #1 in active pilots 1200+ and we're #2 in website traffic and bandwidth usage.

    • Some of our members are real world airline pilots and ATC controllers.

  • Advanced message board system with a lot of topics posted every day.  Very active and dynamic. Again we have way more than 120 posts a day as the other Delta VA claims, in fact our forums are even more active than the forums at Project Opensky or iFDG.

  • A first class virtual airline experience simulating one of the best airlines in the world.

  • Full access to our affiliate virtual airlines as a member of the Flying Tigers Group including: Cathay Pacific, Singapore, Thai, JAL, Malaysia, Lufthansa, Air France, Virgin, Swiss, Hawaiian, Aloha, Air Pacific, Air Tahiti Nui and Virgin. Flights with all of our affiliates are automatically displayed in your pilot logbook.

 

Applying for Northwest Virtual membership

 

Joining and flying with Northwest Virtual is absolutely free and involves no monetary exchange.  The first step is to read our requirements.  The second step is to take our automated entrance exam.  To maintain our high standards we feel that applicants should have a basic knowledge about flying airliners.  We feel that most dedicated flight simmers should have no problem with the exam and it should only take a few minutes.  You will need to achieve 70% or better on our entrance exam. The link to our entrance exam is on the upper right side of this page, or you can click here.

 

Flying Tigers Group    www.virtualairline.org

 

The Flying Tigers Group operates a conglomerate of virtual airlines. We recommend that you sign up with your favorite airline in our group.  Once you sign up there is no need to sign up again with any of our other virtual airlines. You will be able to login and fly for all of our virtual airlines with one pilot ID. All flights, no matter which VA will be in your pilot logbook! It really makes no difference which virtual airline you choose, since you can fly for all of them. Flying Tigers virtual airlines include:

Choose your favorite airline, based on the website or whatever criteria you choose and sign up. We're all part of the same group!

 

Virtual airlines redefined

 

In other virtual airlines when you become a pilot your only job is to complete a flight for the same airline. Day after day, month after month, year after year. For this reason many pilots choose to join several VA's or quit over time. Who would want to fly the same planes and routes all the time? Boring... but not with us!

 

This is where the Flying Tigers Group comes in. You can fly for all of our virtual airlines representing some of the best and most exotic airlines around the world. As a pilot you will be able to fly short island hops to exotic locations or even trans-Atlantic flights on the Concorde.

 

Because all of our VA's share our advanced automation features, a pilot only needs to sign up once.  Then with a single pilot ID, a pilot can log in to all of our virtual airlines. What's really cool is that you can file a PIREP at any of our virtual airlines and it will always count towards your total flight hours and rank!

 

This concept has created one of the most diverse groups of Flight Simulator fanatics we've ever seen!

 

Northwest route map from Detroit, not ANC-FAI & Airlink flights

 

International from Detroit

 

Northwest route map from Minneapolis-St. Paul, not ANC-FAI-HNL & Airlink flights

 

International from Minneapolis-St.Paul

 

Northwest route map from Memphis, not AMS, CUN, MBJ, YVR, YYZ & Airlink flights

 

Northwest route map from Tokyo-NRT

 
 FTG Members from: 
Algeria 1 
Angola 1 
Argentina 10 
Australia 215 
Austria 18 
Bahamas 3 
Bangladesh 2 
Barbados 3 
Belgium 44 
Bermuda 1 
Bolivia 1 
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1 
Brazil 40 
Bulgaria 3 
Cabo Verde 1 
Canada 75 
Canada. Soon Romania 1 
Chile 11 
China 9 
Columbia 4 
Congo 1 
Costa Rica 1 
Cote DIvoire 1 
Croatia 3 
Cuba 1 
Cyprus 3 
Czech Republic 5 
Denmark 4 
Ecuador 4 
Egypt 4 
Finland 10 
France 421 
French Polynesia 1 
Gabon 1 
Germany 283 
Ghana 1 
Gibraltar 1 
Greece 3 
Guadeloupe 5 
Hong Kong 33 
Hungary 20 
Iceland 9 
India 9 
Indonesia 14 
Iran 2 
Ireland 11 
Israel 5 
Italy 48 
Jamaica 2 
Japan 5 
Kenya 1 
Lithuania 3 
Malawi 1 
Malaysia 11 
Malta 3 
Martinique 1 
Mauritius 1 
Mexico 8 
Morocco 3 
Myanmar 1 
Netherlands 32 
Netherlands Antilles 1 
New Caledonia 1 
New Zealand 28 
Nigeria 1 
Norway 18 
Pakistan 3 
Peru 1 
Philippines 2 
Phillipines 7 
Poland 21 
Portugal 35 
Puerto Rico 3 
Romania 4 
Russia 7 
Saudi Arabia 1 
Scotland 1 
Serbia & Montenegro 2 
Singapore 45 
South Africa 43 
South Korea 3 
Spain 22 
Sri Lanka 2 
Sweden 27 
Switzerland 41 
Taiwan 4 
Thailand 6 
The Netherlands 1 
Tonga 1 
Turkey 3 
U.S.A 1 
UAE 7 
UK 175 
Ukraine 3 
United Kingdom 1 
United States of America 1 
USA 498 
Venezuela 6 
Total Pilots: 2446 


 

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