Hi.

So, what the title says. It would be nice to fly for a virtual airline in this new community that celebrates the federated environment. Hearing something like 'Federated Airlines', or 'Lemmy Airways' etc. in VATSIM would IMO eventually help attracting users. Same as, for example, that Hoggit Fighter Wing. I don't necessarily want to mention any other aggregation webs, just using it as an example.

I recently learned of some VA online software that makes it easier than it used to be, such as NewSky. If by September or so, when I am back from where I'll spend the summer time, there is none, I might go ahead and try creating it myself.

I just leave here the naive idea in case someone has the will, energy, time and resources to do it.

EDIT: I couldn't help but dig into the idea and already coming up with what I'd like/plan to do.

Name: DecentralAir (DEC) - generic enough not to be specific to Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. Charter focused, more than fixed routes. This goes in the line of freedom and decentralization. As HQ, it will be KFFA. Not a big airport, but a significant one for aviation. Then there can be as many hubs as needed, not a central one. Still thinking of what a good logo would be.

I've been into flight simulators since the early eighties, with Psion Figher Pilot being my very first simulator.

Since then, I have gone through quite a few, and many of them being issues of the famous civil ones (Microsoft Flight Simulator 'xx or XPlane). I never had the need of a background, not even needed to be part of a virtual airline.

Nowadays, however, I am feeling the lack of motivation. Seems to me that, ironically, more realism does not equal to more fun or motivation, and I just don't know why.

Getting to the point, while I don't either expect or want MSFS 2024 to be any kind of RPG game, I do feel like the things you can do as announced (actual transport, SAR, etc.) might be what I need. I will let the gamifying part be done by 3rd party apps and hopefully the new sim features will allow these add-ons to widen their scope.