Welcome to Dallas - Ft. Worth International (KDFW), home of the American Airlines Virtual Pilot Training and Check Flight center. Our mission is to provide you the training services that will result in a fun, professional, and rewarding virtual airline pilot career.

AAV has developed a full program rank advacement and equipment endorsement check flights. All pilots up for promotion perform a standard check flight appropriate to their rank and experience. Optional endorsement check flights provide an opportunity to master various equipment types flown by American Airlines Virtual.

These training links will help further pilot's knowledge of aviation, especially IFR procedures such as holds and procedure turns that will be required in the check flights. There are also link to forum posts providing instruction on our ACARS automated pilot reporting tool.

• Navigation
• VORs
• How to fly a procedure turn.
• How to enter and fly a holding pattern.
• ILS with a Procedure Turn
• NDB with a Procedure Turn
• FSACARS for AAVirtual.

All pilot are qualified to take the Turboprop and Regional Jet equipment endorsement check flights. Links to these check flights are included here so that you can familiarize yourself with our check flight format.

• Turbo Prop equipment check flight
• Regional Jet equipment check flight

When you fly a check flight, the AAVirtual Digital Flight Recorder captures your aircraft position, altitude, speed, heading, and trakc. This system requires FSUIPC to be installed, but you do not need to have a registered version – the free one will work fine. You can download the latest version here:http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html The setup files for the flight recorder can be downloaded from recorder.zip

To use the AAV flight recorder, start Flight Simulator, set up your flight, and then run the AAV Flight Recorder from the Start Menu option that will be created when you run the installer. Additional instructions are in the check flight documents.

The following sections of the Pilot's Handbook are helpful references throughout your American Airlines Virtual career:

Our check pilots, training coordinator, and hub managers are all here to help you get started and progress in your American Airlines Virtual career. You can reach them all via the PM and Email links on the Management Staff page, or from the Contact Us page.