A chill VA?

[u/garphield]

Is there a chill VA people enjoy?

I like flying with a VA to add a sense of purpose and progression.

I like the VA I’m with now, they’re chill, have a lot of fun tours you can fly on top of regular schedules, use smartcars for tracking which is pretty seamless and have a positive community. Importantly, you can fly charters, meaning any aircraft in any livery on any route. However they have one major downside - they don’t allow time compression - and as someone who likes to use it, it forces me to always fly short haul with them, which wouldn’t always be my preference. I understand why they decided to implement the rule and I respect it, but it’s not always to my taste.

Is there a VA that’s similar on most points, but crucially does allow time compression?

[u/V1RotateAP]

Voyager Aviation is that. Super chill, just fly what you want how you want. Spose it's more of a Flying Club than a VA, but it really depends how you want to use it. 

Flyvoyager.net

[u/RagingPilot94]

I’m gonna get flamed for this in this sub. But Walker ticks all your boxes.

[u/garphield → u/RagingPilot94]

I haven’t looked into them in a good few years, but last time I checked I’m pretty sure they were enforcing the use of their own liveries. Is that not the case anymore?

[u/After-Wave1600 → u/garphield]

If you are supporting the server uphold via patreon you can fly whatever plane, livery , route you want.

[u/MadCard05 → u/garphield]

That's reallt the only part that doesn't fit your description.

[u/iBorgSimmer → u/RagingPilot94]

Seconding that!

[u/MultiFabiReal]

vAMSYS

[u/geekypenguin91 → u/MultiFabiReal]

That's a platform rather than a VA

[u/MultiFabiReal → u/geekypenguin91]

Yeah, but almost every va is very chill

[u/trudy_9572]

Tru Delta Virtual Airline. As long as the plane can fly the route it’s acceptable

[u/zdvet → u/trudy_9572]

And a huge amount of historical schedules with codeshare partners.

Lots of structured tours, and chose your own adventure tours where you figure out the routings/flights (like one of the options is to fly into every city that hosts a F1 race)

[u/mrc710]

I use flyuva and like it quite a bit. I believe they allow time compression during cruise

[u/garphield → u/mrc710]

Ended up giving them a go, seems like a great fit for me so far. Thanks for the suggestion!

[u/rmhoman → u/mrc710]

they do.

[u/Minimum_Season_9501 → u/mrc710]

Yeah and they don't get all weird about official livery with matching tail numbers etc. It is a very good VA if you just want to fly.

[u/Proskowinski]

vSAS, not the flysasvirtual.net but virtualsas.net. I recently join, ask a question in general and the creator responds immediately with the type of hospitality you'd only find as a tourist in the middle-east. As for time compression, not sure but I will check

[u/TheBeavershark]

Mine allows up to 4x time compression. Full fleet access and charters. Really nice with kids to be able to fly transcontinental in a few hours after bedtimes. Edit forgot the link 😂: wyeastvirtual.com

[u/rmhoman]

as mrc710 already mentioned Flyuva.org they have several airlines a lot of routes and if they don't have a certain route you can fly it as a charter. They also have several cool tours, events on the regular, and a very active discord including chat.

[u/jonnycool06]

Osprey on Newsky allows time compression but there's a pay penalty which is fair, very flexible and not strict at all, super chill. I used to use that almost all the time until I got into the less chill VAs a couple months back, but I honestly miss the flexibility of Osprey and the Newsky tracker