Welcome to my new blog !!!.
Well the title explains a lot but i will explain why I started my project
One of the main if only the main reason for doing this is that so much data is out there which may or may not be correct or exactly what I want to achieve for this exercise.
Virtual Airlines have been around for many years to make the experience of flying with a flight simulator such as Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane or indeed any other flight simulation platform that has appeared over the last 10 to 20 years.
Virtual Airlines come in all shapes and formats , many emulate their real world entities and many others are fictional or in other words exist only for the Virtual Aviation world.
Obviously the Virtual Airline needs a website address and web-pages to operate and many have spent the time to develop extensive websites with a plethora of download files to support their Virtual Airline such as Aircraft Liveries and unique ACARS reporting systems.
Others on the other hand have taken the approach to customise a package that is available on the internet and start their airline from that software. I can note two such cases of Virtual Airline that are apparently in use today these are Virtual Airline Manager aka VAM and PHPVMS.
Both these development offer a download of software to run your Virtual Airline with obviously some effort to update all the database tables as you need them.
This of course takes time as these two products come with some data to get started with but as you want to build your own Virtual Airline there is a lot of input to be made for airports , aircraft and the schedule. The schedule is in effect the airline timetable of routes that you can fly with certain aircraft as determined by the airline.
For my study and project I am looking at the core structure of one of these two products without any set preference, and as such it seems logical that my project with some changes can work for either anyway, to base this first project on Virtual Airline Manager.
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