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After reviewing my options with Big A Airlines I decided to apply the name (and domain) to a recently developed Air Taxi project I have been working on, off and on, for the last three months. Originally named Napa Valley Air Taxi the virtual airline provides general aviation charters and some limited scheduled excursion service around the San Francisco Bay area and to southern Lake Tahoe. This airline concept has been in the works for more than two years, with a few starts and stops and reconsideration's along the way. The biggest stumbling block was how to bring a realistic approach to such a small, essentially charter, operation and still have it work like a virtual airline. The solution was to make the website for a real air taxi airline, then on one single operations page offer all of the VA information in a compact format. We offer three after-market aircraft, the Cessna T206H Stationair, Beech King Air 300 and Piaggio P-180, and two default aircraft, the Cessna 182S and Beech King Air 350. This allows operations in either FS9 or FSX by even the most basic of users. Since aircraft of this nature are not generally equipped with an ACARS system in real life, we use a manual ACARS system from SATA Virtual. This is an older ACARS system but works well in FS2002, FS9 and FSX. All of the ACARS files necessary are found on the website. This is a small virtual airline, we are not here to compete with larger and more complex VA's, what we offer is an alternative to long routes with large aircraft by giving you reasonable and fun charters, semi-scheduled flights and a wide selection of prop driven aircraft. It's a trend I have seen discussed a lot over the last half year, hopefully it's one that others are interested in as well. www.big-a-air.com
