Everything a virtual airline runs on, in one place.
Airline administration, your own pilot website and a desktop ACARS, connected. Set up the airline, give pilots a home, record every flight gate to gate. For Microsoft Flight Simulator, Prepar3d and X-Plane.
One subscription per airline. No feature tiers, no pilot limits.
- One subscription, no tiers
- 85,000+ airports
- Support included
- Windows ACARS that updates itself
- Your website, your code
From airline setup to your first recorded flight.
A setup checklist on the dashboard takes you through the airline's profile, fleet, hubs, schedules and ranks. Type them in, or import a whole schedule book from CSV with a preview before anything is saved. Open applications when you are ready.
- Bring your data with you: schedules, fleet, hubs, ranks, awards, pilots and flight history import from CSV, whichever system they came from.
- A fleet that is yours: pick from 400+ aircraft types, add your own variants and liveries, and set the rank a pilot needs for each.
- Share the work: invite staff with only the permissions they need, and see who changed what in the activity log.
Your airline's website. Actually yours.
A complete website comes with every airline. Visitors get schedules, the fleet, hubs, a live map, statistics, the pilot roster and leaderboards; pilots get a dashboard, dispatch and their flight reports. It is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript: brand it with your colours and logo, restyle it, or rebuild it on the public APIs.
- Dark and light themes, your colours and logo, one token block to change.
- No build step, no database, no API keys in the files: host it on any static hosting, or take the vaBase hosting add-on.
- Pilots join on your site, with your questions, and log in there, never on a vaBase page.
Every flight recorded gate to gate.
vaBase ACARS runs beside the simulator, follows each phase from boarding to arrival, survives a crash or a lost connection, and files the report itself. Staff review it with the replay, the landing and the fuel against plan beside it. Reports with nothing flagged can approve themselves.
- Live map of every aircraft in the air, with trails, ETA and weather.
- Replay and landing analysis on the pilot's report and the staff review: the route flown, the profile and the touchdown.
- Microsoft Flight Simulator, Prepar3d and X-Plane, one installer, self-updating, never mid-flight.
As strict or as relaxed as your airline wants.
Some airlines want every aircraft where it last landed and every flight planned by the book. Others just want their pilots flying. vaBase lets you choose, setting by setting, and change your mind later.
- Dispatch: ask for a booking, a route, an alternate or a completed SimBrief plan before a flight can start, or ask for none of them.
- Free flights: keep pilots to the schedule, allow their own flights with a review, or allow them freely.
- Pilots too: have pilots depart from where they last landed, with jumpseats to get around, or let them start anywhere.
- Most flexible
Relaxed
Share the fleet. Several pilots can book and fly the same aircraft at once, from any airport.
- In between
Standard
One pilot per aircraft at a time. Its last location is shown, but never stops a flight.
- Most realistic
Realistic
One pilot per aircraft at a time, and every flight departs from where the aircraft is. Positioning flights and staff moves put aircraft where the schedule needs them.
The modes cover aircraft sharing and location. Rank requirements, booking and dispatch rules and your other policies apply in all three. New airlines start relaxed.
Tours, events, targets, streaks and awards, built in.
Engagement is part of the platform, not a plug-in. Set a monthly target per hub and let the hubs compete, run a ten-leg tour with its own map, open an event with a focus airport, and watch streaks and leaderboards move as the reports come in.
- Ranks and awards earned automatically, awards that can be earned again, service anniversaries and a public awards gallery.
- Notices pilots must acknowledge, cabin announcements ACARS plays in flight.
- Discord does the announcing: a live flight card edited in place through the flight, digests, slash commands.
Numbers the whole airline can see.
A public statistics page tells the airline's story in figures: flights, hours, distance, the busiest airports and routes, the fleet, records and milestones. Hubs and pilots carry their own.
Four steps from sign-up to take-off.
No server to run for the airline's data: vaBase hosts the platform and the APIs. You host the website files, or take the hosting add-on.
Create your account and name the airline
Register, choose the airline's name and its web address identifier, and pick monthly or yearly.
Add fleet, hubs and schedules
Follow the setup checklist: type things in, or import them from CSV with a preview first.
Download the website and ACARS
Upload the website package to your hosting; pilots install ACARS from your site.
Open applications and fly
Pilots apply on your site, you approve, and the first report lands in the review queue.
Bringing an airline with you? Export from vaBase 3 or any other system and import pilots, hours, schedules, fleet, hubs, ranks, awards and flight history through the ordinary importers, with a preview first. Your pilots claim their own accounts; nobody is emailed a password. How switching works.
Ready for pushback?
Create the account, name the airline and start setting it up today.