Orwell

VA management: fleet, routes, PIREPs, and more

We're migrating our documentation to this new home. Some documents have not been transferred yet, visit docs.vamsys.dev

Pilot Data & Marketing

Manage marketing opt-ins and export subscriber data for email campaigns.

Fleet

Define aircraft types with capacities, route restrictions, SimBrief overrides, and default images inherited by aircraft.

Aircraft

Manage individual aircraft registrations with optional overrides for capacities, SimBrief settings, and images.

Activity Requirements

Configure initial and ongoing activity requirements for pilots, including grace periods and removal settings.

Airports

Define the locations your pilots fly to and from, with briefings, alternates, and load management.

Alerts

Display important messages to pilots in Phoenix and Pegasus.

Badges

Award pilots for achievements with manual or automatic badges based on flight milestones.

Branding

Customise your VA logos, colours, backgrounds, and styling in Phoenix, Orwell, and Pegasus.

Containers

Define cargo container types for container-based aircraft operations.

Holidays

Allow pilots to take time off and suspend activity requirements VA-wide during holiday periods.

Hubs

Define starting locations for new pilots, group airports into regions, and enable hub-based leaderboards.

Load Factors

Configure passenger and cargo load calculations with statistical distributions.

NOTAMs

Publish notices that pilots must read and acknowledge before flying.

Pilot Registration

Configure how pilots register for your Virtual Airline, including review process, emails, and rejoining options.

Pilot Sharing Agreements

Partner with other Virtual Airlines to allow easy pilot transfers between VAs.

Presets

Create reusable text and point macros for PIREP comments, point adjustments, and registration review.

Rank Transfer

Allow pilots to receive a rank promotion based on experience from other VAs.

Ranks

Configure pilot ranks with automatic progression, honorary titles, and custom epaulettes.

Scenery

Recommend airport scenery add-ons to help pilots enhance their simulator experience.

Staff

Add team members, assign permissions, and manage who can access Orwell and Hangar.

Phoenix Dashboard Editor

Customise the pilot dashboard layout with statistics, activities, flight maps, and social links.

Bookings

Monitor active and completed flight bookings, cancel bookings, and export VATSIM compliance reports.

Liveries

Review and approve aircraft liveries detected during flights to ensure pilots fly the correct aircraft type.

PIREPs

Review, accept, reject, and manage pilot reports filed through Pegasus ACARS or as manual claims.

Scoring Groups

Create and manage scoring groups that bundle scoring rules for specific fleets, controlling how PIREPs are scored.

Scoring Rules

Complete reference for all available scoring rules — from landing rates and engine sequences to fuel management and network connectivity.

AutoReject Rules

Configure automatic PIREP rejection criteria — flag, reject, or invalidate PIREPs based on landing rates, fuel management, flight length, and more.

Custom Pages

Create content pages for pilots in Phoenix with a flexible page builder supporting text, images, buttons, alerts, and videos.

Activities

Create events, tours, rosters, and community challenges that give pilots something to fly towards — with bonus points, badges, and progress tracking.

General Settings

Core airline configuration — name, timezone, support details, maintenance mode, and feature modules.

Booking & Dispatch Settings

Configure jumpseats, booking validity, dispatch table columns, route creation defaults, and external flight tracking buttons.

PIREP & Reward Settings

Configure PIREP appeals, diversion behaviour, flight time awards, point settings, and Airport Manager bonuses.

Callsign Parameters

Manage your airline's ICAO and IATA codes, ATC radio callsigns, operator names, and fleet assignments.

ACARS Sounds

Upload custom audio files that Pegasus plays at different flight phases — boarding, pushback, taxi, climb, cruise, descent, approach, landing, and unloading.

Statistics

VA-wide analytics dashboard with pilot counts, booking trends, PIREP breakdowns, fleet logbooks, and airport movement tables.

Billing

Manage your Virtual Airline subscription, view invoices, and update payment details.

Pilots

Manage pilot accounts, view statistics, handle removals and bans, merge accounts, and maintain staff notes on pilots.

Routes

Create and manage the flight network that pilots book from — defining airports, schedules, fleets, callsigns, and SimBrief configuration.

Routings

Pre-defined flight plan waypoint strings shared across all routes on the same airport pair, simplifying AIRAC updates and route management.