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ACARS

smartCARS 3 for Windows® smartCARS 3 for Windows® Download & Support To acquire the smartCARS3 ap...

A Pilot's Life

What Is A Pilot’s Life v2? A Pilot's Life v2 is a third-party career add-on developed by SimBitWo...

Awards

Our esteemed recognition system offers a plethora of accolades to our pilots, acknowledging a div...

Flight Bids

My Bids What Is a Bid? A bid is your reserved flight. When you bid on a schedule, you are telling...

Events

Events on Crew Website

Events What Are Events? Events are organized flights hosted by UVA staff. These may include: Gr...

Events on Discord

Join Our Discord Community If you're not already a part of our vibrant Discord community, click ...

Free Flights

What Are Free Flights? Free Flights allow you to create and fly a custom route that is not part o...

PIREPs (Pilot Reports)

A PIREP is a Pilot Report. It contains the information about the flight you flew and submitted vi...

View My PIREPs

What Is a PIREP? A PIREP (Pilot Report) is your official flight record.After completing a flight ...

AutoPIREP

What Is AutoPIREP? AutoPIREP is UVA’s automated flight evaluation system. After you submit a PIRE...

Manual PIREP

What Is a Manual PIREP? A Manual PIREP is a flight report submitted without using smartCARS. At ...

AutoPIREP Approval Criteria

How the Scoring System Works Every PIREP submitted through smartCARS is evaluated using UVA’s Aut...

Flight Search

What Is the Flight Search Page? The Flight Search page allows you to browse and filter UVA’s pub...

Tours

What Is UVTours? UVTours is UVA’s structured tour system. A tour is a multi-leg flight experience...

Trip Generator

What Is the Trip Generator? The Trip Generator allows you to automatically build a multi-leg trip...