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FTG Management

Eric Thornton – Founder

Born in Dayton, Ohio and raised an expat in various countries. Eric is an aviation geek since inception, his dad was a pilot. Also a longtime computer dork, Eric has been simming since FS1 and a longtime combat simmer since Microprose F-15E on the Commodore 64 to the latest DCS A-10C. Eric has been in the virtual airline hobby more than a decade, started off as BAV025. He decided he wanted something with more variety and maybe a bit less regimented. So he created (with a lot of help) a virtual airline conglomerate which is now the Flying Tigers Group.

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Christian Chaix – President

Born in Valence (France) and now living in Toulouse, Christian has only been a major aviation enthusiast since high school, and has now gone pro around an european airplane manufacturer. Christian volunteered to help out with running this crazy association of virtual airline pilots back in 2006, which followed by packing additional features in it. Now he's a proud private pilot and aircraft restorer. The F-104 in the picture has been in works since 2005, and is now nearing completion.

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Markus Joppich – Systems Developer

Markus was born in the late 80's in Bonn (Germany). While still being in secondary school he created the first - from nowadays point of view - really basic ACARS that always has been specific for FTG. Later FTG-ACARS was improved and cool new features got added like prefiling, LiveACARS, Google Earth Views and Debriefing.
These days Markus is also managing parts of the FTG web systems, besides studying in B.Sc. Informatik at RWTE²H.

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Mission

We strive to provide the flightsim community with a global virtual airline experience with a great community atmosphere. All of this without loosing sight that this is a hobby and we are all here to have fun. This isn't a one hub, über realistic regimented virtual airline, there are plenty of those. Many of us have tried the whole, hub thing, with ratings and assigned flights. Been there, done that. This community is about empowering our members with global diversity in airlines and route selection. FTG is a global community representing some of the most interesting passenger airlines. We also provide our members with a large selection of cargo and classic airline routes. The goal is to provide years of entertainment for flightsim enthusiasts.

About Us

The Flying Tigers Group (FTG) is the world's most active and dynamic conglomerate of virtual airlines. We are a group of semi-independent virtual airlines that share a common database, operating procedures and resources. This provides our virtual airlines with a proven and robust system for them to thrive and offers all of our members huge benefits. Members of one virtual airline can login in any virtual airline affiliated to the Flying Tigers Group and can do flights for any of them, be it passenger, cargo, alliance or historic. All flights appear in the virtual pilot's flight logbook.