Wanted to share what we’ve been building. Confluence Air is an independent regional VA out of St. Louis (KSUS) on phpVMS 7 with DisposableBasic and DisposableSpecial. We just launched our Regional Lines — four named ATR-42 feeder routes — and the setup might be useful to anyone doing tour-style content.
The build. Each Regional Line is a DisposableSpecial Tour: a string of short feeder legs out to a regional hub, then an express leg home. We tagged the legs by route_code so they auto-attach to the tour in order, and put the whole network on a clean 9000-series flight-number block so the lines are easy to pick out of the schedule. All on the ATR-42 (our AT4-R subfleet), five to seven legs each, verified end to end:
River Line — Kansas City (KMCI) · 5 legs · CFE 9000–9004 Illinois Line — Chicago O’Hare (KORD) · 7 legs · CFE 9100–9106 Southern Line — Indianapolis (KIND) · 6 legs · CFE 9200–9205 Ozark Line — Little Rock (KLIT) · 5 legs · CFE 9300–9304
Awards. Each line has a completion award — fly it end to end, earn its badge. We used the launch to rebuild the whole award set into one consistent style: photo-backed badges, an in-sim shot of each destination behind a brand overlay. Under the hood they’re the stock classes — Pilot Flight Time for the hour tiers, Pilot Flights for first flight, Airline Tours for the line completions, Blank Award for the manual ones. Nothing exotic; the presentation is what pulls it together.
The rest of the stack. smartCARS 3 for ACARS, SimBrief/Navigraph for dispatch, and we fly on VATSIM, with SayIntentions AI ATC for 24/7 coverage, or offline — MSFS 2020/2024 and X-Plane 12.