Delta Virtual Airlines Airline News

DATE	SUBJECT	AUTHOR
07/08/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Craig Davidson	Matt Moak
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Craig Davidson to our "Century Club". Craig recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Craig on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
07/07/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Daniel Counahan	Tyrone Weston
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Daniel Counahan to our "Century Club". Daniel recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Daniel on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
07/03/2003	Poker Run Event	Dennis Cherney
The event Signups are now open for the first DVA Poker Run. Visit the events site http://www.deltava.us/events/ to signup now!!!
07/03/2003	737 Top 3	Ryan Watkins
Over the past several weeks I have been working on a new addition to the 737 aircraft program - the "Top 3". This program is designed to assist not only myself in the daily administrative duties of keeping our program running smoothly, but all of the pilots as well. The members of this group were hand selected based upon the completion of an exhaustive review of flight records, written testing scores, airline participation as well as knowledge and dedication. While this group remains unofficial as far as the airline is concered, their experience and expertise make them exceptionally qualified mentors to junior pilots who may be starting fresh as well as those who have been around for a while and still have some questions. Without further adieu, please allow me to introduce the 737 Top 3 - Captains David Shartzer, James Brickell and Michael Polojac.
07/02/2003	New Staff Appointments	Mark McCauley
It's with great pleasure I announce our 757/767 program Chief Pilot and Assistant Chief Pilot. Mr. Matt Young as our Chief pilot and Mr. David Schaum as our Assistant Chief Pilot. Matt and David both come with great qualifications. Matt and David have set very high goals for the program and will be taking the 757/767 to the next step. Help me congratulate them on their new position. Welcome aboard Matt and David, i look forward to working with both of you! I would also like to thank all those who applied for this position.
06/28/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Philip Rothberg	Awais Ahsan
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Philip Rothberg to our "Century Club". Philip recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Philip on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/26/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines Special Event	Dennis Cherney
Well, I said Mark and I had special plans for the Dallas to Denver Groupflight. But you're gonna have to go check out the events site to find out what. http://www.deltava.us/events/
06/25/2003	Dallas to Albuquerque Groupflight Event	Dennis Cherney
The event Signups are now open for the Dallas to Albuquerque Groupflight to be held on Saturday July 5th. Many of you may notice that this event has replaced the Dallas to Denver Groupflight. Mark and I have special plans for that groupflight that will be announced shortly. Visit the events site http://www.deltava.us/events/ to signup for DFW to ABQ today!!
06/22/2003	DVA Board of Directors Poll Open	Luke Kolin
Voting has commenced for your representative on Delta Virtual Airlines' Board of Directors. There are several well-qualified nominees, and I urge all pilots to take a few moments to determine which one is best qualified to represent them on our Board of Directors. Please feel free to ask the nominees questions in the Water Cooler - the best vote is an informed vote.
06/22/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Patricio Liogrimaldi	Matt Moak
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Patricio Liogrimaldi to our "Century Club". Patricio recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Patricio on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/18/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Joe Mendez	Awais Ahsan
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Joe Mendez to our "Century Club". Joe recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Joe on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/17/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates David Cox	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome David Cox to our "Double Century Club". David recently completed 200 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating David on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/13/2003	Atlanta Fly-In Event	Dennis Cherney
The event signups are now open for the Atlanta Hartsfield Fly-In. Visit the events site http://www.deltava.us/events/ to signup today!!!
06/13/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates David Shartzer	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome David Shartzer to our "Century Club". David recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating David on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/12/2003	Web Site Back Online	Luke Kolin
We suffered a router failure at 1633 EDT on June 7th. The router is the only part of our web farm that does not have a redundant backup system, and our primary site has been offline since then. We recently purchased several Flowpoint 144 IDSL routers, and the web site is back online. No data has been lost, and as DNS changes propagate the site should be available to you. I'd like to thank Dennis Cherney for his good work providing backup DNS services and status updates on his site. I'd like to apologise on behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines for this service interruption. This is unfortunately part of the risk we run by being a hobbyist-run site, as opposed to being run at a commercial hosting provider. It's certainly NOT the way I wanted to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of our web site (which opened 6/11/01). However, we're up and running - with full redundancy in ALL of our systems, now. I'm looking forward to not doing this for another two years.
06/07/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Joseph Brewer	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Joseph Brewer to our "Century Club". Joseph recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Joseph on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/04/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Glenn Blanco	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Glenn Blanco to our "Century Club". Glenn recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Glenn on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/04/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Andy Jones	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Andy Jones to our "Century Club". Andy recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Andy on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
06/03/2003	1st 737 Online Group Meeting	Ryan Watkins
737 Drivers: As I've been saying we're finally going to have an online group meeting! First and foremost we will get a chance to meet each other one on one and share some ideas about our program. We will be discussing mainly online flight topics. I want to make sure everyone has an opportunity to learn how to fly online and boost the number of online PiREPs filed as well as increase support for our airline at VATSIM-hosted events, such as the groupflight coming up hint, hint. The meeting will take place on Yahoo! Messenger on Saturday, 8 Jun 03. That's this coming Saturday at 1700 hours (5:00pm) PDT which is 2000 hours (8:00pm) EDT. I am going to create a chatroom within the messenger chat program. To find us, click on "Chat" at the top of the messenger program and then click on the "Computers and Internet" category. To the right in the rooms name listing click on the tab that says User Rooms at the top and look for "DVA737Session". The meeting is aimed at 737 pilots but is certainly open to anyone whiching to attend. If you plan to attend, please send me a message to pilot_738@yahoo.co.uk letting me know you're attending so I can get an idea of how many people we'll be hosting. For an itinerary of topics to be discussed, please follow the link provided: http://www.airatlanta.org/stuff/vatsimclass.html
06/01/2003	Atlanta to Dallas Groupflight Event	Dennis Cherney
The event signups are now open for the Atlanta to Dallas Groupflight to be held on Saturday June 14th. Some of the specifics on the event will be forthcoming. Visit the events site http://www.deltava.us/events/ to signup today!!
05/29/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Derric Allen	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Derric Allen to our "Century Club". Derric recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Derric on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
05/27/2003	CRJ-200 Groupflight Signups	Matt Moak
The CRJ-200 Groupflight Signups are now open! Go to http://www.waismedclub.com/~jamesbrickell/crj/ for more details and signup. Special thanks to James Brickell for help with the programming and hosting. Let?s rock Cincinnati with CRJ?s!
05/27/2003	Attention CRJ-200 Pilots	Matt Moak
As you know, we are blessed with Todd Ortschied, a real world pilot, as our Chief. However, he works for a good portion of the month and is often not at home to answer your e-mails. So please send you questions to me, the CRJ Assistant Chief, and I will answer them rather than Todd. It is difficult for him to return to a lot of e-mail, so please contact me at mjm11@fuse.net. Thanks.
05/27/2003	Operation MD-80	Tyrone Weston
Well for those who knew about the Maddog project, thanks for the pilots flew 200+ hrs in under 10 days and thanks for the time you put into it. I would really like to thank Awais for putting together. Keep up the good work! Next might be Operation MD-90. we will see. As far as the next project MD80, Awais. Do you think we can get 600hrs in a month? Lets set the bar high! Can't Fly a MADDOG keep it in the hangar. Tyrone Weston CP MD88/90 Program
05/27/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Tyrone Weston	Tyrone Weston
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Tyrone Weston to our "Double Century Club". Tyrone recently completed 200 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Tyrone on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
05/26/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines Congratulates Craig Birch	Brandon Andreasen
Congratulations to Craig Birch who successfully completed an exam and flight video for promotion to the 727 and Charlie Class. Craig is on his way up to the Delta Class where he is hoping to fly the MD-11. Congratulations Craig, and good luck!!
05/24/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Gene Guilford	Tyrone Weston
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Gene Guilford to our "Century Club". Gene recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Gene on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
05/23/2003	For the new MD88 pilots	Tyrone Weston
Welcome to the MAD DOG program. I am your Chief Pilot Tyrone Weston. if you have any questions you may contact me one of three ways Water cooler tdw777@comcast.net ormd88pilot@comcast.net http://groups.yahoo.com/group/big_boi_550/ The link is our site for time being. If you wish to fly the MD90 it here on DVA download area. I shall be putting together sound sets and panels soon.
05/22/2003	PIREP Submission Reminder	Luke Kolin
Delta Virtual Airlines pilots are reminded to "SUBMIT" their PIREPs once they have finished filling them out. PIREPs that remain in "DRAFT" status may encounter significant delays in approval, since they will not appear in the queue for approval. If anyone has questions on how to submit a PIREP, please feel free to ask in the Water Cooler.
05/19/2003	Server Downtime Tonight	Luke Kolin
I am in the process of hardening our servers for increased security and (marginally) increased network performance, by splitting the physical network segments for our internal and external networks. Right now, they use the same 10/100 switch. I will be shutting down our main server tonight around 10PM for 15-20 minutes to add a second NIC and cable.
05/16/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Emilio Martinez	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Emilio Martinez to our "Century Club". Emilio recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Emilio on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
05/16/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Mike Paradise	William Chambers
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Mike Paradise to our "Double Century Club". Mike recently completed 200 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Mike on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
05/04/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Ludger Koch	William Chambers
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Ludger Koch to our "Century Club". Ludger recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Ludger on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
05/02/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Mike Evans	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Mike Evans to our "Double Century Club". Mike recently completed 200 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Mike on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
04/28/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Mike Putterman	Mark McCauley
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Mike Putterman to our "Century Club". Mike recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Mike on his outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
04/28/2003	Chief Pilot Promotions	Luke Kolin
Please join me in congratulating Captains Awais Ahsan and Michael Banks, who have agreed to take the next step and volunteer their prodigious talents at Delta Virtual Airlines. Awais Ahsan will be the new Assistant Chief Pilot of the MD-88 program. Delta Virtual Airlines has identified a significant pillot shortage in our MD-88 program, and is commencing a crash hiring of Mad Dog pilots. Awais will be working with Tyrone Weston to ensure that the program reaches its full complement of over 100 pilots quickly. Michael Banks has been "Mr. MD-11" since joining DVA, apart from a brief affair with the 747-100. It is only fitting that the MD-11's biggest fan take over this program, that of DVA's largest and most distinguished aircraft. Please join me in congratulating Awais and Michael on their new roles here at DVA.
04/28/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Sachin Phadke	Dennis Cherney
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Sachin Phadke to our "Century Club". Sachin recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Sachin on his outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
04/28/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Trevor Fenimore	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Trevor Fenimore to our "Century Club". Trevor recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Trevor on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
04/26/2003	MD88/90 and DC-9 Crews	Tyrone Weston
I set up a place for you folks to go and express your thoughts and ideas. Ask questions and get to know each other... the MADDOG hangout.. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/big_boi_550/ If you can't FLY with the MADDOG's keep your wheels chocked! you will need to sign up I welcome evry one at DVA to check it out... Tyrone Weston
04/26/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Mike Paradise	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Mike Paradise to our "Century Club". Mike recently completed 100 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a select few of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Mike on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
04/25/2003	Congratulations to Dennis Cherney	Luke Kolin
Please join me in congratulating Dennis Cherney, who has been recently acclaimed as the Chair of the Delta Virtual Airlines Board of Directors. Dennis will be reponsible for organizing the consultations of our Board, to ensure that the time and abilities of its members can be maximized.
04/23/2003	Cincinnati to Orlando Groupflight	Dennis Cherney
Signups for the Cincinnati to Orlando Groupflight are now OPEN!!! Check the events page for more information. http://www.deltava.us/events/
04/22/2003	CRJ-200 Assistant Chief Pilot	Luke Kolin
I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Matt Moak as the Assistant Chief Pilot of our CRJ-200 program. As you know, we are blessed with Todd Ortschied, a real-world pilot, as our CRJ-200 Chief Pilot. Matt has displayed the kind of enthusiasm and effort that makes him an excellent addition to the Delta Virtual Airlines program, assisting Todd in his daily duties. Please join me in congratulating Matt on his new position and challenges.
04/21/2003	System Downtime	Luke Kolin
Our servers will be experiencing between 30 and 60 minutes of downtime between 10:00 and 11:30 EDT this evening. Our RAM has arrived, and we will be upgrading the servers to speed things up. Sorry for any inconvenience.
04/13/2003	Board of Directors	Luke Kolin
As Delta Virtual Airlines has grown, our management has expanded from being a 2-person shop into almost a dozen. As we focus on longer-term issues affecting more community members, we've discovered a need for a group of individuals who can provide guidance on strategic issues facing their airline. Accordingly, we will be having a Board of Directors that will work with Dennis, Mark and myself to provide candid advice, feedback and suggestions. Our aim is to have a Board of 7 to 9 members, chosen a variety of ways. Our existing senior staff will be ex-officio members, and we will be including a number of experienced, committed pilots. I am pleased to announce that Robert Sucarato, Larry Hart and Geoffrey Smith have accepted nominations to the Board. The Board will be getting together soon to develop the logistics for adding a 7th member, a pilot representative. While no specifics have been worked out, there appears to be a consensus forming for a wide-ranging, democratic choice. Please join me in congratulating Larry, Robert and Geoffrey on their appointments.
04/09/2003	Delta Virtual Airlines congratulates Dale Caruso	Luke Kolin
On behalf of Delta Virtual Airlines, I am extremely pleased to welcome Dale Caruso to our "Quadruple Century Club". Dale recently completed 400 flight legs with Delta Virtual Airlines, an accomplishment only a handful of our pilots have achieved. Please join me in congratulating Dale on outstanding commitment to Delta Virtual Airlines, and we all look forward to more great achievements in the future!
04/08/2003	A Delta Virtual Airlines Milestone	Luke Kolin
Capt. Jerry Armstrong reached a great Delta Virtual Airlines milestone, where by chance he submitted the 20,000th PIREP at Delta Virtual Airlines since June 2001. Congratulations, everyone!
04/06/2003	Management Update	Luke Kolin
I regret to announce that Conrad Roberts will be stepping down from his role as President of Delta Virtual Airlines, due to a combination of health and family issues. As one of the CEOs of the two airlines that make up the present-day DVA, Conrad's efforts were critical in creating the airline you now enjoy. Please join me in wishing Conrad the best in his future endeavours. Going forward, we will be putting together a group of individuals to collectively move Delta Virtual Airlines forward. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know on the Water Cooler.
04/06/2003	Battle of the Carriers Fly-In	Dennis Cherney
This is a reminder that the battle of the carriers event is approaching. Please visit http://www.flyafa.com/apg/flyin/ for more information.
04/02/2003	Delta FLY! Released!	Conrad Roberts
Our April Issue of FLY! is now ready for you to read. Access it below. I'd like to thank those who have contributed to this issue greatly, without your help, it would of been impossible to pull this off! You'll need Adobe Acrobat READER 3.0 or higher to view this. You can download Adobe Acrobat from http://www.adobe.com http://www.deltava.us/FLY!APR.zip ----------------------- Thanks, Conrad Roberts FLY! Editor
03/23/2003	Delta FLY! Deadline	Conrad Roberts
Just a reminder to those of you that have chosen to write articles for FLY! I'm setting the deadline to April 1, 2003. By then, I'll need all the articles and submissions for final compiling. So far, I've got 14 pages completed. The estimated amount of pages could go up to 25-30, depending on what is submitted. It's coming soon! Enjoy reading.
03/23/2003	Southwest Florida (KRSW) Spring Break Fly-In	Dennis Cherney
The signups are now open for the Spring Break Fly-In scheduled for April 5th. If you are looking for a very realistic recreation of the Southwest Florida International Airport the scenery and AFCAD file can be downloaded from the Event Flight Information page on the events site (http://www.deltava.us/events/).
03/20/2003	Water Cooler War Postings	Dennis Cherney
This will serve as the one and only notice about postings concerning the current War in Iraq. Those who wish to express or share news about the war are welcome. However, we will under no circumstances tolerate any flaming of another person, race, country, and other related topics. Because of incidents in the past, DVA will be instituting a Zero Tolerance policy with regards to this topic. Anyone who is caught starting or participating in any fight of words in the water cooler will be suspended for a minimum of 14 days. Even if you are a person on the receiving end of this type of banned conversation you will be suspended if you chose to respond in kind. Let the staff handle any issues that may arise. Again, please feel free to discuss issues that are not directed in a negative fashion against another person or group. If you have to question whether your comments would be taken as a personal attack then they probably would be and should refrain from making such posts. In the past people have become disgusted with the discussions that turn negative, now I don't want to be the heavy in the issue but I do not want to lose any pilots over someone?s inability to control their thoughts and opinions. We really appreciate the cooperation of all members of Delta Virtual and with the support of everyone we can get through this difficult time.
03/15/2003	Boston Flyin Signups Open	Mark McCauley
We have opened the Boston Flyin Signups, this will be a partner event with UPSVAC. The Flyin will be on March 29, 2003 between 5-7pm EST. More info can be found at www.deltava.us/events.
03/15/2003	Flight Video Uploading	Luke Kolin
I'm very pleased to announce the addition to the Testing Center of a Flight Video review section. This will allow pilots to upload their check flight videos to our web site, instead of hunting down a Chief Pilot via e-mail. You will be able to track the entire review process, and we'll have a record of which check flights you've successfully completed. This feature is limited to videos of 4MB or less in size, so please ensure you only record the final few minutes of your flight, from the Outer Marker to the end of the rollout.
03/12/2003	Mike Evans promoted to Senior Captain L-1011	Ariel Griotti
L-1011 Captain Mike Evans has earned the rank of Senior Captain. With over 60 flights in just this aircraft, and hundreds of hours in other aircraft, he also is influential at DVA and participatory in any way he can. Please congratulate Mike on his promotion.
03/08/2003	Delta FLY!	Conrad Roberts
Many of you have been wondering where our monthly issues of FLY! magazine have been. I'm letting you know, we need to get this magazine going! Its been sometime since our last issue was published, lets try and shoot for a new issue by April or May! If you are interested in writing for FLY! magazine, a magazine dedicated to Delta Virtual Airline Pilots with reviews, articles, etc, please contact me. You must be compitent in English and be able to dedicate time to writing 1-3 articles per issue. Delta FLY! Issues are between 15-20 pages in length, our magazine is published in PDF and HTML format. Please contact me with your name, e-mail, and what you'd be interested in doing as a writer for our magazine. Remember, this is a magazine purley developed from volunteer work, by no means should you feel obligated to join the Delta FLY! Staff team. Join only if you are interested and wish to show your work to 500+ fellow pilots. Thanks, Conrad Roberts dva_ceo@yahoo.com AIM: ceodva
03/08/2003	Events... Are back!!!	Mark McCauley
Well after of being off for a month, events are back on and jammed packed. There will be 4 back to back events starting on March 22nd our USA tour continues from JFK-CVG you may signup now at the events site. On March 29th we have our Boston flyin with UPSVAC signups open March 13th. On April 5th we have a Ft. Myers flyin signups will open the 22nd of March. Our big event for April will be a partnership event with UPSVAC and American Pacific Group (APG) Battle of the Carriers. We will be flying into KHOU (Houston Hobby) on Sunday April 13th more details to follow in the coming weeks. We encourage you to signup for our events and meet other delta pilots.
03/02/2003	Congratulations to Harold Darner	Tyrone Weston
Harold Darner has completed his check ride aboard the MD88 as has now moved up in the ranks as Capt. Good job Harold. Who is next? Training is on going and very important. So see you in six month for your recurrent or if not sooner for your Senior Capt Check ride.
03/02/2003	Water Cooler Usage	Conrad Roberts
I've seen a few of these bashing and problematic threads lately. Delta Virtual Airlines as you know has a ZERO Tollerence Policy for bad behavior and you can read what we don't and do allow at our FORUM GUIDELINES on the menu to the left. From now on, any individual starting or involved in a flame war will be warned, 2nd and 3rd offenses will end up in either a Suspension or Expulsion from the water cooler and/or Delta Virtual Airlines (Depending on offense). When I say the word offense, I'm basiclly pointing out the threads where people are involved in feuds and wars, not minor threads where everyone is happy or the ocasional off-topic postings.. Most of us get along, but there are the few that have issues, lets keep this number as low as possible to keep the friendly enviroment that the water cooler has today. Thanks for your attention
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