DVA12650
Captain, B777-200
Joined on June 10 2015
White Knuckles Club
50 State Club
Everett Century Club
Globetrotter
Black Pearl Club
Double Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Midwestern United States
213 legs, 288.8 hours
206 legs,
278.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
July 24 2015 15:02 ET by Noah Weber
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Hey, everyone. I noticed another VA that has a "Best Landings of the Day" leaderboard on their website, much the way DVA has newest hires, recent promotions, accomplishments, etc. They seem to use vertical speed at touchdown as the main indicator. Is this something we might be able to implement at DVA using ACARS data?
-Noah
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DVA11591
Senior Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on July 02 2013
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fleet Master
Online Twenty Century
US Coastal Club
Events Double Century Club
Five Million Mile Club
US Mountaineer Club
B757 100 Club
Tri-Millennium Club
Tin Dispatcher
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Left foot dead foot, verified! Feather Left!"
Daytona Beach, FL
3,271 legs, 11,709.7 hours
2,885 legs,
10,250.1 hours online
3,142 legs,
11,149.0 hours ACARS
326 legs,
874.1 hours event
274 legs dispatched, 316.5
hours
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Posted onPost created on
July 24 2015 15:44 ET by Soonho Lee
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Well...... the thing with the landing score card in other virtual airlines is that they mostly focus on the how "soft" one lands. We, the DVA ( I am sure the AFVA is the same way), does not promote a soft landing. Soft landing makes good impression on passengers, and will induce less stress on the airframe when done correctly, but it sometimes results in a unsafe condition such as: unnecessary extended floating, which also results on high pitch (which could result in the tail strike), low airspeed, and rarely, but ultimately running off of the runway. It also tends people to come way below the glide slope which will also have great chance of hitting something close to the ground...
From what I've been hearing around, we used to have the board like that, but decided to get rid of it due to the reason above. There is still a way for you to view the landing statics under Statistics -> Landing statistics.
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