Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Suggestion: Accomplishment Eligibility Detail

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Suggestion: Accomplishment Eligibility Detail

DVA3220
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 19 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
B737 50 Club

Southeastern United States

78 legs, 129.9 hours
73 legs, 122.3 hours online
76 legs, 127.3 hours ACARS
31 legs, 57.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on March 19 2017 12:06 ET by Tyler Devereaux

Hello again. Another suggestion, if anyone else likes the idea.

I was digging through the accomplishment eligibility page (Pilot Center -> Accomplishment Eligibility). Firstly, I want to say that the whole concept of the accomplishments is very cool and gives a new angle to simming -- so thank you!

Some of the accomplishments are fairly detailed: the US Coastal Club accomplishment has 64 requirements. It would be nice if the eligibility page indicated, more specifically, which requirements you've met to achieve the accomplishment. Obviously the flight legs & miles are pretty basic, but for the location & aircraft type ones, I was thinking either:
1) make the accomplishment a clickable link that brought you to another page that lists each requirement individually, with some type of indication on whether it's been satisfied (I was thinking of a list similar to when you go into the Testing Center, and can see all of the exams you've taken with a big check/cross icon indicating the result of each)
2) more simply, leave the page just as-is and just apply some CSS to each element of the description that's been satisfied (bold/italic perhaps, or maybe strikethrough the completed items)

Food for thought.

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours
837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on March 19 2017 14:23 ET by Andrew Vane

For most of the accomplishments, it shows you how many remaining. If a new accomplishment is created, you don't need to know what progress you already have, just what you need to complete. Why go back and fly to US Coastal club airports if you already have landed there and they count towards the accomplishment?

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on March 24 2017 12:43 ET by Tyler Devereaux

Andrew:

Thanks for the reply. I'm slightly confused by your response: it seems that we're saying the same thing, but using the same statement as a retort to each other! I completely agree with you: you just need to know what you need to complete.

Andrew Vane wrote:

Why go back and fly to US Coastal club airports if you already have landed there and they count towards the accomplishment?

This is precisely what I'm trying to avoid. My suggestion was to emphasize the items that need completion by distinguishing them from the items that have already been completed. Case in point, for the US Coastal Club accomplishment, I have completed 7 of 64 airports. But the only way (that I know of) to figure out which of those 7 I've already done (and thusly determine the ones I still need to do) is to go back into my flight reports to check each report. That's a tedious process for someone who may not remember which airports they've flown to (or, more specifically, whether it was a DVA flight), especially:
- someone who was late to join DVA in their simming "career" (or otherwise doesn't exclusively fly DVA flights)
- someone who has a lot more reports & active years in the VA than myself.

Posted onPost created on March 24 2017 20:44 ET by Andrew Vane

Hmm. The best way for me to help you is to give you any list you're seeking for the time being. Let me know what accomplishment you're interested and I'll give you the list of airports.

Since you brought up the US Coastal Club, here are the airports any pilot needs to achieve the accomplishment: ACK, ACV, ACY, ANC, APF, AST, BHB, BLI, BOS, BQK, CEC, CLM, CRP, DAB, EWB, EWN, EWR, EYW, FLL, GON, GPT, HHH, HNL, HQM, HVN, HYA, ILM, JAX, JFK, JNU, KOA, LAX, LGA, LGB, LIH, MIA, MLB, MOB, MRY, MSY, MTH, MVY, MYR, OAK, OGG, ORF, OTH, OXR, PBI, PFN, PHF, PNS, PVD, PWM, RKD, RSW, SAN, SBA, SBP, SFO, SNA, SRQ, TPA, VPS

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

Posted onPost created on March 24 2017 20:52 ET by Tyler Devereaux

Andrew Vane wrote:

Hmm. The best way for me to help you is to give you any list you're seeking for the time being. Let me know what accomplishment you're interested and I'll give you the list of airports.

Since you brought up the US Coastal Club, here are the airports any pilot needs to achieve the accomplishment: ACK, ACV, ACY, ANC, APF, AST, BHB, BLI, BOS, BQK, CEC, CLM, CRP, DAB, EWB, EWN, EWR, EYW, FLL, GON, GPT, HHH, HNL, HQM, HVN, HYA, ILM, JAX, JFK, JNU, KOA, LAX, LGA, LGB, LIH, MIA, MLB, MOB, MRY, MSY, MTH, MVY, MYR, OAK, OGG, ORF, OTH, OXR, PBI, PFN, PHF, PNS, PVD, PWM, RKD, RSW, SAN, SBA, SBP, SFO, SNA, SRQ, TPA, VPS

I appreciate your time, Andrew, and thanks for that information. I wasn't so much asking for support as just putting a feature request/suggestion in. It was just an idea I had that I thought would make peoples' "v-lives" a little easier, so I dropped it here smile

Thanks again

Posted onPost created on March 24 2017 22:34 ET by Andrew Vane

I understand. I will add this as an enhancement to see if Luke can make it happen for the next build.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA8037
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on November 01 2009
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
DVA Fleet Master
US Mountaineer Club
Six Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Long Beach 1500 Club

"If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going"
Rosedale, NY USA

6,976 legs, 13,756.5 hours
6,969 legs, 13,737.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on February 19 2019 08:35 ET by Eric Haack

An accomplishment goal that I've been quietly working on myself:
All airports in the entire schedule?

Aside from going through your Log Book, is there any way to see which airports on the entire DVA list you haven't yet been to?
PS-still looking for KFHB that's easy to install because that's what I believe to be the last destination for me.

Also, can there be a "blind' flight requirement on the Cessna 172 where you put zero views in the windows-full blackout-once on the departing runway.
then you have to fly the pattern and land all on instruments alone. I've practiced this self-imposed challenge at Page Field (KFMY) in Fort Myers departing RWY05 and doing a right pattern back to RWY05.
Once on the runway, I put the views back up in the windows for taxi.

Eric Haack (DVA8037)

DVA10698
Chief Pilot, B717-200
OLP, 737-ATP
DISPATCHER

Joined on April 25 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett Millennium Club
Events Century Club
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century

"Life is simple, eat, sleep, fly, sim....."
Miami, FL

1,682 legs, 2,309.2 hours
1,621 legs, 2,204.2 hours online
1,682 legs, 2,309.2 hours ACARS
104 legs, 165.6 hours event
75 legs dispatched, 191.3 hours

Posted onPost created on February 19 2019 08:58 ET by Jay Marin

Eric, you can use https://www.deltava.org/accairportmap.do and on the upper right corner, click on each accomplishment and it will show you the airports you still need for that accomplishment, if nothing appears, that means you are done with that one.

Also, you can check here https://www.deltava.org/mynewairports.do and will show all airports you still need to visit. I believe this one is airports you have not visited (with/without accomplishment).

Hope this help.

Jay Marin (DVA10698)

Posted onPost created on February 19 2019 10:54 ET by Andrew Vane

Eric great idea. Some form of this will be in the P4 which we're working on.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA2018
Chief Pilot, ERJ-170
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on November 23 2004
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Fleet Master
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Everett Tri-Millennium Club
Eight Millennium Club
Ten Million Miles and Beyond
Online Thirty Century
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

Ralston, NE

11,926 legs, 26,922.8 hours
3,951 legs, 7,571.5 hours online
10,685 legs, 22,329.8 hours ACARS
4 legs, 10.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on February 25 2019 21:41 ET by Matthew Whitaker

Andrew, are you going to remove the Air France Historical ones from the airports still to visit list? I was literally starting up to fly one of them out of Heathrow and after trying to figure out why I couldn't find the flight in ACARS remembered your post about them being taken down.

Matthew Whitaker

Chief Pilot, ERJ-170

DVA13576
Captain, B777-200

Joined on December 11 2018
US Capital Club
50 State Club
Century Club
Stock Car Racing Club
Everett Century Club
Online Century Club

Midwestern United States

188 legs, 430.1 hours
114 legs, 203.3 hours online
186 legs, 426.8 hours ACARS
19 legs, 33.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on February 26 2019 08:10 ET by Tom Pletzke

Eric Haack wrote:

An ... "blind' flight requirement on the Cessna 172 ...

Hi Eric, you mentioned a Cessna 172. Are there flights we can fly for DVA that are 172's. I like to take flights in them once in a while at about 4000 to enjoy some scenery.

Tom Pletzke

Captain, B777-200

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