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DVA9054
Captain, DC-6
OLP
E-MAIL
Joined on May 31 2010
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Two Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Just love to fly......."
Egypt
2,748 legs, 7,177.5 hours
11 legs,
22.3 hours online
2,747 legs,
7,175.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 01 2017 09:44 ET by Alaa Riad
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Dear DVA,
First I would like to thank you for your continuous and educational efforts making our hobby much more fun and useful, I have few suggestions and I apologize in advance if it was discussed before or if it's impossible to make:
It's really a cool feature when the code of airports is clickable then you get a beautiful page with much useful information about the airports, but you know that 95% of airports are unfamiliar to pilots, so, I suggest to include the following information at each airport page:
1- Information regarding the airport's general elevation above sea level.
2- Time in local and UTC for sunset and sunrise.
3- Direct link to arrival/departure/airport charts.
4- Type of planes not recommended or forbidden to land at that airport due to certain limitations such as topography or RWY length
I know all the previous information could be researched and obtained with some or little effort but I thought to recommend it to you anyhow.
Best regards
Alaa
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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
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Posted onPost created on
May 01 2017 10:32 ET by Andrew Vane
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Great idea! We actually have something of this sort being worked on now. We're updating some of the data on gates. Once this phase of the work is done and officially rolled out, we can look to enhance further. Right now it will show runways and Delta gates. We'll work to improve upon it.
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DVA2370
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP, COMM, VFRADV
Joined on May 26 2005
Online Triple Century Club
Commuter Conquest
Six Century Club
Stage 1 Prop Triple Century Club
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Flagler Beach, FL USA
675 legs, 726.8 hours
319 legs,
311.4 hours online
179 legs,
146.1 hours ACARS
1 legs,
1.6 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 4.0
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 01 2017 13:21 ET by Scott Clarke
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The big challenge is to keep the information up to date. The FAA does this with their updates.....How to automate?? so some issues to keeping it current. 
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DVA9054
Captain, DC-6
OLP
E-MAIL
Joined on May 31 2010
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Two Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Just love to fly......."
Egypt
2,748 legs, 7,177.5 hours
11 legs,
22.3 hours online
2,747 legs,
7,175.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 01 2017 14:23 ET by Alaa Riad
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Thank you, Andrew and Scott I appreciate all your work 
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA
2,306 legs, 9,290.0 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online
1,964 legs,
8,083.1 hours ACARS
75 legs,
196.3 hours event
2,342 legs, 9,424.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
May 24 2017 16:11 ET by Luke Kolin
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For those following at home, I've finally ported a decent sunrise/sunset calculator to Java 8 and have introduced this data on the Airport Information page. I'll be adding these calculations to other places over time.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP
Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century
"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil
2,494 legs, 5,042.2 hours
2,323 legs,
4,763.8 hours online
2,486 legs,
5,012.6 hours ACARS
271 legs,
683.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 24 2017 17:55 ET by Thiago Braga
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Alaa Riad wrote:
Dear DVA,
First I would like to thank you for your continuous and educational efforts making our hobby much more fun and useful, I have few suggestions and I apologize in advance if it was discussed before or if it's impossible to make:
It's really a cool feature when the code of airports is clickable then you get a beautiful page with much useful information about the airports, but you know that 95% of airports are unfamiliar to pilots, so, I suggest to include the following information at each airport page:
1- Information regarding the airport's general elevation above sea level.
2- Time in local and UTC for sunset and sunrise.
3- Direct link to arrival/departure/airport charts.
4- Type of planes not recommended or forbidden to land at that airport due to certain limitations such as topography or RWY length
I know all the previous information could be researched and obtained with some or little effort but I thought to recommend it to you anyhow.
Best regards
Alaa
I agree
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DVA12568
Assistant Chief Pilot, CRJ-200
Joined on March 20 2015
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Seven Century Club
Eurocap Club
Online Seven Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Atlanta, GA
769 legs, 1,968.6 hours
704 legs,
1,838.9 hours online
695 legs,
1,825.3 hours ACARS
19 legs,
89.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 24 2017 22:16 ET by Christian Samuels
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Just for an addon to what he said. Why don't DVA pilots get a schedule? Like certain routes to fly in the month? I know they do that in the real world but I feel like it would be cool to add
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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
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Posted onPost created on
May 25 2017 07:43 ET by Andrew Vane
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Christian if you have no draft flight reports, there is a way in the pilot center to do this, one flight at a time. Its under Flight Planning > Flight Assignments.
Actually, I just looked and it doesn't do what it used to do. I haven't used it in a while. If you'd like Operations to assign you some flights, I can do that! Just open a help desk issue. I see you fly all kinds of aircraft so I'll make it interesting.
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DVA10583
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on March 07 2012
50 State Club
Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Maryville, TN
150 legs, 294.6 hours
26 legs,
41.0 hours online
149 legs,
293.3 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2017 12:32 ET by Anthony Casella
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Having an assigned flight schedule each month would be cool with an option on how many flights you would want on the monthly schedule.
Anthony CasellaCaptain, B757-200
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DVA12568
Assistant Chief Pilot, CRJ-200
Joined on March 20 2015
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Seven Century Club
Eurocap Club
Online Seven Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Atlanta, GA
769 legs, 1,968.6 hours
704 legs,
1,838.9 hours online
695 legs,
1,825.3 hours ACARS
19 legs,
89.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 30 2017 15:16 ET by Christian Samuels
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Anthony Casella wrote:
Having an assigned flight schedule each month would be cool with an option on how many flights you would want on the monthly schedule.
In the real world. I heard that you have to be in a specific program and do a certain amount of flights (like we have here). But any future flights if you choose to do any, are in the plane that you chosen. Not the program of planes
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DVA10902
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on July 12 2012
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Online Quadruple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"Where am I? Who dressed me like this?"
Bloomingdale, IL
515 legs, 1,153.3 hours
473 legs,
1,063.5 hours online
514 legs,
1,150.2 hours ACARS
9 legs,
19.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
May 31 2017 11:41 ET by Tim Oleary
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Scheduling of pilots real world is based on seniority off assembled schedules by aircraft type of 'lines' flown. The senior pilots pick what they want then what is left is picked-over with the junior pilots getting fun places like Fargo. The contract specifies the minimum hours a crew person is required to fly. I'll link the old scheds I saved from Northwest so you can see what it was like back in the day.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz18ng0f5fegfe6/a320%20NWA%20Pilots%20Schedule%20Bid%20Package.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2b7ohy1wgzq3nwz/DTW%20744%20Full%20Pilots%20Bid%20Package.pdf?dl=0
RW bidding for schedules these days is an on-line affair and complicated-there is a you tube on how to do it by module: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeltaPBS/videos
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DVA2821
Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 15 2006
Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club
Spokane, WA
158 legs, 259.3 hours
83 legs,
143.2 hours online
139 legs,
227.2 hours ACARS
5 legs,
8.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 07 2017 17:01 ET by Jay Coffman
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Andrew Vane wrote:
Once this phase of the work is done and officially rolled out, we can look to enhance further. Right now it will show runways and Delta gates. We'll work to improve upon it.
Oh I can't wait to see this roll out! I was using IFLY ipad terminal maps to identify gates and locations in airports till that app got deleted from the app store. im not flying right now due to RW commitments but when Im back up and flying with V4, this feature of where to park would be wonderful!
Jay CoffmanCaptain, B737-800
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