Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - DVA2006

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | DVA2006 | DVA2006 - The Next Step

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

2,309 legs, 9,298.2 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,967 legs, 8,091.3 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,345 legs, 9,433.1 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 17:49 ET by Luke Kolin

For those of you that have been paying attention to the DVA2006 web site, our issue list has been rapidly expanding, and I've been slowly closing off the issues. Thanks to the efforts of James Brickeel, Matt Creed, Terry and Ralph the site has been improved. From ther experiences, I am confident that we are really, really close to having a stable, working system.

Terry and Ralph have exercised the basic roster system, and have given all of you access to approve/reject PIREPs, as well as grade examinations. They have provided excellent feedback to James and myself. Now, it's your turn.

Please log into the DVA2006 site at http://golgotha.deltava.org/ Look around. Edit your profile. Upload a new signature, or remove your signature. File a few PIREPs. Use some times that make sense, and some that are too long/too short. Go into the Testing Center and sign up for an examination. Write it. When you're done, take a look for submitted PIREPs and randomly approve or reject a few. Don't reject/approve too many PIREPs, since others need their shot too. Just verify it all works.

And when it doesn't (and something will break) please go into the Issue Tracker and log it. If you get an error, copy the stack dump to your clipboard and paste it in. That helps me and makes my life easier.

We need your help in getting DVA2006 out the door in 2005. In 2001, we had a web site that blew the doors off of our competition. After four years, they're finally starting to catch up to us. In 2006, our competition might approach the level of our Fleet Installers as of 2004. DVA2006 is going to blow the doors off of them yet again. What you are testing is just the tip of the iceberg. The new code allows remarkable functionality such as advanced mapping and aircraft tracking - but we nede to ensure that the basic stuff works just as well as the existing site. Again, I greatly need the web site shaken out, so I can turn my attention towards the ACARS server, the Fleet, and the stuff that will make our technical infrastructure unparallelled for another half decade.

When you have everything working, we're going to open things up another level to the pilot community. We're going to need pilots to take tests and checkrides. The promotion workflow in DVA2006 is designed to make your lives easier. If it doesn't, your feedback will lead to changes that will.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA238
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on August 15 2001
Online Double Century Club
B757 100 Club
Millennium Club
Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Repainters, "Get Ready""
Comer, GA

1,485 legs, 3,437.6 hours
235 legs, 435.3 hours online
1,124 legs, 2,800.8 hours ACARS
1 legs dispatched, 1.8 hours

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 18:23 ET by Brittany Sventon

Luke, about those NOTAMS, are those going to be actual FAA NOTAMs, and will we get flight dispatch releases like the ones I e-mailed to you?

Brittany Sventon (DVA238)

DVA2447
Captain, B767-300

Joined on July 02 2005

Gainesville, FL USA

38 legs, 109.7 hours
29 legs, 85.8 hours online

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 07:10 ET by Luiz Bolfer

Dear Luke, first Congratulations for DVA WebSite... in my Opinion it's the best VA website that I've ever seen.

Welll, I always try to be close to real flights in my simulated flights, So I usually take a time reading Metars, TAF NOTAMs etc... But at our Pilot Center I'm trying to get Metar Information but it is never available .. Like

No METAR observation from XXX is available in our system.

and I didn't see any TAF information.....

Do you Know if we can fix it or another good Metar/Taf Web information?

Best Regards and again Congratulations you guys...

Luiz Bolfer

DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM

Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"I'd rather be flying!"
Church Hill, TN USA

862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs, 165.2 hours online
299 legs, 485.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 07:17 ET by George Lewis

here you go
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml

George Lewis (DVA2253)

DVA2447
Captain, B767-300

Joined on July 02 2005

Gainesville, FL USA

38 legs, 109.7 hours
29 legs, 85.8 hours online

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 07:26 ET by Luiz Bolfer

George, that's is the same site where our Metar request goes to.. But If I go directaly it works...

Thank's again..

See you

Luiz Bolfer

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 08:39 ET by Brittany Sventon

Hopefully, we will have simulated flight dispatches available, which will contain NOTAMS, METARs, TAFs, and SIGMETS.

Brittany Sventon (DVA238)

DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club

Monterrey, NL Mexico

357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 09:56 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

Luke! I'm sure that I don't have to say it, but DVA2006 looks like the best and most functional website I've ever seen! Thanks for improving this site to enhance the simming experience man! Great job!

David Eugenio Gomez (DVA1933)

DVA953
Senior Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL

Joined on November 17 2002
50 State Club
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club

"V1 means V1..."
West Lafayette, IN USA

214 legs, 376.8 hours
211 legs, 373.0 hours online
117 legs, 223.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 11:44 ET by James Brickell

Steve, if I'm not mistaken, the data in DVA2006 is a few weeks old - just for testing purposes.

James Brickell (DVA953)

DVA2447
Captain, B767-300

Joined on July 02 2005

Gainesville, FL USA

38 legs, 109.7 hours
29 legs, 85.8 hours online

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 15:19 ET by Luiz Bolfer

Is there any way to our Forum show us new posts form our last Log??

Thank's
Luiz

Posted onPost created on July 11 2005 07:44 ET by Luke Kolin

The way I was importing PIREPs was hideously slow and inefficient on anything other than Ethernet. It failed halfway through, and I didn't want to restart.

However, if I use mysqldump to dump the PIREP tables from my home database, I can ZIP them into a 2MB file and then run them on the remote server. I've imported them into a test database, and it seemed to work. I'll upload them again tonight. We'll either get all of the PIREPs, or none. smile

And yes, there is functionality to display all Water Cooler posts since your last login. I'll need to test it out.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 11 2005 07:44 ET by Luke Kolin

Brittany, I've received your simulated flight dispatches. They're not going to be in the initial release, but I'm going to see what Matt and I can cobble together.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300

Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club

"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST"
Midwestern United States

394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs, 430.6 hours online
86 legs, 126.5 hours ACARS
8 legs, 16.0 hours event
501 legs, 763.5 hours total

Posted onPost created on July 13 2005 23:37 ET by Michael Carter

I'm having a problem of being logged-out while composing a post. If I've checked e-Mail, gone to get a beer, let the dog out, or anything that has exceeded the time limit, my post is gone when the screen pops up after trying to post and says: YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN. PLEASE ENTER YOUR LOG-IN AND PASSWORD.

AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE TIME LIMIT IS!!! HELLO!

The post I was writing is POOF. A smattering of electrons in cyberspace. I can't even back-up to retrieve it because the page ain't there.

This is very frustrating. Hell I might have been typing for 10 minutes past the limit and I'd never know it. Even if HAD been sitting here the whole time.

Please fix this auto-log-out problem. This is the only site I've been to that has an auto-log out-script, (besides e-bay) no auto log in, and still has full access to the fleet library for members with no flights being logged open to whatever free-loaders might want to join just for the aircraft, never fliy a flight, and we never hear from them in the Cooler...

The Boeing 727 engine shop is performing Hot Sections right now, and I'm first on the list.

Posted onPost created on July 14 2005 11:12 ET by Luke Kolin

DVA2006 (and AFV2006 when I fork the code) will have a much friendlier mechanism for keeping you logged in.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA1650
Captain, L-1011-100

Joined on April 24 2004
Century Club

"The O-N-L-Y Way to Fly!"
Southeastern United States

103 legs, 174.7 hours
49 legs, 94.5 hours online
2 legs, 2.1 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 14 2005 14:12 ET by Daniel Malneritch

Looking good. I see that you're still using frames. Wasn't one of your goals to not use frames? I also noticed that it's valid XHTML. That's good. I strongly recommend you keep it that way. (And valid CSS too if you use it.)

smile

Daniel Malneritch

Captain, L-1011-100

Posted onPost created on July 14 2005 16:50 ET by Brittany Sventon

Those weren't simulated flight dispatches. Those were actual Delta flight dispatches from June 1 and June 8.

Brittany Sventon (DVA238)

Posted onPost created on July 14 2005 18:44 ET by James Brickell

The site is entirely formatted using CSS - peek at the source.

James Brickell (DVA953)

DVA2448
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on July 05 2005
Online Century Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club

Spring Lake, MI

343 legs, 971.5 hours
173 legs, 431.4 hours online
300 legs, 812.3 hours ACARS
7 legs, 36.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 16 2005 21:22 ET by Tim Fox

Love the site....

However, I can't log in....it appears as if the pilot database might be a bit old...is that why?

Keep up the good work! I want everyone to see my screw-ups! (LOL)

Tim Fox (DVA2448)

Posted onPost created on July 17 2005 16:37 ET by Luke Kolin

The data is migrated over every few weeks. If you joined us in the month of July you're probably not in there.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA273
Assistant Chief Pilot, B777-200

Joined on September 07 2001
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Three Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Ponce De Leon Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Everett Millennium Club

"Flying Freedom, Photography Passion"
Aurora, CO

2,144 legs, 8,670.4 hours
39 legs, 247.6 hours online
1,249 legs, 5,108.4 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 07 2005 20:32 ET by Michael Evans

Brittany how do you access actual dispatches?

Michael Evans

Assistant Chief Pilot, B777-200

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