Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - ACARS2006

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | DVA2006 | ACARS2006 - What it can do

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 19:52 ET by Luke Kolin

I did a test flight from LaGuardia to Kennedy in the trusty 880 test bed. This short hop is a beautiful flight for me, since it's around 5 minutes and lets me test ACARS server functionality. DVA2006 has a new mapping feature, that integrates into Google Maps. We already use this to log existing, "legacy" flights.

The neat part is that the ACARS protocol already logs flight data, every 30 seconds. By reading this data from the database and sending it to Google Maps, I can log my entire flight. The curves are a little sharp because we are only logging position every 30 seconds, but you can see the rough edges of the flight.

Here's the URL I use to test: http://dva2006.deltava.org/pirep.cmd?id=0xC4D9

Ignore the ACARS data, but zoom in on Kennedy in Google Maps. Not only did ACARS log what runway I landed on, IT ACCURATELY LOGGED WHICH TAXIWAY I EXITED ON. The possibilities for checkrides are amazing, especially since I can annotate every single data point with a popup, if I wish.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA2054
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on December 15 2004
Online Century Club
Double Century Club

Northeastern United States

299 legs, 1,116.9 hours
194 legs, 651.8 hours online
217 legs, 791.1 hours ACARS
14 legs, 48.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 20:09 ET by Andrew Dalrymple

Luke,

When I follow that link I do not get a route line. only the start and stop points. Same if I look at my routes file in my prereps on the dva2006 site.

Cheers,

andrew

Andrew Dalrymple (DVA2054)

DVA1271
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on June 27 2003
Double Century Club

Central America

234 legs, 910.2 hours

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 20:30 ET by Rolando Alvarado-Scott

damnnnnn.. now that's pimp.. lol.. no, really.. using google maps like that is something really cool.. especially because with google you can use the satellite feature which is even more cool..

great job luke..

Rolando Alvarado-Scott (DVA1271)

DVA1892
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on September 13 2004
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Eurocap Club
Online Triple Century Club
White Pearl Accomplishment
Quatercentenary Club
Everett Century Club

"Fly Douglas Jets!"
Buenos Aires AR

460 legs, 1,384.1 hours
336 legs, 1,086.5 hours online
271 legs, 726.6 hours ACARS
12 legs, 24.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 20:43 ET by Gaston Doval

Luke,

WOW, this is awesome! You are really DA man. Thanks for all the improvements and all the time you put in this VA. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you.

Andrew,

Zoom into the map and you'll see what Luke is talking about. - Don't hate man LOL

Cheers!

Gaston Doval (DVA1892)

DVA1583
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on March 23 2004
Everett 250 Club
Online Six Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Seven Century Club

South America

710 legs, 1,938.2 hours
619 legs, 1,760.2 hours online
589 legs, 1,630.3 hours ACARS
16 legs, 61.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 21:12 ET by Charly Azcue

Really really awesome smile

Regards

DVA1706
Captain, MD-88
E-MAIL

Joined on May 28 2004
Online Century Club
Double Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Fuel is good.....untill your on fire"
Kennesaw, GA USA

285 legs, 820.1 hours
167 legs, 475.1 hours online
171 legs, 537.0 hours ACARS
1 legs, 3.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 21:27 ET by Wesley Kinnison

haha some ones rolling in hours 11 miles in 5.6 hours??? hehe

Wesley Kinnison

Captain, MD-88

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 21:32 ET by Luke Kolin

That PIREP is a hideous hack, since DVA2006 is not presently capable of accepting a PIREP filed from the ACARS utility. I combined an existing ACARS pirep (from OGG to LAX) with route data from my test flight. This is a really basic proof of concept - but now that it has been done once, there's some really neat opportunties.

Like a map showing all DVA pilots online on VATSIM, IVAO and ACARS all at once. What I'm really exceited over is the notion of checkrides being logged via ACARS - a simple 20 minute flight - with your chief pilot reviewing the ACARS logs via google maps. At each point in the flight, he clicks the track and we get airspeed, altitude, etc.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 09 2005 21:51 ET by Andrew Dalrymple

Nope zoomed in until I could see the potholes in the street and still no route line. Do I need to install anything to see the route?

Gaston Nice mate Nice! lol

cheers,

andrew

Andrew Dalrymple (DVA2054)

Posted onPost created on July 10 2005 07:31 ET by Wesley Kinnison

haha go look at katl on 08r theres a guy in postion theres a guy about half way down the runway and theres a guy rotating

Wesley Kinnison

Captain, MD-88

DVA2381
Captain, MD-88

Joined on June 03 2005

Northeastern United States

62 legs, 121.7 hours
48 legs, 92.2 hours online
8 legs, 14.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 13 2005 14:27 ET by Daniel Ricky

I tried clicking on the link, but all that showed up was, an error that there was no website at that page.

Daniel Ricky (DVA2381)

DVA2467
Captain, B767-300

Joined on July 12 2005

Western United States

27 legs, 51.9 hours
18 legs, 36.9 hours online
20 legs, 39.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 13 2005 20:28 ET by Bart Bartholomay

I guess this is as good a place as any to post a first message......

It's great to see some talented people doin' their thing. Project work in this hobby is one of the things that keep me going. So seeing others' work is especially fun. Heck, I don't even have an ID number yet, but I like the look of things...now and to come with DVA2006.

Bart Bartholomay (DVA2467)

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