Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - So where do y'all live?

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | DVA2006 | So where do y'all live?

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 25 2005 20:30 ET by Luke Kolin

No, don't respond here! smile

Build 9 of DVA2006 is available on the main server. One little feature I have is the "PILOT LOCATIONS" page, which shows you the DVA corporate HQ, as well as the locations of our pilots. Right now, the only one that has been added is me, but I'd appreciate your help in testing this out. It's a fun exercise.

http://golgotha.deltava.org/pilotboard.do

To add your location, log into the DVA2006 site with your name and DVA password and then view the URL above. You'll be able to move a little blue pointer to your location on a Google Map, and then when you're satisfied you can click "Update Location" to save it. It should work, but if it doesn't give me a shout. smile

And before you ask, there is a built-in privacy feature. The system will automatically randomize your location each time the map is displayed within a 3 mile circle, to prevent your exact location from being displayed. That being said, it's up to you to decide how much privacy you wish to give up. (And if you're under 18, please do me a favor and click on a house in the next subdivision. I think COPA is retarted and our younger pilots are not innocent babes in the woods, but I don't want Alberto Gonzales battering down my door at 3AM becuase I'm getting geolocations from minors.)

Build 9 is looking pretty good. I have a few pesky bugs to iron out, but we are almost feature complete.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA1008
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on December 14 2002
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
Online Six Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Fly 'till the map turns blue"
Kokomo, IN

633 legs, 1,731.3 hours
613 legs, 1,689.9 hours online
212 legs, 792.3 hours ACARS
35 legs, 77.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 25 2005 20:42 ET by Matt Young

Oh alright Luke, I'll put it at the workplace since I'm there so often. smile

Matt Young

Senior Captain, B757-200

DVA1267
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on July 09 2003
Triple Century Club

"Tactless, Understood, Right"
Colorado Springs, CO USA

368 legs, 1,943.8 hours
47 legs, 192.9 hours online
54 legs, 217.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 25 2005 23:16 ET by Matt Reamy

Wow, Luke. I took some time to poke around the other areas of the site as well. It looks absolutely stunning.

Matt Reamy (DVA1267)

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 25 2005 23:36 ET by Gaston Doval

Luke,

AWESOME FEATURE!

But now... how can we make that thing Compatible with two people leaving at the same time but their tags overlap??

Great to have you with us!

GOOD GOES AROUND! smile

Cheers!

DVA1427
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on December 14 2003
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Globetrotter
Moose Club
US Capital Club
Everett 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Livin' in the Dog Pound!"
Kannapolis, NC

558 legs, 1,984.3 hours
250 legs, 611.8 hours online
384 legs, 1,530.5 hours ACARS
38 legs, 82.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 02:19 ET by Lewis Gregory

Maybe I shouldn't be trying this at 6:00 in the morning, but I can't figure out how to place a little blue pointer at my location. How do I get the pointer on the screen? smile

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

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 26 2005 03:26 ET by George Lewis

I couldn't figure that part out either Lewis...

George Lewis (DVA2253)

DVA1419
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on December 07 2003
Century Club

Southeastern United States

175 legs, 303.7 hours

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 04:50 ET by Randy King

Lewis:

I was like you this morning and sat here having a starring contest with the monitor. I final tried simply left clicking on the geographic location I wanted, then clicking the update location key (bottom right on map). That took me to a new page with Lat and Lon. I then again clicked the update location key, and there it was, my location selection, illustrated with the blue marker. try that and see if it works.

Randy King

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA1679
Senior Captain, A320

Joined on May 16 2004
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club

"flightdeckproductions.com"
Utica, MI USA

322 legs, 620.4 hours
300 legs, 591.4 hours online
115 legs, 194.0 hours ACARS
5 legs, 11.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 05:30 ET by Larry Foltran

Awesome feature Luke. Great job!

Larry Foltran (DVA1679)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 05:35 ET by George Lewis

Thanks Randy - that did the trick. At first I got to the lat and long page and just hit update, figured it took my settings from the other screen - nope - found out I was in Kansas - LOL - so I realized I had to actually update my location from the lat/lon screen... doh!

George Lewis (DVA2253)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 06:09 ET by Matt Reamy

George, I had the same issue, though I ended up in Misery... uh Missouri... Thank God for NATPlot, I just grabbed the coordinates for COS (which is actually 1.5 miles west of my apt) and used those.

Matt Reamy (DVA1267)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 06:23 ET by Luke Kolin

Thanks for having problems - in some ways, the problems you encounter are more informative than having everything work OK (although a little less satisfying!). Many UI issues stem from the fact that the author already knows how the component should work and so it is obvious, but it is less so to those using it.

I will update the page to provide some instructions on how to set your location, and I'll eliminate the default location in the middle of the US. Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 06:53 ET by George Lewis

Luke, what I did was start on the map to find my address, then clicked update location - of course, had I just hit "update" location first, then looked up where I lived, all would have worked out great smile

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 07:50 ET by Matt Reamy

Luke: A Suggestion
Of course, you'll be the one to decide how feasible this is. Since there's already a "Midwestern US" or "Eastern US" location thingie (like that technical term!?), why can't the pin start in those generalized areas?

Matt Reamy (DVA1267)

DVA1690
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on May 05 2004
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Stage 1 Jet Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Life begins at Vr"
Longmont, CO USA

476 legs, 699.4 hours
467 legs, 685.6 hours online
254 legs, 389.4 hours ACARS
3 legs, 3.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 08:19 ET by Trevor Bair

Unbelievable! This is VERY cool Luke! Nice work indeed!

TRB

Trevor Bair

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA1339
Captain, CRJ-200

Joined on September 26 2003

Southeastern United States

69 legs, 182.6 hours
2 legs, 3.2 hours online

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 08:30 ET by Brian Jesus

So, can I ditch this website and sart using the new one?:)

Brian Jesus (DVA1339)

DVA1121
Captain, B727-200

Joined on February 24 2003

Southeastern United States

67 legs, 119.6 hours
24 legs, 28.6 hours online

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 08:33 ET by Jay Fox

I see no "update location" button.

Jay Fox (DVA1121)

DVA053
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on June 26 2001

Midwestern United States

69 legs, 116.1 hours
59 legs, 95.1 hours online
44 legs, 58.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 08:41 ET by Tony Dalman

I am inactive on the other site when I try to log in. It is finding my log in, but just keeps coming back with "you are not an Active Pilot at Delta Virtual"

Thanks,

Tony Dalman

Tony Dalman (DVA053)

DVA2481
Senior Captain, A320
E-MAIL

Joined on July 15 2005
Iditarod Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Capital Club
50 State Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Seven Century Club

Madrid Spain

723 legs, 1,394.4 hours
461 legs, 924.5 hours online
621 legs, 1,110.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 09:51 ET by Jimmi Cranford

Hi!
I cannot login, it tells me: LOGIN FAILTURE unknown user name. Is this because I'm new?
BTW, I wanted to suggest a feature in the profiles, a Info thing, where the pilot can write somthing about him/her self.
And also make the users profile clickable in the forums, dont now if you can, but I cant.

Awesome site Luke!!!
Thanks!

Jimmi Cranford (DVA2481)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 10:09 ET by George Lewis

Jimmi - yes, this is just a test site for now - he is tweaking it - so the data is pulled over every so often... this is why it doesn't recognize you...

no worries though - when DVA2006 goes live, all the data will be moved over

George Lewis (DVA2253)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 10:26 ET by Luke Kolin

I'm sorry some folks aren't in the DVA2006 database yet. If you look at the DVA2006 home page and the list of newest pilots, those are the last people I've imported. If you're not on that last (or have a higher seniority number), sorry.

My goal is to have DVA2006 come live around Labour Day. This is of course subject to the usual "it's done when it's done" proviso. However, the issue list is open and available, and you can see our progress on things. The web site is almost done, the new ACARS is almost done (it just needs some bulletproofing) and then all that will be left is the revised Fleet Library.

Unlike a lot of software authors, I want to keep all of you as involved participants.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 11:15 ET by Larry Foltran

After looking at the pins on the map, I'm wondering if it would have been better to organize a DVA "Meet & Greet" at CVG instead of ATL. Looks a lot more centralized to where everyone is located.

Again, Luke, very cool feature.

Larry Foltran (DVA1679)

DVA894
Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 27 2002

Round Lake, IL USA

24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs, 22.1 hours online
4 legs, 10.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 17:57 ET by Bill Bouxsein

Luke:

I can see the pins, but not the map or satelite view when using Firefox 1.0.5. The page displays fine in IE though. Any ideas?

Bill Bouxsein (DVA894)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 19:03 ET by Luke Kolin

It's incredibly strange that the page will display in IE and not Firefox - since I do all of my development and testing in Firefox now, instead of IE. Because of this, most problems surface on the IE side since I don't test with that as much. Check your JavaScript console, Bill - there might be an error there. I'm really grasping at straws since most Google Maps problems I've heard of have been related to errors in my code (which would therefore appear for everyone) or VML rendering errors in IE.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 19:07 ET by Matt Young

Worked fine in my Firefox.

Matt Young

Senior Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 19:25 ET by Matt Reamy

Bill, it works w/my Firefox. Did you do the 1.0.6 update?

Matt Reamy (DVA1267)

DVA809
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on August 25 2002
B757 100 Club
Online Century Club
Everett 500 Club
Six Century Club
Million Mile Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going"
Birmingham, AL USA

674 legs, 2,377.4 hours
199 legs, 468.4 hours online
338 legs, 1,438.0 hours ACARS
11 legs, 84.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 20:04 ET by William Chambers

Cannot log into DVA2006???????????

William Chambers (DVA809)

Posted onPost created on July 26 2005 20:11 ET by Luke Kolin

William, send me an e-mail so I can validate your address. You can be my guniea pig on reactivating dormant pilots. I take it the workload has decreased significantly lately? wink

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on July 27 2005 19:32 ET by Larry Foltran

Now that the map has filled up more, I'm thinking I was possibly wrong in thinking that CVG was closer to "center". Maybe each region should have their own "DVA Live and In Person" get-together.

Chris Palmer can put together the SLC one. Don't reserve too big of a table though. The blue pins look pretty scarce on that side of the country. LOL

Larry Foltran (DVA1679)

Posted onPost created on July 27 2005 19:48 ET by George Lewis

ok, I noticed Lewis Gregory lives near Gregory's Pond - is that a coincidence, Lewis?

George Lewis (DVA2253)

Posted onPost created on July 28 2005 05:11 ET by Larry Foltran

Where else would he live??? I live in Foltran's house, which I'm sure is much dryer than Gregory's Pond. LOL
Sorry...I know that was horrible.

Larry Foltran (DVA1679)

DVA1732
Captain, B727-200

Joined on June 18 2004
Century Club

Northeastern United States

132 legs, 243.2 hours
1 legs, 2.1 hours online

Posted onPost created on July 28 2005 08:43 ET by Mike Carvelas

Wow, I thought I was going nuts for a second. I couldn't find the "Update Location" button anywhere. I finally closed down my Opera browser and used IE and there it was. Apparently, the button doesn't show when using Opera 7.54.

Mike Carvelas (DVA1732)

DVA237
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on January 18 2004
Century Club
Online Century Club

New York, NY USA

181 legs, 323.2 hours
177 legs, 318.5 hours online
34 legs, 65.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on July 30 2005 19:57 ET by Mike Sweeney

The satellite imagery - amazing.

Mike Sweeney

Senior Captain, MD-11

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