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
2,241 legs, 8,967.3 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,899 legs,
7,760.4 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,277 legs, 9,102.2 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
July 20 2005 21:06 ET by Luke Kolin
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I am pleased to announce that the first flight on ACARS2006 was logged this evening. Nothing special - just me setting off a ton of car alarms through Queens and Brooklyn as I fired up four JT3Cs in an old DC-8-11 for a spin over the East River.
http://golgotha.deltava.org/pirep.do?id=0x13BBC
The new ACARS server is working well, and is going to feature a number of significant improvements over what we have now, namely full integration with the DAFIF database in DVA2006 and the ability to log a complete checkride. DVA2006 as no capability for handling flight videos - it is all within ACARS. My goal is to eliminate cumbersome recording techniques, and instead have you fly a flight like you normally would.
As a tease - the DAFIF integration is already complete on the server side. With Build 42 of ACARS, you will be able to type an ACARS command such as .nav1 BUF 060, and have the client connect to the server, download the frequency for the Buffalo VOR, and tune NAV1 to that frequency with a course of 060. I hope to get this working for VORs, NDBs and ILS systems within the next few days.
The DVA2006 bug list has almost hit 100 entires, but stuff is getting closed almost as fast as it is being opened. The core functionality of PIREP logging, ACARS filing, Water Cooler posts and Pilot Exams works. We just need to finish up the examinations, Fleet Library and checkrides.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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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
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Posted onPost created on
July 20 2005 21:33 ET by James Brickell
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DVA737
Captain, B737-800
Joined on July 28 2002
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Century Club
Everett Century Club
Chillicothe, MO
125 legs, 244.6 hours
84 legs,
157.4 hours online 41 legs,
87.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
August 14 2005 16:43 ET by Dan McMahan
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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
2,241 legs, 8,967.3 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,899 legs,
7,760.4 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,277 legs, 9,102.2 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
August 14 2005 17:55 ET by Luke Kolin
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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
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Posted onPost created on
August 16 2005 06:28 ET by Matt Reamy
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