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
September 20 2005 01:36 ET by Luke Kolin
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I have just uploaded Build 30 of the web application to our servers. This has a number of new features, mostly on the admin and registration side. I have noticed a number of significant issues with the ACARS client and checkrides that are going to be addressed in Build 51 of the ACARS client, but Build 30 of the webapp incorporates the server-side changes needed to support the fixes.
Builds 49 and 50 of the ACARS client have some significant issues when it comes to offline flights. My goal with ACARS has been to make offline flights the equal of online flights, but we have some issues. If you fly a checkride, please make sure that "Fly Offline" is NOT checked, and you are connected to the ACARS server. Build 51 is going to fix this, but with earlier builds there's a good chance that flight data will NOT be uploaded to the server.
I am very grateful to all of you who have been guinea pigs for our new site. At almost any hour of the day I can check out the "Live ACARS Map" and see a number of you, and by and large the system works. My goal for October 1st is to get our system near to the level of reliability that the old web site had, and the only way we get there is by many of you "feeling the pain" and going out and breaking things.
At the same time, if you are flying a checkride you are doing something special and shouldn't need to redo it because of a flaw in my code. So please, if you are doing a checkride please make sure that you are connected to the ACARS server.
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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