News Updates

Posted by Harry Hughes on 10/09/2019

Hello All,

Just to let you know, I'm still alive and well, although work and other committments mean I have very little spare time these days. However, the airline will continue to run as long as people are logging in and flying. I will continue to support the tools and website used to provide a great platform to fly on.

I have a couple of quick notices just to share with you:

Firstly, it seems from a recent Pirep that "positive landings" are not allowed. I'm not sure where this comes from but it's not really a critical factor to determine landing success. In real-world aviation a "positive landing" is used to describe a firm landing, not a positive number of feet per min. It is entirely possible to have a positive rate of landing in feet per minute but it's actually pretty rare. It is based on a number of factors such as airport elevation, weather and aircraft. At most municipal and international airports though, a normal -fpm landing should be perfectly achievable. I would really only expect to see it on runways that have a large incline because they are short, or have dangerous approaches such as Lukla.

Secondly, I want to remind you all that I expect members to be courteous towards each both over chat and through text comments. I will absolutely not accept abusive behaviour or swearing at any other member. You may not always like your pirep being rejected and you may want to dispute the reasons. I still expect you to conduct that dispute without resorting to poor behaviour.

Lastly, there is a new version of PHPVMS being developed, it's slow but it will hopefully be more flexible, more up-to-date, better coded and more secure. Once it's at a release stage that is equivalent to what we have or better, I will begin a project to update our old system. I suspect it won't be soon as the development is still very much in testing stages.

Thanks for your continued support.

Harry

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