RE: UH-oh…

Very sad news!

Lets hope its an accident, but I can’t help thinking otherwise.

The aircraft must have been at a few thousand feet over Rome and it would be pretty hard not to miss a 400ft building.
I can’t get to Sky at the moment and ITV / BBC are not taking a lot of interest, but I’ve read on another forum that they’ve closed the entire Italian airspace. Is this true?

Someone must fear something if this is the case.

RE: Flight Log Book?

As you can read above I’ve removed everything Airliner World from the log. So now we need a proper name for our flight log.

Some people have been adding examples, others it seems have added true flights, shall I delete all entries so that we can officially start tomorrow with the true flight log? Or do you all want to let me know which are real and which are just in their to see if it works (thinking of T5’s year 2005 JFK-LHR).

Also to try and get a bit of consistancy we need to agree to some things:

Date: Listing all entries from which date, how about the start of 2002 (as Mongu suggested in the second post)? We could go on forever listing flights from the 80’s otherwise.

Rating: Needs to be out of 10 please.

Also one minor little moan from myself, I think everything looks better if its not written entirely in CAPITALS.

So if everyone agrees, all I need are a couple of replies, I’ll delete everything in there at the moment and we can start the true log from tonight.

RE: Flight Lessons

I completed my PPL last year in the US, cheaper and much quicker. Did my first solo in UK airspace last Sunday, flying over my local village was great.

Anyway as said above, enjoy it and don’t be nervous. Stick to it, there will be times where you feel you aren’t going anywhere fast, but you’ll get the hang of it in the end. Your first solo will be one of the best moments of your life!

Theres a lot of hard work with the ground stuff and the practical flying, but it will all be worth it in the end!

RE: Flight Log Book?

I’ve created the logbook and its running along very nicely at the moment.

A few notes before you take a look at it:

When adding the date you will need to add it in the format YYYY-MM-DD. So 13 Jan 2002 would be 2002-01-13. This is so that it can display it in order of date correctly (see top of the log page).

Flight Time – This needs to be displayed as just a number (eg 4 hours 30 mins becomes 4.5). However I have added a feature that allows you to add it as 4 hours 30 mins and it will automatically calculate into the correct number to 2 decimal places. It also transfers it back to the hours/mins version when displaying the total flight time.

The log is by no means finished, the look can be changed totally and the flights I’ve added are just examples and will be removed once we have finalised it. You can add examples and test everything is fine and let me know of any problems.

Still to come – a search feature to only display certain items you want eg only your won flights.

If I have left anything out or you would like anything else added, any changes etc then let me know.

The link is: http://www.plane-mad.com/flightlog/flightlog.php

And thats the end of whats has top be my longest ever post!

RE: What´s this airport?.

Is it Stuttgart?

I remember doing some scenery on FS for Stuttgart and the airport was laid out very similar to the picture.

RE: Flight Log Book?

Right then, I have the next two days off so I’ll see what I can come up with. I’ll post a link over the next couple of days so that you can all have a look at it and make any comments.

So far then the sections will be:

Username
Origin
Destination
Date
Flight Time
Flight Number
Airline

How about a Comments section as well?

I think it would be good if we could have a little banner to put at the top of the page, anyone good at graphic designing who’d like to have a go?

RE: Flight Log Book?

It sounds like a great idea indeed. I’ve got in to the web site programming a bit and I may be able to come up with something here.
I should have a few days off later in the week and if the weather is not good I’ll be at home and give it a try.

What I’m thinking is a little section which shows say:
Username
Flight number
Route
Date
Any others?

I could work it a bit like a guestbook.

Let me know if you’d like me to have a go at this and any ideas on what you want it to be like.