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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

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on February 11 2004 17:20 ET by Luke Kolin

Part of the reason for my time off has been to devote a little more time to our ACARS server. I have it more or less to the point where I can send it to Ross to stress test and use as the basis for a client piece that he will be writing. Based on what we have discussed, we should be able to display position reports, flight information, handle private and group chat. Web server tasks will be able to poll the server to get lists of active pilots, etc. etc.

Going forward, I'd like to see the server and client pull data from the schedule database, airport data and other good stuff, and allow automatic PIREP filing without visiting the web site. The server is written in an extremely light and simple fashion, so while there's a lot it hasn't been to support, there's nothing that it cannot explicitly NOT do for architectural reasons.

A proper ACARS system is the logical next step for DVA. I'm confident that with Ross' talents, we can make some great progress.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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

Posted onPost created on February 11 2004 17:53 ET by James Brickell

Wow, that sounds great. I'm looking forward to its debut!

James Brickell (DVA953)

DVA1271
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on June 27 2003
Double Century Club

Central America

234 legs, 910.2 hours

Posted onPost created on February 11 2004 17:53 ET by Rolando Alvarado-Scott

sounds good luke.. :o]

pura vida

Rolando Alvarado-Scott (DVA1271)

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 February 11 2004 18:10 ET by Matt Young

Go Luke and Ross!!

Matt Young

Senior Captain, B757-200

DVA917
Captain, B767-300

Joined on October 20 2002
Century Club
Online Century Club

Western Canada

184 legs, 385.6 hours
155 legs, 325.6 hours online
50 legs, 115.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on February 12 2004 01:14 ET by Glenn Blanco

SUPERB!!!!

Glenn Blanco (DVA917)

DVA1379
Senior Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on November 07 2003
50 State Club
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Three Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

Western United States

2,776 legs, 8,127.9 hours
1,837 legs, 4,365.2 hours online
2,239 legs, 6,623.2 hours ACARS
58 legs, 136.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on February 12 2004 08:47 ET by Kyle Weber

Sounds wonderful, I hope, however, it comes with an instruction manual (or is simple to use) and it does not become mandatory to use. I used to fly for British Airways Virtual but was forced to resign when they forced pilots to use their ACARS system and removed "standard" website-based PiReps since I could not get the system to work on my computer.

Kyle Weber (DVA1379)

Posted onPost created on February 12 2004 13:05 ET by Luke Kolin

Right now I would be very, very reluctant to mandate such as system.

My goal with ACARS is less of a "nanny" and more of a value-add service to our pilots. Our promotion system is different from BAV and the audit side of things is less important to us.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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