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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
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Posted onPost created on
January 28 2004 18:36 ET by Luke Kolin
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Geoffrey Smith sent me the first draft of our new manuals regariding basic aviation procedures. I will be working on them in the next day or two to get them formatted correctly and ready to go. I hope to have them available in the Document Library by the end of the month. This is what we have been waiting for.
Once I receive a new set of examination questions, the Testing Center will go offline for several days while I upgrade the code behind it. You will notice some different testing questions, and more importantly a multiple choice format for some, but not all, questions. Our goal has been to ensure that all future questions have their source in a manual or approach chart available on the DVA site. I will ensure that this is the case.
Finally, I will be asking Geoffrey Smith and Mark McCauley to consider some systemic changes to the way we handle passing scores and grading. The overall passing scores for each exam will be set by Geoffrey and Mark to ensure some consistency between programs in the same stage and between stages. We will also be looking at ways to ensure that questions are graded consistently and fairly. The multiple choice questions will help, but in addition we may consider restricting grading of examinations to either the aircraft's chief pilot or Geoffrey and the senior staff. I'm thinking out of school here, so I don't know - but rest assured that the consistency problem has been heard and will be addressed one way or another.
Geoffrey, Mark Mestre and others have been working hard behind the scenes getting this together since last fall. I feel we are on the cusp of seeing the product of their hard work (and probably not a moment too soon).
Cheers!
Luke
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA1129
Senior Captain, B757-200
E-MAIL
Joined on March 10 2003
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
Online Six Century Club
""never ever give up""
Ardmore, OK USA
1,210 legs, 3,192.7 hours
602 legs,
1,222.0 hours online
508 legs,
1,054.6 hours ACARS
15 legs,
27.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 28 2004 18:53 ET by Craig Davidson
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Sounds great luke, i think our testing center is really what makes DVA different from all the others and i love it, but yes there were deffinetly some flaws in it but sounds like yall have been working very hard to resolve this.
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DVA1123
Captain, B757-200
Joined on February 23 2003
Century Club
Midwestern United States
157 legs, 347.9 hours
1 legs,
2.1 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
January 28 2004 19:55 ET by Don Leonard
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I agree with Craig on this, as other VA's promote when you have so many hours. I like this system even with all the little quirks and problems it is still the best around. Any new people that doubt this, go back and look through the Water Cooler at the help given with tests, AI, or whatever and you "WON'T" find this anywhere else. "You can take that to the bank!"
Side note to this and that is Barnes and Nobles at least here in Pensacola sell the AIM/FAR manual for about $20.00 and it contains every page.
Luke you and your staff are doing one hell of a job.
Thanks,
Don
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DVA1038
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Celer, Silens, Mortalis"
Summerville, SC USA
169 legs, 1,008.2 hours
56 legs,
288.5 hours online
25 legs,
221.2 hours ACARS
1 legs,
5.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 29 2004 01:56 ET by Kevin Cornish
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Keep up the good work guys! Everyone appreciates it!
Kevin CornishCaptain, B737-800
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DVA1044
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club
"Fly Delta Jets"
Roswell, NM USA
127 legs, 388.8 hours
62 legs,
199.3 hours online
2 legs,
5.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 29 2004 06:16 ET by Lloyd Arms
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Great to hear, Thanks guys
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DVA1320
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM
Joined on August 29 2003
Online Six Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett Millennium Club
Flying Colonel
Three Million Mile Club
Arlington, VA USA
1,752 legs, 7,042.0 hours
610 legs,
2,627.6 hours online
272 legs,
966.9 hours ACARS
5 legs,
12.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 29 2004 08:27 ET by Daniel Ward
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| I applaud everyone's efforts (and constructive comments at the Water Cooler). I also like that those in management here have taken it upon themselves to continue to improve our products. This is exactly why we remain such a dominant force in the VA world. We take pride in our professionalism, and our love of the FS world. We do have real world pilots in our midst, and many budding ones as well. Everyone deserves a pat on the back for making this the best VA out there...
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DVA1390
Captain, B757-200
Joined on November 16 2003
Eastern Canada
75 legs, 131.1 hours
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Posted onPost created on
January 29 2004 09:18 ET by Mark Farber
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Good news all around. I especially like the idea that tests will be based solely on information in the manuals. Hopefully the manuals, particularly at the higher stages, will contain a fair bit of general aeronautical info that DVA pilots will have to learn. As is evidenced from the web site, there are a lot of issues (like approach minimums, which were recently discussed) that people don't fully understand.
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