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
April 29 2003 14:31 ET by Luke Kolin
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When I first put together the "Century Club", flying 100 flight legs was a big deal, and there were only about a half-dozen of us that had accomplished this. With less than 100 active pilots, it was easy for me to notice who was about to reach that goal and make a special, manual announcement.
Today, with over 500 active pilots, it's more difficult for two reasons. First, PIREP volumes have increased by around 220%, so there's more to approve every day. Second, with more pilots it's easy to have more than a few folks "sneak up on you" in terms of the flight numbers. I recently missed a trio of pilots, and I felt sufficiently guilty at this to decide to automate the process. The PIREP approval code has been updateed to check if you have 100/200/300/400/500 flight legs, and automatically creates a system news entry in such a case.
From a philosophical standpoint, I feel a little guilty doing this - it's much like the old "personalized" junk mail when it first came out many years ago. It would be a lot better to have the personalized attention that a manual notice would provide. However, it's more important to me that the folks that have made a solid contribution to DVA be recognised. If an automated process makes that consistent, then I think that is the best.
For those of you who haven't been recognised, you have my apologies. You should be - but the system still has a few kinks to work out, and some notifications haven't been made. I'm committed to working on this and fixing it within the next few days. You guys are special, and I want everyone to know how proud I am of your efforts and commitment. If you look at a lot of virtual airline rosters, you see that the "top pilots" have a lot of transferred hours, but very few with that specific airline. The members of Delta Virtual Airlines' "Century Club" have logged almost 9,550 flight legs. That's amazing.
Cheers!
Luke
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA822
Senior Captain, B777-200
Joined on September 05 2002
Quincentenary Club
Million Mile Club
"I love the smell of jet fuel"
Northeastern United States
589 legs, 2,254.6 hours
47 legs,
112.9 hours online
97 legs,
400.7 hours ACARS
16 legs,
39.2 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2003 14:56 ET by Trevor Fenimore
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DVA1178
Captain, B737-800
Joined on April 13 2003
Midwestern United States
69 legs, 127.6 hours
5 legs,
9.3 hours online
11 legs,
26.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2003 14:58 ET by Ralph Scharpf
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DVA320
Senior Captain, B777-200
E-MAIL
Joined on September 22 2001
Online Double Century Club
Triple Century Club
Midwestern United States
365 legs, 1,242.5 hours
353 legs,
1,216.6 hours online
2 legs,
4.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
April 29 2003 14:59 ET by Awais Ahsan
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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
April 29 2003 18:17 ET by Luke Kolin
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