Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Build 90 Release

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 June 02 2006 01:08 ET by Luke Kolin

I am planning on releasing Build 90 of the webapp sometime tomorrow afternoon, Eastern Time. This should include a number of significant changes which I hadn't originally planned to do, but as the release got delayed they slowly snuck into the build. There are two significant things coming down the pipe that you should be aware of.

First, there is a small ACARS server network code change. There is a rare edge condition that I *think* is consuming memory on the server and causing lockups every few days. I hope this will fix it, but any time I touch the ACARS network code there's a risk I'm going to break something. If it does break, you just won't be able to log in, so it's hopefully a pretty obvious issue. There's a 5% chance it'll break spectacularly, a 50% chance it'll do nothing to fix the problem and a 45% chance it'll make it go away. smile

The second change is not coming tomorrow, but Build 90 will allow us to download live Delta and Air France schedules that are MORE up-to-date than the printed or electronic schedules. We've been in negotiation with a data aggregator for several weeks, and you'll see the result in about a week or so. It'll involve a NOTAM and policy change on codeshares and valid flights which hasn't been finalized yet, but I think June will have some good news on the schedule front.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA2569
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 12 2005
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Everett 1500 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club
Bi-Millennium Club

Midwestern United States

2,160 legs, 5,214.0 hours
77 legs, 140.5 hours online
2,112 legs, 5,093.5 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 04:46 ET by Manuel Hernandez

Thanks for all the hard work!!

Manuel Hernandez

Senior Captain, B757-200

DVA3170
Captain, B767-300

Joined on May 26 2006

"If it's not Boeing, I'm not going!"
Southeastern United States

22 legs, 33.8 hours
13 legs, 23.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 06:16 ET by J(ohn) Sanders

Roger that! Thanks for your efforts Luke...and good luck with the code!

It would be super cool to have the RW schedules here. cool

DVA238
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on August 15 2001
Online Double Century Club
B757 100 Club
Millennium Club
Million Mile Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Repainters, "Get Ready""
Comer, GA

1,487 legs, 3,439.5 hours
235 legs, 435.3 hours online
1,126 legs, 2,802.7 hours ACARS
1 legs dispatched, 1.8 hours

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 07:56 ET by Brittany Sventon

Luke, would this data include gate info, accessible via ACARS?

Brittany Sventon (DVA238)

DVA2295
First Officer, B777-200

Joined on April 23 2005

"RLTW!"
Columbus, GA

99 legs, 262.1 hours
88 legs, 233.2 hours online
82 legs, 233.5 hours ACARS
2 legs, 10.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 09:10 ET by Dave High

Luke, I thank you very much for what you do for Delta Virtual Airlines.

Dave High

First Officer, B777-200

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 09:57 ET by Luke Kolin

Sorry Brittany, I'm not able to obtain that kind of information.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA3076
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 21 2006
Century Club

"Fly High, Striaght but mostly SAFE!!"
Rock Hill, SC USA

107 legs, 249.5 hours
47 legs, 120.4 hours online
73 legs, 161.2 hours ACARS
8 legs, 19.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 10:05 ET by David Taylor

Is it possible in according to what brittany said, get a list of delta gates for all major US airports? Where would we find this if it is even out there?

David Taylor

Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 10:06 ET by Brittany Sventon

I still wish the State of Georgia would have kept their Hartsfield flight information page up. It was so easy to use and everything.

Brittany Sventon (DVA238)

DVA1933
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on September 19 2004
Triple Century Club

Monterrey, NL Mexico

357 legs, 860.4 hours
72 legs, 132.3 hours online
255 legs, 668.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 13:41 ET by David Eugenio Gomez

Wow nice stuff, thanks for the hard work, Luke, you rock man!

David Eugenio Gomez (DVA1933)

DVA2370
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP, COMM, VFRADV

Joined on May 26 2005
Online Triple Century Club
Commuter Conquest
Six Century Club
Stage 1 Prop Triple Century Club
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

Flagler Beach, FL USA

675 legs, 726.8 hours
319 legs, 311.4 hours online
179 legs, 146.1 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.6 hours event
0 legs dispatched, 4.0 hours

Posted onPost created on June 02 2006 19:28 ET by Scott Clarke

Luke, looks good, thanks for the updates in this build, makes our job easier....

Scott Clarke (DVA2370)

DVA3054
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on April 08 2006
Long Beach Century Club
Online Seven Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Wellington, New Zealand

840 legs, 1,948.4 hours
743 legs, 1,606.4 hours online
735 legs, 1,556.1 hours ACARS
40 legs, 91.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 04 2006 01:26 ET by Bruno Pinto

Thank you for you effort Luke!

Bruno Pinto

Senior Captain, B757-200

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