Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - ACARS on your first flight?

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | ACARS on your first flight?

DVA3502
Captain, B767-300

Joined on September 01 2006

"Will fly for food."
Northeastern United States

62 legs, 214.5 hours
53 legs, 174.2 hours online
40 legs, 111.4 hours ACARS
5 legs, 10.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 14:12 ET by Stuart Schechter

Is it possible to use the DVA ACARS on the first flight considering you do not have a Pilot ID yet? I am really eager to find out hwat this ACARS runs like, have downloaded it but for authentication, it needs a Pilot ID. Should I just use it on my second flight?

Stuart Schechter

Captain, B767-300

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 September 02 2006 14:24 ET by Luke Kolin

Yes, that would be the best way of doing it. I need to determine some way of getting around this limitation.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 14:32 ET by Stuart Schechter

Thanks for the very fast response! This time ill use my watch!

Stuart Schechter

Captain, B767-300

DVA2482
Chief Pilot, B777-200

Joined on July 16 2005
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Everett Millennium Club
Six Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Master of Gravity"
Boston, MA USA

1,909 legs, 11,955.3 hours
228 legs, 1,400.0 hours online
1,752 legs, 11,085.1 hours ACARS
7 legs, 57.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 14:38 ET by Oliver McRae

I must voice a bit of concern on this issue. Many people join and never do a flight and to give them access to ACARS is saying anyone who signs up can join the ACARS chat. What i would suggest is allowing them to use somewhat of an interim ACARS you sign in using your name and password instead of a PID and password however the chat area is disabled, i.e you can neither view nor recieve messages, once that flight is completed then they may download the full version of ACARS. This just prevents those who would join just to chat and never actually do a flight. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement but its just my suggestion.

Oliver McRae (DVA2482)

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 14:54 ET by Stuart Schechter

Well, what would the point of joining to chat. I would think that the person would not go through the entire join process just to chat.

Stuart Schechter

Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 15:08 ET by Oliver McRae

What join process? Last i remember you had to fill in a few boxes. BTW Welcome to DVA !! biggrin

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 18:22 ET by Luke Kolin

Over the past twelve months, we've added some granular access control restrictions to ACARS to prevent abuse. I'm not too worried about this; 99% of our members do the right thing off the bat; 0.9% eventually do the right thing, and I'm not going to let the 0.1% dictate what the rest of us can and cannot do.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA071
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on July 03 2001
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club

Weston, MA USA

375 legs, 1,827.1 hours
310 legs, 1,535.6 hours online
159 legs, 991.1 hours ACARS
2 legs, 14.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 02 2006 22:04 ET by Geoffrey Smith

I agree - I think the chat should especially be open to new members who might be having difficulties getting ACARS to work (not that its hard) or have general questions. I've watched lots of great teaching and learning go on via the ACARS chat and that is one of its features in my mind.

Keep in mind that you can always just ignore the chat...

Posted onPost created on September 03 2006 01:44 ET by Stuart Schechter

Or go away for that matter.

Stuart Schechter

Captain, B767-300

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