Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Thank you Shane! CRJ flies much better!

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Thank you Shane! CRJ flies much better!

DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM

Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"I'd rather be flying!"
Church Hill, TN USA

862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs, 165.2 hours online
299 legs, 485.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 07 2006 23:43 ET by George Lewis

Shane, I want to publicly thank you for your work on the DVA CRJ bird - you have taken a really bad handling airplane and turned it into something the DVA Flight Academy can use for flight training. The trim issues appear to be fixed! Great job!

Anyone who is flying the CRJ who has not recently downloaded the new CRJ, uninstall your old bird and download the new one - she flies MUCH MUCH better now!

George Lewis (DVA2253)

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 September 08 2006 04:20 ET by Manuel Hernandez

Thanks Shane. Gonna check that out.

Manuel Hernandez

Senior Captain, B757-200

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
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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 September 08 2006 09:08 ET by Scott Clarke

Thanks Shane for working on the CRJ so we can use it in the Flight Academy in commercial and instruments.....Since you have shown your "talent", are you open to tweekin another airplane. Do you do panel mods?, etc......Thanks for raisin your hand and volunteering to help us...

Scott Clarke (DVA2370)

DVA1892
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on September 13 2004
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
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"Fly Douglas Jets!"
Buenos Aires AR

460 legs, 1,384.1 hours
336 legs, 1,086.5 hours online
271 legs, 726.6 hours ACARS
12 legs, 24.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 08 2006 09:58 ET by Gaston Doval

I've been marvelled at Shane's MD11 FDE, I'm pretty sure he can pile up and get real any FS airplane. smile

Thank you Shane!

Cheers!

Gaston Doval (DVA1892)

DVA1195
Senior Captain, L-1011-100

Joined on April 25 2003
Century Club

IN USA

136 legs, 145.5 hours
12 legs, 13.5 hours online
30 legs, 25.9 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on September 08 2006 11:08 ET by Jacob Perry

Shane, thanks for your many contributions to DVA and the FS community. We are fortunate to have you.

Jacob Perry

Senior Captain, L-1011-100

DVA2015
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on November 20 2004
Everett Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Rise Above The Clouds & Soar Through The Skies!"
Hamilton Bermuda

340 legs, 620.5 hours
264 legs, 495.9 hours online
177 legs, 314.6 hours ACARS
46 legs, 89.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 08 2006 20:09 ET by Sean Mullan

I have an issue with that CRJ! Something must have happened during installation after downloading it a few days ago. In the virtual cockpit, all I see are white boxes all over the place. The same goes when I look to upper right in regular cockpit towards the first officer area of instruments - just a white box area! Can't explain that one. However, I flew from Atlanta to Moline two days ago and it does fly better though even though I miss my wing views now.. wink

Sean

PS. Hopefully Florence isn't another Fabian. I just don't want this thing to blow up all of a sudden as it approaches us. That's the only thing that worrying me right now...

Sean Mullan

Senior Captain, B737-800

DVA3512
Captain, B737-800

Joined on September 04 2006

Western United States

54 legs, 146.3 hours

Posted onPost created on September 09 2006 01:03 ET by Barry Harmon

Ditto here, Sean. All the instruments from the VC are white placards or boxes. Being stuck in the 2D for the entire trip is...well...flat.

Barry Harmon (DVA3512)

Posted onPost created on September 10 2006 21:39 ET by George Lewis

Sean, the work that Shane did dealt with the actual flyability of the aircraft. I am not sure about the VC.

George Lewis (DVA2253)

DVA2728
Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL

Joined on December 04 2005
Triple Century Club
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Million Mile Club

"Exceeding the standard."
March Air Reserve Base, CA

343 legs, 2,038.9 hours
317 legs, 1,833.0 hours online
292 legs, 1,778.6 hours ACARS
6 legs, 27.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on September 10 2006 22:00 ET by Shane Olguin

Hey George and gang, thank you very much for these compliments! I'm glad that Luke and the rest of the training department allow me to work with them on FDE fixes. When you get a chance download the latest MD-11 fleet installer too, it has my most current MD-11 FDE, and I'm very happy with that one in particular.

I'll make sure to stay in touch with George and Scott to ensure that if any deficiencies are found on the CRJ or the EMB-120, I can fix them for y'alls.

As for the VC issues, make sure you post a comment in the ISSUE TRACKER and detail the problems you're having, and Luke will be able to take a look. I give you my word that when I worked on the FDE the only thing I touched was flight-related. I have zero skillz when it comes to doing anything graphics-related (to include VCs!)

And Scott, the extent of my panel skills include changing the viewpoint, and moving pre-manufactured gauges around on the panel itself. If what you need requires something like this lemme know.

Shane Olguin (DVA2728)

Posted onPost created on September 10 2006 23:04 ET by Scott Clarke

shane, will do...been flying the new CRJ all day, big improvement, thanks... We will be intouch

Scott Clarke (DVA2370)

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