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General Chat / What was your starting airport?

« on: May 01, 2008, 02:02:28 am »

Started at KDAB (Daytona Beach), am going to start somewhere bigger next round.

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General Chat / 9,200 registered users. What to do when we hit 10k?

« on: April 29, 2008, 09:51:10 pm »

Everyone gets 10 mil.

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General Chat / What is Santa Sleigh

« on: April 25, 2008, 09:04:55 pm »

I have Janes Aircraft Recognition Guide. Would that count? I would love to do something like this.

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Game News / when is Private worlds?

« on: April 22, 2008, 01:40:57 am »

password will be optional, that will be the only "real" control as to who joins or not.  there will be a weak admin toolset for game admins allowing some limited functions. (banning players from a specific world, couple other things maybe).

-gets back to tinkering-

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General Chat / Argosy AW 671

« on: April 18, 2008, 01:07:40 am »

Is the range for the Argosy 671 correct, because it says here that the range is 2600nm.

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General Chat / [W3] Game Time Question

« on: April 17, 2008, 04:10:02 pm »

Yes, but I checked this site a couple of hours ago and it was November 23rd. I also have not recieved an aircraft that I ordered on November 11th. It was supposed to be delivered on December 11th, but has not, since December was skipped.

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General Chat / [W3] Game Time Question

« on: April 17, 2008, 03:48:19 pm »

The same thing happened in world 6.

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General Chat / Your faveorite Airline

« on: April 17, 2008, 02:41:39 am »

My favorite is Continental, and then Southwest.

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General Chat / New Plane Type (World 4)

« on: April 15, 2008, 12:29:16 am »

I believe he means the AA Flight 191 incident where the #1 engine fell off the airplane.

Wikipedia[/url]"]American Airlines Flight 191

In 1979, with the cargo door issues resolved, DC-10s (all series) around the world were grounded following the crash of American Airlines Flight 191. Flight 191 lost its number one wing engine after taking off from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, USA, May 25, 1979.[1] As the engine separated upwards, it ripped through the leading edge of the wing, rupturing hydraulic lines which caused a hydraulic cylinder that locked the port wing slats to fail. As airspeed was reduced per AA emergency climb-out procedures, the slats retracted, the left wing stalled, the plane rolled left and crashed before the flight crew could recover. All 271 people on board, plus two on the ground, were killed in this accident; the worst single plane crash in America.

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials discovered that a maintenance procedure was the culprit: American Airlines mechanics had removed the engine and its pylon together, rather than removing the engine from the pylon then the pylon from the wing, as recommended by McDonnell Douglas. This was done using a forklift and the pylon was inadvertently cracked in the process. The short-cut procedure, thought to save several man hours on maintenance, was used by three major airlines, although McDonnell Douglas advised against it. Although McDonnell Douglas was not directly at fault for the pylon separation, it redesigned the DC-10 to allow more redundancies in the hydraulic systems.

The Chicago incident also highlighted a major deficiency in the DC-10 design—its lack of locking flap mechanisms designed to maintain their position in the event of a hydraulic or pneumatic failure. Other wide-body aircraft of the day carried such a feature, but it was omitted from the DC-10. Another deficiency highlighted in the NTSB report was the vulnerable placement of wiring at the leading edge (front) of the wing. When the engine pulled up and over the wing, it tore out these wires, thus rendering inoperable vital warning instruments in the cockpit. Other aircraft of this era typically placed this kind of wiring in the center of the wing, in a less vulnerable position. In addition, only the pilot had a stick-shaker to warn of stalling, as the co-pilot was the one flying the plane, there was no warning that the plane was stalling.

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General Chat / Missing airports

« on: April 14, 2008, 01:51:28 am »

Forget the wikipedia entry. Most of that you can find on AirNav. Everything else you don't need.

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General Chat / Independence Air Aircraft naming contest

« on: April 11, 2008, 03:16:13 am »

Actually, I'm going to do it this way, since I don't want to steal the idea I gave you.

Regional: Greek/Roman Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes (no reason other than they have cool names)

Mainline: Countries around the world.

Special: Star Trek Ships

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General Chat / Independence Air Aircraft naming contest

« on: April 11, 2008, 12:14:19 am »

Your welcome. I'm naming mine all Sci-Fi ship names, the first one of course being the Enterprise.

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General Chat / Independence Air Aircraft naming contest

« on: April 11, 2008, 12:07:13 am »

NAMC YS11-A500
N200IX-operational - Spirit of Albany
N201IX-operational - Spirit of Boston
N202IX-operational - Spirit of Hartford
N203IX-operational - Spirit of Providence

Gulfstream III
N210IX-operational - Spirit of Dover
N211IX-operational - Spirit of Augusta
N212IX-(brokered, deliverable June 2nd) - Spirit of Concord
N213IX-operational - Spirit of Montipelier
N214IX-(brokered, deliverable July 1st) - Spirit of Trenton

McDonnell Douglas DC9-40
N050IX-(on order, deliverable June 16th) - Spirit of New York
N051IX-(on order, deliverable July 9th) - Spirit of Chicago

Designation:
N001IX-N049IX: Concorde (planned) - Democratic Countries (first one being Spirit of America)
N050IX-N199IX: Mainline fleet - Major U.S. Cities
N200IX-N300IX: Regional fleet - State Capitals

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Game News / MultiWorlds is LIVE

« on: April 10, 2008, 08:07:08 pm »

He means where you can set different ticket prices for different seat classes, like first class and economy.

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General Chat / Where are the players come from

« on: April 09, 2008, 05:05:22 pm »

Ocala, Florida, United States of America.