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AFV006
Senior Captain, A380-800
OLP

Joined on August 22 2004
GVA 20 Year Anniversary

"Split Personality"
Southeastern United States

36 legs, 134.9 hours
13 legs, 38.3 hours online
16 legs, 75.8 hours ACARS
2,396 legs, 9,663.9 hours total
3 legs dispatched, 0.3 hours

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 19:00 ET by Luke Kolin

I am extremely pleased to announce the start of Aviation Français Virtuel. We accepted the first batch of Founding Members. (If you have expressed interest to me and are not in the list, do not fret. The second batch of Founding Members will be accepted in the next few days once the basic web site shakeout is complete.)

The names are familiar to you, but we will not be strangers. We're going to be sharing the Water Cooler with some special AFV channels, which is probably why you are seeing this post. If you are interested, please feel free to visit http://www.afva.net/ to see how we're doing!

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, A380-800

DVA1855
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on August 28 2004
50 State Club
Everett 250 Club
Kangaroo Club
Online Century Club
Quatercentenary Club
DVA Fleet Master

"Life Begins @ Vmc Life Ends @ Vne+1"
Philadelphia, PA

436 legs, 1,824.8 hours
113 legs, 445.8 hours online
297 legs, 1,208.2 hours ACARS
9 legs, 47.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 20:12 ET by Andrew Rogers

Are there any open staff positions Including assisteces

Andrew Rogers (DVA1855)

DVA851
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on September 22 2002
Online Quadruple Century Club
Million Mile Club
Flying Colonel
50 State Club
Globetrotter

Imlay City, MI USA

1,758 legs, 3,929.8 hours
487 legs, 1,005.8 hours online
1,314 legs, 2,966.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 20:15 ET by Brian Kolbuch

Man i REALLLY REALLY want to signup ... but i really want to keep DAL851 and my hours for Delta.

Too bad you cant fly for both :''''''''''''''''(

Brian Kolbuch (DVA851)

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 20:16 ET by Brian Kolbuch

Cant we just have 2 id's? cmon wink

DAL851 for my Delta Flights
AFVxxx for my Air Francer's

Plz???

Brian Kolbuch (DVA851)

AFV004
Senior Captain, B747-400

Joined on February 21 2003

South America

77 legs, 324.7 hours
354 legs, 1,417.3 hours total

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 20:30 ET by Ariel Griotti

Brian, about the Hours, if you join AFVA you´ll keep your hours with you.

But as Luke said, pilots won´t be able to be in both airlines, or at least with the same ID.

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 21:07 ET by Brian Kolbuch

Hi Ariel,

Yeah but how come it says " Ariel Griotti " ... 0 flights 0 hours next to your name.

Thats what im afraid about losing...lol, all that hard work and hours

Brian Kolbuch (DVA851)

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 21:24 ET by Luke Kolin

You mean the 1 flight, 7.1 hours? smile

I can assure you that if you look at the DVA logbooks, my and Ariel's hours are all still there. I deliberately made it very difficult back in 2001 to actually delete any piece of data from the databases. The flights are all still there, I am merely searching for the best way to display the data.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, A380-800

Posted onPost created on August 29 2004 22:34 ET by Brian Kolbuch

Hmm ok... Luke.. so does that mean that the 0 flights 0 hours thing next to your name is just temporary... and it will change to what you had at Delta, but your just trying to figure out a way how to do that?

Brian Kolbuch (DVA851)

Posted onPost created on August 30 2004 07:22 ET by Luke Kolin

I don't know, hence the difficulty. I do not want to merge the two sets of hours into one, not least because the PIREPs behind them are in two separate databases. At the same time, if a pilot has made a substantial commitment to both airlines over the course of his or her career with us, then that should be recognised. I'm also highly dissatisfied with the calculation of online hours; it's rather slow and inefficient and to do it twice (checking the DVA/AFV databases) might be a little much.

All sorts of fun stuff in flux. smile

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, A380-800

DVA1651
Senior Captain, MD-11

Joined on April 25 2004
Everett 250 Club
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Million Mile Club
Eight Century Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
White Pearl Accomplishment

"DAL1651 heavy is type MD-11, ready for blastoff"
Nashville, TN

879 legs, 3,275.4 hours
436 legs, 1,621.5 hours online
626 legs, 2,413.4 hours ACARS
28 legs, 89.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 30 2004 08:21 ET by James Marshall

You know what I think would be cool... It's just my opinion, but I think that once you get AFVA up and fully running that there be a Saturday night event where AFVA departs CDG-JFK and at the same time DVA departs JFK-CDG and you guys would meet half way! I think that would be cool!

James Marshall

Senior Captain, MD-11

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

Posted onPost created on August 30 2004 09:16 ET by Trevor Fenimore

Luke,
If we have type ratings in certain aircraft like the A330, A340, 747, Concorde etc... will we still be able to retain those ratings and fly the code share flights with just the DVA ID, or do we need to jon AFVA, and re-test to get the ratings, and fly Air France flights?

Trevor Fenimore (DVA822)

DVA1140
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on March 16 2003
Double Century Club

Western Europe

254 legs, 1,137.4 hours
10 legs, 24.5 hours online
324 legs, 1,393.2 hours total

Posted onPost created on August 30 2004 14:24 ET by Daniel Counahan

i sent you an email luke with test questions i am wondering did you get them? and if there is still a position open for the A330/340 chief pilot.
Cheers
Dan C

Daniel Counahan (DVA1140)

DVA1610
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on April 04 2004

Australia

10 legs, 27.4 hours
6 legs, 9.7 hours online

Posted onPost created on August 30 2004 21:48 ET by Daniel Williams

Hey luke just out of curiosity why does the Afv site accept my delta username when i log in , It show Welcome Daniel Williams in the left task pane i thought the databases where seperate? (Just a note it doesnt show the pilot center link or anything

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