Major Site Change Coming

[Admin]

Hi All,

Recreational Flying (.com) will soon come to an end...BUT, Aircraft Pilots (.com) will be born. This site has outlived most other sites around the world having been going for over 22 years now providing a great, informative, helpful, vast resource to all recreational aviators but it is time to be more comprehensive in helping all types of aviators, no matter what you all fly. The features that are available to you cover the needs of all, it is not just a Forum site, but features like Groups, Blogs, different types of Media like Articles, Movies, Books etc, ALL types of Aircraft in the Aircraft Section and the Resources section provides tools for every kind of pilot.

 

Also Clear Prop (.com.au) will also be moving to Aircraft Pilots (.com) and currently a Single Sign On (SSO) is being developed to provide a single registration and login system to both the forums etc and shop.

 

When it all happens both Recreational Flying (.com) and Clear Prop (.com.au) will have redirects to Aircraft Pilots (.com) to make it easier for users to make the transition.

 

HOWEVER, if your Email Address in your account settings here at Recreational Flying (.com) is no longer active, incorrect or not working in any way you will be LOCKED OUT of the new site.

 

To check your email address, click your avatar at the top of the main menu and then click "Account Settings":

 

Thanks and stay tuned for some updates

[onetrack]

Thanks Ian, for all your good work. I'd just like to add, to all websites users - Please ensure you assist Ian with the website running costs - it's only $50 a year to become a full member, and even if you're cash-strapped, I'm sure he'd appreciate any level of donation to help offset website running costs, which run into many hundreds of dollars a year.

 

With this site, you get free classifieds, free valuable aviation information, aviation camaraderie, plenty of opinions, and many aviation contact opportunities, so I believe the small annual donation requested is pretty good value.

[Area-51]

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[RossK]

Another way of supporting if you're not keen on donating, is to buy stuff from his Clear Prop online shop.

I bought a couple of things from Clear Prop and they've always been price competitive.

[Admin]

Thanks for your comments guys, yes the site has probably cost me around $100,000 over the last 22+ years as you only need to look at the hosting costs per year which is around $3,000 a year, slightly lower this year though, then there is all the software costs per year over all those years. For example the software that will do the integration of the forums and the shop is costing $800

 

Thanks to those that are advising of their incorrect email addresses so I can fix before the move.

 

Anyway, an update at the moment is 2 things happening...1. a decision of the shop software, what we currently use or another solution and 2. the creation of a local environment for a copy of the site and the upgrade of the forum software and all the addon software solutions to Invision version 5, testing and manual code changes.

 

I will keep you all informed