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The new Movies and Television Shows section has been added to the Off Topic site Social Australia and it is in my opinion brilliant:

It works like normal, there is a comment box at the bottom of the listing. Both Books and Movies follow the same design except with movies, an entry also has the stars listed and their short bio Here are some screen shots of Books: Ans here some screen shots of Movies: The Off Topic sister site www.socialaustralia.com.au will probably get these extra sections added first but they will be general lists unlike here which will be Aviation related only

Do you want a complete section on Aviation Books that is easy for anyone to add a book if they have the ISBN number:

Phil, the Off Topic site is now called Social Australia and your password should be the same one you use here on Recreational Flying. When you tried to register again the message you would have seen is the site is not taking any registrations. That message is shown to anyone not in Australia, for them I would have to manually register them, it keeps the spammers out, Try your password you use here and let me know if that works OK

I think it is time to revisit the site, its function, its capability, its service to all recreational aviators. Time to perhaps look at a Wish List of what the site could perhaps deliver/provide you all...so how about it, what would you like to put on the Wish List? I will start although derived from a specific user's request: Aviation Book List - details about the many different books written about aviation Aviation Movie List - details about the many different movies concerning aviation Plain English Weather Converter After all, I am stuck here in Melbourne in lock down so it will give me something to think about/do ...over to you

I am no longer a "member" and I use the word "member" loosely as these days you are simply a customer that pays them money as a company...they are purely an administration just like CASA is and the RAAus board along with the current CEO made sure of that. They stole our "community" of like minded recreational enthusiasts in a hostile takeover fashion to create a business. If you no longer fly an RAAus aircraft it is not worth paying a company for administrative services that you don't use and very silly to give a corporate money to support their company. Do you go up to your local Cafe and give them $200 just so they can stay a cafe in case one day you may feel like a coffee? I no longer fly as I have self grounded myself due to vision issues so why pay a business, different if they were an Association of members of like minded recreational aviation enthusiasts.

That is strange...the only thing off the top of my head that may cause that is the link is using a https://www. and you may be using the site address without the www which means your saved log in is what is causing the issue. The easiest way is that once you are on the site, click the "Envelope" icon towards the top of the side column and go to your conversations that way...try that

I just logged in as you and didn't find any issue. The fact that you have logged in to make your post means that you should be able to reply to a conversation, no extra password is needed. Can you take some screen shots of the issue you are having and show me

As many may know I get coding and Admin support from @Ahmed Zayed who lives in Egypt, well he has just become a father for a 2nd time so a HUGE congratulations from everyone here at Recreational Flying

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If it is a 2003 version should it be a allowed to be downloaded as it will be full of incorrect info...dangerous

Are you referring to an "Over shoulder bolder holder" or also referred to as a "Double barrel sling shot"

There are creams for that

Personally I would give a high score of just a sore throat for it to be worthy of a test

Please be advised that we must play the subject...NOT the man or else suspensions will reluctantly be given, I don't want this and I am sure no one else does as well...thanks for understanding

It will be a download but probably not a complete 150gb as that is what is needed in terms of hdd space to run it but maybe 130gb

I pre ordered my copy today as I was able to get the Premium Deluxe edition at a discounted price of $142 AUD. It is being released on the 18th Aug and it is reported to need 150gb of hdd space. The screenshots look incredible especially the terrain.

Unfortunately only the Xenforo software has the numbers stored and can create the chart and as we were using IPS software prior to the start of the graph I don't have those figures

Out of curiousity what other things are you guys interested in like Cars, Boats, Gardening, Technology, Jobs, Home Maintenance ?????????????????

We need many more posts of value to entice new users and to get discussions going

Just Recreational Flying

Did you know that generally the most popular online communities all started with a specific subject or obsession...many started by just being an online community about a specific computer game or other specific thing. However, they all diversified broadening their appeal into many other areas. For example that one specific computer game spread to other computer games and then to general life subjects and ended up forums catering to everything and which that specific computer game still exists on their site but just as 1 of the many different subject forums they have on their site. Most top successful forums also have more than just the forum function as well like i was trying to create when we used the IPS software. One specific feature they have is that users can fine tune areas like Whats New to just the subjects they are interested in, something you can't do in here (Xenforo software)

Looking at the site statistics today and I am alarmed at an obvious downward trend. The number of "registered" users coming to the site every day seems to be maintained at an average of around 250 to 275 per day however years ago we were averaging 600 registered users per day peaking at up to 1,000 (the graph peaks are a result of the weekly email that goes out). I believe this drop is caused purely by Facebook. But what is concerning is the huge downward trend in the number of posts per day. This could be caused by Covid-19 but I would have thought that the numbers would increase given that everyone was in lock down spending more time on the internet. Let me explain what happens when the number of posts drop...there is less to read resulting in less interest resulting in less posts again and as it keeps dropping the number of registered users coming to the site each day begins to drop...the end result is the site's closure due to cost/benefit. The other thing is when the number of registered users start to drop, which I feel we are approaching, a turn around is extremely difficult, the term "free fall" comes to mind. This site has been going for some 18 years and in its heyday, before Facebook, it was the go to place for all recreational aviators to get help from each other, discuss one's flying experiences and to just get social with other like minded aviators. We need to do something...but I don't know what!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your thoughts?????????

If I look at it in simplistic terms there are only 4 reasons you can leave home and flying doesnt fit into one of them so even though there is nothing explicit that is the way I would look at it