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25 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Auctions? - Wow, this is a pretty cool addition to the site, Ian! But I think it also needs a link to the auction/s in the LHS menu.

I, as Admin, have a link to the Auctions page however each Auction listed shows who bid and their bid amount on each Auction so I thought this should be private information.

Recreational Flying now has an Auction Widget that you will see throughout the site. This is your opportunity to perhaps score a huge bargain for something you may need.

In the widget you will see a countdown timer to the end of the auction, a description of the item up for auction and a field for you to place your bid. Bids are in Australian dollars and you will see if you have the highest bid or if you have been outbid by another user. Some Auctions may have a reserve.

If you have an item that you would like to be auctioned off then please contact me using the Private Messages system in the main menu

REMEMBER to keep coming back to check on what may be auctioned off and to check on how you are going on your bids...GOOD LUCK!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas day and hope you have a happy New Year

If I restock the Recreational Flying 250 headsets they will probably be around $175, if these test ok (more testing to come) probably around $195. The ANL ones maybe around the mid to high 400's. I try to keep the margins as low as possible compared to other places, and there is no middle man or distributor to take their chunk, but by doing this I have been caught out at times with the AUD exchange rate which can gobble up the small margin.

Remember all shop proceeds go towards offsetting the cost of running this site

Thanks guys, the headsets have arrived so how can we organise this

Thanks Guys, the updated headset samples arrive on the 18th Dec so I will be in touch just after that. I would like to get them tested ASAP after that so they can start manufacturing them (2 weeks as they are to my Recreational Flying specs) and then sent by air to me ready to stock about mid Jan

I will be soon receiving the new Recreational Flying Headsets and I am looking for someone who can take a standard one and an ANL one up for a flight for testing preferably someone here in Melbourne. I want to test the changes that I have made to the headsets especially in the area of even more comfort and sound quality.

Please let me know, I would greatly appreciate it

Off Topic is on a separate dedicated site at www.socialaustralia.com.au

You would have to feel something for this fellow aviator who left is mark in the dust on the outside of my office window. Wings stretched out wide I wonder what went through his mind as he stretched out those wings which is why I have posted it in the Accidents and Incidents forum

I think you are right there Nev

This is my work desk:

Must say thanks to @facthunter for giving me a ring as soon as it happened...please anyone, if you notice anything untoward going on please give me a ring

It wasn't a hack per say as no information was retrieved i.e. the database was not accessed due to the security the site has and even if it was then remember ALL passwords have one way encryption which is why I don't even have access to your password

This topic belongs on our off topic site, please continue the thread over there...thanks

I am looking at merging the Off Topic site SocialAustralia.com.au with this one as 99% of the users on Social Australia are also members here. To do this I am looking at having separate What's New streams, one stream as it is now and one stream for all the latest content in the Off Topic forums and certain off topic categories in the Gallery, Videos etc.

Please let me know your thoughts on this...and thanks

Hi all, you may have noticed, except for those that go straight to the "What's New" page, we now have a dedicated Home Page for the site. The Home Page contains snippets on what are the latest in the site and random entries of others like the Gallery for example. Have a look by simply clicking the site Logo in the top header and you will see what visitors will see when the simply go to recreationalflying.com

Interested to hear any comments you may have...and thanks for your continued support of the site in this the site's 20th year of providing all recreational aviators, and that includes GA, a resource to come together, learn and help each other.

I have added a Bookmark function to the site that will provide you with a way to bookmark posts, records etc that you may want to refer back to at some time without having the need to try searching for it.

Posts, records etc have a "Bookmark" link at the bottom of the post next to the Quote link. Click the Bookmark link will open a popup giving you some options for the bookmark i.e. is it private or public, what category etc. Your bookmarks can be managed like creating different bookmark categories, deleting bookmarks etc by clicking your avatar in the side menu and selecting "My Bookmarks" from the drop down menu.

Any Bookmarks you save as Public are also shown on you profile page

Enjoy!

Also note that the multi quote function as described above also works for quoting posts from any other threads on the site into one new post in a different thread

The way to multi quote posts from any of the previous pages, like I have done below, is to click the + sign next to the quote link in each post. When you do that you will see a little box appear on the screen showing the number of posts you are quoting and can insert them all into one new post

On 26/12/2020 at 9:30 PM, onetrack said:

So Marty was locked out, because Tasmania is outside Australia?? 

On 03/02/2023 at 5:12 PM, facthunter said:

Same for  me. "off topic" is normal  Nev

22 minutes ago, Garfly said:

Ian, I'd like to add my thanks for all your efforts in making the site work as well as it does.

 

One small problem I'm having (and it may be just my ignorance) occurs when I want to quote a post from a previous page in a reply I'm working on in the current page.  If I hit the "Quote" button on that earlier page it opens up a new text box for me at the bottom of that page.  Whereas I'm wanting the quote to appear in my new post on the current page.  I have tried, in the past, to use work-arounds, such as linking to that earlier post instead or just making my own copy-and-paste quote with due attribution.  But these solutions sacrifice some of the best aspects of the "Quote" feature.  Any ideas?

 

 

Also note that when you quote a post on a previous page and it opens a new post box at the bottom of that page, when you click submit it will still add your post at the bottom of the last page anyway

Try that, is that better

Is it fixed now...if it is then unfortunately you will have to put up with all the location marker updates in the What's New page. This will last for another day or so. If you want to see yesterday's posts etc then you will have to scroll through all the pages of location pin updates. Sorry

I will look into replacing the search with Google search

That will be fixed in a couple of days when all the user location markers are updated

What device are you using

6 minutes ago, red750 said:

What's with all the Community Map Markers, did they all have to be reloaded?

Yep, sorry about that, I thought I excluded them from showing. They should all be not showing now in the What's New section