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That is a special development thing and I have yet to find an "off the shelf" product to do it with IPS or developed one that is easy to manage...there is one built in but it requires manually creating it each week...please stay tuned for this some time in the not too distant future

1hr delay on my flight so far...was planned departure of 18:10 now 19:10. How are you coping @David Isaac I asked a guy I work with who has an R44 if he wanted a trip up your way and he said not on your bloody life in this wind

I am rebuilding the search index which seems to be fixing the issue however I have no idea how this has happened...perhaps @Ahmed Zayed might know what could have caused it

You're right, that is strange...I might try and rebuild the search however that will take some time..q.will look into it further

From CEO and Director of Aviation Safety, Shane Carmody Improving safety surveillance Monitoring the ongoing health and maturity of aviation operations is one of CASA’s core responsibilities set out by the Civil Aviation Act. In a recent speech to the Australian Airports Association national conference I outlined the substantial improvements CASA has made in the way we deliver and conduct surveillance activities. The changes began with the introduction of sector risk profiles, which look at specific areas of operations and identify risks and risk impacts. These risk profiles are developed in collaboration with sector participants, as well as utilising information from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics. This year we established regular risk profiling for airspace that will soon be developed to include ongoing risk analysis for aerodromes. We have the capacity to conduct monthly surveillance risk profiling now, but we hope to increase that to a daily or weekly report soon. In 2018 we established a national surveillance selection process. This is a systematic national approach to the prioritisation and scheduling of planned surveillance events across a year. In 2018-19 there are 1032 surveillance events planned across all areas of CASA’s responsibilities. In addition, we are conducting national sector campaigns, which are coordinated activities of sample surveillance of certain sectors. One example was a recent balloon sector campaign triggered by several accidents, which saw 11 of the 23 balloon operators audited. CASA now applies a risk management and consistent approach to surveillance. This means we allocate our resources more efficiently and effectively and take a more holistic approach to aviation safety. Of course, compliance checking is only a small part of delivering a safe aviation environment. Support, guidance, honesty and transparency are at least as important to deliver a safe outcome. We must engage and collaborate with the aviation community and look to reduce costs and impost on industry where ever possible. Please read my speech to the Australian Airports Association. Best wishes Shane Carmody Latest News New Visual Flight Rules Guide out now A new printed edition of the very popular Visual Flight Rules Guide is now available. The guide features plenty of diagrams, charts and maps to support easy-to-read information on all visual flight rules operations. This new edition has updates to the rules and regulations and incorporates feedback received from the aviation community since the release of the 2015 edition. Included in the latest edition is information on the new fuel rules, reforms to aviation medicals, streamlined information on the National Aeronautical Information Processing System or NAIPS and substantial amendments to the Graphical Area Forecasts section and inclusion of Grid Point Wind and Temperature forecasts. Pilots are given practical examples for calculating important data such as usable fuel and the beginning of first light. Text has been updated in a range of areas to make content clearer and easier to read. The Visual Flight Rules Guide is divided into five main sections – general information, pre-flight planning, operations, helicopters and emergency procedures. This easy-to-use guide on how to operate safely to the visual flight rules is allowed to be used in private pilot licence examinations as a reference tool and is a very useful resource during all visual flight rules operations. It is one of a number of resources CASA produces to assist pilots to comply with the regulations and fly safely. Order your copy of the Visual Flight Rules Guide from the CASA online store. Go to the online version of the Visual Flight Rules Guide. Have your say on new GA maintenance regs The next phase of consultation on the proposed general aviation maintenance regulations is about to get underway. To help people interested in the development of the new rules CASA is commencing a series of information sessions in early December 2018. The sessions will be held at Moorabbin, Parafield, Archerfield, Cairns, Darwin, Jandakot and Bankstown. The CASA team working on the general aviation maintenance regulations will explain what is proposed and why, as well as giving everyone a chance to ask questions and make suggestions. The United States maintenance regulations are to be used as the basis for Australia’s new general aviation maintenance rules. This was determined after initial consultation held earlier in 2018. The next phase of consultation will focus on the practical issues of adopting the US Federal Aviation Regulations into the Australian rules. CASA’s goal is to streamline maintenance requirements, minimise the regulatory burden and reduce costs, while maintaining the high aviation standards expected by all Australians. Book a place at a general aviation maintenance information sessions. Facts and figures show busy year Australia’s registered aircraft fleet grew to 15,529 by the end of the 2017-18 financial year – up 422 on the previous year. There were 3720 new flight crew licences issued, bringing the total number of current licences to 31,145 at the end of June 2018. These are just some of the key facts contained in CASA’s latest annual report. Over the year CASA processed 51,942 flight crew licensing applications and notifications and 4146 people received their first medical certificate. There were 3020 remote pilot licences issued, an increase of 53 per cent on the previous year, and 332 new remotely piloted aircraft operator certificates were issued, an increase of 27 per cent on the year before. During the year CASA conducted 1121 surveillance events and 813 on-site visits by aviation safety advisors. A total of 7913 people attended AvSafety seminars and other educational events. There were 149 aviation infringement notices issued – 58 for drone offences and 49 for breaches by airline passengers. In the annual report CASA CEO and Director of Aviation Safety, Shane Carmody, said the 2017-18 year saw a focus on consultation, significant progress on simplifying aviation medical processes and ongoing challenges associated with remotely piloted aircraft. Go to the 2017-18 CASA annual report. Drone battery failure warning A warning has been issued to operators of DJI Matrice 200 series and DJI Inspire 2 drones. A small number of incidents have been reported where these drones have suffered a complete loss of power during flight, despite indications there was enough battery power. In each case the drones made a rapid descent due to an immediate loss of lift; with the remote pilot unable to maintain any command authority. The drones crashed and suffered damage on impact, but no reports of injury or significant third-party property damage have been received. An investigation by the manufacturer has found the problem is not related to specific firmware but is thought to be related to battery models TB50 and TB55. In a safety bulletin CASA recommends operators of DJI drones fitted with TB50 and TB55 batteries do not fly over people at any height until further notice. CASA has highlighted the need for all drone operators and remote pilots to ensure that any operation can be conducted safely. Civil Aviation Safety Regulations require that a drone is not operated in a way that poses a hazard to another aircraft, person or property. Read the drone safety bulletin and the DJI notice. More security for medical applications Online security for users of CASA’s medical records system is being improved. From 29 November 2018 a new applicant authentication process will be part of the system. Each time a medical certificate applicant accesses the system they will be required to generate a 6-character alphanumeric code by clicking on the “Get SMS Code” button. The code will be sent to the mobile number applicants have already registered with CASA. The applicant will be required to enter the SMS code to proceed with the medical certificate application. The SMS code requirement is similar to one used by internet banking websites to confirm a user’s identity. Find out more about aviation medicals. Effective GA passenger safety briefings Detailed guidance on how to deliver effective passenger safety briefings in general aviation operations has been released. The guidance material covers aeroplanes, helicopters and hot air balloons. The rules require all passengers to be given a safety briefing before take-off, to be made familiar with the location of emergency exits and equipment, to be informed about the stowage and security of loose articles and the need for aisles, passageways and exits to be clear of obstructions. The pilot-in-command should conduct the passenger briefing prior to engine start where possible. The type of operation dictates what sort of briefing will be conducted, with issues to be covered including seat belts, doors, brace position and the need not to distract the pilot during take-off, manoeuvring or landing. Helicopter briefings can include approaching and leaving to the side or front of the aircraft in a crouched position and never by the rear of the helicopter, carrying tools horizontally below waist level and never upright or over the shoulder or above the head, holding firmly onto hats and loose articles, and approaching and leaving by the downslope side for rotor clearance. Hot air balloon briefings should cover entering and exiting the basket, precautions with the inflation fan and a detailed explanation of the passenger landing position. Get all the details on passenger safety briefings. ‘Umbrella’ air operator arrangements CASA has become aware that some aviation companies are using their air operator’s certificate in an ‘umbrella’ arrangement for other aviation companies. The holders of air operator’s certificates and other authorisations are allowing other companies to conduct operations under their certificate. CASA considers this is a breach of the Civil Aviation Act and/or regulations by both the certificate holder and the company which does not hold a certificate. Paragraph seven of CASA’s aviation ruling on franchise air operator certificate arrangements states: “the air operator certificate holder at all times remains responsible for the actions of another person (not being a reference to a company) conducting operations under the air operator’s certificate”. The ruling does not permit an air operator’s certificate holder to enter into an arrangement for a third-party company to conduct operations under its air operator’s certificate. This principle applies to other authorisation types. The ruling is not affected or altered by arrangements where the companies have an affiliation, common directorship or shareholders; the non-certificate company uses the procedures of the certificate company; or the non-certificate company is supervised by the certificate company. Companies are advised to ensure their operations are conducted lawfully and they are encouraged to seek written advice from CASA about these types of arrangements. Read the franchise air operator certificate ruling. Christmas shutdown The festive season is fast approaching and that means CASA will be closed for regular business between Christmas and New Year. CASA offices will shut from the close of business on Monday 24 December 2018 until the start of business on Wednesday 2 January 2019. Anyone needing CASA services or support over the holiday period should make contact as soon as possible. Applications for services lodged at the last minute are unlikely to be able to be processed before the holiday season. CASA will have staff on call for urgent aviation safety matters over the Christmas-New Year period. Anyone needing CASA for an urgent aviation safety matter during the holiday shutdown should call 131 757 and follow the prompts. In Brief A quick guide to the new fuel rules that started on 8 November 2018 is now available. The guide can be printed from CASA’s website and covers the key changes such as in-flight fuel management, fixed fuel reserves, mayday fuel and additional fuel calculation. A proposed airworthiness directive on tail boom and fin fretting and cracking in Bell UH-1 helicopters has been released for comment. The UH-1 Helicopters will require inspections. A new online resource is now available for pilots operating in northern Australia during the wet season. A video on wet season decision making looks at the hazards and challenges of flying in the tropics during the wet and features advice from the Bureau of Meteorology and a Darwin based flight training organisation. CASA will draft new rules for the maintenance of limited category aircraft following strong support for the proposal. The draft rules will incorporate amendments suggested during the latest consultation. Results of consultation have been published.

Information sessions - proposed new maintenance regulations for general aviation The next phase of consultation on the proposed general aviation maintenance regulations is about to get underway. The proposed regulations seek to meet an overarching objective of streamlining maintenance requirements, minimising regulatory burden and reducing costs while maintaining the high aviation standards expected by all Australians. To help people interested in the development of the new rules CASA is holding a series of information sessions during the week 10-14 December 2018. You are invited to attend a special information session to hear the latest from our team of experts. They will explain what is proposed and why, as well as giving everyone a chance to ask questions and make suggestions. The information sessions will be held at various venues on the date and times outlined below. To register, click on the ‘register now’ link for your preferred location. Region Venue Date and time Register Melbourne The Dingley Hotel Mason Room 334 Boundary Road Dingley VIC 3172 12.00pm – 2.00pm Monday 10 December Register now Adelaide Mawson Lakes Hotel Varsity Room 10 Main Street Mawson Lakes SA 12.00pm – 2.00pm Tuesday 11 December Register now Sydney Bankstown Airport Passenger Terminal Airport Ave Bankstown NSW 12.00pm – 2.00pm Tuesday 11 December Register now Brisbane Basair Flight Planning Room Building 9 Grenier Drive Archerfield Airport QLD 12.00pm – 2.00pm Wednesday 12 December Register now Perth Aveling Training Centre 6 Orion Road Jandakot WA 12.00pm – 2.00pm Wednesday 12 December Register now Cairns Aviation Australia Room 5 1 Tom McDonald Drive Cairns Airport QLD 12.00pm – 2.00pm Thursday 13 December Register now Darwin Novotel Darwin Airport Bonaparte Room 2 Sir Norman Brearley Dr Darwin NT 4.30pm – 6.30pm Thursday 13 December Register now There is no cost to attend and lunch will be provided. Registrations close close of business 5 December 2018.

Yes David, I would expect that treatment from a budget carrier but not Q. Good luck mate

Well the emails from jetstar have already started advising that my flight from YSSY to YMML may be delayed due to weather in Sydney...it is pretty blowy here at the moment so at least a clap to Jetstar for letting me know however it doesn't really mean anything as you still have to get to the airport in time just in case your flight isn't delayed...oh well, the joys of domestic commercial flying

A trial to deliver a functional human kidney to a patient by drone has been declared a success. Back in March, a team from the University of Maryland Medical Centre were notified that a kidney was available. It was healthy enough for research, but not quite fit for a human patient. It was, however, perfect for the team and associates at the university’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, to test a theory about whether drones could deliver human organs safely. First, the kidney had to make a 24-hour, 1600km trip to Baltimore by regular means. For the drone tests, a carrier device was developed called Human Organ Monitoring and Quality Assurance Apparatus for Long-Distance Travel (HOMAL). HOMAL is “designed to measure temperature, barometric pressure, altitude, vibration, and location via global positioning system (GPS) during transportation”. There’s a patent pending on that. The 11cm x 5cm kidney was given a biopsy before and after the 4.5 hours of testing, which included 62 minutes of flight time with the drone. The drone itself was a DJI M600 Pro – worth nearly $8000, but chosen for this experiment because its six motors sit directly under their rotors, keeping heat away from the HOMAL. Like so: Picture: University of Maryland In the next 24 hours, the drone carried the kidney on 14 missions. The longest was just over an hour and the maximum distance was 3 miles (4.8km). The team chose the 3-mile mark as it “models the distance between hospitals in cities such as Baltimore”. And the kidney came through all of it in better than expected health, according to the biopsies. In fact, no damage was recorded, and it was noted that the organ had actually been subject to less vibration stress than it would during a regular delivery mission aboard a turboprop plane. BI was reporting on medical drones as a future technology just two years ago. Now, the University of Maryland Medical Center has made a huge step forward in showing drones can deliver organs in surprisingly good health. “I think that what we did here is very cool, very exciting,” Dr Joseph Scalea of the University of Maryland Medical Center told IEEE. “This is the first step among a series that I think will get patients closer to their life-saving organs quicker, and with better outcomes.” Scalea believes that another test to actually deliver a kidney and transplant it successfully might be achieved “early in 2019”. Organs on demand The next hurdle is speed and regulations. National figures show that around 20% of donated kidneys in the US are discarded because they can’t get to the matching donor quick enough. That’s as many as 2700 life-saving organs in the bin each year. Right now, the speed and payload capacity of drones is well below what’s needed to make a dent in that figure. Ideally, researchers say, “a transplant drone would need the range and speed (480-800 kmh, or 300-500 mph) of a jet airplane”. Those drones can can hit 150kmh and above are for the most part too small to carry an organ payload. But we’ve seen at least one Australian company developing drones that can lift well in excess of the weight of a kidney, and closing in on speeds of 200kmh. As for regulations that require a drone to be always in sight of the operator, Scalea is confident the current “national discussion” about drone tech is heading in the right direction. “I think that these things are going to be addressable,” he told IEEE.

"Do you really know what all those buttons do?" Call me simple, but that's the question I've always wanted to ask an airline pilot. That and, how hard is it to land one of these things? And when is it time for passengers to start panicking? Recently, I had the chance to ask these very questions of Brett Manders, a former naval officer turned commercial pilot for Jetstar, who flies Boeing 787 Dreamliners across the world. Here's what he had to say. Why did you get into commercial flying? I remember going out to Tullamarine airport as a kid, when they had a viewing platform there, and I was just gobsmacked at the planes. Just the sense of adventure, that you could go anywhere in the world on these things. From that day on I always wanted to be a pilot. How much training did you have to go through? It was a solid 12 months of study to get a commercial license. Then it was another several years before I got into an airline, when I joined Jetstar in 2009. I've since flown several different aircraft, and at the moment I'm training the next generation of pilots on the Dreamliner. What do you think would surprise people about your job? People probably think it's a lot more glamorous than it is. Certainly going to Hawaii in the depths of a Melbourne winter is fantastic, but we fly all night, you get there, you sleep for a little bit, you get up, go out for dinner, try to go to the beach, sleep and fly back. You're only there for enough time to get jet-lagged and then come home. What's your day-to-day schedule like? My monthly roster is a mix of training new pilots, and I get a couple of flights a month to some of the more desirable destinations: Hawaii, Bali, Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Japan. Do you have a favourite plane to fly? Every pilot's favourite aeroplane is the one they're flying at the moment, but the Dreamliner is fantastic. It's super high-tech and modern, the cockpit looks really space-aged. It's a beautiful machine. Do you really know what every button in the cockpit does? Absolutely! They're all grouped into similar areas – all the electrics are in one area, all the fuel stuff is in one area… When you do your training you do several weeks of computer-based modules to learn about all the buttons, and then there's another month and a half of training in the simulator before you even get to the aeroplane. When you're doing it every day it becomes second nature. How much of a part does autopilot play? Autopilot is a great tool, but it's always under our control, we're always telling it what to do. You know with cruise control in a car, you'd always have your foot ready on the brake just in case? That's what we're doing. Autopilot can do something like fly straight and level a lot better than a human can, because it's not prone to fatigue, it's a lot quicker at doing calculations, but it's all what we tell it to do. We do practise doing automatic landings, so when the weather is bad we do practise it. That's dependent upon the airline, the airport and the regulator. But every take-off is done manually, there's no such thing as an auto take-off. Could I land a plane in an emergency? The first thing you would need to do is work out how to use the radios. Given enough time, and depending on how technically minded you were – say if you're an iPhone user and you could jump across to a Samsung – it's possible. You could be talked down. But you'd need to be able to do an automatic landing, and not every airport can do that. A manual landing could be done, but there would be an immense amount of pressure … It's more a Hollywood script than a possibility. Have you ever been scared on a flight? Have you ever eaten airline food? I wouldn't say I've ever been scared in a commercial airliner. When I was doing training in light aircraft, I did some aerobatic training, and my stomach wasn't so keen on that. I also had to stop an engine in-flight and start it again. In a light aircraft you scare yourself a bit, but that's part of the training. When is it time for passengers to start panicking? The only time passengers need to panic is before the flight if they're running late, and afterwards at the baggage carousel if their bags don't come out. On the flight, I always try to reiterate, we're all highly trained, and we've got skin in the game, we've all got family and friends we want to get home to. The best thing you can do if you're afraid of flying is let the crew know you're nervous when you get on board, and they'll keep an eye on you. Do you have a favourite airport? Honolulu is pretty cool on take-off. It's a beautiful, smooth runway, and you do an early turn and fly over the beach at Waikiki, which is pretty nice. You're disappointed to be leaving, but it's a pretty spectacular departure. How about a least favourite airport? Probably any airport where air traffic control tell you they're going to give you a delay straight after you've told the passengers what time they're going to arrive. It makes it look like we don't know what we're doing. But it's the nature of the industry with such busy air routes, it doesn't take much to slow things down. Any time a flight is delayed, you always hear the captain say they're "just finishing off the paperwork". What is all this paperwork? We have a phrase: the bigger the aeroplane, the bigger the paperwork. There are three main parts to the paperwork. The first is the fuel. We have to make sure we have the right fuel. We might plan the fuel load we need in tonnes, but the airport refueller might refuel in US gallons, and they might bill us in pounds. So you obviously want to make sure that's right. The next one is the passengers and freight, we have to make sure we have the correct amount of passengers on board, and we also need to know where the passengers and the freight is distributed throughout the plane. The final item is the tech log. You know when you have your car serviced, the service rep will fill out the log book? It's pretty much the exact same thing, except that gets filled out before every flight. What's the strangest that's happened on one of your flights? This isn't so much strange as funny. You know when you have a flight that isn't very full, the cabin crew makes an announcement that you have to stay in your allotted seat until the seatbelt sign has gone off? We had this one guy, when the light went off he hopped up and walked down to business class and put himself up there. I thought that was pretty funny. They've since changed the PA announcement.

Imagine an aircraft engine that has no moving parts, produces no harmful exhaust and makes no noise. That’s what researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have created by adapting a technology previously only used in spacecraft so it can power flight over the Earth. Ion drives have been used on spacecraft since the 1960s and work by firing out a stream of charged particles that propel the vessel forward. As well as being carbon neutral, they are less likely to go wrong and cheaper to maintain than conventional engines because they have no propellers, turbines or fuel pumps to break down. The only problem was that, in Earth’s gravity, the thrust produced by the drive wasn’t enough to overcome the weight of the batteries needed to power them. Until now. The timely new research, published in Nature, paves the way for the possibility of silent drones in the very near future. With further advances in materials and power conversion, silent crewed aircraft and eventually commercial flights could also be on the horizon. In fact, this breakthrough could be the first step in changing how we all fly around the world in the future.

The Bookmarks system has been added to the site to make it handy for you to create a bookmark on content of the site that you may later want to return to. You can categorise your bookmarks, add your own notes to a bookmark and even download them for future reference. Here is a quick video on how to use this great feature...hope you make use of it

As an update the Post Bit (the left side of the post that contains your avatar and user info) is being worked on at the moment...you may notice a slight change to it already...more on this when it is finished

Well the new site header logo is now displayed on the site...it's a modern look with a slogan of what the site is about...there is even a slight motion blur on the tips of the black propeller blades...hope you like it

GE Aviation Boeing 747-100 N747GE. (GE Aviation/YouTube) GE Aviation has donated its first Boeing 747 flying testbed to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The final ferry flight took place on November 15, with 747-100 N747GE making the one-hour trip from Victorville to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. VIDEO: GE Aviation’s original Boeing 747 flying testbed heads into the Arizona desert and the Pima Air and Space Museum, from GE Aviation’s YouTube channel. The aircraft came off the production line in 1969 and was the 25th 747 Boeing ever built. It first flew with Pan American World Airways as N744PA in 1970 and spent 21 years with the airline. The aircraft became part of GE Aviation’s flying testbed fleet in 1992. “The aircraft provided critical flight data on more than 11 distinct engine models and 39 engine builds, including widebody engines likes the GE90, GEnx and the Engine Alliance GP7200, CF34 engines for regional jets, narrow body engines like CFM56 and LEAP, and the Passport for business aviation,” GE Aviation said in a statement on November 15. The 747-100 conducted its final test flight on January 25 2017, having racked up 90,000 hours and 19,251 cycles during its near five decades in service. VIDEO: GE Aviation pilots talk about the company’s original Boeing 747 flying testbed, from GE Aviation’s YouTube channel. While N747GE has been retired, GE Aviation continues its engine flight tests on an ex-Japan Airlines 747-400 “Propulsion Test Platform” (PTP), registered N747GF, that it picked up in 2010. “Powered by GE’s CF6-80C2 engines, the new PTP offers better capabilities and improved integrated systems compared to the older flying test bed. The PTP has flown missions for the LEAP and GE9X engines,” GE Aviation said. The aircraft is being used for testing GE Aviation’s GE9X engines that will power the Boeing 777-8X and 777-9X. Flight tests began in March 2018, with the 777-9X due to enter service in 2019 and the 777-8X to follow in 2022. GE Aviation’s flight test bed with the GE9X engine. (GE Aviation) Established in 1976, the Pima Air and Space Museum is a not-for-profit organisation and the largest privately funded aviation and aerospace museum in the world. Further, the facility is the third largest aviation museum in the United States, according to its website. Spread out across 30 hectares and five hangars, it has about 350 aircraft on display across both military and commercial examples and is adjacent to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Earlier in 2018, Cathay Pacific donated the first 777 to the museum.

If the year is shown then the post was in that year...If there is no year shown then the post is in the current year:

Go to your profile page (click your avatar in the menu and then click Profile) and then click the edit button in the bottom left corner of your avatar on your profile page

Avatars in posts will be made a bit larger when I add the extra profile fields like the user's country flags etc like we had before

Still to be defined to be exactly what you all want

I would wait as I want it to be a great feature for builds and other individual activities

Now that we have confirmed the site name to be Recreational Flying (there is always a means to my madness) Ahmed has created a new site header logo of the name. I really like it so here is a sneak preview of it: Click to see larger

You may like to start a thread in the forum Aircraft Building and Design however soon we will turn the Blogs on in the site which will be a great way to create a Build Blog and you can edit your Blog all the time

Ok, don't let it be said that I don't listen...we are back on Recreational Flying (.com) So, this is the 2nd area of averall change completed: 1. Define best platform - IPS is here to stay 2. Define best site name - Recreational Flying is here to stay 3. Define best hosting - This is still to be done but will not be considered to some time later next year once the site is completely developed and constraints can be analysed I am sure you will all sigh with relief now that we have gone through all the dramatic changes...thanks for your understanding

To keep you informed here is just some of my To Do list which will get done over the coming months: Profile fields First Class Tutorials Aviation News Site Name User Post Bit Info Blogs Clubs Bookmarks Help Desk Shop Competitions Suppliers Fill Downloads Pilot Tools Gallery fix Videos Who's Who Aircraft Hosting and there is a lot more on my list. The above will not be implemented in specific order but based on what time I have and what I can do at that time...some of the above are huge undertaking and some are small so please bare with me and add your wish list to my list...thanks

These will be back very soon and they will be incorporated into the site to enable features like searching, commenting etc...please stay tuned