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Thanks Sue...will do

Looks like I may not have to keep this poll going for long...at the time of posting this 11 for Recreational Flying, 0 for Aircraft Pilots and 1 for Other Good idea @tillmanr with the "& aircraft" which can easily be added to the text of the site name (not domain or logo) and meta data

Would that limit the site to just RAA?

What's in a name? A little while ago I changed the name of the site from Recreational Flying to Aircraft Pilots in the hope of broadening the site's appeal to everyone in aviation. I acknowledge that there are more aviators in the Recreational arena of aviation than commercial however there are two segments of recreational, one being the Sports Aircraft/Ultralight/Microlight etc segment and second, the PPL level of General Aviation which is still recreational. However PPL arena of aviation have differentiated themselves away from the term Recreational and recreational aviators see themselves as pure recreational pilots as opposed to Aircraft pilots. This is a big issue when defining a site name when it is trying to provide an overall resource for ALL aviators (other than airline) especially in the area of anything that comes up in Google listings to attract new users. Using the name Recreational will be perceived as ONLY for the sport aircraft/ ultralight/microlight segment. Using the name Aircraft Pilot may be perceived as being for the PPL, and above, level of aviation. After some 15 years of Recreational Flying the name has become widely known as an icon in the low level segment of aviation so I thought I would try Aircraft Pilots and ascertain through statistics whether this would increase the site's usage and content style of threads and posts. I know it hasn't been that long under Aircraft Pilots however I have not seen one positive outcome to date, not one statistic has any indication that the name has been a positive influence at all. In fact site usage has slightly dropped however I am attributing that to the software/platform changes over the last few months which I am presuming is only a temporary occurance until things settle in the area and all the site benefits become available to everyone. i.e. Clubs, Suppliers, Blogs, Articles, News, Pilot Tools etc. So, Please, what do you think have I made the right move to Aircraft Pilots or should it be Recreational Flying...think of it logically and with business sense with what I have planned for the future i.e. the Virtual Flyin and Expo, and vote and comment on what you believe I should do...and thanks very much for your help.

(Reuters) - The crash of a Boeing Co 737 MAX jet in Indonesia on Oct. 29 has raised questions on whether the manufacturer shared enough information with regulators, airlines and pilots about the systems on the latest version of its popular narrow-body plane. The jet operated by budget carrier Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board. WHAT IS NEW ON THE 737 MAX? The most hyped features of the 737 MAX compared with its predecessor, the 737NG, are more fuel-efficient engines. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– But as a result of the larger engines, which are placed higher and further forward of the wing, the jet's balance changed. To address that, Boeing put in place more anti-stall protections, Leeham Co analyst Bjorn Fehrm said in an online post. An automated protection system called the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) kicks in when the angle of attack is too high, when the plane's nose is too elevated, threatening a stall. WHAT IS 'ANGLE OF ATTACK'? On paper, it measures the angle between the air flow and the wing. But it is so fundamental to flight that historians say the only instrument on the Wright Brothers' first aircraft was a piece of yarn designed to measure it. If the angle of attack is too high, the airflow over the wing is disturbed, throwing the plane into an aerodynamic stall. One of two angle of attack sensors on the Lion Air jet was faulty, according to Indonesian investigators. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week warned airlines that erroneous inputs from those sensors could lead the jet automatically to pitch its nose down even when autopilot is turned off, making it difficult for pilots to control. WHICH AIRLINES OPERATE THE 737 MAX? Boeing has delivered 241 of the jets to customers since it entered service last year, according to its website. Major operators include Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Norwegian, Lion Air, Air Canada, China Southern, China Eastern and flydubai. Another 4,542 have been ordered but not yet delivered. WHAT DID AIRLINES AND PILOTS KNOW ABOUT THE SYSTEM? Lion Air's flight manual did not contain information about the new anti-stall system, according to investigators and an airplane flight manual seen by Reuters. U.S. pilots were also not made aware in training courses, pilot unions say. American Airlines said it was "unaware" of some of the functionality of the MCAS system. Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg told Fox Business Network on Tuesday that Boeing provides "all of the information that's needed to safely fly our airplanes". HOW WOULD A PILOT SHUT OFF THE SYSTEM? Pilots can stop the automated response by pressing two buttons if the system behaves unexpectedly, the FAA says. That action is set out in a checklist used by Lion Air pilots for in-air troubleshooting, an instructor said. It is also required to be committed to memory by pilots. Pilots on a flight from Jakarta to Bali the day before the crash experienced a similar sensor issue but managed to land safely by turning off the system, the New York Times reported. HOW WAS THE SYSTEM APPROVED? The FAA holds the main responsibility for certifying Boeing jets and training programs for pilots, but local regulators also issue approvals for airlines based in their countries. An unresolved question is how Boeing measured the system's reliability and on what basis the FAA certified it as safe. HOW ARE PILOTS TRAINED? An FAA document on training requirements for 737 MAX pilots transitioning from the older 737NG, has no reference to the new anti-stall system. Lion Air says it followed a training regime approved by U.S. and European regulators. The training was restricted to three hours of computer-based training and a familiarization flight. However, Brazil's regulator told Reuters that it had required specific training for pilots on the anti-stall system. WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE THE CRASH? Boeing last week issued a bulletin to airlines reiterating existing procedures and advising them to add information on the anti-stall system to flight manuals, which was quickly followed by an FAA directive making that mandatory. The FAA and Boeing are studying the need for software changes, as well as revisions to training and operating procedures on the 737 MAX, the regulator said. WHEN WILL THE FIRST REPORT ON THE CRASH BE RELEASED? A preliminary report will be released on Nov. 28 or 29, according to Indonesian investigators. However, divers have yet to locate the airline's cockpit voice recorder, which would shed light on pilot interactions that are important for gaining a fuller picture of the circumstances of the crash.

There was a loud bang, and suddenly the Southwest Airlines jet rolled sharply to the left. Smoke began to fill the cabin, and flight attendants rushed row by row to make sure all passengers could get oxygen from their masks. When flight attendant Rachel Fernheimer got to row 14, she saw a woman strapped in her lap belt but with her head, torso and arm hanging out of a broken window. Fernheimer grabbed one of the woman's legs while flight attendant Seanique Mallory grabbed her lower body. They described being unable to bring the woman back in the plane until two male passengers stepped in to help. Southwest Flight 1380 was carrying 144 passengers and five crew members when an engine exploded mid-air on April 17 . (AP) The flight attendant needed the help of two male passengers to pull Jennifer Riordan's body back inside the cabin. (AP) The harrowing details from the April 17 fatal flight were released for the first time as the National Transportation Safety Board began a hearing yesterday into the engine failure on Southwest Flight 1380, which carried 144 passengers and five crew members. The flight attendants told investigators at least one of the male passengers put his arm out of the window and wrapped it around the woman's shoulder to help pull her back in. Fernheimer said when she looked out the window, she could see that one of the plane's engines was shattered, and there was blood on the outside of the aircraft. Flight attendants asked for medical volunteers. A paramedic laid the woman across a row of seats and began chest compressions. They tried a defibrillator but it indicated that there was no shock. The paramedic and a nurse took turns at CPR. A flight attendant said when she looked out the window, she could see that one of the plane's engines was shattered, and there was blood on the outside of the aircraft. Passengers asked if they were going to die. Fernheimer said she squeezed their hands. "She told them that they were going to make it," an investigator wrote. Pilots Tammie Jo Shults and Darren Ellisor landed the crippled Boeing 737 in Philadelphia. The passenger in the window seat, Jennifer Riordan, was fatally injured — the first death on a US airline flight since 2009. Eight other passengers, including at least one of the men who helped pull Riordan back in the window, were hurt. The hearing in Washington focused on design and inspection of fan blades on the engine, made by CFM International, a joint venture of General Electric and France's Safran SA. Smoke filled the cabin, oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and passengers asked if they were going to die. (AP) Passenger in the window seat of Row 14, Jennifer Riordan, was fatally injured - the first death on a US airline flight since 2009. (AP) An official from CFM defended the design and testing of fan blades like the one that snapped on the Southwest plane as it flew high above Pennsylvania, triggering an engine break-up that flung debris like shrapnel into the plane. After the fatal accident, CFM recommended the use of frequent and more sophisticated tests using ultrasound or electrical currents. Another Southwest jet had suffered a similar blade-related engine breakup in 2016 over Florida. The pilots landed the crippled plane in Philadelphia. The National Transportation Safety Board hearing in Washington focused on design and inspection of fan blades on the engine.. (AP) CFM and federal regulators considered the Florida incident an aberration. "We determined early that we would require some corrective action in that it was an unsafe condition," an FAA expert on engines, Christopher Spinney, testified on Wednesday, "but we also determined we had some time." Rather than order immediate inspections of fan blades after the 2016 incident, the FAA began a slower process for drafting a regulation and getting public comment before enacting it. That process was still underway when the fatal accident occurred nearly two years later. Since the deadly flight, widespread inspections have turned up eight other fan blades on similar CFM engines that also had cracks. The fan blade that broke was last inspected six years earlier and, it was determined, suffered from metal fatigue even then — but it went unnoticed by a less sophisticated exam used at the time. Fan blades have been thought to have no real lifetime limit. CFM and FAA officials said they were now considering whether blades must be replaced at some point even if they don't show wear. Representatives from CFM also testified about testing and certification of jet engines, which are supposed to be built to prevent pieces from breaking off and flying free. The investigation is continuing. Most of Wednesday's hearing was highly technical. It was led by one of the safety board's five members, Bella Dinh-Zarr. The full board is expected to determine a probable cause for the accident in the next several months. Meanwhile, Riordan's husband, Michael, said in a statement on behalf of his family that they were "grateful for the heroic actions of the passengers who tried to save Jennifer's life." "The most important thing now is making sure that the aircraft and engine failures that caused Jennifer's untimely and unnecessary death never happen again," he said. -AP

Lockheed Martin - Artist rendering of the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft. WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin's experimental supersonic plane has officially entered production, the defense giant announced Friday. Earlier this year, NASA awarded Lockheed a contract worth nearly $250 million to develop an aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier. Lockheed answered with its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, which is designed to cruise at 55,000 feet and reach speeds of about 940 miles per hour. The new aircraft is expected to create a noise level akin to the sound of a car door closing. Current regulations ban commercial supersonic aircraft from operating over land. New companies like Boom Supersonic are trying to make use of the technology for transoceanic routes, with backing from investors like Richard Branson and Japan Airlines. But Lockheed Martin and NASA want to advance the technology through noise reduction to overturn regulations. The new experimental plane is designed to return supersonic passenger air travel to routes over land. The last such flight was by the Concorde in October 2003. Lockheed Martin and NASA are building a supersonic plane that will be as quiet as closing a car door 7:11 PM ET Tue, 3 April 2018 | 01:12 "The start of manufacturing on the project marks a great leap forward for the X-59 and the future of quiet supersonic commercial travel," said Peter Iosifidis, Low Boom Flight Demonstrator program manager for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. "The long, slender design of the aircraft is the key to achieving a low sonic boom. As we enter into the manufacturing phase, the aircraft structure begins to take shape, bringing us one step closer to enabling supersonic travel for passengers around the world," he added. The X-59 will conduct its first flight in 2021. It will be used to collect community response data on the acceptability of the quiet sonic boom generated by the aircraft, helping NASA establish an acceptable commercial supersonic noise standard to overturn current regulations banning supersonic travel over land. This new contract is a separate venture from Lockheed Martin's work with Aerion Corp. to develop a supersonic business jet, the AS2, which has its first flight planned for 2023. Lockheed Martin is also in the process of developing the SR-72, a hypersonic unmanned plane dubbed the "son of the Blackbird." And when it comes to developing a high-speed reconnaissance aircraft, the Pentagon's top weapons supplier is playing in its home court. In 1976, the Air Force flew Lockheed Martin's SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in less than two hours — at speeds exceeding Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound. The SR-72 is envisioned to operate at speeds up to Mach 6. And while the hypersonic SR-72 isn't expected to be operational until 2030, the company sees developing a platform of that magnitude as a game changer. "This could forever change our ability to deter and respond to conflict, allowing warfighters to quickly address threats before an adversary may have time to react," Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson said of the hypersonic plane in March. Hewson also said the development of the aircraft, which is estimated to cost $1 billion, will change the "definition of air power by giving the U.S. significant tactical and strategic advantages."

Attachments in PM's is a bonus provided to First Class members so becoming a First Class member would be the way to go for that and other extras

On the right ofWhat's New page you will see a Condensed or Expanded option, click the Expanded option and from then on all entries in the What's New page will contain the first few lines of the post Regarding the 24 hr button I am unsure what you mean...can you advise further, thanks

Ok, it has been a week since we changed to the IPS platform and just about all the issues that you have come across have been resolved and everything is running well. Please if you have any issues not yet documented or resolved then please add them to the Support thread as you have always done by clicking: https://www.recreationalflying.com/topic/11989-any-site-problemssite-support/ There is a couple of initiatives still being worked on such as the What's New layout and a couple of others that some of you have highlighted so more on them when solutions have been implemented. So now we come to What's NEXT...here is your chance to give myself and Ahmed (our great resident developer) a To Do list of things you would like to be created/provided/implemented etc to increase your user satisfaction of the site. This is the most important aspect of creating an environment that will help you in getting everything you need from the site on everything to do with your flying. Please post your wish list and if possible we will get straight on to it...thanks for your understanding and your help and support of the Aircraft Pilots web site

I am currently contemplating this...will keep you informed

We are getting there with the IPS platform and everything is looking good. The question now is what sub menu items would you like to have when viewing the forum pages...not everything can be added but we will try and add what we can based on your requirements

Hi Jim, I will leave this one up to @Ahmed Zayed who might know as I have no idea what Last Pass is

Bernie as previously advised once you have read a post from the What's New (unread) page it is no longer unread which is why it disappears from the unread page. This is why I created the What's New (All) page so you can see all posts both unread and read. So if you wish to go back to a post that you have just read you simply need to click the What's New (All) link in the What's New sub menu. In fact you may like to make the What's New (All) page your default What's New page so it will always show you all posts both unread and read. To do this it is very simple: Click the What's New (All) link in the sub menu of the What's New section Click the little tick next to the page title Now when ever you go to the What's New the What's New (All) will be displayed automatically showing you what you have and haven't read. NOTE: you can also select the Expanded option on the right of the page to display the first few lines on a post as well by default AND You can select ANY of the What's New pages and set as your default page by doing the same thing as above AND You can create your very own unique What's New page as well

Rick SalterPaul Colgan speaks with Richard de Crespigny. Resilience is a critical capability for dealing with a crisis, both at work and in life. But as Richard de Crespigny points out, it’s not something anyone is born with. It must be learned. De Crespigny knows more than most about staying in control and making decisions in a high-stress, high-stakes environment. This month marks eight years since he successfully and safely landed a Qantas A380 flying out of Singapore that suffered a massive engine failure, triggering cascading systems failures and severely reducing control of the aircraft. This year he has released a new book, FLY — Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 — which details some of the strategies and techniques he used on the day to improve decision-making, manage stress, and safely land the plane. On this week’s episode of the Devils and Details podcast he joins us to talk about his belief that these lessons can not just improve anyone’s ability to perform under pressure, but also make people more successful in the good times, both personally and professionally. With many failures in the business world often blamed on faulty or inadequate, de Crespigny discusses the difference between following a process and making good decisions. He also talks about techniques for self-regulation, and how to “fail well”, or learn from day to day minor errors to continuously improve processes and be more in control. You can find the show on iTunes, or search “Devils and Details” wherever you get your podcasts. You can also listen online here

Juliane Koepcke saw her mum sucked out of a plane as it fell apart mid-flight. Moments later, she got sucked out too — but somehow, she lived. At first, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke wasn’t really bothered by the thunderstorm she could see out the plane window. But her mother Maria, who was sitting next to her on the flight from Peru’s capital Lima to the city of Pucallpa in the Amazonian rainforest, grew a little nervous. “I don’t like this,” her mum said as they were rocked around in bad turbulence. The pair were on their way to Pucallpa to be reunited with Juliane’s father Hans-Wilhelm on Christmas Eve, 1971. The German family lived in Peru, where Hans-Wilhelm and Maria, both zoologists, worked at a research outpost in the rainforest. Hours before the flight, Juliane had been at her high school graduation. She had no idea the storm would cause the plane to nosedive towards a fiery crash. That she would be its only miracle survivor and that survival would come after a grueling battle. ‘THIS IS THE END, IT’S ALL OVER’ As LANSA flight 508 flew through the thunderstorm, the plane with 91 people on board was battered with severe turbulence. Luggage, including Christmas presents, bounced around the cabin. Within moments, lightening struck the Lockheed L-188A Electra and caused a fire. That’s when Juliane became scared. “My mother and I held hands but we were unable to speak. Other passengers began to cry and weep and scream,” Juliane told the BBC in 2012. Juliane Koepcke, right, pictured in 1972, about four months after the crash that killed everyone else on board. Picture: APSource:AAP “After about 10 minutes, I saw a very bright light on the outer engine on the left. “My mother said very calmly: ‘That is the end, it’s all over’. Those were the last words I ever heard from her.” Later, Juliane would learn the American-built turboprop plane, with its small, rigid wings, wasn’t designed to withstand extreme turbulence. As the fire took hold, a wing broke off and the plane began to disintegrate, plunging into a nose-first free fall towards the jungle below. All 86 passengers and six crew were likely doomed. Some people got sucked out of the plane as it broke apart mid-air. “I heard the incredibly loud motor and people screaming and then the plane fell extremely steeply,” Juliane told VICE in 2010. “And then it was calm — incredibly calm compared with the noise before that. I could only hear the wind in my ears. I was still attached to my seat. A LANSA Lockheed L-188 Electra, similar to the aircraft that crashed. Picture: RuthAS /Wikimedia CommonsSource:Supplied “My mother and the man sitting by the aisle had both been propelled out of their seats. I was freefalling, that’s what I registered for sure. I was in a tailspin. “I saw the forest beneath me — like ‘green cauliflower, like broccoli’, is how I described it later on.” After a terrifying free fall of about 2987 metres, the teenager landed on the floor of the Amazon jungle. It has been suggested the row of seats Juliane was strapped to, which were empty on either side of her, slowed her fall enough for her to survive it. It also likely broke her fall when she hit the ground. When she landed she blacked out and woke up the next morning, on Christmas Day. Flight 509, operated by Peruvian airline LANSA, was flying from Lima to Iquitos, with a stop in Pucallpa, where Juliane and her mother were heading. The X marks the approximate location of the crash. Picture: Wikimedia CommonsSource:Supplied A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL “I had a serious concussion, so I couldn’t sit up. My eye was swollen,” Juliane told VICE of the moment she woke up. “I was lying underneath my seat and I wasn’t strapped in anymore. “I could see a bit of the forest but also a bit of the sky. I knew that I had survived a plane crash. The concussion and the shock only let me realise basic facts. “I didn’t really think about myself. I was more concerned about where my mother was.” It took Juliane half a day to find the strength to get up and walk around. Remembering basic survival lessons from her father, she found a stream and followed it. She was injured — she had a broken collarbone, a strained vertebrae, a partially fractured shin, a cut on her arm and a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Because of the sudden change in pressure when she was ripped out of the plane, the capillaries in her eyes popped, making her look like “a zombie from a movie”, she said. Juliane Koepcke returned to Germany in April 1972. Picture: APSource:AAP But she was able to walk around in search of help, surviving off a bag of lollies she found among the wreckage. On the fourth day, she came across crash victims. “I found a row of seats, drilled into the ground,” she said. “The impact must have been so hard that it drilled itself three feet deep into the ground. “The three people strapped into these seats must have been killed right away. That was an ugly moment.” She said she saw a woman’s bare feet pointing up in the air and thought it was her mother, but then realised the woman’s toenails were painted and her mother never painted her toenails. Juliane continued looking for help in the jungle, staying close to the riverbank, battling against the harsh heat and rain. She was familiar with the Amazonian jungle, thanks to the work of her parents. But conditions were horrible. At one point, she realised flies had laid eggs in the wound in her arm, causing dozens of maggots to hatch underneath her skin and eat a hole through it. Dr Juliane Koepcke, years later, with a piece of the plane wreckage.Source:Supplied After 10 days, she came across a motorised boat on the river and a barrel of diesel fuel. She used the fuel to disinfect the wound and kill off most of the maggots. She also found a small shack, where, starving and exhausted, she took shelter. It was there, 11 days after the crash, some local workers found her. They gave her food, helped treat her wounds, and took her to a hospital where she was finally reunited with her panicked father. “He could barely talk and in the first moment we just held each other,” Juliane told the BBC. “For the next few days, he frantically searched for news of my mother. On 12 January they found her body. “Later I found out that she also survived the crash but was badly injured and she couldn’t move. She died several days later. I dread to think what her last days were like.” Dr Juliane Koepcke pictured in 2013. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images Peruvian investigators found the crash to be caused by “intentional flight into hazardous weather conditions”, perhaps due to the pressure to keep up with busy schedules during the Christmas holidays despite the dangerous weather conditions. Juliane is now a married mammalogist, having followed her parents’ footsteps into biology. She has written a book about her incredible story, which has also been made into a feature-length film and documentary. While she eventually left Peru for Germany, she was famous in the South American country as a “miracle” and received hundreds of letters from strangers. But she said the trauma of the crash was difficult to recover from. “Of course I had nightmares for a long time, for years, and of course the grief about my mother’s death and that of the other people came back again and again,” Juliane told VICE. “The thought — why was I the only survivor? — haunts me. It always will.”

Ahmed is working on a better mobile view which I think you will like...coming soon

I know I am rushing things a bit but I wanted to at least get the new Classifieds section up and running. It is FREE to place a Classifieds listing in the new Classifieds section of the site and in fact you will find it is one great system that will help you sell what you have. There are different categories, open to every user and even Guests can see what you have listed to help advertise to everyone. User's can make offers with the Make an offer button and you are alerted to the offer and a whole purchase system for the buyer. You can even open your very own store like you can on eBay by going to your Edit Profile page and click "My Store"...it's a very powerful Classifieds system and FREE here on Aircraft Pilots so please start filling up the Classifieds section with what ever you have from aircraft to whatever you have laying around...the more the merrier NOTE: Fair use applies and whilst it is FREE we reserve the right to refuse a classifieds listing or ask for donations on commercial stores

The menu on a mobile device is accessed by tapping the hamburger icon I.e. the 3 horizontal lines in the top right corner. Tapping this the menu will slide out. Regarding images you can double tap the image and it should be displayed larger and even then you should be able to use 2 fingers and stretch it out even larger again...not sure about the iPhone as no one I know uses one now, they have all gone over to Samsung. Does this help?

I will explain a little more on why I am persisting with this IPS platform... Firstly Xenforo is very limited in what it offers, basically it's a forum software solution and that's about it. IPS is an entire suite of solutions for a website which is what I need if I am to achieve my long term goal that I am extremely excited about and have been for say the last 5 years. What I need to create is an overall foundation and single repository of all information across all areas of interest within aviation...forums, clubs, classifieds, articles, suppliers, news, pilot tools, builder's blogs, etc etc etc. Once I achieve that then I believe the site will be ready for the piece of resistance: The greatest thing that can assist aviators all around the world, the greatest thing that can bring them all together, the greatest help and support they can get all around the world 24hrs a day, 7 days a week and will make all other sources of aviation information look like just trivial sites...I did this when I started this site over 15 years ago which is why it has weathered all the storms...but now I truly believe that we are ready for the 24hr a day, 7 days a week Virtual Flyin and Expo where you can go at any time, on any device and interact with other aviators, suppliers, representatives, presentations and so much more over and above the IPS foundation of forums, articles, classifieds, clubs etc. The new section that I have always wanted to have to assist everyone is the Aircraft Pilots Virtual Expo, mind you it will cost around $25,000+ to add to the site but it will add that extra dimension to Aircraft Pilots (.com) for everyone. Here are a couple of video clips of the options available that I will be looking at soon, and with Ahmed's help, hopefully will finally eventuate...watch the clips through to the end and if you do not say WOW what an extra feature to have with the site for you to use if you need to then I am in the wrong business...enjoy a look at the future opportunities for ALL aviators: https://player.vimeo.com/video/217034271?app_id=122963

Thanks for letting me know, I have to add that page back in and adjust the link which I will do in the coming days, thanks for letting me know

I have been asked by a couple of users "How do I add an attachment to a post/thread"? Well it really is very simple but also far more powerful that before. You can either: 1. Simply click the "Choose files" link just below where you type your post and your windows file browser opens up so you can simply double click a picture file (like before), 2. You can also click a picture file on your PC in your windows file browser but hold the mouse button down and drag the picture file to the area where you are typing your post, 3. Two more ways to add a picture or file is to Click the "Insert other media" button on the right just below where you are typing your post and select either: a. "Insert an existing attachment" where a popup window allows you to select pictures/files from any of your other posts or from the photo gallery or even the Downloads section b. "Insert an image from a URL" where you can enter or paste a location of a picture from another location on the internet You can also change the size of the attached picture by double clicking and change its size. Here is a quick video on how to do any of the above 4 options:

Thanks @ave8rr although thanks have to also go to Ahmed (the ace developer) who has done some great work on the site...thanks again

Well that's saying something coming from you @fly_tornado ... appreciate the comment

Thanks @robinsm I really believe that the work that has been done to get everything right, looking good with minimal change and the fixing of bugs has resulted in an extremely nice site that now has all the makings and capability of one all mighty incredible resource for all aviators. One thing that is now an incredible advantage is that I have Ahmed laying in wait to make sure any issue/bug/enhancement is fixed/done as soon as possible thus eliminating any potential of any kind of reverting back.