Chase

ROB... THANK YOU!!!

Chas, hoping to have this issue resolved with our newest upgrade. We are crossing our T's right now with our web designer to make sure the look/feel is the same on the latest version of IPB.

Upgrade to the new forum software is near which will bring a lot of cool new features and a sleek (yet familiar) new look. We are excited to do this, but we are taking our time to make sure it's done correctly the first time.

I see what you're saying. You have plain Text mode turned on. You need to make sure the little light switch button on the edit box is clicked. This allows one to switch between plain text and rich text.

Very nice... Brings back a lot of good memories of flying a couple times in my buddy's King Air on the West Coast. The mountains were always my favorite to see.

Thank you everyone for your support and constructive feedback. We are fully transparent with donations, and have a yearly goal of $36,000 or a monthly goal of $3,000. The bandwidth and IT expenses are very real, and these funds go towards keeping the lights on here at AVSIM as well as any future expenses. Nobody at AVSIM draws a salary or compensation for the services we provide the community, therefore, all donations go back to the community. I thought breaking donations up into a monthly goal would be more representative since the bar shows the monthly progress towards that specific goal. However, I'm not sure how to show two progresses (monthly and yearly), so I will just keep it current with Jan through Present.

Forgive me, I'm not well versed on all this. If that's the case, then the more the merrier. The different platforms just won't talk to each other, I imagine? As long as everyone is enjoying themselves, I don't see a problem with it.

With thanks to Trucker17 and msFlights.net, AVSIM is pleased to announce the official details for the 2nd Annual Tom Allensworth Memorial Flight. Who: All who wish to attend. What: A gathering of friends from around the world to honor Tom Allensworth -- the founder of AVSIM -- who loved the community very much. Knowing Tom, and his selfless nature, he wouldn't want us to grieve or be sad that he isn't here with us, but rather, he would want us to do something in his name that brings joy to us for many years to come. What better way than flying that brings us all together in his memory. The AVSIM Staff and Allensworth family thank Trucker17 for starting this tradition. Server: SimLink - Details on how to connect can be found by clicking here. We will be using SimLink software so that all platforms of FSX can fly together (i.e. Classic, P3D, Steam). Departing: April 9th @ 7pm UTC (3:00 PM EDT) Flight Plan: KAVL>KTRI>KROA>KCHO (*PLN file available here) Communications: We will be using a dedicated room on msFlights.net TeamSpeak server. Server address: ts3.msflights.net. In the interest of cross-community relations we would recommend placing your main community in your Name (eg. [MSF]Novawing24, [AVSIM]trucker17). The aircraft: General Aviation WWII era fighters and bombers Any aircraft that can safely take off and land at these airports Additionally there was a discussion around a repaint tribute to the work Tom did in the Navy, so a repaint of the default Super King Air 350 has been created and released and is available on the AVSIM library. (Thanks to Tristan "Novawing24" Ayton) Memorial Video: A memorial video will be produced using the screenshots and videos taken by community members. We will then provide this memorial video to the Allensworth family and share with the community our gathering. We appreciate any media you can provide for this effort. Links to videos (i.e. YouTube) or screenshots can be shared directly in this thread to keep it all in one place. Flyby's and precision flights are welcome. If you need to set your system up with the systems we will be using before the flight - please set it up and test it before the flight. We want everyone to have an enjoyable flight. This post has been promoted to an article

Sounds great... Trucker17, PM me when we have some solid details, dates, info set, and I will make a custom page here at AVSIM with the latest and greatest so all those who wish to participate can go to one place to get the bullet point details.

That is exactly what happened... glad we were able to sort this out and we added your donation to the list. Thank you very much for your support, everyone!

Can anyone provide a guide, or a link to a tutorial, on how new users can participate? I know for a newcomer to online flying, the setup can be intimidating, even though it's rather straight forward once you get into it.

It's been a journey, to say the least, learning one basic rule in CSS.. one size does not fit all. Unfortunately some browsers, up until recently, had different call signs for the same styles. The design that makes IE9 crap the bed is a feature called flex... Well, flex is a royal PITA with IE, and it has at least 3 different call signs that I couldn't get to work across the board. I dropped it and went to some basic columns instead of the gadgetry with a layout that looks equally nice and "flexy". I have it almost there with IE9, there's just an odd spacing between the ads and the beginning of the news articles. Will sort that out later. For now it's time to go out, my eyes are watering from staring at lines of text. The front page should look fine on modern browsers as TPerson confirmed. Thank you! Chase

Thank you everyone, learning PHP and CSS had made me an insomniac some nights, but it's a lot of fun. Just a little polishing. I don't think the recent comments sidebar is very helpful either. Just out of ideas for what it can be. Maybe we can put a different more helpful feed up there, just need to think of what. For consistencies sake, it can't be fundamental to avsim (i.e. a navigation menu, helpful links, etc) because a left column isn't available throughout the rest of the site. I think I kept the recent topics on the right column because that's where it is throughout the rest of the forum--this way your eyes are trained and know what area of the page to go to see recent topics no matter where on the site you are.

I may add a goal sidebar to the forum somewhere to at least let everyone know our monthly fundraising goal, but I don't want it to be like "you bought Starbucks this morning when you could have given us that money" guilt trip sort of thing like Wikipedia does. I understand the need for donations, but the at times obnoxious approach other organizations take annoys me. In 19 years, the will and support of the people has kept us going. I have faith that this will continue as long as we maintain our infrastructure and keep it a fun and friendly place to be. Thank you for your support, Bill.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a fix yet. I think I'm going to have to resign to the fact that if I want to have a nice, evenly spaced and aligned front page, I can't do the two column news... IE11 just refuses to play nice. Unless we force everyone on IE11 into compatibility mode, which seems a bit of a stretch. Just frustrates the hell out of me that IE has to always do something different. Will keep playing, but until I find a solution, I have put it back to the old layout.

Thank you, I'm going to keep this post up as I try and figure it out.

I'm having trouble getting our CSS to work on the front page for IE 11. Is anyone familiar with CSS that can help me? Basically the parent element is getting stretched by the child elements and distorting our front page on IE 11. Any other browser it appears to be OK. <style> .ipsBox2 { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; ; margin-top: -10px; } .ipsBox2 .item { flex: 1 0 250px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px rgba(32, 15, 171, 0.69) solid; -webkit-border-radius: 15px; -moz-border-radius: 15px; border-radius: 15px; padding: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative; } .item2 { flex: 1 0 calc(100% - 10px); box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px rgba(32, 15, 171, 0.69) solid; -webkit-border-radius: 15px; -moz-border-radius: 15px; border-radius: 15px; padding: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative; } @media (min-width: 1024px) { .ipsBox2 .item { max-width: calc(50% - 10px); } } </style>

I'm saddened to hear of Brian's passing. He was a very active community member, and always quick to support others. On behalf of the AVSIM family, we express our condolences and our community members are here to help you with identifying and figuring the value of his FS gear. RIP Brian Please let us know if there's anything the AVSIM staff can do to help.

Regarding mobile version, it thinks you're a PC because I disabled it. The mobile version is stock, and isn't compatible with any of our "more than stock" features. It's also not fair to advertisers because ads don't display on it.

Yeah... about that... It was an annoying little critter, I took it off. Thanks.

Hey everyone, yeah, sorry about that... We added the feature back on the main forum page that shows you the topics you've participated in as well as recent topics. I figured it was redundant to have another set of "recent topics" showing the same info on the right column. After realizing it was helpful to have it site-wide, I put it back. AVSIM's getting better all the time thanks to your feedback.

I brought back the "Topics I've Participated In" hook. Regarding the notifications, I've "followed" this post to see if I get any e-mails notifying of a reply. I have been receiving notifications of replies, so not sure why you aren't getting any. When you follow a topic you have options of how often you're notified (instantly, only when not online, daily, weekly). Are you certain you have chosen the desired time frame?

Yeah, we know what you mean. Our IT guy has been scratching his head quite a bit trying to get the update to work in our sandbox environment. What makes it even harder are the all the apps that don't like to play nice with new versions. It's like an iPhone update where half of your apps don't work yet with the new iOS.