Ehrhardt

No, I am still looking for one

Hey guys, not sure if I am in the right place for this, but here goes... I have been running the VA-List for quite a while now and am ready to get more serious with my plans and am planning to deliver a new type of global FS Acars system for Virtual Airlines. Now... I am looking for someone with experience in this fs acars business, who can join the VA-List team indefinitely and provide the coding needed. It will be a big project with features not yet seen. But best of all I will offer financial compensation in one way or another, this can and will be discussed. ;) I do not wish to put all my ideas on the internet right now, and I am looking for people with an affinity for Virtual Airlines, who enjoy coding and basically like everything that happens around Virtual Airlines and is looking to join a project which is really really cool. Really! So if you want some more information and can show me that you mean business and know a thing or two about programming for Flight Simulator, send me an email at admin@va-list.com with a little bit of personal information, why you are interested (even with the small amount of information I am providing) and what you have done in the past regarding FS coding. And hopefully I can (with your help) provide the Virtual Airline world a new and exciting way to track flights.

Thanks. That was indeed a useful post :)

I wanted to check it out, but when I went here: http://www.buffaloairwaysvirtual.com/ ... Well, you can see. :( Empty.

Hey guys, I am looking for a Virtual Airline with classic / vintage planes and servicing old routes. In particular I would love to fly old propeller planes in the time span from the 1950s to the '70s, for example the DC-7 and equivalents.

Cool, looks like my Virtual Airline List just got competition :)

Hm. No offense, but that's a weird statement.I'm a web designer, want me to help you make these things? Like a do-over or something and some pages so you can control the contents AND feeds better? But then I would certainly recommend feedburner over feed43.

Actually, where can I file complaints on this board?

Like last time, I see that someone isn't reading what I wrote. It is really really really annoying to start getting into the same debate again with you this way (jbinner). I already mentioned the RSS Buttons all over AVSIM. You don't need to point me in that direction, again. The Feed43, as explained in my previous post, even WITH directions to what I am seeing, you don't seem to understand.But fine, if that's the response I am getting, then I will remove the AVSim feed from the page I mentioned and am sad to say that this isn't improving my overall satisfaction. I think I will have to start looking higher up the ladder. Thanks.

New update! In order to make the list faster I have changed the vote list into a 20 Virtual Airlines per page view with of course the needed navigational buttons and a quick search text field.During this and the following week I will be making some small cosmetic changes to make it look a little bit more streamlined.- Erik

I am running a Virtual Airline List (not a Virtual Airline) and was wondering where certain Feeds are located. I know that there is / are:- an RSS News Feed on the frontpage which leads to: http://feed43.com/2535707542632206.xml,- several links to Feeds right here on the forum (the Vatsim and IVAO feeds don't work though).However, the feed43.com is absolutely not working for me or on my hosted page (va-list.com > VA News > RSS Feeds) and although it is seemingly a valid feed, it generates some errors (validation link). And I have reasons to suspect that the feed43.com is the culprit in this case.So, I was wondering where the 'original' coded feed (for example: www.avsim.net/feed.php) is which I can use to add to my other third party feeds on the before mentioned page. The frontpage news is more interesting to me because it has the most relevant items. If at all possible, I would recommend Google's feedburner page for creating these types of feeds.Regards,Erik

Hey guys, here's yet another update. I've launched a Magazine combined with our Virtual Airline List. I will try to catch the latest new regarding Virtual Airlines, try to get some Virtual Airline profiles on there for presentation and have some interviews with all sorts of people and companies. It is all about Virtual Airlines basically, there will be no review of planes but rather reviews about applications used by... you guessed it, Virtual Airlines. So yeah... I am not really a reporter, so I am looking for some volunteers as well to help out with finding and writing related content. So if you like writing about Flight Simming and Virtual Airlines, send me a PM and we can have a look. :)The magazine has a link on the main screen of the Virtual Airline List, or more directly right here.It will be a test the first months to see if it catches on.I hope you will enjoy it...Best regards,Erik

My apologies for the screw-up of the March voting results. The numbers 1, 2 and 3 were lost in the mayhem our system caused during the counting of the votes on the first of April (not a joke). We were unfortunately not able to fix a script error in time and the results went bananas. We have however full confidence that the voting results for next month will run as smoothly as ever. We are still trying to improve our service of course and are always updating old routines.Keep registering and voting folks! We have come a fair far way since our start in October last year, such a short period with some good results... 107 Virtual Airlines registered and counting. We are most definitely becoming the largest collection of active Virtual Airline names on the internet.

The Virtual Airline list now has 100 registered Virtual Airlines!

Hey guys, it's been a while since I last posted here, so I thought I would show some stuff to let the people who are interested in these kind of things what we at the Virtual Airline List handle our stuff. There has been quite some stuff going on about votes we get which we do not allow, so here's a screenshot of what we see...As you can see here, in the red box, three web servers. Sometimes they lead to a proxy page, sometimes it leads to an ordinary server somewhere on the globe. These votes we check by clicking on the actual ip address, or we copy paste the host in our address bar... because we are just that curious about it ;)If a Virtual Airline goes completely crazy and uses every single proxy or webserver they can get their hands on. We disable the voting process for these VAs. Because we do value fair voting...If a vote leads to absolutely nowhere and the host is just a standard IP address, we tag it, and we move on and after the end of the month all these addresses will be removed from our database, but we keep the servers and proxy addresses in a different datavase so they can't be used again.So that's basically how it works. :)

Well that's interesting, but I didn't start with an aggressive undertone here. Say whatever you want, but I asked a normal question, mentioned that I actually saw that RSS feed by giving it's destination on the frontpage (feed43). I was clearly not asking about the Forum feeds. So no apologies from me really. If administrators here are that blunt and not care about reading the question in the first place but jump to conclusions like that, then I am not the one to apologize.

As I said, not the rubbish feed43.com one (read my post before you reply please), but a clean XML version like the one I am using on my VAList page, here's an example for you. Of course I noticed the RSS icon, I'm not that stupid... And I'm not that interested in feeds about forum posts, and not really about what's new in the download section, but more about new reviews, the latest three months worth would be excellent. Thanks for the somewhat dumb response though. Brilliant.

I saw some posts about this but couldn't find any follow up. Can we expect a solid RSS feed? I mean a real one? And please not that feed43.com, it's rubbish. A clean XML feed is easy to do make really and I could really use one for my Virtual Airline List webpage.

The new version of Virtual Airline list is up and working! I am happy to announce that after three days of testing, we can now officially declare that the new version (v3) of the Virtual Airline List is working smoothly. More and more Virtual Airlines still sign up, which is absolutely a wonderful thing, the news section is working splendidly ( so you registered VAs, please use it ;) ) and now has a RSS function so be updated daily through feedburner, it also has a twitter button now for every news article, so tweet away! The news items will not be updated weekly anymore, but daily and it is integrated nicely within the whole new design. So it's a big improvement on the News section and it's ready to take on the more established VA news pages which are still rather limited. :( The Premium Accounts have been polished, is more glittery and allows now mentioning of where the Virtual Airline HUBs are. We are also thinking about more to the point info, mentioning of FSAcars, KAcars, FSPassengers and such. AND, if we get the back up on this one, linking to other "official" pages like vacentral, if they would have us. And maybe even a live flight tracking map somewhere... but that's in investigation / research.A search function (page) has been added, although that area could use some good ideas still... but we're working it.If you have a Virtual Airline, or are flying for one which is not yet on the Virtual Airline List, make sure it gets added. It's a good thing to get all the worlds VAs in one neat list. :( The proxy rules have been lifted somewhat, January was a test with the immediate shutdown of voting rights after proxy votes have been found. But for the people who noticed these proxy-bans, still be warned, we do NOT allow votes through proxy sites and / or web servers. :( See you there!

This just in!!!The Virtual Airline List will have a new look!! Again...After a successful three months with many pageviews and Virtual Airlines still signing up to be in the list, we have decided for yet another cosmetic overhaul. We will also be upgrading the Virtual Airline News weekly and make it into a Daily news bulletin with corresponding links throughout the Virtual Airline News webpage and it will also be integrated and cannot be seen separately anymore.The Premium account will now allow registration of HUBs to provide more info for our visitors / viewers.Here are the first screenshots. Please note that we are still in the production phase, so the end result might differ from what you see here.We expect to have the new layout up and running in February.

I am happy to announce that the Virtual Airline List has now reached over 55 registered Virtual Airlines and 30.000 pageviews. Although some might have a member advantage, we still have a non-voting list as well for your VA browsing pleasure. So if you are looking for a big Virtual Airline, or a smaller personal one, be sure to check it out.For our regular viewers, I am thinking about yet a new layout. Yes, I got some itches here and there and I need to let it out. ;)

Is there a homepage?

Alright, I haven't been sitting still, so here's a new update.The Layout is working out quite well, so that's worth mentioning I think. This is basically the way it will look like for a few months unless I stumble upon an even better layout idea... Who knows ;) AND we have almost reached 40... FORTY Virtual Airlines after almost two months, that's quite a leap forward and it makes me happy getting people excited to join up. Good stuff, and I thank all of you who signed up. It makes the webpage worth working on. Also to the people who take the time to fill out the surveys, thanks.., it really helps a lot. :)Updates:- The new news-ticker includes the latest three Virtual Airlines Weekly News articles.- The Virtual Airlines Weekly News has finally image support. Sorry Marc for the delay, I should have fixed it sooner.- Increased scanning for Proxy and Dynamic IP voting. Our team is also working hard to check the daily votes and report suspicious ones, it's quite a handful but we assure that every vote is/will be handled fair and square.Things to do:- The Premium accounts cosmetics. If one is interested in the Premium accounts, it has to be worth while. So I am looking into cool features (Suggestions are welcome, please contact me using the Contact link on Virtual Airline List)

Update: The new layout is live. While I am still finishing some little things here and there, the main pages are done and ready to use.New features;- Facebook sharing of Virtual Airlines.- Medals indicating the top three of the previous month.Check it all out here.

A small announcement regarding the VA-List;In the next weeks I will be re-designing the look of the Virtual Airline List, it will look somewhat similar to the old version but the graphics will be more 'upgraded'. I posted a screenshot on the Facebook page for the ones who 'manage' their lives on their and if you don't feel like clicking, just take a peek below.Important for the people who are looking for a Virtual Airline to join; we have a News section (Virtual Airlines Weekly News) in which you can post a small advertisement (aka classified) which will show up there for Virtual Airlines to contact you and offer their services. Of course you can always take a look at the Virtual Airline List itself. ;)