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Check your profile settings, as I also got an email as soon as you posted just now.

My son did this a little while ago at age 14. We paid an extra $99 for the airline to keep an eye on him. Worked rather well, and as far as I know most airlines provide this service. In this case, seems United's contractor screwed up big time! In my case, the airline we used did it in-house with FA's and ground crew in the form of their lounges.

There is a tapatalk update for our end which came out last night. I will get it applied sometime today / this evening Eastern Standard time.

email related issues were fixed yesterday afternoon. I've been receiving my normal deluge of forum messgaes this morning as well. Should be back to normal from yesterday around 1500 EST and forward.

Hmmm, interesting. I wonder if it will adapt to our type of FS-anything? http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/08/oculus-rift-kickstarter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

but again those are going to be routers in the world and NOT controlled by AVSIM. The only ones we can affect would say "PCCW" on them. Just have to wait till whatever network is affected checks their gear. :) And FYI, 40+ is NOT bad at all in terms of ping reply from a router on a WAN.

As I've said earlier, I saw the same issue from home, but from this network at work it's flying. That tells me this is NOT a server-side issue, but something else in the WAN itself; either a route is down, NOC has a route they are missing, etc. But everything else is running clean. Just have to wait it out I am afraid.

I did encounter the same issue from my HOME IP, but from work it's fine. I had the NOC do intrusive testing last night with nothing bad noted. I can only conclude right now that there is certain paths down to the NOC. Otherwise the servers are also running fine. Give it some time and the routes should recover. Not sure where the issue is.

C64....was my very first computer. Got me hooked, wrote / typed many a school paper on that trusty machine in the day! :) Can also remember getting a new Commodore magazine every month, to head straight to the back of it for the machine-language programs. We'd type away for HOURS just to play the latest crazy little game that is programmed. lol Unless the power went out, then we had to start all over! LOL Can also remember loading the tape drive for about 3-hours, to play the dungeon game we had. I don't recall the name, but man that was fun. Then the "Floppy disks" drive came out for it, and Gunship became my go-to game...along with Tom Clancey's sub game for it. Yeah, seriously good times on that thing. Oh, thenn 10th grade, I took a class on basic programming, and the course was done on C64's! LOL Teacher let me borrow a 2400 baud modem a few times, found a local BBS, and I was a geek from that point forward. :) VERY VERY fond memories! :)

Facebook has technology much like google and others have; they match the advertising to what you browse frequently. It doesn't surprise me if that entity selling that crap has keyed on your love for avsim and now points or shows as avsim.com. Thankfully, you know already we'd NEVER EVER advertising that product here! :)

I am forced to use MSIE at work. Yes, it does hang in MSIE from time to time, but it's from the way MSIE handles a lot of things. I NEVER experience this on Chrome or Firefox.

Stephen, thank you. I forget the exact year I joined on staff, but I've done a little bit of everything; front page editor, advertising, and now tech. I owe pretty much everything to AVSIM and the people around me. They make me look good, and I try to do the same. :) As for the comments and our reply, I could not agree more. In the words of my former military days, for my fellow AVSIM staffers: SEMPER FI!

I don't bash, I just choose not to install it, never did, never will. :)

yes, avsim.com is normal to redirect to avsim.net as we own both domains and use both in our networking. You'd need to "allow" both in your firefox settings.

All that Money.....My ATC training was "free"; just had to be a Marine for 4 years. :) lol Sorry, this RADAR mushroom had to comment. LOL

I guess I will be the one "nay" on here. :) I had one, just sold it because I wasnt using it. I have a triple head which I also just sold...going back to 2-larger monitors in hopes of better frames. I liked the track-ir idea, just wasnt for me....no idea why I felt this way, it's a great product. Just not used to the turning even further to the lef tor right I guess?

yes it was removed because it caused other issues. we have tapatalk linkages installed for that mobile app if you'd like to try that instead.

Being a former RADAR Guy, this seems no different to me then a RADAR facility that is not co-located with the facility area itself. But, I am sure some tower purists will not like this new idea. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/10/3075097/saab-remote-air-traffic-control-tower-norway-trial

One tech tidbit I've noticed, but only with MSIE.....I sometimes open a NEW window, to view a posting, but keep the list open in the background. It seems when I open a NEW window, but have the forums open in the background in a SECOND window, the post hangs forever and will NEVER post. As soon as I go back to ONE window, it's fine. I don't have this issue with chrome.

this is nothing new. The tech world for YEARS has used an "every other release we'll take it" approach....at least in the shops I have worked for! Every other OS release from them sucks. Follow the lineage back, I'll even only go so far back as XP: WinXP: still WIDELY used, stable platform. WinVista: yeah, really, who remembers this one? Win7: Again, widely accepted, stable, even being moved to in the VA where I work. Win8: seeing a pattern? Same applied to the Server-side O/S. They get one right, they try to improve or make drastic changes and it fails. Maybe someday they can break the cycle, but I don't see it happening now.

PM to Tom and he can set you up with one. They are free.

oh man, ALL those damn cargos from Charleston would ALWAYS land too short, and set out arrestor gear out of battery. lol Rwy 5 / 23 is setup with FCLO lights and traps....every frigging time We'd tell them to land PAST the arrestor....I swear they did it on purpose. lol

grins I hear ya! :) KNBC was all Hornet traffic, well home-based anyway, we always had the C-5's and C-141's and then the C17's from KCHS coming down to play; their long runway was closed for a time while I was in, so they came down to KNBC to practice at ours. :) Some helos from KSVN way, and that was about it. But the 6 (at the time) Hornet squadrons kept us busy We also had a C-12 "squadron" there, but it was only 2 or 3 planes tops. Mainly for the brass to use. And the now decomissioned SAR HH46's; one of which is still "floating" or sinking by now 50NM off the coast of SC. :) That was an interesting day too. lol But yeah, I LOVED when it was busy.

will ALWAYS be my favorite bird. :)

Former USMC Controller here too. When I first got into VATSIM, it was SATCO back then, I started with the ATC Side. I started with ZJX because it was the area I controlled in real life (KNBC) and it was what I knew. After a few years and when they finally got voice working, I started flying. "won" my first copy of FS2002 from a poker run in ZJX airspace, and from there it was on. :) Coming from a pilot perspective, I'd do the same thing. There are tools available as well to see what areas are "busy" and fly to them. But it's still going to be a comfort level of what you want to do. If anything, just fall back on what YOU know, from real life, and you cant go wrong. :)