Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12208405)

I was under the impression that the website would also have subscriber's (free?) that can donate pictures, post trip reports, itineraries, etc? no? This would be a way to track people and if they screw someone over ban them. This is basically what FT does, if even that.

Originally Posted by Mackieman (Post 12208373)

I did an PHNL - KIAH leg in a CO branded 767-200 just this morning. :D

Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12208345)

I guess FT is never going to open back Coupon Connection? Is there any interest to offer something like this in the PBLLC website we were talking about but more like a classified, or is there liability issues? (I know there is a google group but Im on here right now)

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12208429)

Not initially, no. This is the biggest issue: what to put on there that we feel we can do better than somewhere else out there. Can we do CC better than Pandy's vision for it? Truthfully, I doubt it.

Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12208454)

I don't know about never, but if it does come back I'm not so sure that it will be the same. A small group of FTers already started a similar site and they are willing to guarantee one's same handle on the new site if you can prove ownership.

Putting the liability issues aside, I just don't see compelling value there. If you're going based on ad content then the people who are doing CC trades are not those who will be clicking on ads. Plus, the ads are all going to be travel related and when they see where the clicks are coming from they're going to be pretty pissed in a hurry, inviting the liability issues. If you go for some other revenue plan then you're probably more liable for enabling the trading.

I don't see getting into that business as a good idea.

Originally Posted by photog72 (Post 12208218)

Sounds like it is a Toyota Camry.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12208298)

Whichever deity in the polytheistic system of karma that handles cases like that is sure to hand me over to the god of miles and points that will most assuredly short me those seven miles.

Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 12208350)

Ooooo! I just got my invite for Google Voice.

Now i have to figure out what to do with it......

Originally Posted by photog72 (Post 12208218)

Sounds like it is a Toyota Camry.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12208411)

Please tell me you play in accelerated time.

Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12208430)

Have you used Microsoft Flight Sim 9? How did it compare to XPlane?

Originally Posted by Mackieman (Post 12208636)

Of course. SFO - LHR on a VS A343 is simply unpossible otherwise. Cruise is the boring part of flight sims anyway; takeoffs and, for me, landings are where it is at. I enjoy shooting a tough approach such as the one ALCO brought up at VQPR. I figure any landing you can walk away from and have no damage to the plane is a good one, though the banking degree does leave someone's lunch on the cabin wall, I'd imagine. :)



After reading my post, I think I inferred that I was using or had used XPlane, and for that I apologize. I have flown exclusively in Microsoft Flight Sim 2004. I do have a bunch of add ons for it though, including a 737-800, 737-900, 757-200, 767-200, and 777-300 in CO livery. I recently added a EMB-190 to my fleet options under a B6 livery because the guys who made it did a good job on the virtual cockpit. Of all of them, I enjoy the 737-800/900 the most, I think.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12208614)

Been sitting here doing followup sales calls, but I need to get myself going and run the out of house errands that need to be done.

Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 12208693)

I need to do errands, too, but am still sitting here waiting for those *bleep* oil tank people to call me to tell me they are on their way. I called at 10:30 and they said they would be there wihtin the hour ..... it is now 12:10 and now call from them. :mad:

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12208687)

I would get the newest release of Flight Sim if I had a computer with enough RAM and graphics capability to handle it. I remember someone on The Box lamenting once that Microsoft always seemed to put out a Flight Sim product that was beyond the capabilities of the machines in people's homes and in stores. I once tried to takeoff in a 747 from ACY and for whatever reason could not climb past about 2,000 feet. I ended up flying straight out over the ocean from RWY13 and making a perfect 180-degree turn to come back onto 31. If I do buy it, I need to go back to square one and take ground school.

Oh, Mackieman - there is the option in FM to check off a flight as "Virtual/simulator". Just sayin. :D

Originally Posted by Brituchenite (Post 12208693)

I need to do errands, too, but am still sitting here waiting for those *bleep* oil tank people to call me to tell me they are on their way. I called at 10:30 and they said they would be there wihtin the hour ..... it is now 12:10 and no call from them. :mad: