Boards crashed

[Neal]

We had a major computer database crash that caused the boards to be down for 2 days. To top it off our system admin was on vacation and unable to be contacted til today.

Bad thing is that we lost about 1 weeks worth of post restoring our last backup. Good thing is that we did a backup and didn't lose the entire database.

If you posted within the last week please repost. I appologize for this but these things happen from time to time.

Thank you for your patience during the time it took to get things back up and running.

Mark
Webmaster

 

[Typhoon1244]

Two days without Flightinfo...I was getting jittery!

 

[Neal]

Me Too

Yea, me too! With 8700 members on the boards....just imagine the amount of emails I got about the boards being down!


Mark
Webmaster

 

[BRA]

"No problem, I got to go outside for the first time in 2 years."

bobbysamd

 

[T-Gates]

"No problem, I got to go outside for the first time in 2 years."

bobbysamd

I might not ever stop laughing after that one.....

--03M

 

[KingAirKiddo]

I was going through full fledged withdrawal! Glad everything's back up and running.

 

[Timebuilder]

I started working on my FIRC, but I missed the questions, the assertions, and the personalities that make this place an online community.

I guess that backup really was a lifesaver!

 

[Flying Illini]

When I checked the site again tonight I was expecting the usual dissapointment but alas, the boards were up and running! MS Flight Sim is only so entertaining for so long, then it just gets boring. Nice work on the backup Webmaster...keep up the good work!

 

[WrightAvia]

I never get any respect....

I thought it was something I said!!!

 

[metrodriver]

Webmaster, I'm missing a couple of personal messages, some form about 4 days before the crash, a chanche they can be found back?
Thanks for putting this baby back on the rails.

Flying Illini, I thought you had a new job, flying a King Air, what in the world are you doing with MS FS? That program is for all of us furloughees, so we can dream once in a while what flying was all about. Of course till your computer says 'I have performed an illegal operation and will shut down'. Then suddenly you realize you're still only an armchair pilot

 

[Typhoon1244]

...but alas, the boards were up and running!

"Alas?" Is that what you meant?

 

[tarp]

The wife came home and said "What's up!?"

"What?" I reply.

"The lawn's been done, you mulched around the azaleas, you washed your car and you did something with the pick-up truck."

"Oh", I said, "Flightinfo was down".

PS. Now I've got a sore shoulder and back - you guys need to think of the liability implications if you go down for another weekend.

 

[bobbysamd]

I DID go outside while the board was down

"No problem, I got to go outside for the first time in 2 years."

bobbysamd

We went out Saturday and Sunday. We went shopping Saturday. We went to the football game Sunday. I read some more of "Moondog's Academy." I watched the NFL draft both days. But it was wierd not seeing the board up for two days.

 

[Airpiraterob]

ok ok ok....ok....ok ok..

so your ..ah...youre flyin around right? in one of those new kind ah ...new planes with all those computer things in it and all that you know? the kind that..ok..talks to you you know? yeah you know the kind that tells you "youre too low" or "pull up" or something like that you know? ok...anyway yeah youre flying that all around and it tells you after busting your altitude or youre assigned speed..

"You have performed an illegial operation, Your airplane will now shut down.."

I wonder if they use PC or MAC platforms for the modern computer controlled airplane systems.

 

[WrightAvia]

nahhhh...I heard...

...they was going to use for a back up system, one of those old fashioned vacuum operated wing leveler systems like the ones on the old moony's. After all...how would those Southwest Airlines pilots be able to get buck neckid and get their greek on up there, if the autopilot goes down. (Hmmmm...goes down? I guess we'll have to substitute "MEL'd out of service")

 

[metrodriver]

Actually, it happened to a Martinair Holland B767 a few years back. Going to MCO out of AMS they lost al electrics including their fancy color tv's. They had to do with the standby instruments and landed in BOS, blowing tires in the process (couln't get flaps, spoilers and maybe not even reverse) since a lot of systems rely on electrical switches and controls. Boeing confiscated the airplane to find out what went wrong, but I have never heard the outcome

 

[Flying Illini]

I do have a new job...but you can do things in MS FS that you could never do in real life! I am also very partial to the Caravan on floats. I may never get a chance fo fly in alaska but at least this game lets me do that!

Oh yeah...I can still land and take off from Meigs in FS...

 

[LearLove]

had to surf more porn

 

[VNugget]

Had more time to dig up and read old Avbug posts at ipilot.com

 

[EagleRJ]

I do have a new job...but you can do things in MS FS that you could never do in real life! I am also very partial to the Caravan on floats. I may never get a chance fo fly in alaska but at least this game lets me do that!

Oh yeah...I can still land and take off from Meigs in FS...

I worked on my flight proficiency in CFS2 a little, too.

Learned how to take off from the carrier in a B-25, and after numerous attempts, successfully landed it on the carrier too! (getting down is not the problem, stopping without a hook before the end of the deck is)

Still haven't made it with the Me-262.