Important, please read : FlyNET database cleanup

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 26 Apr 2007, 21:33

Hi Guys,

Anyone who has not logged onto FlyNET within the last 90 days has had their account deleted. Anyone who has had this happen to them and wishes to fly for CBFS VA again will have to re-register at FlyNET and re-apply to the VA.

Rgds

John

Post by **DaveB** » 26 Apr 2007, 21:52

Hi Guy's..

Just to add to John's post.. this is a FlyNET 'thing' and not anything initiated by CBFSVA. Makes a bit of a mockery of my statement that you can fly when and where you want.. you may only want to fly every 91 days but, it was something they decided to do and there's nowt we could do about it. I believe that the FlyNET forums have suffered the same fate too so basically.. anything not touched for 90days has been wiped.

My humble apologies for anyone who has been caught out but in the event.. there was little we here could have done about it

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 26 Apr 2007, 22:52

Dave, I don't think this is going to be an automatic thing. I think this was a "we need to clean up the database, 3 months should be an okay number to go from."

Personally, I would have done 6 months and would have given some warning, but it's been a while coming so Konny may have wanted to not give any additional warning to ensure that no 'trolls' were able to know what was coming and log in their fake account to keep it on the roster.

Post by **DaveB** » 27 Apr 2007, 01:16

Hiya Chris

Yeh.. understood mate

I see the reasoning and understand it while feeling for the guy's caught napping with the desire for Konny to 'thin things out'. Some VA's may have pilots who may be on 'active' military service (though I don't think we have) and these guy's especially should be looked after though I know through your own circumstances that any hours accumulated are not lost.. unless those have now gone too so all should not be lost.. if you get my drift.

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 27 Apr 2007, 13:04

No, those hours are lost. The pilots he deleted, he completely deleted.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 27 Apr 2007, 13:15

I know of many cases of people being off computers for in excess of three months due to reasons out of their control.

This seems to be grossly unfair and would be better like you wanted Chris at six months.

But still there should be a way of recovering from where they left off.

Garry

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 27 Apr 2007, 13:26

Hi Chris,

Konny needs to revise the FlyNET registration process so that these 'auto-bots' or whatever they are cannot get an account.

Rgds

John

Post by **DaveB** » 27 Apr 2007, 13:31

Yes indeed John. For the deleted pilots to have lost all hours is not an ideal situation and goes against what we here are trying to achieve :roll:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 27 Apr 2007, 18:39

The purging was probably over due but that it came with no warning I find very troublesome.

Post by **DaveB** » 27 Apr 2007, 21:10

Hi Joe,

FlyNET have been advertising for a while (though not for ages) that the database was going to be cleaned up. What we don't like is that 'proper' pilots have been removed and not just the many 'bot' pilots that were evident when looking down the pilots list. Konny needs to address this 'security' issue.. say, by adding a code to the join page that changes with each new member as we do here. That way, these bot pilots would never become active.
In all honesty, it doesn't take anyone clever to see which pilots are false and a few minutes a week would weed them out anyway.

ATB

DaveB :tab: