Erik

Well this could add to your self confidence I suppose and no if I catch the dogs smoking cigars I'm going to assume their on fire and take the appropriate action. Good guesses though.

Luckily they haven't figured out how to rotate the dial on the gun safe, luckily. I'll give you a clue, it's only one thing now many things.

Good guess but no.

Link to file? Did you report the file broken? Thanks.

NTSB: No Engine Failure in Fatal UPS Plane Crash Reported this afternoon by the examiners who recovered the flight recorders from the fatal crash of the Airbus A-300 Cargo Jet that landed short of the runway in Birmingham Alabama that no engine failures were reported at the time of the crash. Other indications reported that everything was reporting normally. With the recent crash of the Asiana flight into San Francisco it leaves one to wonder at what point does a pilot stop flying the aircraft. Is it possible the automated landing systems are being too heavily relied on to accomplish the most critical of flight conditions? The auto throttle and vertical glide slope might appear to be another culprit in this most recent fatal crash. Landing at the alternative runway due to closure of the primary runway leads to the obvious. Were they flying the correct instrument approach. Did they fly through the vertical glide slope or was it even active/available for the shorter runway at Birmingham? Only the facts will tell and right on the heels of the Asiana flight it appears not an hour too soon. I firmly believe Captain Sullivan was successful in conducting a water landing after the bird strikes in New York because he flew the aircraft to the ground. Never stop flying the aircraft, once you do it's already too late it's ahead of you. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the those families who are affected.

Reports today indicate that two audible alarms were heard in the cockpit prior to impact. One of which was most notably "sink rate" indicating the rate of decent was high. The second was a most likely the terrain warning "pull up". The annunciations were heard 7 seconds before impact noise could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder and it is unclear if that is from striking the trees or ground impact. It was further noted that no distress call was ever made from the cockpit. Tower crew on duty indicated that they had no indication that the plane was too low on approach and they noted that landing lights could be seen. They were a bright white and suddenly a bright flash of orange followed by a red glow. Possible indication that the aircraft struck not only the trees but a nearby power line. Cpt. Cerea Beal the PIC had more than 23 years with UPS (3200 hours in the type A300) and 6 years in the US Marine Corps as a helo pilot, his FO 37 year old Shanda Flanning.

Some of these images coming out of Egypt are amazingly powerful. These are novice or lay photographers documenting their lives. It would be incredible to see our own version of this from the eyes of our members who live there. They don't need to show the worst of humanity just document the times as they're seen now.

After I wrote that I started looking at the approach plates, etc. You are exactly correct that one eight does have ILS/DME but no precision approach equipment. So without knowing the condition of the AP or AT at the time it can only be concluded they were hand flying with the help of the ILS and PAPI systems until proven otherwise. I'll be curious to hear the final moments of the voice recorder to see if there was ever any indication from either the left or right seat that their flight path was too low as would be indicated and that with their weight they were too far behind the spool to successfully hit the GA button. Without the request being heard in the tower it makes me think they were flying into a black hole and short of the terrain avoidance warning they were caught looking for the PAPI in a condition where it was never visible to them. Speculation all but wise your operation department have restricted access to that approach. More may follow that lead. Stay safe out there.

I don't care how you cut the first image it's impressive. Whether you look at the side slip of two boat widths or the concussive displacement shockwave from the guns, it's impressive firepower.

Look at that fireball, that looks like one of the cruise missiles ignited while being locked into the hull, the chain reaction would be incredible. Anyone know if this was the vessel that test fired the BrahMos super sonic cruise missle back in March? Incredible loss but this could have been an all hands loss if it had happened underway. S! to those that lost their lives.

That's got to be one of the best bar stories ever, from both sides of the story.

I think I got all the requests that were made while I was busy with rebuilding the library of files. If I missed you please PM and let me know, otherwise things should be all set for everyone. Thanks.

Everything should be back on-line now. I haven't found any files that I've lost, however the images or screenshots aren't back in place yet and I'm not sure when I'll get to those. It took three plus weeks to get the files back and each file had multiple images so it may be faster to ask that the authors upload new screenies of their files and while you're there check that your files are actually downloading. Either way I'll get to this and thanks for all the support and help getting things back on-line. Erik

Put in a quick fix to remove the small pop-up PM window until a fix can be implemented by the developer. I have submitted a support ticket and I will advise when the original functionality has been returned. Thanks for reporting this. Erik

Did I have a request from you? Let me know. Erik

That is correct. File notifications are sent every time a file is updated and with the rebuild of the file content a lot of them have been updated, but not changed.

I moved it but I can't promise it will stay the final word will have to come from MigBuster, as he may have had it there for a reason.

In the menu next to the Downloads is a Member Map. It's really easy to use and it would be nice to see where everyone is from. So far there are only 4 from the US and EU is kicking our butt, so let's get with it and have some fun. Yes it's us against them and the pond in the middle is the dividing line.

Some of us are still around and I would love nothing more than to get WC back up and running again as it used to be. It's still functional and all the equipment is online it just needs controllers to run sessions. I ran many session back in the day and I miss the time with Harold at LAX. Whatever you guys want to bring to table just let me know and we'll see what we can do. I look forward to working some traffic again.

You guy's totally missed the bumper stickers on the new Japanese Cruiser. "We brake for Gawdzirraw" and "Nuclear reactors made in Fukushima" and slyly the Autobots emblem. Way to go Japan!

The files are all back online and functioning normally now. There should be no further interruptions with downloads. Some of the file authors have already started to fill in there screenshots which I greatly appreciate. I will get started on recovering the images some time next week after a short break from the file system. Moderators and Authors can edit, change, move files as they wish from this point forward. Thank you for your help and patience.

From the looks of your marker I think you're lost and you're trying to get directions home. You can't fool us.

Thank you for your service to this country. Please abuse the shit out of us, it's the least we can do. Have fun and remember if you hear EJECT EJECT EJECT it's probably too late.

I'm working on it. I don't have an ETA sorry, I've had to hand touch all 11,000+ files over the past couple of weeks and I'm finally down to a few hundred. I'll get there if it kills me, which is a bet you all may lose.

https://combatace.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=displayname If that doesn't do it send me a PM with what you want it to be. You will only be changing your display name which is what we see on the boards, your log in name will always remain the same. Thanks.