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  1. is there a way to send them after they have accepted or rejected?

    also one PIREP with -877 that has been rejected! All the others as you can see there are below 600f/m!

    so you force the pilot to perform as you saying "grease landings"?

    i thing this is unfair!!! a nice landing rate must not be under 150f/m in the real world i think...(forgive if i'm wrong here)

    You should be able to change the order of the PIREP submission process to not submit to vaCentral till after you accept/reject them, I have no idea how your system is setup.

    As far as your second comment/complaint, I am going to tell/ask you as I have others in the past, what is fair for airline rankings and how should rankings be calculated? There is a thread about landing rates here -> http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/23100-greased-landings-unsafe/ and a specific post here -> http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/23100-greased-landings-unsafe/#entry122142 that asks the questions I need answered with valid answers.

  2. The area of the rankings you are in has very little separation, meaning that small point changes can result in large changes in ranking. By the looks of the recent history -> http://www.vacentral...nk_history/2080 <- all of the metrics for your airline have been dropping.

    The current calculation is shown below

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    It looks like you are submitting flights with the last one being today -> http://www.vacentral.net/listings/detail/axn_alexandairvirtual

    It looks like in the last two days your points have gone from 1332 to 1131 due to the change in the metrics in that time period.

  3. Try creating a stand alone php file and see if you can simply send an email. If you can not from a simple script then it is something on the server end, not phpVMS.

       <?php
        ini_set( 'display_errors', 1 );
        error_reporting( E_ALL );
        $from = "emailtest@YOURDOMAIN";
        $to = "YOUREMAILADDRESS";
        $subject = "PHP Mail Test script";
        $message = "This is a test to check the PHP Mail functionality";
        $headers = "From:" . $from;
        mail($to,$subject,$message, $headers);
        echo "Test email sent";
       ?>
    

  4. There is no problem with the system, it is ranking as the code was written. The ranking calculation is as follows at this time:

    • Pilot Factor: Total active pilots in the airline over last 7 days / Total pilots on roster * 1000. (Maximum of 1000 points)
    • Flighttime Factor: Average flight time per pilot in the past 7 days * 100. (ex: average of 3.0 hrs / pilot = 3 * 100 = 300 points. Maximum of 1000 points - 10+ hrs per pilot per week gets maximum points.)
    • Landingrate Factor: Average landing rate of PIREPs in the past 30 days + 1000 points. (ex: average of -250 ft/min = -250 + 1000 = 750 points. Minimum of 0 points.)
    • Likes Factor: Number of likes the airline has received on their vaCentral profile.

    The old calculation system really based a very high percentage of the ranking on the longevity of the airline, meaning a site that was online for a long time even if it is mainly dormant ranked higher than a newer site that was active, which I did not agree with. As was being shown by the ranking there was no real way for a newer va to make a presence in the rankings.

    I have asked numerous times for better design but hear very little until someone's airline is lower than they would like. The some of the very few responses I have gotten are here -> http://forum.phpvms....ly/#entry120811

    I am already looking at the active pilots feature and I understand the complaint from your side. The complaint from my side, and many others, is why does the airline with 500+ pilots on the roster that 480 of them have not flown anytime recently get a better ranking than a small va with a small but active pilot base?

    Complaints that I am promoting unsafe flight conditions by using a landing rate factor are also being thrown around. More info on that here -> http://forum.phpvms....andings-unsafe/ <- there is mention of the landing rate factor "perverting" the ranking. Wouldn't having 500 pilots with 5 active be the same thing?

    I am also receiving complaints about the likes factor, even though its reflection on the overall score is tiny in my opinion. I did this to try and gain some traction in creating a community as the site was originally intended.

  5. If you can perform the lookup function in the add airports section of the admin panel then the upload should work, I am saying should because I have no idea what the csv actually looks like.

    Can you use the lookup function in add airports for LGTP? Does it return the info or an error?

    If you can use the lookup function then there is an issue with your csv file.

    If you can not use the lookup function when manually adding the airport then there is an issue with your api server config most likely.

    I just tried a lookup using LGTP in my test instance and the airport is there and populates the fields correctly.

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