Armchair Aviation

[YYZatcboy]

Greetings All,

I am pleased to announce the opening of a new x-plane blog and review site www.armchairaviation.com . Currently we have two reviews posted of payware aircraft with several more in the works, and a blog by yours truly on flight planning and vatsim online flying. We are hoping to share our joy of flying and x-plane with the rest of the world, so enjoy what we've posted. There is much more on the way!

Cheers

Joe

Co Founder

www.armchairaviation.com

[AnonymousUser68]

Looks good, can't wait for more payware reviews

[Jack Skieczius]

just added another review. i cant help myself, i was board.

BK117 Review

[YYZatcboy]

Hello all,

We've got another flight planning blog out. Check it out and let us know what you think.

[YYZatcboy]

Hi Folks,

We just published a review of Tom Curtis' scenery. It can be found here http://armchairaviation.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=10:tom-curtis-west-cost-scenery-review

Cheers

joe

[Jack Skieczius]

We are now on facebook as well. So anyone wanting a little extra heads up on when we updating things and what we are doing feel free to join us here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Armchair-Aviation/175815045767547

[Jack Skieczius]

We have changed our commenting system on the site. The new system works exactly like commenting on Facebook would work so many of you should find yourself more at home with it then our previous commenting system. Unfortunately, we had to waste all our previous comments to change to this new system. We appreciate all who have commented already and encourage you all to give us any feedback you like.

[Jack Skieczius]

We have posted a "Must Have" freeware aircraft list. Check it out. Let us know what you think.

http://armchairaviation.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=11:the-must-have-freeware-aircraft-list

[Jack Skieczius]

I have a favor to ask.

I seem to have just found out the commenting system on our site may not be working for everyone. I would ask for your feedback. are you able to post on any of the pages using the commenting system available. Please try commenting on something and see. if not let me know so i can fix this system.

Thanks.

[Dozer]

Hi Jack, I wanted to comment on the Carenado Saratoga review but can't. There's a blank space near the bottom of the page, where I'd expect the comment box to go, but it's only showing Facebook's loading symbol - three pulsing vertical blue bars. I have disabled platform applications on my Facebook profile and really, really, really, really, really loathe the idea of using Facebook to comment on blogs and reviews (it's too Orwellian for me). I like your site otherwise!

[Jack Skieczius]

Thank you Dozer for your feedback.

Having a commenting system that works for everyone and that is easy to use is a goal for us. It is unfortunate that such a system was not in place from the get go.

Our first system took too long to load and did not work correctly plus it was not user friendly.

I was hoping by replacing it with the Facebook integrated commenting system it would be open to more people and be a bit more familiar. Unfortunately, the Facebook commenting system was not working for everyone, in fact it barely worked at all.

I have sent a few hours today getting a new system up and running. It is called Disqus and is a very popular commenting system used by many of the larger companies out on the web. Disqus has a lot of features as well as being easy to use and open to everyone. Check it out.

We really enjoy hearing feedback from the community and this is why i have put so much effort into a prop commenting system. I hope that Disqus will be the system we use from here on out.

To post without signing in, all you have to do is write you comment, and click the post as button. Then click on Guest and there yeah go. Very simple.

[Dozer]

Excellent! Works nicely, I was able to write the comment I wanted to write. Thanks Jack!

[Jack Skieczius]

Np Dozer.

I also did some major house cleaning on the site, trying to get it optimized to load faster as i was VERY unhappy with the load speeds previous. I will say i actually learned a lot in the process and am mostly happy with the results.

Our website will now load up quite a bit faster then it had in the past. I will continue to optimize it wherever i can.

[Jack Skieczius]

Looks like i was having duplicative pages displaying on my site which has screwed up the disqus commenting system. Dozer, your comments are still there, but not on the right page. If you go to the page you commented on and take the &itemid=# part off it, you will get to the "lost" page that you commented on.

I had to change all my links to the site as well to fix this. the lost pages can still be found though, i just hope all the links on the site link to the correct page now and not this other page.

Figuring this all out was the bane of my existence the past few days. Also makes this all a lot of fun, i guess.

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Just found out i can migrate the links for Disqus so all the comments are in the right place. The powers above like me today.