Flyer Forum Code of Conduct

At its best, the Flyer Forum continues to be a valuable resource for the General Aviation community

It is a place where flyers of all experience levels can meet to discuss and exchange up-to-date undistorted...

A while ago we decided that we would no longer delete entire accounts. There are a couple of reasons for this…

- It causes some performance issues for the server
- It spoils many threads in which a poster has participated
- It is disrespectful to...

I thought it was worth providing a bit of background and a few pointers about the new website and the way we are now working, but first a very brief history as it adds useful context…

Until Covid came along we were happy producing 13 paper issues...

There have been a few posts recently that suggest the forum PM function is not as easy to find as it might be, so - courtesy of Europaul383 - here's how.
Just now I looked in vain for a tab that says 'Send PM'...
This might help for next time......

Should you wish to post a link to a survey, academic or otherwise, please could we request that you get in touch with a member of the admin team first? Generally there will be no problem with these - though you may find the regulars can be a tough...

Over the past weekend I haven’t been able to get into the forums to post.

On Saturday I appeared to be logged out so clicked on sign in. This didn’t take me to the usual page to enter username and password, it seemed to bypass that and took me...

I'm being inundated with messages informing me of new posts in threads that I'm watching.

But I'm not watching these threads!!

This has been going on for about three days,

Please save me before I drown!

I'm getting several notifications of replies to posts I have never made.
When I click on the notification it takes me to an area of a thread that has no trace of a replyinvolving my username.

I noticed today that when I hover the mouse pointer over the latest three Flyer news items that you get a popup of a completely unrelated chunk of text.

Thought I'd mention it in case you hadn't noticed.

Just a quick one, but...

The Flyer Forums are - by some distance - the most common website I use with the shortest logged-in / cookie persistence.

The site logs me out automatically so frequently...it must be at least once a week? No other site...

Many years ago I set a filter so I only see posts that are, for example, not older than 10 days.
I wanted to change this setting so I can update a post I made at the beginning of Feb, but cannot find out where or how to do this. If I log out I see...

Can we have a dislike button please?

In the interests of fairness and inclusion.

It would make those that are new to the forums feel a little bit more welcomed into aviation when they see that they can express their feelings either way.

As it...

Everybody: Once again we have to remind you that there is a Political Discussions forum.

I have deleted a number of posts accordingly.

As we frequently remind users, Political posts are unwelcome in the other forums.

Additionally (and really this...

Does anyone else get this error when logging in ?

All - I've been having the same issues as others in that every few weeks I find I can log into FLYER, but not the forum.

After some trial and error, this is the solution that works for me:

1) Clear your cookies. If, like me, you don't want to do...

It seems that if someone is on one's foe list but they have started a thread, that thread is visible nevertheless.

*It's the MSFS account for the nosey ones.

I'm getting:

When trying to log in. Other more circuitous routes seem to work, the 'try again in minutes' is stretching to hours.
Anyone know why this happens?
Ian/Flyer IT have been very helpful, but, obvs. not available at stupid-o'clock, and...

Over the past few weeks there have been a few occasions where really old (>5 years) threads have been resurrected by posters - often by a reply to a previous post which was clearly very old.

Although there may be occasions where reviving an old...

Sometimes I am inexplicably logged out of the Forum so I click “sign in” and it signs me in to the portal but not the forums.
Could the “sign in” button actually sign me in to the forums?

Is there any chance of reviewing the Fuel Price League Tables contained within the ATIS forum, please? The AVGas one, particularly.

@T67M generously donates time and is prepared to keep a table up-to-date based on reports other forumites post as...

New pop-up this morning
Is this to be expected? Anything to worry about? Anyone else getting it?

... as an alternative to thread locking?

In respect of the recent Popham thread which was largely very informative, but then got hijacked by those that insist on talking politics.

If not splitting, why not just delete the politics posts and allow...

A number of elderly threads seem to have been resurrected by the last posting being redated to today’s date, and a footnote added to that post saying it’s been ‘bumped by Anonymous’.

Evidence of aliens or a hacking attack?

In the last couple of weeks I've noticed that the embedded Youtube videos on the forum don't play on the forum page itself, they time-out to an error message. If I click on the YouTube symbol btm right while they try to play then they open up in...

Hi

Following some comments/requests/ideas a couple of changes have been made to the Political Discussions section.

1. It is now possible to opt out. Do this and you won't be able to see it at all (it's reversible if you wish). Instructions can...

Can anybody help me out with this?

I had an email from Flyer saying they were renewing my Club membership on March 29th, I can see the £52 left my account on March 30th, but I'm currently unable to go into the members area - the automated message...

Care to give us a clue where they are for? How can we plan tomorrows flying without them? Will they be available in time to be used tomorrow? So many questions.. #cheapskate.. :wink:

Unless I am going mad - which I probably am - I've just looked at a thread I was participating in (in fact, one that I started) and a post I had made has disappeared entirely. I think someone else's post has also gone.

It wasn't any controversial...

I got an email today saying my account will terminated through lack of use, and if I didn't want this to happen I should sign in. As far as i know I AM signed in. I sent a test message to a forum topic and it appeared in that topic.
However, the top...

I was logged out of the Forum on my ipad and made the error and trying to log in direct. Realising my mistake I signed into the site, but the Forums still don't work. I've tried logging out, clearing cache etc. but no luck.....Any ideas gratefully...

Not sure what has happened to this, on the left hand side in post list. It used to be a link to the first unread post in a thread, but now it seems to be just an indicator.

Was this an intended change? If so, can we have it back please?

KE

I see...

Please can I ask why signatures are disabled?

My Flyer club membership seems to be screwed up.
For some historic reasons I seem to have 2 logins; one with my forum name and one with my email address. I get lots of subscription reminders after I have paid. When I login with either name it...

It says I am not a club member but I am.

Quick check - I don't seem to be able to get into the Flyer members forum - it keeps telling me I need to join as a member, which I'm pretty sure I am already! Also - for some reason I'm still getting Monday's weather forecast, but I'm not sure if...

I've repatedly experienced the following during the past week or so: I login to the Forums and the folder icon against the 'New FLYER Content' forum is showing in bold black, indicating that there are posts in that forum which I have not read. When...

As topic title, I am logged in, but everything is showing as unread. Makes it a bit difficult to see what is new :shock:

Is anybody else seeing this?

KE

I haven't checked Emails for a day or so due to a family event, and 2-3days ago I noted I had an Email saying "Flyer membership expires, you paid £30-summat for a year" or whatever, and I thought to myself, ah, right, I'll do that again as...

What the subject says!
Whatever I did to get booted, I apologise. :(

Until today one was able to see how many threads & replies each sub-forum had. But no more. Will the feature be returning or is it gone for good?

I'm still getting issues being logged in on different devices. Basicly either Chrome or Edge on my PC will not stay logged in on my PC, if I am logged on on my tablet. Additionally, despite logging in/out/in on my PC, some of the functionality isn't...

I am trying to download the latest magazine as pdf to read offline later, but the download button is only opening it for reading online through my browser. Anyone else have the same experience? Could this be resolved, please?

as it says on the tin

Or is it just a Norfolk thing?

Rob P V2.0

Morning all,

Following the thread a few weeks back about 'what do we do to stop airfields getting sold off', I reached out to the Recreation Aviation Foundation in the States, to try and arrange a talk by some of their founding members about their...

Forum seems broken from Chrome - this in the last few hours.I get no proper formatting, and the page formatted in 1980's style :(

Nothing changed in browser that I know of...

Works fine in firefox

KE

I'm sure this video clip is going to change my life:
But unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to confirm my theory:

Yes, I've logged out and back in again. I can also view other content with no problems.
Using Chrome/Windows.

Hi

I have moved the thread into admin, apart from concerns about inaccuracies (I'll come back to that), it was heading in the direction of a pile on, and that's not acceptable in here or anywhere else.

There was also a couple of comments along the...

Earlier, I sent a PM to someone on the forum. After I had sent it, I got the usual notification to say it had been submitted.

However, when I look now I can see it is in the 'Outbox' folder and not the 'Sent' folder. When I open up the message in...

There have been a number of topics started recently by forum new joiners, which have essentially been spam.
I thought it used to be the case, that first posts / new topics by a poster needed moderator approval? Worth turning that feature back on?

Not a thread bemoaning the demise of the paper magazine, or the pdf magazine format of old.

I understood from the threads and the chat on the flyer livestream that the new format would contain all of the articles posted online for the preceding...