Some days ago I got some free time (yes, my baby was sleeping!) and decided to take a look on our Virtual Airline's quality all over the world ...
I got very surprised with the very low quality level from much VA's that advertise on all popular flightsim communities.
They say "Come here and see our new site!" .. you go there, and the site isn't even paid yet, or there is no site at all!
Others say that they have made a great site improvement, and when you click to see it, the site is horrible, made only with HTML and completely bad formatted...
What is going on here ?
Does those guys think that to open a Virtual Airline we just need to know Frontpage and open a free web site account somewhere ?
I comprehend that we all would like to have a Virtual Airline, but that's not so easy nowadays...
... because pilots demand quality.
Creating a Virtual Airline must be well planned. We need to know what context we want to achieve regarding our strategic VA profile ...
Will we have low cost divisions ?
Will we have divisions ?
What objective and society rules must my VA follow and represent ?
What kind of pilot type should my VA reach ?
Following that, the most important thing is innovation. Without that, the VA could just be "one more" on the VA world. It should have new features, new ideas, and new concepts to capture pilots.
And to end, two essential things: A great well designed, well developed and greatly concepted site, and a perfect and complete Management Team.
Not reacheable to the common human right ? :)
Monday, February 26, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
IVAO or IVAO ?
Some months ago a strange phenomenon happened at our flightsim community: Somehow, the IVAO's Management team demoted the President from his duties and somehow took him off access to the web and data storage information.
Morten's was left alone. Well, at least the other part (let's call it Rebel's MT) wasn't!
I must understand that to get on this point much converstation and meetings (or not!) were taken and logically this was a last-option operation. But even so, was this operation really necessary ?
Getting foccused on the IVAO High Staff I must conclude that there was a point where an action was needed because, if not, IVAO could fall down the drain. Surely much water would be there to push it down, but actually, others would pull it up and I trully don't see that if the situation could continue as it were, things would get to a point where chaos (if it weren't already installed) would be so high and nothing would move on.
In my opinion, I think that maybe there was a quick approval regarding to this action..
... and still, the new Rebel's MT are in charge for one year and we didn't see anything change there. So, what did we, pilots, gained from it ?
Morten's was left alone. Well, at least the other part (let's call it Rebel's MT) wasn't!
I must understand that to get on this point much converstation and meetings (or not!) were taken and logically this was a last-option operation. But even so, was this operation really necessary ?
Getting foccused on the IVAO High Staff I must conclude that there was a point where an action was needed because, if not, IVAO could fall down the drain. Surely much water would be there to push it down, but actually, others would pull it up and I trully don't see that if the situation could continue as it were, things would get to a point where chaos (if it weren't already installed) would be so high and nothing would move on.
In my opinion, I think that maybe there was a quick approval regarding to this action..
... and still, the new Rebel's MT are in charge for one year and we didn't see anything change there. So, what did we, pilots, gained from it ?
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Pac-Man
"Pac-Man was inspired by a pizza with a slice missing. Namco designer Tohru Iwatani went out for the evening with some friends and then dove for dinner. The rest is history. " (http://www.mameworld.net/pacman/history/p1_01.htm)
FlyUno had become a subsidiary of FlyUK.
What made me start thinking is what if the most important VA's on the world (like FlyUK) start to gather other smaller VA's to their enterprise? Is this important ? What can pilot's gain or loose from it ?
This also made me think if the FlyUno pilots judgment was taken in account or not... Normally, on these major strategic decisions, for me, the pilot's opinions must be taken in consideration. Always.
I think that in a near future we can see more VA's do this kind of fusions and instead of having Virtual Airlines, we would have Virtual Airlines Economical Groups. All virtually. But the strategic action will be very real.
FlyUno had become a subsidiary of FlyUK.
What made me start thinking is what if the most important VA's on the world (like FlyUK) start to gather other smaller VA's to their enterprise? Is this important ? What can pilot's gain or loose from it ?
This also made me think if the FlyUno pilots judgment was taken in account or not... Normally, on these major strategic decisions, for me, the pilot's opinions must be taken in consideration. Always.
I think that in a near future we can see more VA's do this kind of fusions and instead of having Virtual Airlines, we would have Virtual Airlines Economical Groups. All virtually. But the strategic action will be very real.
What we should never do ...
Some months ago I decided to use the VaFlash Forum to ask the administrator why my news where getting so long for being posted (about 2 weeks). A simple post just to ask that.
Can you imagine that the Erick Ortiz, the guy that runs vaflash.com got very pissed off with me, accused me of saying "crappy things" and told me that he is not payed to do that job so all I have to do is wait ? :|
Now that's what I call a great answer from the most important person (that I know) on VaFlash!
Imagine if I run my VA just like that ? Maybe next time, when a pilot ask me why his/her Pirep has not been validated I can tell him "Get a life man! I work hard everyday on real life, and I don't get payed to check your pireps as quickly as you want!".
Nah, .... that is called bad diplomacy and a completely person sensibility lost.
The great thing, is that I received some emails from some of other VA CEO's that post their messages there saying that "I was the only courage person in the Forum to confront him with that problem". ...
Can you imagine that the Erick Ortiz, the guy that runs vaflash.com got very pissed off with me, accused me of saying "crappy things" and told me that he is not payed to do that job so all I have to do is wait ? :|
Now that's what I call a great answer from the most important person (that I know) on VaFlash!
Imagine if I run my VA just like that ? Maybe next time, when a pilot ask me why his/her Pirep has not been validated I can tell him "Get a life man! I work hard everyday on real life, and I don't get payed to check your pireps as quickly as you want!".
Nah, .... that is called bad diplomacy and a completely person sensibility lost.
The great thing, is that I received some emails from some of other VA CEO's that post their messages there saying that "I was the only courage person in the Forum to confront him with that problem". ...
Welcome!
Hi mate,
I created this blog because I feel that I need to express my feelings regarding to the flight sim world and Virtual Airlines.
So, if you don't know anything about this, you can close this window :)
I cannot guarantee that I'm only going to say good things here, but I can guarantee that all of the things will be strongly sincere.
I also would like you to express your thoughts about what I say here.
Relating to my "simulated" life, I am EuroHarmony president, and a flightsim addict for more than 14 years. Should that count to give credit to my thoughts ?
I created this blog because I feel that I need to express my feelings regarding to the flight sim world and Virtual Airlines.
So, if you don't know anything about this, you can close this window :)
I cannot guarantee that I'm only going to say good things here, but I can guarantee that all of the things will be strongly sincere.
I also would like you to express your thoughts about what I say here.
Relating to my "simulated" life, I am EuroHarmony president, and a flightsim addict for more than 14 years. Should that count to give credit to my thoughts ?
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