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AFV744
Senior Captain, B747-400
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Wellington, NS Canada

2,468 legs, 10,374.5 hours
752 legs, 1,426.3 hours online
2,468 legs, 10,374.5 hours ACARS
238 legs, 466.0 hours event
3,528 legs, 15,773.5 hours total

Posted onPost created on January 10 2014 11:59 ET by Bill Gardiner

I have 26 of the 47 airports visited in Madagascar but under Accomplishment Eligibility it shows as 47 airports need to be visited in order to fulfill the requirements. So as I'm completing them they're not being removed from the list of airports that I need to visit. Anyone else having the same problem?

Bill Gardiner

Senior Captain, B747-400

AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800

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Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours

Posted onPost created on January 11 2014 07:00 ET by Robert Armstrong

Yup

Posted onPost created on January 11 2014 10:18 ET by Bill Gardiner

It can take a while to notice because you're not really sure. I mean, I think I already flew to Antananarivo but wait, it might have been Arivonimamo lol. Some of the names are very similar. And just a heads up for anyone thinking of completing the Accomplishment. Not only do you have to maintain your own database so that you know what is done and what isn't done, but a lot of the airports aren't synchronized properly with Acars so you end up with perfect landings that go into the books as 500 feet past the end of the runway or something similar. It's not so bad getting your stats hosed but it sucks when you get a bunch of dangerous landings. I just don't like those on my record, but hey it's virtual...

Bill Gardiner

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AFV611
Senior Captain, B737-800
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UK

7,232 legs, 12,901.7 hours
419 legs, 601.0 hours online
6,996 legs, 12,331.1 hours ACARS
18 legs, 107.1 hours event
7,919 legs, 14,092.8 hours total
0 legs dispatched, 2.0 hours

Posted onPost created on January 11 2014 13:31 ET by Paul Hale

Bill, i have moved this thread from General Aviation to AFVA ops so we can get more responses and see how widespread the issue is.

Paul Hale

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AFV278
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UK

7,232 legs, 12,321.6 hours
550 legs, 713.1 hours online
7,218 legs, 12,303.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 0.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 11 2014 17:05 ET by Terry Ward

There you are Bill all 47 you need or have already paid a visit, you can check them against your log book then you will have a better idea at where you are.

FMMA, FMMC, FMMG, FMMH, FMMI, FMMK, FMML, FMMN, FMMO, FMMR, FMMS, FMMT, FMMU, FMMV, FMMX, FMMY, FMMZ, FMNA, FMND, FMNE, FMNF, FMNG, FMNH, FMNJ, FMNL, FMNM, FMNN, FMNO, FMNQ, FMNS, FMNT, FMNV, FMNW, FMNX, FMSB, FMSC, FMSD, FMSF, FMSG, FMSJ, FMSK, FMSL, FMSM, FMSR, FMST, FMSY, FMSZ

AFV292
Senior Captain, A380-800

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ZA

1,845 legs, 5,394.9 hours
1,833 legs, 5,371.5 hours ACARS
1,908 legs, 5,542.5 hours total
3 legs dispatched, 4.5 hours

Posted onPost created on January 12 2014 10:14 ET by Mark Stead

I am trying to do this, and so far, I've had no problem with the no of airports visited, they have been coming done, I knocked off about 16 of them recently-you have to be super careful with the ICAO codes otherwise you might redo the same airport, I have 7 airports to go to finish this one, getting good practice in the DC3 lol...

Posted onPost created on January 12 2014 12:34 ET by Bill Gardiner

Thanks Terry, that list will be a help. And yes, great area for DC-3 fliights!

Bill Gardiner

Senior Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on January 13 2014 16:45 ET by Bill Gardiner

I've taken Terry's "Master List" list and imported it into excel and then downloaded my log book as a separate excel file. Then I've gone through each of the airports in the Master List and copied and pasted each one (to prevent typos--so many of the ICAO codes are similar) into the search field in the log book to see if they've been completed. I've found 41 completed flights but under Accomplishment Eligibility it says I've only completed 40. So I went through the list again and this time for each flight that was completed I copied and pasted the completion date into an adjacent field and I'm still showing 41 fights completed. The problem is I have no idea which is the flight that hasn't been counted, so the only thing I can do is fly flights at random and hope that I hit the one that I've completed but hasn't been marked as completed. However, if it wasn't marked as completed the first time it might not be the second time either so this could go on forever. I know others have completed this but I just can't see how to do it.

Bill Gardiner

Senior Captain, B747-400

Posted onPost created on January 14 2014 11:38 ET by Terry Ward

Can you send me your list to see if I can make sense of it?
smile

Posted onPost created on January 14 2014 11:58 ET by Bill Gardiner

I sent it Terry. Thanks for helping--I know it's going to be something dumb on my part... confused

Bill Gardiner

Senior Captain, B747-400

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