3 December 2002
To All Of Our Pilots,

November was a solid month, but not as strong as our previous four months. December will most likely be similar to November because of holidays and other events.

Message Boards
I'm very pleased that the Message Boards have improved in use dramatically, but still, only a small percentage of our pilots use them, which will hopefully be fixed. One issue which we will need to consider when usage picks up even more is whether we want to make small financial contributions to stop the proliferation of advertisements throughout our message boards.

Management Positions Available
SimAirline.net still needs to fill three Fleet Manager positions, but with the lack of service provided for the airlines affected by our labor shortage, we may be forced to restructure our management to end download support on our website. If you're interested in a position to prevent this from happening, please go here.

Downloads Section
The planned Downloads is under planning, and will contain what we feel are necessary or highly recommended add-ons or utilities to have on your system to enhance your experience with SimAirline.net. We hope to open this section in January.

Fly-Ins/Events
We hope to be able to host fly-ins beginning next month, starting with major cities with most of our airlines, and later expanding to less prominent major airports and with individual airlines. We also hope to be having real-life events in cities where we have large pilot presences, like Brussels, London, and New York. Our plan is to have meetings at local airports for aircraft spotting, and to possibly later extend it to smaller, more personal events hosted by pilots in those areas.

Updated PIREP Forms
Our PIREP reforms have been extended to Continental-KLM-Northwest, but not to Continental or Northwest yet. A completion date has not yet been set, but we expect for the updates to be complete by the end of the month.

As always, your support and feedback are extremely important to SimAirline.net. Please feel free to contact me at any time about any issues I discussed here, or any others you wish to discuss.

Aaron Robinson
aaron.robinson@simairline.net
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