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LOL, solved the problem on how they were able to bypass the turned off registration setting. I saved the setting on this site but on the Social Australia site which endured the midnight attack it seems I didn't save the setting to turn off registrations, so my fault but all good now. I am on so many meds at the moment so the brain just aint working right

I am sorry to all users about the recent spam attacks but between myself and the moderators, whom I owe a great deal of thanks, we act as fast as we can to stop the attacks and clean the site up. Yesterday evening I was able to stop an attack as it was happening but they came back just after midnight which unless I am awake at that time I and/or the moderators can't act on it till first thing in the morning. Last night I turned off any new registrations but it seems they were able to break through that during the night so I am investigating that today. Once again, my apologies if this has caused anyone any inconvenience.

I think we need to get back on track. If you wish to discuss about power then there is other forums more specific. Thanks

Nev, the news story says it was an Auster

In a freak accident, an unmanned plane took off from a Sydney airstrip by itself on August 30, 1955. When a pilot in training suffered engine troubles, he landed at Bankstown Airport. After he climbed out, he spun the propeller by hand and the plane unexpectedly started moving on its own. The Auster, like this one below, somehow took off from the runway and began flying in ever wider circles. For hours the unmanned plane flew over the city, its range extending from Mascot to Vaucluse, over Punchbowl, Rockdale, Redfern and the CBD. RAAF planes were dispatched from Richmond and Newcastle to shoot down the plane over the ocean, but they were unsuccessful. Eventually two British pilots JR Bluett and Peter McNay, who had flown up from Nowra, were able to knock the plane out of the sky. The two pilots were celebrated, but the Australian government was grilled on why it took three hours to successfully intercept a light plane with nobody flying it.

Please, if you find anything that is not working properly or just doesn't seem right with the site then let me know...thanks

Welcome to Aircraft Pilots .com There are few little things that need tidying up which requires 3rd party updates but these will automatically happen when they update their files

It'll buff out

Yes you can, a couple of users just donate $10 here and there, just turn off the PayPal subscription although a donation of $50 or more automatically gets you a 1 year First Class Membership, again you can turn off the subscription.

I have decided that the site will need a lot more work before we can upgrade to v5 of the forum software so we will be moving to the new domain of Aircraft Pilots .com this Friday 29th Aug 2025. This existing site will close at around 7pm AEST and the files will begin to be moved across from Recreational Flying .com to Aircraft Pilots .com. When the site has been fully moved across and testing is complete, a redirect will be placed here at Recreational Flying .com. What this means is that when you come to Recreational Flying .com and see the site logo changed to Aircraft Pilots it will mean you will be on the new domain Aircraft Pilots .com. When this happens you can update any links you use to come to the site replacing the Recreational Flying .com to Aircraft Pilots .com. If you have any major issues from Saturday morning in getting on to the site at Aircraft Pilots .com, please use ian (the normal at sign) jackaroo.com.au

Here are some more screenshots of different size screens and side vs top menu systems...

Guys/Gals, there is so much involved in building the site up from the current version of the software to the latest version of it so it is taking a very long time and a lot of work. I am currently in two minds whether to just leave the site running an old version of the software which is not good to do in this modern age with all the hackers etc out there. The main consideration apart from site security is the future cost of getting the integration done now with the old software and then have to pay again, although not the full amount again, when the development of the new software version is completed.. There is also another consideration and that is in what shop software I use. I have a perpetual license with CS-Cart so I don't have to pay for updates. If I was to pay for that CS-Cart it would cost me $1,350 and then $400 a year for the updates. Staying with CS-Cart is going to cost me $500USD to get the required development done. The other option is to go for OpenCart which is free but will cost a couple a hundred dollars to get the required addons of AustPost Shipping and the Credit Card payment interface, these come in CS-Cart already and free. The OpenCart and Forums software integration is only going to cost me $200 though. Decisions...decisions...decisions???? Anyway this is what I have so far, after all this time, on the latest forum software but as I said there is still a long way to go:

Found the issue, there are 2 registrations in the system for you each with a different email address, pmccarthy and pmccarthy1 (with 21 posts). This could have been caused from several years ago when I merged 2 sites together and the system automatically placed a 1 after the imported users username. This should be all fixed now as I have merged the 2 together keeping the username just pmccarthy and changed your email address to the one used on SA. Let me know if all is ok now, thanks

I will look into it however remember that SA and this site are 2 completely different sites so the user details are not linked between the 2 sites.