Thank you for your feedback
Thank you for your feedback on the new EAA Vintage Aircraft Association website and Members Only section. Before we launched the site, we wanted to guarantee as much as possible that our Members Only section would be just that - for our members only. Because of that desire, we patterned the EAA Vintage member site after this forum. Just like this forum has been for some time, registrations are NOT approved automatically, but confirmed by a moderator. Yes, to become a registered member of this forum I had to provide my EAA number (and had to call Member Services since I carry my Vintage card but not my EAA card) before I could complete the registration process for this forum.
To hold our costs down the EAA Vintage site is being monitored and managed by Vintage Volunteers. As a result, we indicate "... up to 48 hours" for activating a new one-time registration request. Not all of our volunteers are at their computers 24/7. However, since we announced the site last Thursday, the average new registration is being activated within minutes in most cases and usually within no more than a few hours.
No doubt automatic member verification, both for these forums and for the EAA Vintage site, is a good idea in the future, but not a high immediate priority. Because of the many hours of additional coding, security testing, and potential for glitches with automatic member lookup, the Vintage Board and Web Committee made the conscious decision to deliver the site to the members in the shortest possible time. Your concern is on our wish list and will no doubt happen in time.
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Originally Posted by
Kyle Boatright
It is good that vintage has a new website. But why is registering like figuring out Rubic's cube?
I recieved the e-mail inviting me to register, and that e-mail included the "secret code" necessary. Outstanding. But why did I need to provide my VAA number? Since VAA has my e-mail addresss, couldn't we use that in the process to confirm membership? Amazon and EBay do...
But the site required me to provide my VAA number. So I looked at the mailing label on the issue of Vintage Aviation which arrived today. Presumably my member number is one of the half dozen likely looking numbers on the mailing label, but which one? It certainly isn't clearly identified.
Thanks again for sharing your positive comments and your concern.
I picked one of the six and submitted the application. No telling if it was the right one, and the website said "It'll take up to 48 hours for approval".
C'mon guys, this doesn't have to be so hard. Make things easy for your customers/members. Heck, if you're gonna ask for my VAA number, why not at least clearly identify it out on the mailing label for the magazine. It ain't like my VAA number (or the card) is something I keep up with.