New EAA Web Look

[jedi]

It is hard to find the Forum on the new site and the activity has dwindeled even before the change. This may be the end of a former good list. Homebuiltairplanes.com has much more activity. I hope EAA will monitor the situtation.

[Hal Bryan]

Hi Jedi -

Thanks for the feedback. As you've seen, there was a conscious effort with the new EAA.org to tidy up the home page - the old EAA.org's homepage had become a noisy mess, frankly. As it is, the forums are still only one click away - mouse over Education and Resources, and click the link. In addition, there are links to individual boards on this forum in multiple places on the new site, something we've never had before, and something I expect we'll expand on.

In addition, of course, the forums haven't moved - they still live right here at eaaforums.org, where they've lived for almost 3 years; if you want to go to the forums, there's no reason to go to any other site first. In fact, I just had a look at our analytics data for the past 12 year, and only 8.5% of forum users come here from EAA.org which was even less than I thought. I should also point out that, while this forum has never been wildly active, there certainly isn't any downward trend - there are busy weeks and quiet weeks depending on what goes in our world, but activity shows a steady and consistent average.

Regardless, you can bet that I am monitoring things. I appreciate the fact that you at least used to enjoy these forums and that you took the time to post!

Regards -

Hal

[Joe]

Hal
I love the new web site, but I was wondering if there are any plans to add web cameras.
I miss the one that over looked Pioneer Airport, and would love to see one year round that over looks the grounds.

Thanks

[Hal Bryan]

Hi Joe -

Yes, we'll definitely be working toward reviving the old Pioneer webcam as well as the other cameras in the museum. We'll also have all of the cameras back during AirVenture Oshkosh this summer, including one or two additions if things go as planned. Keeping the cameras up on the convention grounds year round is challenging, because most of them mount on our wayfinding towers which are only erected during the fly-in, and are on airport property and thus not necessarily accessible outside of the event. We'll certainly look at doing a lot more of that kind of thing in the future, where and as we can.

Cheers -

Hal

[Joe]

Thanks Hal

[dwg]

Hi Hal,

i went to to the Calendar of Events to see if any local chapters might be hosting a fly-in. We are usually looking for something inside of 150 miles but I use to search 200 anyway. I am based in OH and the first event I see is in CA. That is not what I was looking for, nor do I want to search through 15 pages just in case. Perhaps what I am looking for is also just one click away but I have not found it yet. I guess we will have to do "rock, paper, scissors" to an old standby.

regards,
dwg