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Malcolm Clarke
Joined: 13 Feb 2006
Posts: 2821
Location: England
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Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Timothy,
I welcome your response as long serving member but the reality is that under the information you used to identify your image, it would be very difficult for it to be found under the usual search process. As I have already said, even the model reference would be invalid as the site uses P-2010.
Prior to the appointment by Ken Wang some 9 years ago of the three current Administrators, you may recall that the database was supported by regularly downloading the current status of the FAA database. The drawback was that, should any of those already in the database be corrected, and it was agreed that many were in error, when the FAA content was next downloaded, the corrected ones were duplicated in our database resulting in more corrective work.
Unfortunately, some of the FAA entries are completely unrecognisable against many identical aircraft.
Take Vans as an example.
These are aircraft built from kits and are very often registered with the FAA, not only stating the kit builder as the manufacturer but also using random model types not used by Vans. These would then be separated in the database from identical aircraft and difficult to locate. Outside of the FAA database, such as Vans RV-6A is the common usage and the site has followed accordingly.
My understanding is that the site was originally created to provide an internet site for a number of enthusiasts to have a home for their images but has become a site with significant public interest and thus the need for more conformity. The site has few rules but has expectations that uploaders will accept the obvious benefit of listing identical aircraft together.
Malcolm.
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Florida Metal
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Posts: 430
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah the FAA website is what I go by too. for the Cessna Citation Latitude it says Textron 680A. While I am aware of the Textron stuff being Cessna, Beech, Bell and I will continue to post as Cessna, Beech, Bell.
FAA has some other ones too. All Socata TBMs seem to show up as 700s on the FAA site despite their being 850s, 900s, 910s, 930s etc. Lear 40, 45, 70 and 75 all show up as Lear 45 despite all 4 aircraft having noticeable physical differences. Of course the Global 6000 shows as the BD-700 ##### and I also make sure I show it as a Global 6000 but put the BD-700 in ( )
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for the Boeing Airlners there is no such thing as a 787-900, Boeing did away with the 100-900 for the 787, Max and the 747-8 but I have seen some 787s getting the old Boeing codes like United 787-922, American 787-823 etc Instead it is just the 787-8, 787-9, 737-8 MAX (hopefully we will be able to enter the MAXs again).
I am more concerned about an individual that was posting Oshkosh pictures a few weeks ago and put in totally wrong aircraft types like a Berkuit profile but the aircraft was a Long EZ and a Cessna 172 profile was showing for a twin. If you are a spotter and don't know what a Cessna 172 is (the most mass produced aircraft in the world currently), you might as well smash your camera on the ground |
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