It is now 3 months since we launched Francoflyers and things are going quite well—even if we do say so ourselves.
We have received useful publicity from various aviation magazines including 'Pilot', 'Go Flying' and 'Loop' as well as lots of encouraging feedback from our readers.
We have also enjoyed good co-operation from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC) in sorting-out some of the more obscure rules on licencing, medicals and general flying regulations.
Sometimes, it takes a while to get precise answers but we always strive to present fact rather than opinion or speculation.
We hope to have all of the French 'Rules & Regulations' stuff in place over the next few weeks—articles on 'French VFR Rules' and 'Airspace Classification' are now awaiting independent verification and will be published shortly.
Ultimately, the success of any publication is measured in readership which is currently running at over 300 page-views per day with a peak (at the time of writing) of 477 on Easter Sunday.
Tell your friends
I have now added an 'email this' link to the bottom of each post—this enables you to send your friends a link to the specific article, on a one-off basis, without generating any additional email traffic or 'spam'.
I have also added a 'Subscribe to francoflyers by email' link to the blog sidebar—this will enable you to receive any new articles by email with a maximum of 1 email per day (in practice, 1 or 2 per week).
The articles will be displayed using HTML or plain text, depending on the settings of your email client.
If viewing in plain text, you can always go back to the main site www.francoflyers.org for a 'richer' viewing experience.
You can unsubscribe from this service at any time.
Weblog feeds
For those unfamiliar with the term, a 'feed' contains a list of recent blog posts which can be read by other weblogs and special applications known as 'feed-readers' or 'feed-aggregators'.
I have deliberately avoided placing 'feed subscription' links on this site as they are generally quite confusing for non-technical readers—my basic approach to all software or website development is that it should be obvious, to a non-technical person, what you need to do to make it work.
Also, the articles are presented within the feed-reader format and won't look nearly so nice as the original.
However, for those who prefer to use feed-readers, I would mention that all Typepad blogs are enabled for 'auto-discovery' and you will be able to subscribe to this one by direct reference to the basic web site address.
I am off to Limoges on Wednesday, hopefully for some flying, though it is presently snowing in London so I could well end-up spending my break in Stanstead.
Regards
Les King
Site Administrator
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