How these forums are organized (for now)

[Dan Casali]

Hi All,

Welcome to the first draft of what will become the Fairchild Club Forums. By creating this first post, I'm creating the first 'topic' within the 'Forum Comments and Suggestions" forum. You can reply to this post, and your reply will follow this post. Or, you can create a new topic within this forum.

Right now, because all is subject to change, I'm discouraging posts that do not directly relate to the design of the forum itself. I've disabled user registration for the time being, so you are viewing this as a 'guest' user, and currently this is the only forum open to posting by guest users. Hopefully by the time the Yahoo Group winks out (Dec 14th) these forums will be open for all posting.

Please take a few minutes to click though the offered categories and forums. When the forums go live you'll be able to create new 'topics' within any of them, and over time we will move the old group conversations into the relevant forums.

A major advantage of a forum system is that the pre-defined structure of the forums naturally imposes an organization to the user posts, hopefully making it easier to find the information you are seeking. The structure you see now is a first draft, and can still be altered. I'm seeking your ideas and comments so we can shape these forums to make them as self evident and useful as possible.

In this first draft I've tried to separate information specific to an aircraft type from information that spans multiple aircraft types.The major category "Maintenance of Shared Components" has an Engines and Props category where you will find a Ranger engine forum. The PT19, which uses the Ranger, gets its own forum under the major category "Fairchild Aircraft Types". A PT19 owner might post there for information on seat harness installations, but look under the Ranger engine forum for engine timing information. (I've only expanded the "24 Series" type with multiple subforms; the final version will have the same structure repeated for each type.)

Does this seem straightforward enough, or is it needlessly complicated? Are there topics missed, or miss-filed? Let me know with your posts.

Thanks
Dan Casali