at the bottom of my results page I can see this this "Old status: NewSELECT pilotid + 1 as newid from `pilots` where status = '0' order by pilotid desc limit 0,1"..
just seems to be an editted out old query that someone forgot to delete as my pirep went through fine.. since this is my first flight and no-one else has brought the problem up, i think it must only happen on first flights..
