Guys,
I'm not deliberately trying to shelve this idea but I find myself having to make a few points.....
1) Eurovision takes place next Saturday night, all groups are already in Finland for the preliminary rounds, the build up events and filming of the fill spots.
2) Currently Helsinki (EFHK) is served by 8 European nations taking part in the contest on our timetable which means inserting a further 34 flights in to the database and updating it to take in to account the participating nations. This would be a mammoth task to complete before next weekend by any stretch of the imagination.
3) I would personally be more than happy to invest the man hours required to complete this task in time if I could be sure that it was an event that would be attended by only 20% of our pilots but sadly participation in this sort of event has been very weak of late and therefore probably a waste of our resources.
I understand that this was just a quick idea that was fired off, but I feel, before is starts to snowball out of control, that from a Management point of view I need to stress the work involved.
As a team, the management are always more than willing to put in the hours and prepare these events, but I must say, we need a little more than 5 days notice for a start! Try 6 weeks minimum, maybe even more!
Next, it is almost soul destroying for us to arrange events and fly ins to have the turnout result in approximately 5 people, the vast majority of which are MT members attending to bolster the event.
In the last week, we have launched new missions, installed a tutorial system both of which took 100's of man hours to prepare. We have a number of projects such as new tours for the UK and Portugal as well as more training material, massive amounts of repair and maintenance work on the site to name just a few of the myriad of projects ongoing. (Currently we have 44 project tickets live on our system all in various stages of development)
I am not trying to blow a horn for the MT, in fact quite the opposite! Recently our presence and support has been far short of what I would have liked due to many factors in the real world lives of our MT. I hope that we have this situation corrected somewhat now and I certainly feel that what we have on the development schedule for release over coming months will make up for our recent absence.
I guess I am asking, PLEASE don't stop coming up with ideas, but give us plenty of notice to get the things ready that would interest you! For instance, an idea that was generated by one of our pilots almost 4 months ago is only now beginning to be developed after months of discussion and a clearing of enough to work to allow manpower to develop it.
Thanks for your understanding and I hope you will not be too dissapointed if we don't have a EuroVision event this year...
Oh and PS...... Go Scootch!!!!
Regards,
