Aviation Dimension, using the site.

Welcome to Aviation Dimension. www.aviationdimension or AvDim, began as South African Aviation's first true on-line magazine, news and gallery resource. Today it is an international resource. The site is also known as www.avdim.com, www.avdim.co.za, www.aviation-dimension.com you choose. AvDim through Andrea Serra and Frans Dely, provides the public with a free aviation publication and image gallery handling both military and civilian aviation matters. The publication does not only handle a full magazine but also caters for news snippets, general articles and regular columns together with services such as aviation classifieds, classified submissions, forums, a pilot shop and general aviation shop, calendars, posters, museum updates and reviews, join the air force information, general recruitment, specific and general aviation links, a full aviation guide, services directory or for that matter an information directory which is a "yellow pages" of aviation type of production, web design services, web redesign services, advertising and advert creation, graphic services, digital video productions, curriculum vitae posting and evaluation, test flight analysis of general aircraft, flight training, school coverage, a what's new section, a general newsletter section, an aviation business letter section, statistics of web media, marketing of aviation products, presentations, promotions, air show coverage and attendance by marketing teams, a general aviation links section, link submission, link exchange, commercial and company links, resource links, airline representations. With this and so much in our future plans you will have the aviation world and industry at your finger tips. The galleries spearheaded by Frans Dely, known to some as Snapperjack and to others as Dely, include the likes of Gripen International, SAAB (with special coverage of the Gripen and Hawk weapons platforms), Eurofighter, Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, Fairchild, Dassault, Airbus, Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft, Lockheed, Tupolev, Mikoyan-Gurevich, NASA, Sukhoi, British Aerospace or BAe, various airlines such as South African Airways, 1time, British Airways, Lufthansa, United and so much more. Some military aircraft types currently covered either in air forces from all over or at military airshows include: fighters, air superiority fighters, bombers, fighter bombers, tactical strike, stealth, reconnaissance, low level interdiction, spy planes, ground strike, trainers, transport, remotely piloted vehicles, land and ship borne aircraft, carrier aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft, tactical lift, experimental and project platforms, space research vehicles, short take-off and vertical landing, vertical take-off and landing, Hind and Rooivalk gunships, Apache, Cobra, single-engine, multi-engine from propellers or turboprops to turbojets and turbofan equipped aircraft, subsonic to supersonic not to forget transonic either afterburner equipped or not, armed aircraft, armored aircraft, SST or rather Supersonic Transport Aircraft, the joint strike fighter and more. These galleries are shot with various equipment including Kodak, Nikon and other well known Digital photographic names. www.faa.gov/index.cfmMilitary helicopters include: armed and unarmed types, single-engine and multi engine, piston or turbine, battlefield support, naval support, casevac specialized, ambulance types, trooping specific, anti-tank and anti-armour or for that mater anti-personnel, search and rescue types as well as airborne jammers or signal intelligence orientated, hoisting, survival support, encompassing all types from the mighty Chinook to the Kamov models, the Mi-24 Hind and Eurocopter Tiger not to mention other United States Air Force models such as the Huey, Cobra and more. AvDim's civilian galleries will baffle you with our own photography of rare aircraft such as Harvard, Spitfire, Sea Fury, Bell helicopters, Robinson R22 or R44, Aerospatiale, Mil, Yakovlev, Antonov, various wallpapers, Agusta, Mooney, Aero-Vodochody L39 and L29 jets, the SASOL Flying Tigers, the Shurlok Team under Scully Levin's leadership, Glen Dell and his Slick 360, the new Ravin 500, Pierre Gouws in the AvDim L39 jet display, the Wesbank team under Dennis Spence, various schools such as Blue Chip, PFS, Central Flying Academy, Progress Academy and so much more! Ballooning and micro light aviation also receive our attention with coverage of experimental and homebuilt aviation. We often attend Oshkosh EAA or Airventure where we bring you experimental projects such as the Lancair, Rand Robinson, Bush Baby, ultra-lights, sailplanes, parachuting, gyrocopters, seaplanes, space ship one, airport information, aerospace developments, air traffic control matters, weather matters and the list continues. Articles and images also handle matters such as air to air and air to ground weapons, laser guided bombs, survival aids and matters which relate to cabin attendants, pilots, navigators, flight engineers while also looking into missiles and their capabilities related to aero planes or for some aircraft. As long as it is flying, sailing in the sky or ballooning we do our best to cover it. Furthermore, Aviation Dimension tries to promote South African Aviation by working together with the likes of African Pilot Magazine (serious about flying), SA Flyer Magazine, World Airnews and at the same time we are approaching the likes of Air Forces Monthly, Air International, Flight International, Flying, Aviation Weekly, Professional Pilot, Sport Pilot and other mags in order to improve aviation awareness world-wide. Our working together with Siyandiza and Vulindlela as well as the Royal Air Cadet Organization ensures that we remain in a position to ensure that aviation development and growth receives the fullest attention offering air forces such as the South African Air Force and hopefully in the future the likes of the US Air Force, the Russian Air Force, the Royal Air Force and other world Air Forces the opportunity to contact potential candidates through offering recruitment information. Future plans include our hoping to cover matters from elite sites such as NASA, the ESA (European Space Agency), Zukhovsky Test Centre, Star City (Russian Space Agency), Empire Test School and others such as the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB and the Navy School at Patuxent River, Epner, Denel, Armscor and more. The shop section now also sports a wide variety of ASA and many other aviation products. Garmin, Telex, David Clark, Softcom, Avcomm are just some of the names of the carried products. Aviation Shops and Pilot Shops are also offered for hosting to companies wanting to sell their goods on the web. The e-commerce section through Iveri is a secure connection which allows you to use your credit card and mail order capabilities safely and discreetly. Classifieds allow for submission, removal and browsing of any products offered for sale and are free to view. Soaring with Eagles has now established itself as a leading book and is available in the shop. You will also find the Capital Sounds page sporting Brian Emmenis and his Team, the voice of Airshows who as attended shows such as Farnborough, RIAT, AAD (Africa Defense and Aerospace), Oshkosh and many more. AvDim is your resource, we pledge for it to remain free and only require an admin registration. Please contact Andrea Serra on any of the available numbers on site for any enquiries.

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USING AVIATION DIMENSION

The new site has some awesome functions for all. As you can also see we now require that viewers register for some of the functions but as promised right in the beginning this is and will always remain free of charge.

Why do we want people to register?

Some of the functions on site need to be monitored and followed in order to ensure that content is always acceptable and relevant to the site. By only allowing registered members to submit or access some content we can be assured that you continue to get what you enjoy. This also allows us to "ban" a member who misuses certain functions. Your information does not get given to anyone and in our good old tradition we do not use it for any other reason other than for contacting you from our side...your information has guaranteed safety.

As a registered member, you can view all the albums for free! There are new albums added all the time and logged-in members can view all of these for free at any time.

What can you do with the new AvDim Site?

You can now take part in forums, add comments to news media, submit your own news, share your photos in the Photoshare modules with your friends, shop on-line at reduced prices for all your aviation requirements and so much more, view slide shows etc, etc, etc…try to click on every single icon and see what happens!
On all pages, each small picture or title indicates a different function. There are too many functions for a full on-line manual but please do experiment and see what happens.

The following list will indicate what you can do with the new site:

Website Functions	Standard	Logged-in	Subscribed
View limited galleries	Yes	Yes	Yes
View all gallery albums		Yes	Yes
View limited slide-shows	Yes	Yes	Yes
View all slide shows		Yes	Yes
View high-res images			Yes
Download high-res images			Yes
Add comments to photos		Yes	Yes
Read comments to photos	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vote for your favourite images		Yes	Yes
Use photoshare: make your own albums		Yes	Yes
Submit images in galleries		Yes	Yes
Read news	Yes	Yes	Yes
Read news comments	Yes	Yes	Yes
Submit news		Yes	Yes
Post comments on news stories		Yes	Yes
Submit news stories		Yes	Yes
Submit press releases		Yes	Yes
Read forums	Yes	Yes	Yes
Reply in forums (no name, limited)	Yes
Reply in forums with your name		Yes	Yes
Post new topics		Yes	Yes
Vote in forum polls		Yes	Yes
View top lists	Yes	Yes	Yes
Use web links	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add web links		Yes	Yes
Configure web links		Yes	Yes
Rate web links		Yes	Yes
Receive newsletters (non registered can ask for the newsletter)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Use the aviation services guide (AvDim Aviation Resources Guide)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Read articles	Yes	Yes	Yes
Submit articles		Yes	Yes
Use the Tagit function (have a quick say function)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vote in all right column polls		Yes	Yes
See all poll results	Yes	Yes	Yes
Post internal mail messages toother registered members		Yes	Yes
Write reviews		Yes	Yes
Read reviews		Yes	Yes
Rate websites		Yes	Yes
Write website reviews		Yes	Yes
Use Avantgo function		Yes	Yes
Use downloads section (coming soon)		Yes	Yes

How do you register?

Simply go to the site homepage and Sign Up. You will receive a secure password in your e-mail box, which will allow all of the above functions. Note that if you have a system that stops automated responses you will have to contact the webmaster. If you'd like to have the password that you receive changed, please do so on the homepage or contact the webmaster with your required password.