Site Information and Terms of Use

Disclaimer of Liability

This disclaimer is applicable to the websites "www.dvatp.com" and "www.dvcfi.com", as well as their owner and primary contributor, Doug Vetter, hereinafter referred to as the "Website".

The content provided by the website is provided for free to the public for entertainment purposes only. All content on the Website is provided "AS IS", without any warranty of any kind, express or implied.

The Website will not be liable for any damages or injury that accompany or result from your use of this site. This includes (but is not limited to) damages or injury caused by:

• Use of (or inability to use) the Website
• Use of (or inability to use) any site to which you hyperlink from the Website.
• Failure of the Website to perform in the manner you expected or desired.
• Any error on the Website
• Any omission on the Website
• Interruption of availability of the Website
• Any defect on the Website
• Delay in operation or transmission of the Website
• Computer virus obtained from software downloaded from the Website

In addition, the Website is not liable for any damages, including:

• Damages intended to compensate someone directly for a loss or injury
• Damages reasonably expected to result from a loss or injury (consequential damages)
• Other miscellaneous damages and expenses resulting directly from a loss or injury (incidental damages)

Browser Requirements

You should use a modern, standards-compliant browser to view this site. The site aims to be XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant so your best viewing experience will be with a browser that supports this standard.

I regularly use browsers based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine including Firefox. I also test command line browsers such as lynx to promote accessibility.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later will render this site reasonably well, though due to bugs that Microsoft refuses to fix and because of ongoing security and privacy concerns, I strongly advise against the use of Internet Explorer.

Document Helpers

Documents ending in .pdf should be viewed with Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later. It's free, so why not get it?

Documents ending in .doc should be viewed with the Word component of Office XP.

NOTE: I expect to convert all .doc documents on this site to OpenOffice format so that they can be easily viewed on multiple platforms. Once that happens, they will no longer be viewable in Word (unless Microsoft decides to support a open-standard file format). Get them while they last, and while you're at it, get a copy of OpenOffice. It's free.

Hyperlink Format

Links to resources on this site

Hyperlinks embedded in content on this site are shown in dark blue, boldface text. When the mouse is hovered over the link, the link text changes to red.

Links to resources outside of dvatp.com

Hyperlinks to other sites appear as all other links do, except that the text background is changed to yellow if the mouse is hovered over the link text. This serves as a reminder that the link will send you to a resource that is not on this site.

No pop up windows

This site does not open any links in a new window. This is good because it allows you, the reader, to choose when or if a new window is launched. It also preserves use of the "back" button.

If you want to open a link in a new window, use your browser to do exactly that. In Mozilla or Firefox, right click on the link and select "Open Link in New Window".

Links associated with images

Some images on this site are presented in thumbnail form. If a higher resolution version of the image is available or the image is used in the navigational process the border of the image will be tinted a subtle blue to help distinguish them from other images.

Linking to this site

If you wish to provide a link to this site, please link to the main site (http://www.dvatp.com/) and describe the general path to the content, e.g. "Go to http://www.dvatp.com/ and then click through "Aviation->Articles->Cool Article". DO NOT LINK TO SPECIFIC ARTICLES, PICTURES, OR OTHER CONTENT, as they may change on a regular basis.

This is particularly important on UseNet newsgroups, as the content of those groups is stored for YEARS by Google and other archiving services. If it's one thing the net doesn't need, it's another dead hyperlink.

Font Support

The site looks best when rendered with a scalable sans serif font such as Helvetica or Verdana.

I do not impose a font size on your browser. I merely suggest a relative size (80%, 100%, etc.) and your browser should equate 100% to its default size (16 pt in the case of Mozilla or IE).

If the fonts on this site are of a size not to your liking, simply edit your browser's preferences to select a better font size. If you're using Mozilla or Firebird, you can use [CTRL]-[+] (Control-Plus Sign) to increase, and [CTRL]-[-] (Control Minus Sign) to decrease font size on the fly.

Development Tools

Content is developed in Dreamweaver and XEmacs. The content is then transferred to the site with Dreamweaver or good 'ol scp. Most of the graphics on the site were created and manipulated with The GIMP, but I occasionally use other tools as needed.

Webhosting

This site is hosted on a Linux-based Virtual Private Server (VPS) I administrate. I have some extra system capacity and am willing to take on a limited number of additional domains with relatively low bandwidth needs (<20 GB/mo) for a reasonable price. If you're in need of a tech-savvy webhost let me know and I'd be happy to discuss your needs.