PPrune European based?

[gizbug]

Just curoius with the huge amount of people from Europe on here, is PPRUNE based in europe?

[Hap Hazard]

Not everything wears a pair of sh*t kickers boy:cool:

[FlyingForFun]

Hmm, I guess, technically, PPRuNe is US-based - I believe it lives on a server in the US, anyway, but I'm not certain. But Danny, who set it up and runs it, is English, a fairly high proportion of the members are British, and I think it's fair to say it's basically a British forum.

Having said that, though, everyone is welcome here. Many UK pilots, especially Wannabes, do some training or hour-building abroad, and it's always nice to talk to people from other countries and compare the way other systems work - not to mention the friends that you can make from all over the world!

If you're looking for something exclusively American, try scrolling down on the Forums page and you'll find a North American forum. But stick around in the other forums, too - I know I value input from all round the world, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!

FFF
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[Gin Slinger]

gizbug: 10/10 for deduction. American education, you can't beat it!

Award yourself one oversized cookie.

[Pointer]

Registered Members: 54,194

Say chap how many aviators do you have in the British kindom?

not withstanding the excelent performance of my brithish fellow pilots (here is a feather!) :D Good show old man ! ;) on maintaining this forum, you can hardly say:
it's fair to say it's basically a British forum.

But then again, they say now a days ..... ;) euro wise and pound foulish ;)

what ever it is it is still my home page....keep it up

Pointer.....

[mattpilot]

dont worry gizbug, we can easly turn this into a USA forum :D

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

Of course technically this forum is half Welsh... I'm not actually sure of Scroggsys lineage...?

PPRuNe was started and run by Brits and to this day the majority of Mods and Admins are British. There is a dissproportionate bias towards UK aviation although the Colonies are well represented - particularly on Dunnunda and Godzone.

WWW

[sally at pprune]

Surely WWW, your presence ensures that the colonies representation extends to those closer to home? ;)

[Gin Slinger]

Pointer
they say now a days ..... euro wise and pound foulish
That wasn't what I heard on a recent trip to Dublin. Over there, the Euro Dollar has meant rising prices and high inflation, exasperated by low interest rates, set so to suit the continuing Deutsche economic slumber.

[Danny]

The following list is a sample from the stats. It shows the countries that visitors are logging on to PPRuNe from. As you can see, there are visitors from 68 countries, the majority from the UK. The figure from the US is probably innacurate as as far as I am aware anyone using AOL as their ISP will show up as a US visitor. The list shows country, number of visits from that country and the percentage.United Kingdom 1147152 51.03%
United States 563690 25.08%
Australia 286702 12.75%
Canada 40009 1.78%
Ireland 28333 1.26%
Germany 24873 1.11%
New Zealand 22319 0.99%
Netherlands 18304 0.81%
France 17341 0.77%
El Salvador 15988 0.71%
Norway 14111 0.63%
Belgium 9933 0.44%
Switzerland 9501 0.42%
South Africa 7159 0.32%
Spain 7068 0.31%
Italy 5658 0.25%
Finland 4011 0.18%
Iceland 3628 0.16%
Portugal 3312 0.15%
Taiwan 3000 0.13%
Saudi Arabia 2562 0.11%
Austria 2095 0.09%
Brazil 1650 0.07%
Russian Federation 788 0.04%
Mexico 780 0.03%
Luxembourg 773 0.03%
Hong Kong 762 0.03%
Montserrat 710 0.03%
Argentina 635 0.03%
Poland 585 0.03%
Panama 506 0.02%
Suriname 395 0.02%
Thailand 391 0.02%
United Arab Emirates 296 0.01%
China 241 0.01%
Romania 216 0.01%
Croatia 201 0.01%
Turkey 189 0.01%
Qatar 174 0.01%
Uruguay 170 0.01%
Ethiopia 168 0.01%
Venezuela 166 0.01%
Macedonia 120 0.01%
Bulgaria 118 0.01%
Lebanon 114 0.01%
Faroe Islands 106 0.00%
Chile 100 0.00%
Egypt 83 0.00%
Latvia 79 0.00%
Bahrain 71 0.00%
Sierra Leone 65 0.00%
Ecuador 61 0.00%
India 61 0.00%
Slovak Republic 59 0.00%
Hungary 51 0.00%
Afghanistan 48 0.00%
Belize 45 0.00%
Oman 32 0.00%
Peru 26 0.00%
Libya 25 0.00%
Philippines 22 0.00%
Jamaica 21 0.00%
Zimbabwe 21 0.00%
Indonesia 12 0.00%
Dominican Republic 11 0.00%
Yemen 6 0.00%
Colombia 5 0.00%
Guatemala 1 0.00%

[FlyingForFun]

Wow!!!

Where the hell is Suriname????? :confused: :D

FFF
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[Gin Slinger]

FFF: Somewhere in northern south america I seem to remember.

[mattpilot]

danny -

are those stats per day or per week?

[Pointer]

Gin Slinger,

you forgot the ;) and ;) in your quote ;)

Pointer.

by the way except from this small indiscrepancy you seem to have a fair and honest opinion on matters as far as i can read on Pprune. See ya :D

(small typo, i stand corrected)

[Send Clowns]

What strikes me about Danny's statistics and my impression of the site is that the people from certain countries must be pretty vociferous, and the British actually quite reserved :D It rarely seems a half-British site. The Irish certainly make more than 1.26% of the running :D

[sally at pprune]

Com'on you Guatemalan, as the sole representitve of your country, tell us who you are :D

[Gin Slinger]

Pointer: yes, sorry. I used cut'n'paste to copy your prose; the ;)s disappear with this method.

[hobie]

every thing you ever wanted to know about "Suriname" .....

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ns.html

cheers .........

ps .... I see the "The Old Ground" is 5th in the world .... just like Ryanair !!!! ;)

[broadreach]

El Salvador? Ranked 10th ahead of Norway, Belgium etc? What can be the reason? Retired mercenaries? Legally domiciled ISPs? Two or three hyperactive Ppruners?

[flyblue]

WWW,
Xenia, Flapsforty and of course the Fabulous Flyblue (yes, "moi") are the exception then? :D


P.S. I think I am responsible for some of the 5 Colombians, some of the Dominican and some of the Chinese and Korean:D

[PAXboy]

El Salvador? Ranked 10th ahead of Norway, Belgium etc? What can be the reason? Retired mercenaries? Legally domiciled ISPs? Two or three hyperactive Ppruners? When you are on lay over in El Salvador you have a choice:

Go out and buy some drugs to import in your luggage or stay in the hotel and PPRuNe :eek:

[gizbug]

Not looking for a American Forum.
I was just asking a simple question; A question that wasn't meant to rub people the wrong way.

[flyblue]

No rubbing, giz

it's the pprune way of having a laugh together ;) :D

[flapsforty]

What are yu trying to imply here FlyBlue?
That South America, Italy and Norway have never been British colonies?
Tsk, tsk, you should know better than contradicting the wee man girl.......... ;)
gizbug, interesting subject, and that bit of statistic gives me same good feeling as seeing all the destinations on a departure notice board at a busy airport:

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/thumbs.gif Yup, that's my world! http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/thumbs.gif

[25F]

Unless Danny's software is doing some clever stuff, then the statistics are probably showing the top-level domain, i.e. country code, being reported by the computer being used to access the Pprune server. For some of the smaller countries this can be misleading. For instance there are "Turks & Caicos islands" machines here in Cambridge, U.K. It's quite likely that some or all of the hits apparently coming from e.g. Montserrat are coming from somewhere else.

[Steepclimb]

Yes Send Clowns we Paddies seem to punch above our weight. You know what they say, land of Saints and Scholars and plenty of Blarney too.

Gizbug you have been subjected to what they call British humour and a few other countries besides. Take it on the chin!

Gin Sling, on the Euro front not quite true to say the Euro caused rising prices. More like greedy service based business, like pubs, Hairdressers, Doctors, Lawyers et al who took to opportunity to shove up prices thinking we wouldn't notice. We noticed alright. Watch out for a day of reckoning there. A boycott or two is on the cards.

[airbourne]

Well I think the site is Irish, because as you will well know, most people from other countries claim to have a bit of Irish in them. Included in that is part of the managment team i.e. Hamrah and Pprune Towers. Plus how many pilots do you know that would turn down a rake of Guinness? :D :D :D :D

[P.Pilcher]

Oh, and by the way, Danny I notice that the delightful flying pigs are still missing from your posts. Am I the only one who would like to see them restored? ::) :) :)

[Thud_and_Blunder]

... I can think of half-a-dozen or so PPRuNers in Brunei who don't get a look-in here. Probably because the Internet Service Promise-ers there still route through Singapore (I believe..).