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The pulse pairs themselves are always 12 us apart. The jitter comes from the aircraft sending interrogations at random intervals in a steam, so that it can discern which returns ar…

As for VOR approaches, I have done a handful in my career, especially into some of the smaller airports around Europe (Greek islands!), but these are gradually also being replaced …

Valid question! The vast majority of approaches are still using an ILS. Pretty much the only time we would use an alternative approach (most often RNAV or LPV, and rarely VOR) woul…

Interesting idea! Most in-flight wifi systems also have an API with many of these stats (to show on the captive portal page), so I wonder if you could source any additional data fr…

Here was my interactive logbook post from last year for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44396518

Hey HN! I'm an A350 pilot, some of you might remember my flying stats page from last year. Most people assume modern airliners navigate purely by GPS. In reality we still lean on a…

I work as an airline pilot, and I just recently calculated mine to be 65,658 tonnes in my 10-year career so far (not quite so bad when calculated per seat-mile, but still eye openi…

Hey HN! I had a flight cancelled last month because of a defect (a spoiler system fault) that wasn’t deferrable under the MEL. That meant: no legal way to dispatch the aircraft, so…

https://jameshard.ing is mine :) My airline pilot logbook statistics page was quite popular on HN last year

If you ever hear my name on the PA, please come up to say hello! In fact, after the flight when it is not busy, we are always happy to have visitors in the flight deck. Feel free t…

Exactly that! This is the only route that I know of where this is the case. Looks like today’s flight home is following that route: https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW8/hist…

So happy to hear that!

I have only had very few incident with ill-behaved passengers, and none that escalated. Ill passengers is a different story, especially on longer flights! With no hard data to back…

Cool website! The idea of rendering it to a video is an interesting one. I had thought that a challenge trying to turn something like I have built into a business would be that peo…

Thanks! My father being a pilot certainly played a large part, not in the sense that he forced me into it, but rather that I had the opportunity to sit on the jump seat as a kid (p…

Flying Eastbound across the international date line also kind of counts as going back in time, right?

It truly has been the career highlight for me! He will be retiring in a few months, so we have the last flight together planned aleady. Hopefully you will be able to have the same …

Thank you! I have text comments/remarks for all particularly memorable flights (for all of the above reasons you mentioned, plus famous passengers, family on board, etc), but some …

I do actually have my GA flying included in this data, it’s just pretty minimal these days! GA flying is very expensive in the UK. I still fly our family airplane when I am home in…

Haha, need to add some AI in there somehow too (no vibing used when making this)!

Thank you! It is on my to-do list, I just need to clean up the code a little :)

globe.gl and a little bit of Flask/Python to wrangle the data

Glad you like it! I have a screen on there which shows my flights live while airborne - maybe worth a post of its own :)