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Aerospace design leader and pilot with over a decade of experience building products and teams that solve complex aerospace problems through user centered design. My work flies all…

The homebuilder cockpit community is an exciting and welcoming place for both newcomers and experienced builders. The Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 are by far the most popular project…

Boeing certainly tests in public airspace, but only as part of a standardized certification process overseen by the US government - a process and set of regulations that are writte…

Can you elaborate? Our customers tell us it's one of the best things we offer.

A flight plan and a procedure are very different things. Every commercial flight in America has a hard copy of their flight plan in the cockpit.

Thanks for the mention, elmin. Can confirm ForeFlight is not involved.

This is not true. In fact, we've built our entire business on the fact that pilots can use iPads while flying. www.foreflight.com

Eh, yes and no. The FAA requires operators to get approval for iPad EFBs individually, and does not require GA pilots to do any such thing. "Certified," however, has a special mean…

The flight plan is programmed into the airplane's avionics, as well as on a printed hard copy in the cockpit. The app is supplemental. It can not be used as a primary navigation re…

American Airlines does not use ForeFlight, though we are used by a variety of other large operators.

I've also been using the Dopp Regatta, exclusively for about 6 years now, and I love it. Super simple, extremely functional. It's the closest to perfect I've found.

I'd be interested in sources for these claims. Lots of hyperbole in this comment.

I'm curious what you mean by "so useful."

They are planning the transition right now. 2018 is the goal for phase-out. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/faa-wants-all-air...

As a "joyriding dipshit," I can assure you we're not spraying you with lead. General Aviation is moving away from leaded fuel in general. In fact, Shell recently announced an unlea…

As a former Groupon employee in Palo Alto (they acquired my startup this past year) I can tell you working from home is most definitely not "fine." My startup was based in San Fran…

8 individuals - 4 men, 4 women - from an applicant pool of 6,100. All in their 30s. What an accomplishment for them all.

I learned a while back that even if I'm going to use the exact code snippet I found on StackOverflow character for character, it's best to type it myself into my editor. Copy and p…

Not really a legitimate comparison. Pegasus is Orbital Science's unmanned cargo vehicle. Virgin Galactic is building a space tourism company. Very different.

you'd be surprised.

"Don't they get weather data from somewhere?" Yes, most (if not all) modern airliners have a radar dish in the nose of the aircraft. If you wanted to mess with this, you'd have to …

GitHub Jobs is a great resource, as well. http://jobs.github.com/

Database.com is so ugly and unprofessional looking I at first thought it was a spam site and actually had to double check the URL.