How did you make the world not pick up a geometric phase as you move it around? It's always oriented nicely.
The https://github.com/vasturiano/globe.gl library seems to use this as the default
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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#102This is just fun and fantastic. Love it.
Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
#103Having a computer engineering background, what motivated you to become a pilot and switch careers?
Looking at your projects, seems like you still have the hacker going in you! Saw Home Assistant one! Kudos!
Love Home Assistant! I have a screen on my split flap display that shows aircraft flying overhead our house (at very high level) - all fed by home assistant and various HACS addons.
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#104If I understand OP journey, was he fortunate to have been scholarship to fund his studies to become a pilot?
I was looking into pilot school here and they cost upwards to $100k
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#105Damn this is soo cool
im not even close to understrand all of it but its damn beautiful
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#106I'm flying your most recent route next month(ba218). If I see you I'm going to say something weird, like "I know where you've been flying James". I hope that's okay. Regarding ideas, I noticed that you use great circle distance in some of your measurements, what about getting the actual flight data, and the graph showing deviation of your flight from the ideal.
Haha, if there is another James flying the plane, they might be spooked! I'm not flying to Denver for until at least August based on my current roster.
It would be great to use the actual distances (and would help me lap the moon a few more times), but there is no easy way to get the data. Our company flight plans which contain the actual route are in PDF format and with no easy API, and EuroControl (who hold the filed flight plans) charge quite a bit to have access I believe. I supposed I could screenshot the route and upload it to my server and have it OCR the route!
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#107Very cool visualisation project!
As for your flying, I just wanted to tell you good luck, we're all counting on you
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#108Love this work. Is this something you can share with your partner in the cockpit often? Would you say you are more of a First Officer Blunt, or a Captain Allears?
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#109Looks great, thanks for sharing! One thing I love about software engineering is that you can apply it to so many different aspects of ordinary life. Showing your flight career like this is really cool.
It is so true! This XKCD comic always comes to mind though with projects like this: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
do pilots get to mess around on a laptop while flying? My understanding is that most of a flight is just sitting there waiting for landing to start, could mean a lot of spare time to pick up programming
When you're 8 hours deep in borrow checker hell, you're in no emotional state to be piloting the A380.
Or the contrary: nothing can shake you anymore