just out of sick curiosity...something about flights with ill-behaved fliers. Ultimately, as one who does not work in the airline business and has flown often, how often are pilots and staff perturbed by customers?
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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#162Very neat, something that would be cool to see is the commercial vs GA split over time. In your graph by type it’s quite hard to see how much flying you still do on your own time!
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#163Why are airline pilots considered cool, while bus drivers are essential infrastructure, but do basically the same job — getting people from A to B?
Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
#164Why are airline pilots considered cool, while bus drivers are essential infrastructure, but do basically the same job — getting people from A to B?
Put me behind the wheel of a bus and I'm pretty sure I could get it somewhere safely.
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#165Very neat, something that would be cool to see is the commercial vs GA split over time. In your graph by type it’s quite hard to see how much flying you still do on your own time!
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 Canada, but it only amounts to a few hours a year. You can see the flight time for “7KCAB” very slowly trickling up in the cumulative time graph at the bottom.
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#166Amazing visualization. Any plans to add more features to each log? e.g. difficulty of taking-off/flying to/landing, or trajectory with/out turbulence, etc.?
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 of those are quite private and also difficult to show in a visualisation like this.
I would love to track more data over time, but balancing that with it being easy to collect is the challenge!
Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
#167Very neat, something that would be cool to see is the commercial vs GA split over time. In your graph by type it’s quite hard to see how much flying you still do on your own time!
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 Canada, but it only amounts to a few hours a year. You can see the flight time for “7KCAB” very slowly trickling up in the cumulative time graph at the bottom.
Oh cool, neat plane to have!
And on desktop that's definitely easier to see than on mobile.
Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
#168Amazing visualization. Any plans to add more features to each log? e.g. difficulty of taking-off/flying to/landing, or trajectory with/out turbulence, etc.?
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 of those are quite private and also difficult to show in a visualisation like this. I would love to track more data over time, but balancing that with it being easy to collect is the challenge!
You could summarize that data using some form of machine learning. A good new skill to develop. Then you don’t need to share the exact details, just a count per category. E.g. personal incident (32), late take off duty to X (23), passenger medical incident (15). Hopefully in aggregate form that data is less of a privacy issue and less of a commercial risk for your company.
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#169I have a similar visualization on top of ~150 billion data points of ADS-B data: https://adsb.exposed/ It is interactive, so you can filter by any dimension, like the types of aircraft you fly. It is 2D, but I thought about making it 3D as well. PS. The map you showed is somewhat slow - when I zoom in, the framerate is less than 10.
wow, that's some serious data crunching.
can you share some tech details?
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