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Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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jamesharding wrote: post #106
IncreasePosts wrote: post #93

I'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 fil…

What about flightaware.com? I punched in ba218 and I can see what appear to my untrained eye to be actual position:

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW218/history/20250...

Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by ljsocal »

Impressive and very cool! You might consider making this into a globe route generator that folks will pay for. See https://anim8map.com/

As an active airline passenger for the past 50 years, I wish I’d kept a log my many hundreds of flights. Some day I’ll sit down and attempt an educated guess.

Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

jamesharding wrote: post #101
ziofill wrote: post #98

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

Vasturiano is a master what he does to combine D3 and ThreeJS is a huge decomplexifier everything can run in a single html file so simple so elegant so useful.

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Post by mkoubaa »

bschwindHN wrote: post #87
walthamstow wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am insanely productive when programming on flights without wifi, provided I've cached what I needed to beforehand. Something about it just works

I'm jealous - all that time sitting around to get something productive done, and I can't concentrate at all because I can't relax, the plane suddenly shakes and distracts me, and it feels like I'm lacking oxygen and am not thinking clearly. I remember trying to code some stupid iterator thing in Rust for a few hours and couldn't crack it. On the ground it was solved in like 10 minutes.

Your phone has a "do not disturb" feature

Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by SwiftyBug »

mcflubbins wrote: post #137
weinzierl wrote: post #62

That is beautiful. Besides the globe and the cool animations I like the dashboard that shows summary stats. This made me think. Either Frauenhofer or Helmholtz in Germany used to have a site where you could enter your specific flights and it would tell you your overall radiation exposure. This was meant mainly for flight personnel and it was not nearly as beautiful. The accumulated exposure would be a useful addition…

Nomadlist had (has?) radiation exposure for all of your trips too, I was shocked when I saw the stats!

Do you travel a lot? Because a trip from east to west coasts of the US expose you to less radiation than an X-Ray exam. Doesn't seem that shocking.
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