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I'm an airline pilot here in the US and it would be the privilege of a lifetime to be able to do that with one of my kids.
Folks like you (expert in multiple domains) are an inspiration for people like me. I always dream to do something other than my day job. Hope I push through my laziness to do it some day !
I love what you've done with your logbook, but the coolest part of the page was the photo of you on the flight deck with your Dad. I'm an airline pilot here in the US and it would be the privilege of a lifetime to be able to do that with one of my kids.
Hopefully you will be able to have the same experience with your kids! What fleet are you on currently?
You should add time dilation to your list of statistics! You’re probably around 5 microseconds younger than someone who stayed in Earth!
I 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?
https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/
In fact, the data processing pipeline is entirely trivial (a one-page shell script), and the frontend is also trivial (a single HTML page with vanilla JavaScript).
You should add time dilation to your list of statistics! You’re probably around 5 microseconds younger than someone who stayed in Earth!
This is awesome and I love it. Thanks for sharing! I'm just wondering what made you wanna be a pilot instead of sticking with a regular software engineering career, especially since you’ve got a degree in that and, of course, your talent here :)
After finishing my degree, British Airways had opened their cadet pilot scheme - windows of opportunity like that are usually short and infrequent, so I went for it! The nice this is that I can still code and keep up on the software engineering trends (what I tell myself while checking HN for the n-th time in a day) on the side, and I think it is also a safe set of skills to have in case I can no longer fly (pandemics, losing my medical, etc)
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.
I had thought that a challenge trying to turn something like I have built into a business would be that people would be reluctant to pay for (yet another) subscription for something like this that they probably look at infrequently.
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?