Niiice. I'm looking to start flight training myself for ultralight next years and will definitely keep this bookmarked.
Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
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Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#22This is awesome, but I've been less excited with using my thermal label printer / thermal tape printer lately since realizing those labels are absolutely loaded with BPAs intended to stabilize the thermal ink. :(
There's special BPA-free or at least -reduced paper these days, the local supermarkets here have shifted to using that for environmental reasons.
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#23Hi HN! Just a small script I wrote a few days ago, but I had 2 or 3 friends publish some blogs online and I got hella jelly --- so here's my submission, so at least I can say I made something and post it. Hopefully you like both planes and tech and very hopefully you find this an okay read :) Any spelling mistakes, bugs, issues, ethics, please do tell me about! Sorry if it looks rushed -- night is coming upon us and…
Not knowing much about aviation, are there concerns if the printed list falls off of the pillar?
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#24I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
I'd have to agree (with the little experience I have). My school is the cheapest on the block and we have the oldest planes, the other day I sat in another's schools C172 and saw the G1000 and.. "damn.. look at all those colours and uh what does this button do" was just about all I could say
I think in regards to safety, screens have the upper hand 99% of the time however...
a) the 1:1 of screen X to screen Y doesn't exist, I (think) you have to pretty much learn the new system
b) there's a certain je ne se quais to instruments
c) the school that has the G1000 needs a G1000 trainer as well as an IFR trainer (though I guess that's fine because then you have experience in both)
d) too much screens may not be the best - the G600 has touchscreens now
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#25I'm a dinosaur and I'm always amazed at the technology that pilot's have available to them these days. While complex to learn, having huge glass navigation systems sitting in front of you in a single engine plane seems so foreign to me. I did my instrument ride in a C-172 and my commercial in a PA-44. During both of those checkrides, I ended up having to shoot ILS approaches to minimums, in turbulent IFR conditions,…
I probably understood 20% of the pilot slang you used here.
check this out!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgyLEE2TA-I&pp=ygUYcGlsb3Qgc29...
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#26Niiice. I'm looking to start flight training myself for ultralight next years and will definitely keep this bookmarked.
Wohooo!! good luck!!
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#27This is awesome, but I've been less excited with using my thermal label printer / thermal tape printer lately since realizing those labels are absolutely loaded with BPAs intended to stabilize the thermal ink. :(
I had no idea! Researching now
Re: Show HN: Aviation navigation log on $20 receipt printer
#28You should look into a roll chart. It’s a small device typically mounted to a handlebar of a motorcycle that contains directions. As you reach each waypoint, you turn a knob and roll the next waypoint into the window. It should work just great with your receipt printer and your not limited to the length of the A pillar in your plane.
Roll charts and the kneeboard are good to know about now!
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#29This makes me want to buy a receipt printer to use for grocery shopping lists.
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#30Single Engine Land PPL holder here.
I would have loved this when I was flying still. Such memories with the kneeboard and nav logs!
Fun fact: I left my plotter and E6B in my black car in TX during cross-country training and came back to both melted! I was broke and 18 so figured I would wing it, but it surely made my calculations error biased by some amount of yards because I was broke and not wanting to buy a new one!