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There seems to be some crossover between the software and flying 'communities'. Perhaps this is rather unsurprising given some of the shared prerequisite skills? Is it your experience there are many commercial pilots who code? Do you expect to get 100% of the way to the sun over your career?
Being a professional pilot while also being able to put together such a polished software project like this is incredibly impressive
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.
Very cool! Can you share any info on the 945min flight from back in June?
That flight was the return from Tokyo (RJTT) to London (EGLL). Due to the closure of Russian airspace, the outbound flight is longer than pre-war as we fly over Turkish airspace. Due to the wind patterns, it is almost always longer flying westbound, so we usually fly east both ways.
In this case, the weather at one of the ETOPS alternates that we use (Shemya, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eareckson_Air_Station) was out of limits, so we had to fly back Westbound with the associated headwind and longer flight time.
Being a professional pilot while also being able to put together such a polished software project like this is incredibly impressive
Being a professional pilot while also being able to put together such a polished software project like this is incredibly impressive
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
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I had always been interested in aviation, and I was fortunate that I was in the right place at the right time after graduation to join an airline on a sponsored "cadet scheme". I still (hopefully evidently) very much love software/engineering, but I guess I chose the path of "professional pilot, hobbyist engineer" over the alternative of "professional engineer, hobbyist pilot".
I loved programming before doing it as a job. Now, I really can't be bothered to program outside of work. At what age did you make this change? I love medicine, researching diseases I hear about and learning about the body is hobby for me. I would love to get into it but I am almost 40.
You're young! Saying that as a fellow almost-40.