Cool, the data visualization is really neat!
Do you have a lot of down time during those long flights and are you able to work on this during that time?
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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#92Being 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
When you're 8 hours deep in borrow checker hell, you're in no emotional state to be piloting the A380.
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#93I'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.
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#94Being a professional pilot while also being able to put together such a polished software project like this is incredibly impressive
He graduated from UofT with a major in CompSci.
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#95That 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…
A great idea!
The company that I work for does actually provide us with our cumulative dosage data for the month/year/lifetime, but not at such a granular level. Do you know of any statistical way that I could calculate this?
I suppose I could work out the great circle routes and the approximate dosage in that airspace at a given time?
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#96Folks 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 !
What a kind comment :) Thank you!
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#97Cool, the data visualization is really neat! Do you have a lot of down time during those long flights and are you able to work on this during that time?
Thank you! Not so much during the flight, but I bring my laptop on most trips, and I use some of the 24-48 hours we get between flights to try to be productive. It helps when I am awake at 2AM (PST) when it is 10AM on my body clock!
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#98How did you make the world not pick up a geometric phase as you move it around? It's always oriented nicely.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but is it counterbalanced by their ageing at least a few microseconds more slowly thanks to spending so much time closer to the speed of light?
You actually age faster on an airplane, because you are in a less dense space and experience less gravitational redshift. General relativity works against the Special Relativity in this case.
Well shucks to my high school physics teacher
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
The data is all in a sqlite file from my logbook software! I wrote a little post about extracting the data here: https://jameshard.ing/posts/querying-logten-pilot-logbook-sq... I have only seen a few clips from The Rehersal (the bit with Sully listening to Evanescence), so I don't have much to go on. Pilot communication is definitely something that we spend a lot of time talking about and training (under the larger b…
Hey! I used to work for the company that makes that logbook software. That was a great job. The CEO was an amateur pilot himself and really, really loved software product design. It's been over a decade, but it's cool to see that software still being iterated on and pilots still loving it. Even cooler to see someone such as yourself extending its usefulness by leveraging the data. Cheers!
Awesome!
You can tell that the software is created by people passionate about aviation (and also passionate about nice UX, something that most all of the Logten competitors really lack). Do you remember if my guess about using NSDate internally was correct?