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As someone who holds a commercial pilots license but works in software development, I'd love to find a hybrid job solving problems I'm aviation with tech.
As someone who holds a commercial pilots license but works in software development, I'd love to find a hybrid job solving problems I'm aviation with tech.
Boeing must hire software devs?
Reading about X is very different from working in X professionally.
General aviation pilot here. I fly a bonanza in the flight levels regularly. There are plenty more data sources than just PIREPS, even in general aviation. Foreflight on an iPad, combined with and ADS-B receiver and a SirrusXM WX subscription are all in active use in my little 40 year old airplane. I say this as an avid Delta frequent flyer, but I highly doubt Delta's competitors are only using PIREPS to navigate tur…
You certainly may be correct that Delta’s competitors may be using additional or different sources. However, there definitely is not any access to SiriusXM WX or ADS-B weather onboard FAR 121 aircraft. Many airlines are just now getting around to ADS-B out for compliance. When I worked for one of the regional airlines we had just been approved for EFBs (iPads) in 2017. Point is simply that GA is typically significant…
It does excite me to see these things come to GA though. If you chose to use them properly, tools like ADS-B in and inflight weather at least gives you the option of making more informed safety decisions. But I still see too many young CFIs teaching "buttonolgy" before good old stick and rudder. Priorities should still be what is in the Airplane Flying Handbook: 1. Aviate, 2. Navigate, 3. Communicate. Safety, even with all this tech, still comes down to sound aeronautical decision making and cockpit management.
I have no idea what they're referring to in terms of app or model, but Foreflight (most common EFB app on the market at the moment) has had this feature for maybe a year and is IPad only... So is this just a huge Delta ad there they're basically saying "yay, we use Foreflight"?
It does look like they built their own app. But yes, Foreflight has had this for a while. yawn
This article sounds like an ad, but in any case cutting cost and achieving higher customer satisfaction are all good things so props to Delta for that. However, I have to wonder why the article makes it seem like only Delta is using data for turbulence avoidance and not other big players. Is this a relatively new thing when it comes to Big Data in airlines? Edit: This is an ad after all > This post contains reference…
If Delta is really serious about customer satisfaction, they’ll hurry up with the retirement of their old MD-80s (and MD-88s). I’m hardly an aviation buff, but I’ve learned to identify these things by their sound from inside my house, which is 20 miles from the nearest airport (occasional departures fly over at roughly 10,000 feet). Those old low-bypass JT8D engines make so much damn low-frequency noise. Every time I…
As someone who holds a commercial pilots license but works in software development, I'd love to find a hybrid job solving problems I'm aviation with tech.
You probably don't. Aerospace is horribly conservative and slow, both in the work itself and in office culture. Imagine spending an entire week checking every calculation in a 50 page technical report. It must be correct , and it has to be that way.
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If Delta is really serious about customer satisfaction, they’ll hurry up with the retirement of their old MD-80s (and MD-88s). I’m hardly an aviation buff, but I’ve learned to identify these things by their sound from inside my house, which is 20 miles from the nearest airport (occasional departures fly over at roughly 10,000 feet). Those old low-bypass JT8D engines make so much damn low-frequency noise. Every time I…
If you look at the photos they actually track pilot efficiency on the MD-88 in a separate metric than the rest of the pilots. I thought that was pretty funny.
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yup, they lost me at "The reason for the increase in avoidance? Lines of code, iPads onboard and a willingness to ditch a century-old way of doing things."
I don't think there were airliners in 1918.
This article sounds like an ad, but in any case cutting cost and achieving higher customer satisfaction are all good things so props to Delta for that. However, I have to wonder why the article makes it seem like only Delta is using data for turbulence avoidance and not other big players. Is this a relatively new thing when it comes to Big Data in airlines? Edit: This is an ad after all > This post contains reference…
If Delta is really serious about customer satisfaction, they’ll hurry up with the retirement of their old MD-80s (and MD-88s). I’m hardly an aviation buff, but I’ve learned to identify these things by their sound from inside my house, which is 20 miles from the nearest airport (occasional departures fly over at roughly 10,000 feet). Those old low-bypass JT8D engines make so much damn low-frequency noise. Every time I…