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I love the sequential globe especially! For an idea - anything you could do with altitude? Your average height above sea level per day? I dunno :p
Those few days that show back-to-back 14hr days must have been an experience :) What's your favorite thing to see up in the sky and in the clouds?
I think that seeing the northern lights (quite common on our flights to west-coast North America) or large thunderstorms over the equator at night (from a safe distance) are probably the highlights for me :) SpaceX launches are becoming more regular occurrences too!
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I’ll second this idea. Keeping track of your hours on high altitude is important sine you get more radiation than us on the ground. I’ve read various articles about pilots & flight attendants health affected by higher exposure to radiation.
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?
General relativity works against the Special Relativity in this case.
I love the sequential globe especially! For an idea - anything you could do with altitude? Your average height above sea level per day? I dunno :p
I wish I had the data! Likewise, collecting the number of passengers carried would be a nice cumulative statistic at the end of my career (I guess I can start recording this when I become a Captain?)
Otherwise, maybe you can get Claude to vibe code you a mobile app that runs in the background and collects all the interesting data (GPS, cabin alt, etc)
Something pilots can link to from their LinkedIn accounts.
And of course to impress friends and family.
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On the long flights where we carry more than two pilots, we have allocated break time away from the cockpit. During those breaks, you can do whatever you like (sleep, watch a film, read a book, etc). I tend to try to sleep on the plane, but I always bring my laptop on trips to work on projects while downroute. Especially on west-coast trips with the 8 hours timezone change, I am usually awake at 2am which is great fo…
I am insanely productive when programming on flights without wifi, provided I've cached what I needed to beforehand. Something about it just works