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Those visualizations are really cool! Did you use any AI assisted coding? If the answer is yes, which tool(s) did you use?
Having a computer engineering background, what motivated you to become a pilot and switch careers?
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".
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.
This is great work! I have a somewhat off-topic question. How are your ears? Do pilots have any tricks to save their ears from getting clogged due to the constant pressure changes? Second question. Would it be possible to predict flight delays based on the number of inbound and outbound flights?
Not a pilot but fly frequently -- A lot of the modern larger planes 787 Dreamliner or an A330/350 have something that helps with the ear clogging. I travel NY/LON a lot, and I rarely have any ear popping. If I travel on a smaller plane say NY -> Miami, I easily get the clogged feeling.
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1728/does-the-b...
Cool visualization for your personal logbook. How is the raw or display data stored? The globe map reminds me of this hexagonal grid article from my bookmarks I’d found on here or reddit. https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ As an airline pilot, I am curious, have you watched the season 2 of Nathan Fielder’s Rehearsal on HBO, that comically addresses the topic of pilot-copilot communication? If so what are yo…
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…
Here I am having accomplished apparently nothing in my life.
Here I am having accomplished apparently nothing in my life.