Cool viz, I guess it's using https://nivo.rocks/ ?
It is indeed! And using https://globe.gl/ for the 3D globes.
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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#62That 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 for the dashboard.
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#63Love it :-). Do you also need to log the gps co-ordinates as you are flying? I would love to see how you avoid the airspace in the war hit areas.
Not OP, but commercial airliners fly on airways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwaYDVbQvKI& , from waypoint to waypoint.
When there's missiles in the air heading to land on innocent babies, the airlines choose waypoints so that they don't fly over these areas.
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#64Being a professional pilot while also being able to put together such a polished software project like this is incredibly impressive
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#65Looks great, thanks for sharing! One thing I love about software engineering is that you can apply it to so many different aspects of ordinary life. Showing your flight career like this is really cool.
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#66Love it :-). Do you also need to log the gps co-ordinates as you are flying? I would love to see how you avoid the airspace in the war hit areas.
I wish I had it! Our flight plans contain the full routes (waypoints and airways), but there is no easy way to capture this information.
While not exact prohibited airspace, this map shows where GPS jamming is highest, which roughly corresponds to the warzones: https://gpsjam.org/
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#67There 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?
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#68Very cool! Can you share any info on the 945min flight from back in June?
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#69Cool 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…
I assumed the globe was using Uber's H3 library for the hexagons.
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