How cool! At the end of the movie "Braveheart", the narrator describes his fellows as "warrior poets" - basically the ideal Scottish man. I think that "design-literate pilot" is a reasonable modern version of at least one ideal type of person to be. Congratulations!
Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
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#152What did you use to build the globes?
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#153What did you use to build the globes?
globe.gl and a little bit of Flask/Python to wrangle the data
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#154Very cool. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading through your detailed flight logs — the way you’ve documented your experience, from distances and time in the air to the nuances of roles (P1, P2, PICUS), was fascinating. As someone concerned with these matters — developing SpinStep, a quaternion-based library for modeling orientation and vector state evolution in physical systems — I found myself unexpected…
The repo reads a bit LLM written.
Quaternions have some nice properties for some operations with 3D rotations, but they are not a panacea.
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#155This is amazing, James! Any chance you'd release it open source?
Thank you! It is on my to-do list, I just need to clean up the code a little :)
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#156Code, data visualizations, aviation, mapping. All you need to do is throw in some Rust and a custom PCB or two and you have an HN bingo. :) Sweet hack.
Haha, need to add some AI in there somehow too (no vibing used when making this)!
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#157That's fascinating! Have you thought about sharing your data visualization methods with other pilots? It could help improve safety communication and training.
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#158Fascinating!
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#159Amazing visualization. Any plans to add more features to each log? e.g. difficulty of taking-off/flying to/landing, or trajectory with/out turbulence, etc.?
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
"passionate about aviation" and "passionate about nice UX" definitely described Noah and the rest of the team!
Honestly, I don't remember Re: NSDate. It was many jobs and Dante's levels of burnout ago. :-)
What I remember from that time was a lot of fighting with Apple's early iCloud syncing. Because it had a habit of being incredibly fraught and flakey using SQLite-backed Core Data stuff.