Airplanes and other distractions
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It is possible to have the circuits and the noise abatement procedures for EHHV Hilverum Airport on your Android device for free. The catch is that these maps are not the official airport charts and as such not approved for…
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General Navigation for ATPL – Calculating tracks and distances between two random points: Introduction
In the ATPL exam you must calculate between points that may look like they are just two random positions on earth, but the truth is that they are not. These points have been carefully selected so that the problem can…
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The new version of the E6B Flight Computer Teacher is here for iOS
The long overdue version for iOS14 is now live on the app store, created in native SwiftUI code for iPhone and iPad.
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Counting Stuff in Grafana – How to use Node-Red to make the “Group by TAG” useful in Influxdb
This allows you to display occurrences of combined data in Grafana. A vital step for counting the aircraft types in the mode-S project.
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Amsterdam Area Real-Time Aircraft Stats from Mode-S Transponders
This is an exercise in Grafana, Influxdb, Node-red, JSON and RTL-SDR. Live aircraft stats updated every minute from my mode-S receiver.
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Freelance Corona Classrooms in Aviation – Now what?
WTF? → Ok let’s do this
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ADS-B retrofit manadate for Europe postponed to 2023
Not enough aircraft will be ready for ADSB at the original deadline.
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So you are a pilot?
Well it’s not exactly brain surgery, is it…
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To reject a takeoff after V1 or not?
What if something happens after V1 and the runway is long enough to stop on (or not)?
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Crazy LORA ranges today, can Tropospheric propagation be the cause?
Record-breaking distances for LORA-transmissions. Here’s a theory.