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by jamesharding 1y ago
You did the math! Thank you :) It is one of the pecularities of the job, in that I will be "at work" for 4 days, but only actually strapped into an airplane for 8-14 hours at the beginning and end of that - the rest is mandated (a
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Exactly this. When I joined, the company offered a cadet scheme where the company would underwrite the loan required for your pilot training (84,000 GBP in 2016), and then that amount was repaid to us over 84 months of employment (while on
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by jamesharding 1y ago
It is so true! This XKCD comic always comes to mind though with projects like this: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Haha, if there is another James flying the plane, they might be spooked! I'm not flying to Denver for until at least August based on my current roster. It would be great to use the actual distances (and would help me lap the moon a few
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Love Home Assistant! I have a screen on my split flap display that shows aircraft flying overhead our house (at very high level) - all fed by home assistant and various HACS addons.
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by jamesharding 1y ago
The https://github.com/vasturiano/globe.gl library seems to use this as the default
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by jamesharding 1y ago
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 intern
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Thank you! Not so much during the flight, but I bring my laptop on most trips, and I use some of the 24-48 hours we get between flights to try to be productive. It helps when I am awake at 2AM (PST) when it is 10AM on my body clock!
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by jamesharding 1y ago
What a kind comment :) Thank you!
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by jamesharding 1y ago
A great idea! The company that I work for does actually provide us with our cumulative dosage data for the month/year/lifetime, but not at such a granular level. Do you know of any statistical way that I could calculate this? I su
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Congratulations, and thank you! I moved from the A320 to the A350 just over two years ago, and they are remarkably similar to fly (by design)! I would go so far as saying that you could hop in the A350 sim with zero training, and you would
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by jamesharding 1y ago
There are quite a few ex-engineers who fly (though anecdotally, most seemed to have studied aerospace engineering. At this rate, I think I am on track to make it about 10% of the way there by the time I retire (unless supersonic travel come
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Thank you! That flight was the return from Tokyo (RJTT) to London (EGLL). Due to the closure of Russian airspace, the outbound flight is longer than pre-war as we fly over Turkish airspace. Due to the wind patterns, it is almost always long
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by jamesharding 1y ago
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 corresp
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by jamesharding 1y ago
It is indeed! And using https://globe.gl/ for the 3D globes.
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Thank you! This was all by hand using Astro, but I have steated experimenting with using AI coding for my newest project ( https://liberateloyalty.com/ ). I have just been using ChatGPT and Copilot so far, and I am totally so
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by jamesharding 1y ago
The 14 hour days certainly felt long! 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
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by jamesharding 1y ago
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?)
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by jamesharding 1y ago
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 Reh
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by jamesharding 1y ago
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
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Those are all of my flights in light aircraft around my hometown in Canada! They fly a little bit slower than the A350 :) There is a similar cluster around the south of Spain where I completed my Commercial/ATPL training.
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Thank you :) I haven't had issue with my ears (other than the occasional lingering cold), but usually a good yawn or chewing gum will clear it. On a normal day, I am fortunate to have wide eustacian tubes I guess!
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by jamesharding 1y ago
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
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Good idea! Not sure exactly how to do this with globe.gl but I will look into it.
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Great question! It is not an anomaly, it is very geographically specific. Due the the Ukraine war (and my home base being in the UK), we have to fly the long way around to get to far-east destinations like Tokyo and Hong Kong. Flying outbou
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by jamesharding 1y ago
Each country has slightly different requirements! For the US, here is the FAA rule for it: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D... A lot of people still use paper (and fill it in after
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Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights(jameshard.ing)
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by jamesharding 2y ago
Gaining access to the normally-locked flight deck jump seat seems like a pretty big potential flight safety threat to me.
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by jamesharding 3y ago
"Line up and wait" is indeed correct! https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
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by jamesharding 6y ago
What an enjoyable read. I am just going through the process of a house purchase in the UK now (in rural Berkshire), and the presence of "Newt Control Officers" in any council planning permission documents did make me laugh, so thi

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