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Damn! Those floats sure do drag! by Kyler Laird
We watched the movie "Trapped" recently. The good guy had a floatplane (C182?). I thought that was cool. Then he had to take a phone call while flying. He pulled the engine so that the bad guy wouldn't know he was in a plane, but he had to shove it into a 1,000-3,000 fpm dive! He did it twice...
August 28th 03 03:37 PM
by Andrew Crane Go to last post
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Where would you most like to crash? by Kyler Laird
I've thought about the possibilities of using GPS and air data along with a well-stocked GIS to advise a pilot of the better places to ditch. Using aircraft performance, wind, and terrain elevation data, it would be fairly easy to determine the areas that could be reached if power was lost. The...
March 17th 04 04:03 AM
by Matthew F G Go to last post
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CSI: "class four rating"?! by Kyler Laird
In a CSI Miami episode that I recorded awhile ago, a pilot crashes onto a beach. The NTSB inspector (who appears to be a complete idiot compared to the profound star of the show), says "long flight over the ocean; the pilot probably had a class four rating". Does that have any basis in reality? ...
May 23rd 04 06:32 PM
by Ben Jackson Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: recent FAA sectional scans by Kyler Laird
When I got my first DVD of sectional images from the FAA I was thrilled by the quality of the scans. I did, however, notice that the sectionals had wide-ranges of colors to denote similar elevations. This was especially noticeable out west where the sectionals meet. Lately I've noticed that some...
June 17th 04 04:10 AM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: plot GPS log by Kyler Laird
I needed a break this morning so I whipped up a trivial little script to create a sectional image from GPS data. https://aviationtoolbox.org/Members/kyler/tools/trip_plot It just barely works but it takes NMEA $GPRMC sentences and generates a JPEG. I noticed that there are people who like to...
July 11th 04 03:10 AM
by John Clonts Go to last post
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funny(?) GPS NOTAM by Kyler Laird
Getting ready for some flights today I noticed this. Kansas City Center (Olathe KS) : August NOTAM #19 issued by Gps Notam OA GPS unreliable within a 350 nautical miles radius of TRUTH or CONSEQUENCES VORTAC (TCS) at FL400, decreasing in area with decrease with altitude to 300 nautical miles...
August 18th 04 03:08 PM
by Gene Seibel Go to last post
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general aviation search at Enterprise by Kyler Laird
As I was considering renting a car today I noticed that Enterprise has a section for general aviation. http://www.enterprise.com/GA "from your wings to our wheels" Last time I rented an Enterprise car it was from a place just down the road from N10. (They picked us up at the airport.) ...
October 7th 04 05:11 PM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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flying for a charity by Kyler Laird
I've tried to follow the "charitable airlift" discussions here over the years and it usually makes my head hurt. I was just contacted with a request to transport and I could really use some Usenet-level advice. (Yeah, I've got AOPA legal services but I get better info here.) There's a Rottweiler...
October 3rd 05 09:17 PM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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self-weighing luggage by Kyler Laird
This struck me as something that could make loading the plane a little easier. http://ricardobeverlyhills.com/scale.html Then I thought about it for another second. No, my fish scale is a whole lot more versatile. It's not like I'm going to find a self-weighing 5 gallon dogfood bag so I'll always...
April 11th 06 12:17 AM
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Bose makes good on my wife's headset. by Kyler Laird
I've described the problems we've had with my wife's cherished Bose X headset since having it...
March 10th 04 03:08 PM
by Tom Sixkiller Go to last post
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mysterious helipad location (Dallas, TX) by Kyler Laird
Anyone want to take a stab at explaining where the Parkland Health and Hospital System Heliport is? Here's the entry for Parkland's heliport, TE43. http://www.airnav.com/airport/TE43 The location...
February 20th 04 04:57 PM
by R.Hubbell Go to last post
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I'm buying your sectionals for a year. by Kyler Laird
Not long ago, in rec.aviation.student, http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=4b862b852fe3a472&seekm=e1449182.0310211155.6488628%40posting.google.com&frame=off I learned that the FAA is now selling scanned sectional chart...
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November 20th 03 06:23 AM
by Matthew F. G. Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: How do you like your maps stitched? by Kyler Laird
Recently I've been working a lot on manipulating the FAA sectionals I purchased. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/ I've been amazed by the hundreds of people who have downloaded this data. There's apparently some interest in it so I'd like to solicit input on some of the projects...
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December 10th 03 05:10 AM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: ConUS sectionals in under 2GB by Kyler Laird
I converted all of the sectional map chunks http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/mosaic from 24-bit to 8-bit (palette) color. Putting them all into a single zip file, they compressed to 1.9GB (2013432788 bytes). http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/chunked.zip (To get a single uncompressed 8-bit color...
December 5th 03 01:20 PM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: Christmas sectionals are here and rsync-able. by Kyler Laird
Somehow the FAA forgot to send me the last batch of sectional DVDs and by the time I finally called about it they didn't have any remaining. I was told to wait for the next batch. It's here. This batch doesn't become effective until December 25, 2003, but because the previous batch has expired,...
January 1st 04 06:11 AM
by Matthew G Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: alpha version of route mapping tool by Kyler Laird
I took a little bit of a break after creating the tools to generate normalized "chunks" from sectional images. http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/mosaic Over the holidays I got back into it and tackled doing something useful with those chunks. I already revealed my map_image tool which generates an...
January 1st 04 10:21 PM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: GeoTIFF chunks of conUS in several scales by Kyler Laird
I now have GeoTIFFs of FAA sectional maps available in several...
January 4th 04 06:12 PM
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: new sectionals by Kyler Laird
I just got the new sectionals (effective now) uploaded. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/current/ I suggest using rsync to get them. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/notes.txt I'm masking/warping/chunking them now. I'll move the new chunks into place (so that...
January 25th 04 07:50 AM
by Matthew G Go to last post
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AVIATIONTOOLBOX: parsing FAA ATA-100 data by Kyler Laird
I just uploaded the February 19, 2004 ATA-100 data. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/ATA-100/20040219.zip I've been asked several times (and twice this week) how I decode this data for the delimited views http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/ATA-100/ so I decided to take a pass at rewriting the...
January 31st 04 07:12 AM
by Kyler Laird Go to last post
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FAA discovers the Internet by Kyler Laird
"Aeronautical Information Services is in the process of testing a web-based electronic data distribution system for the 56-day subscriber files. This system will be replacing the current method of sending subscribers a CD-ROM by FEDEX. The advantages of the new distribution system are the data...
September 11th 06 08:31 PM
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