Archive for July, 2008

Unplanned Downtime Post Mortem: Ruby!

“Maybe I could learn to be a truck driver. Mav, do you still have the number for that truck driving school we saw on TV? TruckMaster I think it is. I might need that.” Late Friday night (it’s always a Friday night with these things, isn’t it?) I decided to cap off a great week [...]

Emergency Maintenance Downtime

Update Sunday, 7/27, 2pm MST: Well, that was a long, painful ride through the system. The good news is we’re back up and all is well. There’s no bad news, thankfully, except for the downtime. I’ll have a detailed write up later today that will be posted on the blog if you’re interested. If not, [...]

Embed Route Maps in Your Own Web Site

Just in time for Oshkosh! I’m excited to announce that you can now embed route maps of your flights (or any route for that matter) into your own web site. Here, for example, is the route I would take if I was flying from Vance Brand in Longmont to Wittman Regional in Oshkosh for AirVenture. [...]

Interview with Cirrus Vision SJ50 Flight Test Engineer Ben Hager

Earlier this week I discovered someone had added N280CJ, the Cirrus Vision SJ50 test aircraft, the same one that flew its maiden flight on July 3, to Jetrecord. I quickly went through our list of users and discovered Ben “stscdr” Hager’s profile and web site in which he talks about recently joining the flight testing [...]

Generate Route Maps on the Fly

You can create a visualization of a route (using a combination of airports, navaids, and fixes) just by entering the URL in your web browser. Crazy, I know, but really useful if you just want a quick visualization of where you’re going that you can share with others. Obviously this could be useful to pilots [...]