“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 by [...]
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, [...]
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.
Combine this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Paraphrasing Tufte here: an information display is designed to display evidence in such a way that questions may be answered. A good information display, then, is one that does this as simply and effectively as possible.
Before the display is made, though, you have to know which questions need answering and what their priorities are. A [...]
If you want out, you should be able to get out clean. That’s my philosophy, anyway. I have accounts on quite a few web properties, like Del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter, BrightKite, Github, and on and on. At most sites like these, they make it as easy as pie to get signed up and get started.
Well, Flickr [...]
You can now export flights to Jetrecord CSV, LogTen Pro 4, Aloft Flight Log 4, Logshare, and ZuluLog. You can select a subset of flights using the date picker or you can export them all. It’s your choice.
This makes Jetrecord fully import/export capable. Your data isn’t locked in and you can import and export whenever [...]