Posted by jamesharding 6/27/2025
Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history.
This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all
If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
When there's missiles in the air heading to land on innocent babies, the airlines choose waypoints so that they don't fly over these areas.
While not exact prohibited airspace, this map shows where GPS jamming is highest, which roughly corresponds to the warzones: https://gpsjam.org/
Make an App out of it, sell it to your colleagues? why not?
What's your favorite thing to see up in the sky and in the clouds?
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 me :) SpaceX launches are becoming more regular occurrences too!
All you need to do is throw in some Rust and a custom PCB or two and you have an HN bingo. :)
Sweet hack.