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Posted by jamesharding 6/27/2025

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights(jameshard.ing)
Hey HN!

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!

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BOOSTERHIDROGEN 6/28/2025||
This why I love everyone with compsci background.
schubart 6/27/2025||
Do all your flights start or end in London?
jamesharding 6/27/2025|
Almost all, but not quite all!

For example, about 6 months ago, I operated the following trip pattern:

LHR -> GIG -> EZE -> GIG -> LHR

The Rio to Buenos Aires and back "shuttle" flight was a day of flying on its own, with 24 hours rest afterwards before flying back to London.

a3w 6/27/2025||
Why are airline pilots considered cool, while bus drivers are essential infrastructure, but do basically the same job — getting people from A to B?
lostdog 6/27/2025|
Put me behind the wheel of a bus and I'm pretty sure I could get it somewhere safely.
crsv 6/27/2025||
This is just fun and fantastic. Love it.
qq66 6/27/2025||
What did you use to build the globes?
jamesharding 6/27/2025|
globe.gl and a little bit of Flask/Python to wrangle the data
uwagar 6/28/2025||
considering the recent uptick in fear of flying, this calms me!
jamesharding 6/28/2025|
So happy to hear that!
kunley 6/27/2025||
Very cool visualisation project!

As for your flying, I just wanted to tell you good luck, we're all counting on you

JustTim 6/28/2025||
That was fun
vdddv 6/27/2025|
A lot of data and none on his carbon footprint
Tepix 6/27/2025|
my thoughts as well
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