Contents tagged with Aviation
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My only in-flight emergency
The other day my friends Bob and the crew on the Bob Rivers Show (KZOK mornings, 6-10am) were chatting about their worst flying experiences. I decided to call in with my own as a pilot.
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Convert Latitude and Longitude
As a pilot, I frequently need to convert latitude and longitude coordinates from one system to another. The aircraft GPS accepts coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds form. However, various pieces of software I get decimal degress such as 47.48781 North and 122.17476 West.
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Chicago Parks, Meigs Field and Mayor Daley
I was fairly outraged when I read USA Today's fawning article on Chicago Mayor Daley and his efforts in creating park space in the city. Normally park space is a good thing, but his midnight, quasi-illegal destruction of the historic Meigs Field airport last year was an outrage. Here's a letter to the editor I sent to USA Today:
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Sick of inconsistant security standards
Arrrgh! It’s week 8 here in San Jose. Flying out this morning from SeaTac, I was asked to remove my sneakers. Only about half the time at SeaTac am I asked to do this. Never am I asked at SJC. When I mentioned that I didn’t have to do it last week, the lady said “Oh, it’s required. We always ask.” As if I’d slap my forehead and say “Oh of course, I’d forgotten I was humiliated in a degrading manner last time I was here, silly me.” Oh, on each trip, I wear the same Nike white tennis sneakers.
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Gil Kirkpatrick of NetPro
Had a nice lunch today with Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO of NetPro. He's the brains behind a number of products that help enterprises manage Active Directory and other directory services. They've just released ChangeAuditor that tracks changes to Active Directory and a variety of other network configuration parameters. Pretty neat stuff.