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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. Here are URL's to the streaming audio. My call is on the second clip... Posted Jan 22 2005, 05:57 PM by ChuckOp with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Aviation

• 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... Posted Aug 18 2004, 08:27 AM by ChuckOp with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Aviation, Recreation

• 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... Posted Jul 16 2004, 12:21 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Aviation, Recreation, Rants, Politics

• 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... Posted Mar 22 2004, 06:03 PM by ChuckOp with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Aviation, Rants

• 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... Posted Mar 12 2004, 05:57 PM by ChuckOp with | with no comments Filed under: Aviation, Personal, Directory Services