Rent-a-Pilot Aeronautics

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  • This site moves to Gutenberg from Divi

    30 April 2022
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    I’m renovating Long story short: The site is under construction and I’m not sure what works and what doesn’t. Exit Divi This site was originally built with the Divi page builder.Divi is great. It allows you to build a fully customised site with your own design for headers, footers, page columns, sidebars and whatever else […]

  • Divi-be-gone: Removing the shortcodes after switching to Gutenberg

    25 April 2022

    After disabling Divi there are leftover shortcodes everywhere. It is a lot like the time when I decided to get rid of Avada.I can remove these manually but want to try if there is a script or free plugin that works. A code snippet I found a snippet on this page that looks like it […]

  • Hilversum Airport [EHHV] moving maps for traffic patterns and noise abatement

    8 December 2021

    It is possible to have the circuits and the noise abatement procedures for EHHV Hilverum Airport on your Android device for free. The catch is that these maps are not the official airport charts and as such not approved for navigation. But they do help a lot to improve your situational awareness.

  • GNAV ATPL – Calculating tracks and distances between two random points: Introduction

    26 November 2021
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    Two random points. Really? Well let me just spoiler it for you straight away: They may look like they where randomly selected, but the truth is that they have been carefully selected to avoid the following: Formulas: Wikipedia The two formulas that you see here allow you to calculate tracks and distances between any two […]

  • The new version of the E6B Flight Computer Teacher is here for iOS

    3 January 2021

    The long overdue version for iOS14 is now live on the app store, created in native SwiftUI code for iPhone and iPad.

  • Counting Stuff in Grafana – How to use Node-Red to make the “Group by TAG” useful in Influxdb

    4 December 2020

    This allows you to display occurrences of combined data in Grafana. A vital step for counting the aircraft types in the mode-S project.

  • Amsterdam Area Real-Time Aircraft Stats from Mode-S Transponders

    13 October 2020

    This is an exercise in Grafana, Influxdb, Node-red, JSON and RTL-SDR. Live aircraft stats updated every minute from my mode-S receiver.

  • Freelance Corona Classrooms in Aviation – Now what?

    14 September 2020

    WTF? → Ok let’s do this

  • ADS-B retrofit manadate for Europe postponed to 2023

    30 April 2020

    Not enough aircraft will be ready for ADSB at the original deadline.

  • So you are a pilot?

    11 September 2019

    Well it’s not exactly brain surgery, is it…

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