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This post was originally posted to one of my tech blogs with an intended audience of no more than just a few people. Despite its relative obscurity to the aviation world, I’ve received quite a few emails asking for support (who would have thought there would be a market for this stuff?). I’ve reposted the [...]
For the first time ever, nationwide flight tracking, airport delays and status updates, real-time maps, and flight alerts are available for private and commercial flights throughout Australia. As of 8am this morning, the FlightAware aircraft tracking services will be available for Australian general aviation and commercial flights. FlightAware are the first (public) tracking service to [...]
Some time back we set up a number of Twitter accounts that would automate the hourly posting of aviation metars for a small number of airports (examples: @YSSYmetar & @KLAXmetar). We were later inundated with requests from people that wanted us to set up accounts for their own local airports. It was a little time-prohibitive [...]
A few weeks ago I posted some code that would retrieve an aviation metar from the NOAA website and display it within your WordPress blog post or page. As expected, it was followed with a few emails asking how we could output a TAF (or Terminal Aerodrome Forecast) instead. Using the same recycled code, it’s [...]
I published some PHP code about 12 months ago that would output a raw aviation metar onto your website. This code is a variation on a theme and will post a Metar directly into a WordPress post or page with the use of shortcode. It’s simple. I’ve just started to update a blog that I [...]
Today I am at Day One of the Airline & Aerospace MRO & Operations IT Conference, looking primarily at EFB and EFB enabled systems. As I sort through the assault of information that comes at you at these events, I’ll be musing here on Flight.Org on what I’m learning. Whether seeking the heftily priced Class Three [...]
My airline is currently looking at various options for an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). Originally meant to come with our spanking new 777-300ER’s, they didn’t – for a variety of timing, manufacturing and political reasons. Thus we have an exceedingly handy clip/chart holder and a neat little cupboard where a hundred thousand dollar EFB should [...]
The FAA freely releases all their questions and answers for most levels of examinations making them a useful tool for organisations engaged in flight training. The data, however, is often difficult to implement into other online applications because it’s generally disseminated as a text file or PDF. We’ve parsed the data into a MySQL database [...]
While interviewing a Jetstar Social Media employee last week, they let it slip that the airline would be launching iPads as an IFE alternative with avionics supplier BlueBox. We talked about it only briefly before I was sworn to secrecy. The conversation did, however, inspire my last post. Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Australia’s low cost [...]
I’ve refrained from the iPad IFE debate for as long as I can. The question many people are asking at the moment is whether the iPad will replace existing integrated IFE systems as the entertainment platform of choice for cabin consumers. To me, it’s like suggesting iPods will put an end to in-car stereo systems. [...]
You would probably have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination [...]
This will be my last IT blog for a while … I’m going to return to Aviation shortly where I have a history of at least a modicum of success …
I have a confession to make. For some time now I’ve been indulging in an illicit, subversive, un-seemly behaviour – very much out of keeping with my persona and belief system as an IT hip type person (did I just use the word hip? Sorry, must be stress/guilt). I’ve been doing this despite having a [...]
At some point over the last few years, I have apparently encountered Perses, the ancient Greek God of destruction and have inherited his curse. Actually this is an imperfect syllogism, because while some of the things I touch these days certainly do turn to crap – they’re all basically computers. Unfortunately the Greeks seemed not [...]
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