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This post won’t interest anybody other than a select few individuals that post technical articles to a few aviation blogs I’m involved with. However, the code is very generic and can easily be modified to suit your own specific needs. The purpose of the shortcode is to emulate indications one would expect to see in [...]
Some time back I 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). I was later inundated with requests from people that wanted accounts set up for their own local airports. It was a little time-prohibitive to set [...]
As a pilot by trade, and as somebody that builds a lot of aviation based applications, it was handy coming across a function that calculates the distance between two points based on longitude and latitude. I’ve just used ‘elements’ of this PHP code in an Android based application I’m working on. The function, originally published [...]
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. Since I’ve published a ton of shortcode lately, I’ve had two people email me and ask how a Metar report could be posted into a WordPress post or page. Once again, easily accomplished! If you have [...]
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 [...]
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 (In-Flight Entertainment) systems as the entertainment platform of choice for cabin consumers. To me, it’s like suggesting iPods will put an end to in-car [...]
I’ve just uploaded another website to CessnaConquest.net. It’s a web based ground reference for pilots of the Cessna 441 Conquest. The generic engineering and systems website is designed to assist pilots undertaking Conquest type ratings/endorsements; or it can be used as a systems refresher for those pilots that fly it. The Conquest is a brilliant [...]
If you’re wondering why we haven’t posted anything here lately, it’s because we were busy setting up another blog at flight.org that we ‘launched’ on the 15th of this month. We’ve had a few emails querying the infrequent posts – and for this we apologise. We’re back on track now and should be back to [...]
What is Crew Resource Management? CRM deals with the cognitive and interpersonal skills that are required to manage a flight within an organised and broad aviation system. In this context, cognitive skills are defined as the mental processes used for gaining and maintaining situational awareness, for solving problems and for making decisions. Interpersonal skills are [...]
I have a bunch of aviation sites, many that require weather information. I like to include raw and unformatted TAF and METAR information on a number of locations. This weather information is presented as a string of text that can be quickly deciphered by pilots. This is a small snippet of code that will retrieve [...]
Marty has been involved with online application development for a number of years and has worked with large scale applications both as a coder and project manager. He is currently actively contributing to 7 blogs and maintains over 300 websites. 
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