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Flig.ht Data API

One of my side projects has lead to the creation of a new aviation and geo data API. The RESTful interface isn’t public quite yet, but there are some examples which are running on live data.

Head over to Flig.ht Data and check it out!

(Aero)Weather powerpoint posted

For those of you who attended my aviation weather class and asked for the PowerPoint, I’ve posted it.

In addition, there’s now a forum where groundschool students can ask questions and one of the instructors (mostly me) will do our best to answer. Anyone can read the forum, and you can sign up for a free account to post questions.

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Saturday in Monterey

This post lags the trip by some weeks. I was waiting to post pictures and then I completely forgot about it.

Among my favorite destinations in Northern California is Monterey Bay. The beautiful crescent along the California coast is unusual in that it contains the Monterey Canyon, among the largest underseas trenches in the world. Perhaps more interestingly, from a pilots perspective, Monterey is home to the spectacular Monterey Bay Aquarium, at the end of Cannery Row (of John Steinbeck fame). One recent California winter Saturday I loaded up a Piper PA28-201R (Piper “Arrow”), N3060M (“60M”, pronounced “six-zero-mike”) and took a trip down to lovely Monterey.
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µAudio 0.3 Released

Well, if you were lucky, you missed the entire disaster that was the µAudio 0.2 releases. If not, sorry!

A new, improved and very throughly tested 0.3 branch is out. Check out my µAudio page, or head over to µAudio at wordpress.org for a copy of your very own.

Thanks to WordPress.org user jonner for pointing out a couple of bugs.