Mateusz Pawłowski aka Joe Seeder puts his dirt on the web
I’ve found a nice website to use for testing IPv6 from where you are, as well as verifying IPv6 for your servers.
Very useful to double check if your server firewall rules don’t cut if off.
It’s http://ipv6-test.com/ , however I can’t see anywhere who is running that page.
For long I wanted to do a coast to coast in USA or around Europe flying my self and enjoy the aviation.
Since I’ve finished my PPL, another pilot Ivan Horsky and I were talking about doing the Euro Trip. It went through some highs ( like Ivan almost scored a sponsorship for the whole tour ) and lows ( long months no funds, no desire ).
It’s a go, and we are now in the middle of planning. We have a sketch of where we want to be, how long it’s going to take and we are organizing all required equipment. We also started to plan PAX which will fly with us!
All looks really good, and we are planing on recording and documenting the whole experience.
It’s going to be brilliant!
I’ve spent last Sunday travelling back to Bournemouth.
Met my former PPL instructor Dean who is now working with BFC and we went back in the good old G-SLYN for BFC checkout and a refresher for me, as I haven’t flown since January.
I really missed flying and it was a joy to do all these safety procedures again. No boring strait and level.
My competitive nature couldn’t resist the idea of trying my self in archery. Over last few weekends I’ve attended “Have a Go” and then after Xmas break “Weekend Intensive Archery Course” with 2020 Archery.
Last weekend I’ve fully joined the club and I’ve asked to also get the GNAS membership.
This is exciting, I am pretty much committed to that sport at the moment ( however still don’t own the bow ) and it does pay off, even after so little time spent with it.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
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So … it looks like I’m still working for BBC ( and this is my personal blog and opinions are mine not BBC ). Donno how log but hey, cuts will for sure affect me here.
Just a follow up on all things FlightComputer mobile App which I’ve developed with Qt.
Since last week I am battling Nokia Ovi QA team and publisher web interface. Their instructions for publishing for Maemo platform are vague and whenever I submitted my app they returned it with cosmetics:
Also in the news, I have tested early flightComputer application with Nokia 5230 touch screen Symbian s60 5th edition phone and it does work as you can see on attached picture.
What is interesting, is that numeric entry boxes are looking better than on N900, however dials look a bit old school.
I have requested to test it also on E71 , but didn’t hear anything.
I was trying to test it on more Nokia phones including the 5800 series and C6 but handsets were unusable. Same goes for the prototype of N8 which I had at hand, it was failing Qt installation without any reason.
However it looks , I will be trying to get this application also shipped with Nokia Ovi for Symbian , they have special category for Symbian Qt apps in the store, so, hopefully it will be available to all recent S60′s .
This is just a beginning…
It is a while since I came up with an idea that I should invest some of my time to develop apps for pilots.
Naturally, started developing some with me as primary consumer. That’s how very crude version of flightime appeared. It was KISS design, 2 buttons and it was logging my take off and landing times.
flightime on N900
It’s quicker to press a button during these procedures than to write down times.
It wasn’t released to the big work. I am working on more advanced version of it, will see how much it will take.
However today I was working on Flight Computer with decent UI and does what it says on the tin approach.
FlightComputer on N900
Application is almost complete , needs just a way to make it full screen and About dialogue. Then just packaging and off it goes.
It will go strait to Ovi Store and initially for Maemo platform, after that if I will be able to get my hands on some Symbian handsets, I will put it up for them as well.
On that note, I have registered my company with Nokia Ovi, and FlightComputer will be the first application to be distributed that way. I will hold celebrations until you will be able to get it.
On futures side, I have a few other pilot friendly apps in mind. If you have any desires contact me and we will see if I can accommodate them.
Anyway, time to get some sleep, now makes it about 16h strait in front of the screen.
Last weekend, a day after I have moved to a new place.
Decided to go shopping for stuff which I was missing at the new quarters. Like light bulbs , baskets and so on. On a way I to a shop I had a thought that maybe a label printer would be a good acquisition as well. Went to WHSmith and picked up one ( Dymo if you want to know ). On a way to cashier I thought, hold on, I have these high street vouchers which clog my wallet, lets get rid of them here. Passing Pens stand … hmm … fountain pens … how cheap … after deciding on price point / colour / model which took good few minutes , I walked away with Parker Jotter fountain pen.
I’m back from Europe where I had a chance to fly Diamond DA20 Katana.
Aircraft is LIGHT! comparing to PA28′s it’s crazy. Bubble canopy also works great and you can see plenty.
It was my first encounter with complex aircraft. It has Constant Speed Prop what means, no throttle but manifold pressure and prop control. A bit more work 
but easy to handle.
Trim! man this aircraft has such light controls comparing to PA28′s that I do not feel any pressure on the stick and trimming accurately becomes impossible!
Another thing is that this was my first time in German aircraft and yes, all labels and check lists are in .. German, bit weird especially that POH is in English ( what saves my butt a lot )
This was also my first flight outside UK. They speak German! I was only on Bautzen Info so not much experience with other ATC around, but it hurts. They default to German on everything, even when I’m PIC and speak English they talk back in German to my instructing passenger and he tells me what they said. This is sad. Hope they will get their act together when he is not there.
Flight was short, only .7h due to aircraft bookings , whole week was booked by one person and I don’t know how, but I managed to get up in the air between his slots for a short familiarization route around Spree and 3 circuits. Unfortunately this was not enough to get a sign-off on it, so will need to get back in the cockpit with Mr Buttner.
This weekend I’m off to AeroExpo UK, lets see what they have!
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