Latest revision as of 10:31, 3 May 2025

Flying

At the end of 2021 I started flying real airplanes, not only simulated ones.

While trying to learn, how to fly gliders in a club, I realized, that this is not my cup of tea and I switched to flying something, where an unpowered landing is considered an emergency.

I managed to obtain my sports pilot license end of April 2025.

"Trust me, I'm a Luftsportgeräteführer"

Links

Open Source Tools

There are a couple of useful tools for gliding and flying in general.

Skylines -flight tracking and visualization

XCSoar -flight computer, also very good at recording flight tracks

Add Times -a little app to compute flight hours from paper-based flight log entries

IGC2KMZ -a converter in case you want to view your flight-track in Google Earth.

Enroute Flight Navigation -moving map and navigation software

Prosoar -flight planner, mainly for gliding

Stratux -Linux based ADS-B receiver

OpenAIP -flight navigation maps worldwide under a CC license.

All of them are Open Source, either web based, work cross-platform, or have at least a Linux version available.

Commercial Tools

SkyDemon -seemingly the most prominent flight planning and moving map tool. Costs money.

DFS AIP -German Aeronautical Information Publication. Basic information is free to use.

Flying

Flugschule Otto Funk -where they taught me to fly microlight planes

@DeltaMikeHeavy -Youtubing from inside a FK9

CFWU -a podcast (in German) about commercial aviation

omega tau podcast -a podcast (English and German) with an aviation-related track

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 At the end of 2021 I started flying real airplanes, not only [[Linux#Gaming|simulated ones]].
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 While trying to learn, how to fly gliders in a club, I realized, that this is not my cup of tea and I switched to flying something, where an unpowered landing is considered an emergency.
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 I managed to obtain my [https://ottofunk.de/ sports pilot license] end of April 2025.
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 == Links ==
+=== Open Source Tools ===
 There are a couple of useful tools for gliding and flying in general.
-[https://skylines.aero/ Skylines]
+[https://skylines.aero/ Skylines] -flight tracking and visualization
+[https://www.xcsoar.org/ XCSoar] -flight computer, also very good at recording flight tracks
+[https://akaflieg-freiburg.github.io/addhoursandminutes/ Add Times] -a little app to compute flight hours from paper-based flight log entries
+[https://spasutto.github.io/igc2kmz/ IGC2KMZ] -a converter in case you want to view your flight-track in Google Earth.
+[https://akaflieg-freiburg.github.io/enroute/ Enroute Flight Navigation] -moving map and navigation software
+[http://www.prosoar.de/ Prosoar] -flight planner, mainly for gliding
+[https://stratux.me/ Stratux] -Linux based ADS-B receiver
+[https://www.openaip.net/ OpenAIP] -flight navigation maps worldwide under a CC license.
+All of them are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source Open Source], either web based, work cross-platform, or have at least a [[Linux|Linux]] version available.
+=== Commercial Tools ===
+[https://www.skydemon.aero/ SkyDemon] -seemingly the most prominent flight planning and moving map tool. Costs money.
-[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.luethi.skylinestracker Skylines Tracker for Android]
+[https://aip.dfs.de/basicVFR DFS AIP] -German [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical_Information_Publication Aeronautical Information Publication]. Basic information is free to use.
-[https://akaflieg-freiburg.github.io/enroute/ Enroute Flight Navigation]
+=== Flying ===
-[https://www.xcsoar.org/ XCSoar]
+[https://ottofunk.de/ Flugschule Otto Funk] -where they taught me to fly microlight planes
-[http://www.prosoar.de/ Prosoar]
+[https://www.youtube.com/@DeltaMikeHeavy @DeltaMikeHeavy] -Youtubing from inside a FK9
-[https://spasutto.github.io/igc2kmz/ IGC2KMZ]
+[https://www.comeflywithus.de CFWU] -a podcast (in German) about commercial aviation
-All of them are web based, work cross-platform, or have at least a [[Linux|Linux]] version available.
+[https://omegataupodcast.net/ omega tau podcast] -a podcast (English and German) with an aviation-related track