I Wrote to a Dead Address in a Deleted PDF and now ...
summary
Project predicts turbulence for specific flights using NOAA grib forecasts pulled from an anonymous FTP, a FlightAware screen-scraper to turn flight numbers into nav fixes, X‑Plane data to fill gaps, and eventual direct access to FAA positional and flight‑plan feeds after emailing the address found in a deleted PDF. The result is BumpySkies, a live service that estimates when and how bad turbulence will be; the surprising part is how readily precise flight data becomes available once the right channel is asked.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Freelance isolation dangers
- 1:04Flight data in unexpected places
- 3:13Asking experts beyond search
- 4:59Open-source tools for data work
- 6:45Online struggles and shared help
- 8:10Contacting FAA resources
- 9:17Launching Bumpy Skies
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