Click Here To Help Improving This Blog !When I started this blog ancestor more than one year ago, I did not expected it to grow that big, nor to build a community of readers that frequently comment and take part to the discussion. I find it really cool, and I look forward to continue it. The time has come for a technical […]
Do you remember my 1st of April post ? The one about how research on fish skin could help reduce drag by 13%. Just in case you did not understood it, it was my personal April’s fool. Or my April’s vision shall I say.
This blog is not become esoteric, but when I saw today on […]
Exactly one year ago, I was in Cannes, working on my G1000 familiarization and preparing for my instrument rating renewal. In the evening, I connected my laptop to the hotel’s WiFi network, and posted my very first post on a blog which is the ancestor of this one. The good old plasticflying.blogspot.com (now a piece […]
If you don’t already know, I decided to change job and because of this, I became a low time pilot, and saved my IFR rating for one year.
The big leap is now behind me: this post is the first one I wrote from our new home in the Frankfurt area - using a temporary UMTS […]
A fellow reader kindly sent me a notice earlier today about a flaw leading to a “403 Access Forbidden” error message. It took me a couple of hours to correct it, and in the process the post about cockpit ergonomy and glass cockpits has be re-published a few times and the whole site behaved hectically.
I’m […]
The FAA issued on 28th of February 2008 its final rule about plastic pilot certificates. If you found my blog searching for “plastic pilot certificate”, you’re welcome, even if I’ve not a lot to say about it, but look at the links at the end. As a pilot, there are chances you’ll find something interesting […]
I know the loading of the new Photo Galleries was not exactly at lightspeed. Thanks to a better system, the thumbnails are now displayed as quickly as possible, making browsing the galleries much better than before. I hope you will enjoy the new speed.
As you certainly noticed, I also added a line of random pictures […]
My new Photo Galleries are open ! I uploaded not less than 253 of my best flying pictures ! Mountains, landside, sea shore, and instruments panels are amongst the first series.
It took a lot of time to sort them and select the best, as I have more than 4′000 pictures, and many are similar and […]
If you’re a fan of social networking / social bookmarking (digg, StumbleUpon, reddit, technorati and the like), be happy ! I just put ShareThis in operation, so each post will now include the well know green logo !
This sounds like chinese to you ? Don’t worry. The only change you will see is a green […]
I just finished some works on the blog that should make it even more enjoyable for you and me. At first I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2, making use of tags possible. All previous posts are not tagged yet, this will be done within the next few days.
A new set of categories has been defined:
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