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Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun

I got called "bruh" by a five-year-old today.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com

I was told by my daughter today that no one over 40 can say "nonchalant", which apparently is slang. This got us into a conversation about what "chalant" means, and we learned there is no definition in English. It's an unpaired word like misnomer.

Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun

Sep 13, 07:07 PM

That’s just the new aesthetic Dave.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (2024) by Asobo Studio

Played for 37 minutes

Dave Snider @davesnider.com

Sep 13, 03:35 AM

Had my first emergency on a MSFS flight from Detroit to Cleveland. Over Lake Erie I ran into power loss while in the clouds. I ran through my checklist, but turned on "cabin heat" rather than "carb heat" (i figured it out). Pretty cool that I can feed raw data into Claude to get a report.

Dave Snider @davesnider.com

Sep 13, 03:35 AM

The fun part of that chart is you can see the moment when I was like... "oh no, I need to find a place to land", realized I wouldn't make it, then re-ran through my checklist. Engine kicked back in around 200 ft above the water! Learned a lot on this one.

GROSSE ILE MUN to BURKE LAKEFRONT

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Aircraft A2A Piper PA-24-250 Comanche

Route KONZ → KBKL

Duration 52m

Distance 94 nm

Max altitude 7,419 ft

Fuel burned 10.5 gal

Avg burn 11.8 gph book 12.5

Economy 9.2 nm/gal book 12.0

Reserve at landing 21.9 gal ≈ 1h 51m

Wind 4 kt tailwind saved 1m

Conditions IMC 6m 11% of flight · 18°C

Max G 1.65G

Landing ★★★★★ -50 fpm

↗ Climb 3.6 gal 12m · 17.5 gph → Cruise 5.3 gal 27m · 11.8 gph ↘ Descent 1.4 gal 13m · 6.4 gph

2,206

RPM

97

IAS

21.9

GAL

DCT CYPT DCT 413022N0814159W DCT 412945N0814107W DCT

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (2024) by Asobo Studio

Played for 4 hours, and 17 minutes

snide/davesnider.com Commit abfdd6e - add sparkline to flight selector

BILLY BISHOP TORONTO CITY to GROSSE ILE MUN

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Aircraft A2A Piper PA-24-250 Comanche

Route CYTZ → KONZ

Duration 2h 9m

Distance 204 nm

Max altitude 8,027 ft

Fuel burned 15.4 gal

Avg burn 7 gph book 12.5

Economy 13.5 nm/gal book 12.0

Reserve at landing 32.4 gal ≈ 4h 38m

Wind 6 kt headwind cost 9m

Conditions IMC 14m 11% of flight · 8°C

Max G 2.38G

Landing ★★★★★ -90 fpm

↗ Climb 2.4 gal 7m · 20.2 gph → Cruise 11.9 gal 1h 53m · 6.3 gph ↘ Descent 0.7 gal 9m · 4.6 gph

1,668

RPM

85

IAS

32.4

GAL

PERLO4 DERLO DCT PICUP DCT 422022N0830255W DCT

snide/davesnider.com Merged PR #59 - DB self-healing

snide/davesnider.com Opened PR #59 - DB self-healing

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This adds Table Slayer's self-healing mechanisms for the Turso sync layer. It also adds health check routes.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (2024) by Asobo Studio

Played for 2 hours, and 8 minutes

ITHACA TOMPKINS INTL to BILLY BISHOP TORONTO CITY

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Route KITH → CYTZ

Duration 2h 6m

Distance 202 nm

Max altitude 6,695 ft

Fuel burned 18 gal

Avg burn 8.4 gph

Economy 11.5 nm/gal

Reserve at landing 47.8 gal ≈ 5h 41m

Wind 11 kt headwind cost 13m

Conditions IMC 24m 19% of flight · 11°C

Max G 1.52G

Landing ★★★★★ -242 fpm

↗ Climb 3.3 gal 15m · 12.9 gph → Cruise 12.4 gal 1h 36m · 7.8 gph ↘ Descent 1.8 gal 15m · 7.3 gph

2,259

RPM

96

IAS

47.8

GAL

DCT WOZEE DCT 430443N0790433W DCT 433829N0792321W DCT 434027N0792418W DCT

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (2024) by Asobo Studio

Played for 5 hours, and 53 minutes

Dave Snider @davesnider.com

Sep 10, 08:59 PM

I now have a robust playback system that includes wind-speed and fuel economy. I made horrible time on my flight to Ithaca and wanted to know why. Turns out I was in 20 kts of headwind the whole flight! Also added some climb, cruise and descend metrics. Next up will be measuring bouncy landings.

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snide/davesnider.com Commit b85a457 - fix zoom bounds issue in flight recorder

snide/davesnider.com Commit 087b845 - fix tooltip coloring

snide/davesnider.com Commit 8eb63fb - better tooltips and photo view

snide/davesnider.com Commit 09c21a3 - Fuel economy stats

BEVERLY REGL to ITHACA TOMPKINS INTL

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Aircraft A2A Piper PA-24-250 Comanche

Route KBVY → KITH

Duration 3h 24m

Distance 275 nm

Max altitude 8,965 ft

Fuel burned 39.3 gal

Avg burn 11.4 gph book 12.5

Economy 7.1 nm/gal book 12.0

Reserve at landing 18.9 gal ≈ 1h 39m

Wind 26 kt headwind

Conditions IMC 1m 1% of flight

Max G 1.42G

Landing ★★★★★ -95 fpm

↗ Climb 4.3 gal 15m · 16.8 gph → Cruise 33 gal 2h 59m · 11.1 gph ↘ Descent 1.8 gal 11m · 9.9 gph

2,350

RPM

92

IAS

18.9

GAL

DCT GLYDE DCT CTR V270 CFB DCT

Siege-Perilous/tableslayer Merged PR #484 - Add websocket hibernation, analytics for usage

Siege-Perilous/tableslayer Opened PR #484 - Add websocket hibernation, analytics for usage

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Open tabs, when unused keep the websocket connection up, which costs money. This adds a generous 30 minute timeout on the playfield that will hibernate the connection if it's not in use. Simple edits or mouse movements wake it back up.

This PR also adds some admin analytics to monitor open and ideal sessions.

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