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Aerospace design leader and pilot with over a decade of experience building products and teams that solve complex aerospace problems through user centered design. My work flies all day everyday on 80% of GA aircraft in the US, a majority of US Department of Defense aircraft, and 75% of airlines globally.

Location: Chicago

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: UI/UX, Human Factors

Résumé/CV: www.ryanmcbride.org

Email: ryan@ryanmcbride.org

The homebuilder cockpit community is an exciting and welcoming place for both newcomers and experienced builders.

The Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 are by far the most popular projects, but homebuilders have built hundreds of different flight decks of varying levels of complexity and realism.

One of my favorite groups is SimFest (http://www.simfest.co.uk/). They fly a 747 (homebuilt sim) around the world, stream it live, and raise money for charity.

For anyone interested in learning more, a few resources:

ProSim Aviation Research (https://prosim-ar.com/) - cockpit avionics software. Powers flight models and avionics screens for most 737 and A320 projects. Established, respected, and popular in the community.

FlightDeck Solutions (http://flightdecksolutions.com/) - Flight deck hardware. Both individual components and turn key solutions for 737/777/787/A320

Vier Im Pott (https://www.vier-im-pott.com/index.php/en/) - Flight deck hardware, A320 focused.

There are numerous other hardware manufacturers and software developers. A few good communities to check out if you're interested in learning more:

http://www.cockpitbuilders.com/ https://www.avsim.com/forums/forum/110-home-cockpit-builders...

Boeing certainly tests in public airspace, but only as part of a standardized certification process overseen by the US government - a process and set of regulations that are written in blood.

Uber abides by no such testing standardization.

Can you elaborate? Our customers tell us it's one of the best things we offer.

A flight plan and a procedure are very different things. Every commercial flight in America has a hard copy of their flight plan in the cockpit.

Thanks for the mention, elmin. Can confirm ForeFlight is not involved.

This is not true. In fact, we've built our entire business on the fact that pilots can use iPads while flying. www.foreflight.com

Eh, yes and no. The FAA requires operators to get approval for iPad EFBs individually, and does not require GA pilots to do any such thing. "Certified," however, has a special meaning in aviation. iPads are not certified hardware, period. Pilots must still use their aircraft avionics (which are certified) as their primary means of navigation. iPads can be supplemental only, for both general aviation and commercial operations.

The flight plan is programmed into the airplane's avionics, as well as on a printed hard copy in the cockpit. The app is supplemental. It can not be used as a primary navigation reference, per FAA regulations.

American Airlines does not use ForeFlight, though we are used by a variety of other large operators.

I've also been using the Dopp Regatta, exclusively for about 6 years now, and I love it. Super simple, extremely functional. It's the closest to perfect I've found.

I'd be interested in sources for these claims. Lots of hyperbole in this comment.

I'm curious what you mean by "so useful."

They are planning the transition right now. 2018 is the goal for phase-out.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/faa-wants-all-air...

As a "joyriding dipshit," I can assure you we're not spraying you with lead. General Aviation is moving away from leaded fuel in general. In fact, Shell recently announced an unleaded alternative to AvGas that can be used in a normal engine without issue. No new equipment required.

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2013/December/3/...

As a former Groupon employee in Palo Alto (they acquired my startup this past year) I can tell you working from home is most definitely not "fine."

My startup was based in San Francisco. Even though Groupon has an office in the city, they mandated my entire team be in the Palo Alto office from day one.

The rest of the things you mention are spot on. Besides the commute issue I had no complaints.

8 individuals - 4 men, 4 women - from an applicant pool of 6,100. All in their 30s. What an accomplishment for them all.

I learned a while back that even if I'm going to use the exact code snippet I found on StackOverflow character for character, it's best to type it myself into my editor.

Copy and paste is faster, but manually typing it in forces me to really evaluate what exactly the snippet is doing.

Not really a legitimate comparison. Pegasus is Orbital Science's unmanned cargo vehicle. Virgin Galactic is building a space tourism company. Very different.

you'd be surprised.

"Don't they get weather data from somewhere?"

Yes, most (if not all) modern airliners have a radar dish in the nose of the aircraft. If you wanted to mess with this, you'd have to spoof radar echoes. Not something you can do from an android phone for sure.

"And does the autopilot not take weather into account?"

No, not in the slightest. Pilots adjust autopilot settings to account for weather. It is not automatic.

GitHub Jobs is a great resource, as well.

http://jobs.github.com/

Database.com is so ugly and unprofessional looking I at first thought it was a spam site and actually had to double check the URL.

The glossary is useful for deciphering some of the obscure acronyms.

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/glossary/

By Dahl himself, actually.

http://github.com/ry/node_postgres

g.raphaeljs.com

Not sure why they used parentheses rather than a letter variable in the example. Having gone through the American education system myself, I can definitely tell you 4+3+2=x+2 is a much more common syntax.