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Old 01-13-2012, 10:51 AM
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Default So, what is it???

Dave, computer game?

Something for a new Star Trek movie?

Looks like some weird distortion of a normal EFIS???
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Old 01-13-2012, 11:01 AM
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Mike,

Flight display called OZ. More info at www.ihmc.us/groups/oz//.

Here is the helo version on simulation.

The aircraft sim:



The panel:

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Old 01-13-2012, 01:50 PM
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wow, must be one of the fastest growing threads on vaf, ever!

i work as an Air Traffic Controller with a company called "skyguide", the ANSP (Air Navigation Service Provider) of Switzerland.

Got a "best of both worlds" job at Z?rich (LSZH or ZRH) Tower and Approach. Glad we never made the mistake of splitting into two units and fortunately management realizes that this wouldn't be such a good idea after all...

Ground working position in the TWR


Tower Cab (Top Floor)


Approach/Departure Radar "banana" in Duebendorf, about 10min from the airport.


Me, during a slow moment


rgds, bernie
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Old 01-13-2012, 03:09 PM
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I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400.

My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.

I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.

On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.

I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

Ok, none of this is true and I stole the text from the Internet. But geez you guys make me feel inadequate.

Erich
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Old 01-13-2012, 03:10 PM
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Default My 'day" job is my NIGHT job ...

Nothing to do with aviation, really impressed by the talent and variety here. Envious somewhat of the guys who fly for a living.

This seems boring compared to other people's jobs described here, but I'm an ICU / CCU / ED nurse (predominantly ICU). I work "agency" which means I work on a sub-contract basis in a variety of hospitals. I do nights by choice, almost exclusively 12 hr shifts and its not unusual to do 6/week, which is the only way I can pay for the RV-8 parts, but also means I'm still plodding on emp after a year or so, although I hope to crack open the wing kit real soon now.

While I started off in ICU nursing, I did get bored and completed a Grad Dip in Computing and worked in IT for about 10 years in a hospital computer department (Help Desk support and then Cold Fusion based web development with SQL Server back-end), but I've come back to ICU for a number of reasons. Also did some semi-professional photography along the way (but this pic is just a low-light environment iPhone snap).

This is one of the "cockpits" I normally fly (pt face obscurred for obvious reasons):



If anyone is interested, working L-R my "glass panel displays" are (1) CRRT - Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (aka kidney dialysis machine); (2) Ventilator (connected via the white and blue tubing to the pt, breathing for him; (3) Cardiac output monitor; (4) multiple infusion pumps; (5) Primary monitor with ECG (EKG for US cousins) + arterial blood pressure + central venous pressure + pulse oximetry etc. Couple of 'steam gauges' in the mix - suction dials, O2 flow meters, and a good old sphygmomanometer. Pts get cold quick with CRRT when you're dragging their entire blood volume out of them in a matter of minutes and running it through the machine and tubing exposed to air-conditioned temp environment. Hence the insulated head cap, several layers of blankets and a heated-air warming device underneath.
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Old 01-13-2012, 03:36 PM
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Exclamation What do you expect?

"wow, must be one of the fastest growing threads on vaf, ever!"

What do you expect when you ask a bunch of Type A pilots and engineers to talk about themselves?
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Old 01-13-2012, 03:46 PM
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Old 01-13-2012, 04:59 PM
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Default What ever pays the bills

I merchandise high energy feeds (bakery meal, feed fat and cottonseed) to these:
, poultry and beef growing operations in the western southwest.

So have a cheese omelet for breakfast,
fried chicken and pizza for lunch,
and beef, it's what's for dinner.........
oh, and don't forget the milk and cookies at bedtime. So I can build
another airplane

This is my 30th year........ and it has financed two RV builds and put
two sons through college. At 27 giving up my aviation career seemed
like a mistake...... but it worked out in the long run.
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Old 01-13-2012, 05:42 PM
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Default Draftman

I'm a draftman for a steelshop. So I design mainly mining equipement and steel structure. http://www.acierjp.com/en/



During evening and week-end I design R/C Aircraft and sell it on my website : http://www.mraerodesign.com



And beween that, I flew my Piper Cherokee and I build a RV-7....
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Old 01-13-2012, 05:49 PM
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I'll post a picture once I clean my office :-)

In the meantime, I take "?" and get "!". In short, I take a whole lot of unknown and devise an answer. My employer seems to like what I do ... To an extent. The greater reality is they don't know what to do with a generalist but then again they tend not to know what to do without one. I call it insecure job security.

Thankfully, the 400k employee company let me build a great home office and work from it :-)

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