Did you know you can download FAA aeronautical charts for free?

[krispos42]

FREE!

http://avn.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=aeronav/applications/VFR/chartlist_sect


They're huge though... I downloaded the one for New York, it contained two TIFF files, each one of about 49 megs each.


I spend some quality time programming my scanner afterwards...


:hi:

[krispos42]

1. I just downloaded allof them. 2.5 gig

Damn, I need a girlfriend or something to distract me...

[struggle4progress]

2. No, I didn't know that. Would they, like, make good patterns for knitting sweaters?

[krispos42]

3. I geek out a little on this kind of stuff

Actually, more than a little.

How the VORTAC navigation aids work, for example.


Did you know that the aircraft voice band uses AM instead of FM?

[struggle4progress]

4. I'm not really one to sneer. I may have downloaded 100gb of linux distros in the last year,

and earlier this week I spent a whole day downloading free PDF scans of old math books

Did you know you can get both volumes of Chrystal's Algebra that way? Plus Neugebauer's Mathematical Cuneiform Texts! And Whitehead's Axioms of Projective Geometry!

I also learned there are places that will print and bind some google books for you for only about $5 each, with maybe another $5 for shipping if in-store pick-up isn't convenient. So I can get a copy of Ernst Bloch's Thomas Münzer als Theologe der Revolution for about $10

And you could waste your time doing that, too!
Navigating the air: a scientific statement of the progress ...
Aero Club of America 1907
http://books.google.com/books?id=a_aKWhvdtrQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Aero+Club+of+America&hl=en&ei=kno-TuzmAYSGsAKPnoE_&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=aeronautics&tbs=,bkv:e&num=10#q=aeronautics&hl=en&tbs=bkv:r&tbm=bks&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=j3s-Tpf-JvDMsQKUs4Qc&ved=0CBAQpwUoAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=64d09540ea05943f&biw=1147&bih=844

[krispos42]

5. See?

:rofl:


You sound as happy as a pig in shit. :D