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Low-level flying is a unique aspect of military training. Pilots aim to fly as low and fast as safety allows, simulating tactical ingress and egress while avoiding detection. This results in a heart-pounding display of skill as jets streak mere hundreds of feet above treetops. In practice, planning low-level training consists of resolving overlapping concepts of safe altitude clearance driven by the height of man-made obstacles or terrain. This is complicated and labor-intensive, requiring legacy mission planning systems that are difficult to use and to keep updated. As a result, the best case for our customers is often to plan a single batch per aeronautical data cycle and export them as raster charts, which they then import into ForeFlight MFB as custom static map layers. But for the real world, where connectivity and access to the mission planning system aren’t guaranteed, I challenged my team to do better: pull the low-level world away from static charts and into a dynamic, data-driven concept using our terrain and obstacles to calculate safe clearances instantly, through any series of points on Earth, on the ground or in the air. Following our first step in delivering the award-winning Hazard Advisor suite, we now present Low Level Corridor: Emergency Route Abort Altitude (ERAA) as the next evolution. As the widest and most restrictive of a multi-tiered trench of corridors, this considers the highest point within 22NM of a planned low-level route and calculates and displays an altitude safely above this point to be used in the event of an in-flight emergency, or for any other reason a pilot might abort. My favorite capability of the feature is a built-in understanding of “mountainous” terrain. Referenced by the FARs and DoD regs alike, “mountainous” terrain is defined as a rise-over-run elevation change per nautical mile, and a higher safe clearance altitude is required for these regions. The FAA publishes a coarse graphic defining “mountainous” regions for the US, but overseas, DoD pilots often plan mountainous clearances where they don’t strictly need to because they lack a well-defined reference. No longer is this the case, as ERAA in MFB One has an embedded boundary of mountainous regions and will automatically apply extra clearance if the route crosses this boundary. Once again I’m blown away by the talents of Atlas Wegman who engineered this magnificent feature (before accepting a promotion to lead our AI efforts) implementing the beautiful designs of Chris St. Amant. And special thanks to Brian Farm, who cracked the obscenely difficult worldwide terrain processing. There is much more to come to deliver a truly complete low-level solution: tactical corridors for different flight rules (e.g. VFR, night, NVG) and incredible per-leg briefing and SA tools… but until then, blue skies!

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I went viral on Instagram last week, the second time this year - both unintentionally (to a certain extent). It’s really interesting how much anger just posting about stuff can cause. It’s sort of fascinating, weird and funny. There’s an absolute obsession with a/b comparisons or isolated - which I’ve never found to be that helpful - like microphones devoid of context? How can you know anything… Loads of comments to the effect of “get a different microphone” - which again, doesn’t seem that rooted in reality? Like I click my heels together three times and everything turns to U67s? Anyway, I was thinking about this in the larger context of music production/engineering and how unwelcoming this online space must feel if you post something up with enthusiasm to be met with 10s or 100s calling you an idiot. Fortunately, I’ve been doing it long enough to know I can both be an idiot and know stuff and I’m perfectly stubborn enough to not be rocked by someone dunning krugering my videos… I just think of this grey ceiling of assholery that just spaffs over everything online, not having the humility to accept different viewpoints or techniques or even just shooting for something and how much that probably stops people sharing. It’s definitely stopped me in the past. If I can have those magical heels with the 67s, I’d quite like to click 3 times put that crap in the bin. Anyway, here’s a longer form video on the subject. An omni 57. Is it the best omni? No. Was it what I had? Yes. Thanks for being part of my morning procrastination journaling. https://lnkd.in/eqdPK8Ks

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Dean Hyers and I have worked with a tremendous number of professionals who don't seem to understand that, when they're in front of a camera, they're actually visible. In his latest post, he shares a simple but powerful suggestion for how to be more visually interesting while still being naturally you in front of a camera. #virtualpresence #screenpresence #virtualpresenting

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