"Trim the aircraft for best gliding angle and look for a suitable field. " These are the first two instructions you will find in the operating handbook for almost any aircraft in regards to power loss. But I've always wondered: How often will you find yourself without a suitable field?

I decided to combine several GIS datasets to see if I could come up with an answer to that question, and perhaps create a useful flight planning tool along the way.

https://blog.graysonhead.net/posts/field-finder/

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The revived Sydney to London ‘kangaroo route’ costs $50,000 a ticket. But you can do it for less than $10,000

A travel company has recreated the 1947 journey with food and ‘refined residences’ included. We asked a travel agent to do the same itinerary on the cheap

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/feb/08/the-revived-sydney-to-london-kangaroo-route-costs-50000-a-ticket-but-you-can-do-it-for-less-than-10000

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Love the #Airbus 320

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If you are on the Facebook, gotta click this link to the most wonderful #aviation fun you will have today.

Young girl, maybe 6 or 7YO, does her first Piper Cub J3 #seaplane takeoff. Her laugh should sound familiar to any pilot, we all do it, some louder than others, some only in our head.

I was more apt to yell "yeah baby!!" when all 235 horses in front of my Cherokee 235 would launch us skyward and the gear departed this Earth.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17zbDUj4fa

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The Reptile taller than a Giraffe

https://tube.blueben.net/w/suBiaeGk6FX1n3oTt6n7MW

Flight Path 🖤

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Unlike his humans, Indy does not fly in athleisure wear.

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