I’ve been into aviation for basically as far as I can remember. As a kid (and still today), one of my favorite pastimes besides actually traveling on an airplane, was to head to the local airport and plane-watch/plane-spot. Occasionally, these were spontaneous trips, hoping for enough traffic to see quite a few planes, and most other times, they involved me taking a look at the airport’s activity on FlightAware the day before, checking out all the interesting aircraft on the schedule for the next day. I grew up in the SF Bay Area, and frequented SJC and SFO for these adventures. It wasn’t until 2017 that I realized I could actually fly myself!

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First, a high level run down

My homelab serves a variety of purposes.

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I was recently in the air on a transcontinental flight blocked at over 6 hrs (going against the jetstream really does a number on the block time of a flight–we averaged just about 400 kts overall) and I had previously downloaded some NANOG 77 talks from Youtube as my in-flight entertainment. I had quite a few takeaways from these, but I’ve listed my favorite below:

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