Last night as we were going to bed my wife told me that she went back to sleep after I kissed her goodbye. She went into deep REM sleep and was dreaming she was busy doing something and did a lot of walking in her dream. She woke up at 8:15 and was exhausted from all that dream work. I explained that I was having a hard time feeling sympathy for someone sleeping in until after 8:00 AM since we go to bed at 10:30 PM and I get to the office at 7:00 AM.

You will need a cot there at work if you keep that up.

We have a nice wide comfy couch in the otherwise mostly unused office.

Is that the casting couch for the interns ?

Just don't wave a blacklight over it !

In order to film it they would have to open the roof and have the plane buzz the place.

It would only show some drool from sleeping.

No interns here.

we are engineering firm and even our inters would not be worth filming, all male.....

We are way too small of a company to attract anyone to be an intern. It would be interesting to see how many people are currently in a school learning to be a photogrammetrists or mapping geek. No one sits down to learn ESRI software for fun.

Haven't you seen my thread over the past few days?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/897936-im-adopted.html

Today is the one year Anniversary of 13 yo Camber passing.

Tomorrow is the one year Anniversary of getting Pepper.

Your bro doesn't look anything like you. Just like me my next older brother...We could be twins.

You are the first person out of many that say we don't look alike.

Great thread, Dave! I don't know how I missed it.

My daughter would love to intern there. Alas, it would be to fly the plane as well as learn the geeky stuff.

She got to fly this Sportsman up at Oshkosh at the museum. It was nice being there outside of the airshow. (Yeah, stupid wrist strap is in the way)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1454442007.jpg

Feb 2nd is groundhog's day. Winter is in 46 days. Guess what. It's 6 1/2 weeks till winter solstice whether a varmint sees it's shadow or not.

Flying as a passenger in our airplane is zero fun. You have to sit at a funny angle because the control panel for the camera is right where the comfortable spot would be. There is no back seat. I went up once and that was enough fun. Our pilot often spends the entire day essentially "mowing the yard" flying back and forth over a site that is almost never interesting. Long hours sitting in a Cessna 206 just does not sound glamorous or fun.

Back on the ground we set up a job on the computer and click on Start. There is a lot of tweaking the final output depending on what the customer ordered.

I just received an order for a reprint for one job we did last summer. It took me longer to write the price quote and then the invoice than to pull it back up and print it.

It is cool to see a mapping job complete and see how well the ground control points match the final orthos or surface model or digital terrain model.

Actually having to follow a precise path isn't much different than driving a precise path. It can be challenging and tedious at the same time. Better than going round and round in a restricter plate race I would bet. She would love learning about the setup and how it all ties together. She is such a geek.

Must be whay WAC exists Do all the fun flying Aerobatics AND fly a precise path.

Stijn!!
 

The challenge for our pilot is the airplane has to stay on course against a wind while crabbing, and the altitude has to stay very constant and the wings can't bank much and the pitch and roll has to remain constant. The camera needs to point straight down as much as possible. The camera mount has some automatic leveling and a fast gimbal but air turbulence cause challenges.
Imagine staying on a course in X Y & Z axis while flying into a crosswind with wings level as possible. Then do that for 90 miles, turn 180 and go back just one row over. Do that for 8 hours.

Morning all

It's a icecream and no pants kind of day.