Posts about stuff relating to airports
Fast-Time Simulation: Building an Airport
It’s Sunday night, and while I haven’t quite finished with my first foray into fast-time simulation, I am enjoying the process. Today, I set about “building” an airport for my simulation. To make sure it worked, I ran a simulation of one day’s flight schedule. ChatGPT has been here to help me, but, as I will discuss here and in the days following, it hasn’t been as big of a help as I had hoped.
(UPDATED) Fast-Time Simulation Series: Release the Nerds
Fast-time simulation is a topic that has always teased my interest. I’ve enjoyed building models of some pretty complex systems in Excel, but I’ve pushed that platform to the limit and making the jump up to more sophisticated modelling has always seemed like too big of a leap. It seemed the realm of hardcore coders or professional platforms that don’t have a “play around for free” option.
With ChatGPT on my side, I decided to give it a go this weekend. So, come along with me as I either leap to new heights or fall into an abyss.
Systems Modelling
When I joined the aviation safety regulator I was introduced to the concept of systems-based auditing (SBA). Before this I had been carrying out aerodrome inspections and I thought becoming an Aerodrome Inspector for the government was going to be more of the same. How wrong I was! Even after four years, my concept of systems-based auditing is still evolving. I coming to discover, and it seems everything I read will attest, that most things in life tend to be more complex than we initially think - SBA is no different.
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