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Go for it?

Sunday 16 February 2025
FlyingOwning a plane

The financial analysis we did back in October made clear what we already suspected: owning a plane isn’t cheap. But having the numbers on your screen in a spreadsheet was confronting and made us wonder if we were willing to put that much money into our hobby.

Some time has passed and we have had some time to think things over. The dark and cold months are behind us, and the good weather is getting closer. At some point we have to stop thinking about it and decide which plane we are going to fly this year. So, let’s have dinner, discuss and see if we can come to a conclusion.

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Can we afford it?

Tuesday 15 October 2024
FlyingOwning a plane

Flying is great fun, but it’s not a cheap hobby. Renting planes from a flying club is usually the best option to keep the cost under control. That is exactly what we have been doing for years.

But there’s a downside to that: the availability of the planes. And that is how we ended up with the idea of buying a plane. Before taking that step, let’s figure out if we can afford it.

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We need another plane!

Saturday 22 June 2024
FlyingOwning a plane

Most of my flying hours over the last seven years have been logged on the PH-VTB. I love this plane. It’s comfortable, has a nice modern glass cockpit, and an autopilot. Ever since Gea got checked out on the plane as well, this has been the one we rent whenever we want to go somewhere.

So why would we need another plane? Let me share the background of the story and how we started an interesting journey.

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Dev Containers Fail Fast

Friday 27 October 2023
Dev ContainersLinuxPodmanWSL 2

I started to experiment with Development Containers using Podman. The Linux system setup by the podman machine init command was so basic that things like git were not installed. So, let’s install git to find out that another thing was missing and a setting had to be changed an yet another one and and another one.

And finally, things still fail… Time for another approach: replace the Podman installed and configured Linux system with another one that comes with Windows/WSL integration.

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Then came Podman

Thursday 26 October 2023
Dev ContainersHugoLinuxPodmanWSL 2

In the First there was Linux post I explained how to get going with a Linux system on a Windows laptop. Where this would be a difficult task many years ago, it’s a breeze nowadays with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Running a Linux system only doesn’t add much value to my way of working. I need applications. But this whole journey started with messing up a Windows laptop with all sorts of applications, frameworks and add-ons to just try something. I don’t want to do the same thing on a Linux system.

The solution: containerization; and that doesn’t read: Docker. Let’s dive into it.

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