Three planes above N Yorkshire this afternoon

Probably because Jane's have got the IP sewn up pretty tightly. Or maybe there is and I didn't find it. Latest book is a bit long in the tooth.

Unlikely to be that given that there are lots more pics of aircraft than Janes have.

There is a lot of work collating all the info on each aircraft and the appropriate info about them and how to recognise each one. I suspect it is beyond what present AI can actually do right now.

Likewise with some astronomy images the only way to spot new interesting things is still the Mk 1 human eyeball - citizen science projects use it.

AI does reasonably well with recognising wild flowers these days. Even so it sometimes gets it wrong if the photo isn't ideal.

And up against designer images it can get it incredibly wrong!

How appropriate, NP doesn't do irony!

None of that is necessary for an app that works out what a particular plane is and its all available in its wikipedia entry anyway.

Can't see that when compared with using a book.

Can't see that when it has been done with dog breeds and birds tho certainly bird calls are easier than aircraft noise.

Some planes are quite distinctive like the Cessna 172

Thats a different problem, something extra visible, nothing like a plane overhead.

And the app can use flightradar24 and that other one for military aircraft as a starting point too.

Yes, and plants in general like trees too.

Sure, but thats a lot better than using a Janes.

Same with dog breeds, mongrels will always be a problem.

Sure but that isnt going to happen with planes apart from the experimental home builts etc.

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So how does the one for trees work then? Maybe they've twigged it. Just leaf that one here.

They nip over to Wales to do a lot of that. Many years ago a farmer was so annoyed that he painted "F*CK OFF BIGGLES" on the roof of one of his sheds, but this only made them fly even lower to get a better photo !

And I bet they can't pronounce that place either ...

The planes over Leyburn were not the ones that fly from Leeming. I am familiar with those from working there a few years ago and again seeing them over Leeming on my way home this year.

I'll buy the book as I am there until the school reopens - and that's for the info about the exercise.

should say "thanks"

In fifty years in the aerial trade I never once had an amp latch up, in the sense of needing to be power cycled. On that basis I'm prepared to say it doesn't happen.

Bill

With very simple power supplies you may well be correct. Given the recently complexity involving ICs to remove the expensive items like transformers it would be dangerous to say "never".

i have had one occasion where the front controls on a modulator became unresponsive...

a quick power cycle sorted that out. not happened again since.

Talking of which, this afternoon I found my PIR LED outdoor floodlight was latched on. No idea when it became latched on, but it has worked normally since fitted, worked fine on Tuesday evening. It is also back to normal working now, after power cycling it.

A momentary power cycle over a few seconds normally latches a PIR light permanently on.

To put it back into PIR mode, you have to turn th epower off and wait usually 10 minutes before turning the power back on.

This is a common feature on many PIRs....

Double switching does that on mine.

True for some, but not this one - it is PIR only triggered.

My sense of danger is not triggered. It just doesn't happen. I can only speak as I find.

Bill

Cheap modulators are well known for this.

Bill