"...I wrote FlightPanel because I've always been interested in aircraft -- I grew up close to a naval air station, with the Blue Angels buzzing my house annually. My father had a small plane, and I used to do the VOR navigation when we flew, triangulating on paper maps. Later, at game company Spectrum Holobyte, I worked on flight simulators like Flight of the Intruder and Falcon 3.0."

"...I grew up close to an Air Force base, with the Thunderbirds buzzing over my house annually. My dad did not have a plane, although we did have a Chrysler station wagon that was about the size of a C-5. I do not know how to triangulate anything, so thankfully, I did not do any of the programming on this application."