Philip Plane

Philip has been a full time gliding instructor since 2004.

Philip was a Unix sysadmin who worked in computer support roles from 1985. His CV is available for prospective employers to browse.

A few computer related snippets:

• Setting up a dialup gateway with OpenBSD
• A utility for viewing leases on a DHCP server.
• Some notes on Solaris
• Installing OpenBSD on Compact Flash
• Using OpenBSD to make a captive portal
• A perl program for logging data from a QM1538 Digital Multimeter.
• Installing OpenBSD on Orange Pi

He is a keen glider pilot.

Philip maintains a couple of gliding related Perl programs. The first, igc_tool, is used to view igc format log files. The second, task.pl allows you to create a task definition for use with the EW micrologger. Both programs use Perl and Tk. Both run on Windows using ActivePerl as well as any recent Unix/Linux system with Perl and Tk. A history of the programs is viewable in cvs.

In the past he has climbed mountains, been an enthusiastic and sometimes competative motorcyclist, and mountain biker.

philip@xinqu.net