2018-01-31 43 19

Location

Half way between and 11.5 km above Krnjača and Jabuka, Montenegro, flying at around 800 km/h. Thanks, Ryanair - you nailed this one.

Participants

Sourcerer

Plans

All my journeys by air seek the Air_geohash_achievement. The 10 arc second rule means you need to be under 310 metres from the hashpoint. My napkin aproximath suggests there's a 0.5% chance of meeting this goal crossing one graticule. On a mid length flight you might cross 50 graticules so now there's up to 25% chance of success. Frequent flyers will certainly succeed.

Expedition

I had programmed the decimal parts of the coordinates into my Garmin eTrex 20. Every 10 to 15 minutes I re-programmed the graticule coordinates and watched the distances fall and rise again. In 43,19 the distance was dropping rapidly and after each screen update I was grabbing the image. The best screen shot was at 123 metres from the hashpoint, well within the requirements.

A bit of post-processing in Google Earth confirmed the result.

The eTrex 20 lacks a barometric altimeter so you get true altitude in an aircraft and not the cabin pressure altitude.

Photos

Gallery
Google Earth Proof
FLight Path
GPSr Proof
Proof of Flight

Achievements

Sourcerer earned the Air geohash achievement

by reaching the (43, 19) geohash on 2018-01-31 by Boeing 737 800, attaining the rank of passenger.

Commercial flights travel as fast as they are permitted by air traffic control or by the air frame limits.

Sourcerer earned the Speed racer achievement

by passing through the (43, 19) geohash on 2018-01-31 at 800 km/h.

Sourcerer earned the Border geohash achievement

by crossing the Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Belgium and England border on 2018-01-31 to reach the (43, 19) geohash.

Sourcerer earned the Juggernaut achievement

by reaching a geohash in a straight line (with a deviation of barely 1:53) on 2018-01-31.

Sourcerer earned the Public transport geohash achievement

by reaching the (43, 19) geohash on 2018-01-31 via Ryanair 737 800.

Sourcerer earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching 2 hash points on 2018-01-31. It's a Double Hash.

Sourcerer earned the Last double-man standing achievement

by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2018-01-31.

Sourcerer earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (43, 19) graticule, here, on 2018-01-31.

Did Sourcerer drag along the other 180 passengers and crew on the flight?

Expeditions and Plans

2018-01-31
Prijepolje, Serbia	Sourcerer	Half way between and 11.5 km above Krnjača and Jabuka, Montenegro, flying a...
Norwich, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	A field perimeter footpath at Rumburgh, Suffolk UK.

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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2018-01-03 39 27 - 2018-01-31 43 19 - 2018-01-31 52 1 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.


Wed 31 Jan 2018 in Prijepolje, Serbia: 43.3820538, 19.4510360 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox