User:Dawidi

Paraplane launch

42 / m / 49,12

I work as a database programmer in the "IT-Speicher" in Regensburg, Germany, and toy around with unconventional r/c aircraft, aerial photography and some other odd digital photography techniques in my free time.

I do have a website but for the moment it is horribly outdated.

I'm into Openstreetmap and Geocaching also; these combine well with Geohashing expeditions.

I'll try to visit hashpoints on any day (or during the night, if necessary) if I find the time, and the coordinates happen to be reachable from Regensburg by bicycle, including the corners of the neighbor graticules:

• 49 11 Nuremberg
• 48 12 Landshut
• 48 11 Munich

I can be found idling around in #geohashing most of the time, and I've built a program to generate Maps and Statistics about graticules and expeditions on the wiki.

Been there...

(newest first)

	2009-01-28 49 11 on an access road between business buildings in Amberg. Went there by bike and train in the evening after work, and was spied upon by relet via a webcam.
	2009-01-12 48 12 in the same field as 2008-12-18 48 12 but 400m to the east. Cycled there before work, around 8:30. No sticky mud this time :-P		2009-01-11 48 12 in a snowy field, with Tomcat and Hans. Wrote stuff into the snow and flew my paraplane to photograph the work from above.
	2008-12-30 49 12 on a wooded hill above Unterlichtenwald, about 15km east of Regensburg. Reached the coordinates together with Tomcat at 20:00.		2008-12-24 49 12 inside a Fristo beverage depot in Regensburg, near the Donaueinkaufszentrum. Arrived at 9:00 and explained geohashing to the interested shop leasee.
	2008-12-18 48 12 In a field south of Neutraubling. Made a total mess of myself and my bike to get there (after work).		2008-11-01 48 12 In a field north of Bad Abbach, about 10km from Regensburg. Went there by bike with Tomcat and Hans around 16:00, and also flew my "X-3D-BL" quadrocopter over the field.
	2008-10-18 49 12 On a hill above Bach an der Donau, 15km east of Regensburg. I met Tomcat and a drag-along there at 9:00 in the morning.		2008-10-14 49 12 In Sulzbach an der Donau, under an apple tree, 10km east of Regensburg, with Tomcat and my R/C paraplane.
	2008-10-11 49 12 Near Hirschling, in a forest above the Regen valley, 25km north of Regensburg.		2008-09-29 49 11 Very close to Eilsbrunn, in a field west of Regensburg, with Tomcat.
	2008-08-09 49 12 Near Hainsacker, in a forest north of Regensburg, with Tomcat		2008-06-15 49 11 Near Siebeneichen, in a field east of Amberg (my first, and for now the longest expedition)

...done that:

dawidi earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2008-12-30 while the temperature was -9.1°C.

dawidi earned the cubicle geohash almost honorable mention by working not that far from the (49, 12) geohash on 2008-12-24.

dawidi earned the Geohash by proxy achievement by reaching the (49, 12) geohash on 2008-10-14 using a GPS-carrying home-made R/C paraplane ("ParaDIY").

dawidi earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement by reaching the (49, 11) geohash on 2008-09-29, and previously on 2003-02-02.

dawidi, among several other expeditions (full list), earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (49, 11) geohash on 2008-06-15.

dawidi earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Tomcat to the (49, 12) geohash on 2008-08-09.