User:dawidi

Paraplane launch

42 / m / 49,12

I work as a database programmer and multi-purpose geek 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I do have a website but for the moment it is horribly outdated.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 now rather frequently 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:

Nürnberg 49 11	Regensburg 49 12
München 48 11	Landshut 48 12

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)

			2009-04-24 49 12 in the forest near Ramspau, by bike after work.
	2009-04-23 49 12 next to a small lake north of Ramspau, by bike with Tomcat after work.		2009-04-19 49 12 in a meadow about 15km east of Weiden, by train and bike with Tomcat and Hans.
	2009-04-11 48 13 in a forest about 20km southeast of Passau, by train and bike with Tomcat and Hans.		2009-04-03 49 12 in a beautiful, mountainous forest north of Ramspau, with Tomcat and Hans.
	2009-03-30 48 12 in a field east of Neutraubling, where I cycled with Tomcat and Hans, and flew my quadrocopter to the coordinates.		2009-03-28 48 11 in a fenced parking lot/garbage dump between Feldmoching and Hasenbergl, north of Munich, where I failed to meet Zb.
	2009-03-23 49 12 on the Autobahn A93 near Regenstauf, with Tomcat and Hans in their car.		1981-09-10 49 12 where I went with Jockal on 2009-03-21 to check out a suspicious coincidence related to my origin.
	2009-03-20 49 11 in a small chunk of forest on a former military training range near Hemau, reached by bike with Tomcat and Hans.		2009-03-17 48 11 in the Painten forest west of Viehhausen, where I cycled together with Tomcat.
	2009-03-11 49 12 in a smelly cabbage field north of Haslbach, where I met with Tomcat.		2009-03-06 49 12 in the mountains north of Bach an der Donau, where Tomcat, Hans and I failed again due to snow, ice, darkness and confusing forest tracks.
	2009-02-27 48 12 in a meadow about 20km east of Regensburg, which we reached exactly at midnight on the way home from the previous expedition.		2009-02-26 48 12 in a muddy field west of Landau an der Isar, where we celebrated Tomcat's birthday.
	2009-02-22 51 10, an all-day meetup expedition of six geohashers, next to a creek between Niederspier and Wasserthaleben in rural Thuringia.		2009-02-18 49 11 in a snowy field, where Tomcat, Hans and I went in their car after sunset and drew lightmarks.
	2009-02-05 49 11 under a tree near Schönhofen, where Tomcat and I walked from the next village.		2009-02-04 49 12 in the mountains north of Bach an der Donau, where I couldn't get to because the forest paths were icy and slippery.
	2009-01-31 48 12 among some trees, east of Barbing. Cycled there in the afternoon and made a time-lapse video of the ride.		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 so far achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Landshut, Germany and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

dawidi, Tomcat and Hans earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the Germany-Austria border on 2009-04-11 to reach the (48, 13) geohash.

dawidi earned the Geohash by proxy achievement by reaching the (48, 12) geohash on 2009-03-30 using a GPS-carrying X-3D-BL quadrocopter.

dawidi, with Tomcat and Hans, almost earned the Speed Racer geohash Achievement by passing through the (49, 12) geohash on 2009-03-23 at 130 km/h (the advisory maximum speed), because Unhandled Exception in 'Speed Racer Achievement': property 'legal speed limit' not implemented..

dawidi (with Tomcat and Hans) earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (48, 12) geohash on 2009-02-27 in the middle of the night.

dawidi earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Thomcat, Danatar and ekorren at the (51, 10) geohash on 2009-02-22.

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.

... and I'm particularly looking for opportunities for these in the future:

Water Geohash, another Border geohash, more Proxy Geohash variants, Calendar Girl Achievement, MNIMB Geohash, Consecutive Geohash, Multihash, more Meet-Up Achievements, Birthday Geohash, Sunrise geohash, Origin Geohash.