This is my first blog and I felt that it will be appropriate to write up what I expect to do with this blog -
- Open a communication channel with the local startup community as well as folks in the industry
- Talk about PilotOutlook - challenges and achievements.
- Contribute - Given that we are building site in RoR, we will share our key learnings along the way.
With that stated, a little history about PilotOutlook.com. The goal was initially to launch a site where users can find directory of all flying clubs. With that idea in mind, we launched this site in November, 2007. Over last few months, we have added numerous other features like -
- Flying club directory with over 3,500 flying clubs
- Airport DB of 23,000 US airports + an API to access airport database all of it.
- User related features - Log books, ability to join or add a flying club, profile pages, adding pictures, testimonial and scraps etc. We also did a cool mashup of all our users on the home page :-). Search mechanism can also be used to find instructors in the region.
- Aircraft DB with over 400,000 aircrafts - users can add their own pictures for each of the aircrafts.
And a lot more is coming …
Stay tuned…
Regards,
Rajat Garg
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