Nathan Innes
Aircraft Mechanic at FlyByWire Simulations
Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Innes is an aircraft mechanic and front-end developer based in Scotland with a decade of hands-on experience in aviation maintenance and UI work for flight simulation. Currently progressing from junior mechanic to aircraft mechanic at Shorterm Group, he pairs practical aircraft engineering skills with an HNC in Aircraft Engineering from Ayrshire College. As a contributor to FlyByWire Simulations’ high-profile A32NX project, he’s applied front-end expertise to realistic cockpit instruments—fixing ECAM advisories, wind indicators, battery displays and timing logic—to enhance fidelity for virtual pilots. Comfortable both under real aircraft panels and in code, he brings a detail-oriented, systems-thinking approach that bridges maintenance practices and user-facing avionics interfaces. Notably, his blend of delivery roles and open-source avionics work shows a pragmatic, hands-on commitment to making complex aircraft systems more reliable and accessible.
10 years of coding experience
HNC Aircraft Engineering, HNC Aircraft Engineering at Ayrshire College
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
32-bit9
typescripts9
html9
css9
fs7
rust4
matlab3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flybywiresim/aircraft
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
The A32NX & A380X Project are community driven open source projects to create free Airbus aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator that are as close to reality as possible.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:108 reviews, 44 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on front-end development within the A32NX project, making changes to the user interface of the aircraft's instruments. Their contributions involved fixing advisory ECAM messages, addressing wind indicator functionality, and updating the display size. They also worked on using a local deltaTime, and implementing changes for the battery indicators, demonstrating their ability to modify the user interface elements.
flightsimulatormicrosoftcommunity-drivenreactjs
flybywiresim/website
Dec 2020 - Apr 2022
Marketing website for FlyByWire Simulations
Contributions:129 reviews, 159 commits, 169 PRs in 1 year 3 months
reacttailwindcssflybywiresimulationsmarketing
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