Jupiter 39's Background

   My name is Johannes L. Mundung and my nickname is Jo or Yo (pronounced as Yowe). My first name Johannes (Yo-hahn'-nurse) is originally a Dutch name, meaning "God is Gracious". It is equivalent to the names in English: John, German: Johann, French: Jean, Spanish: Juan, Portuguese: Joao, Italian: Giovanni, Russian: Ivan, Czech: Jan, Malay: Yahya, and Indonesian: Yohanes. The mid initial "L." stands for Lambertus, and Mundung (Moon'-doong) is my family name.

   But being a "sitting duck" several years afterwards while only performing command and staff duties, and mostly involved in educational and training activities, I then decided to choose computers as something that I seemed to have of much interest, and therefore tried to gain more knowledge on it. As you see, I've finally become engaged in this so-called  "information super-highway". I achieved that only through a self-taught process by reading computer books and magazines, esp. concerning the Internet.

   During my 32 years of service in the Air Force, I got lots of experience mainly in the field of education and training.  I have visited the United States three times, all just for training purposes. It was during my second visit in 1972 that I started taking computer technology as my elective course subject while being a student of the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. I could still remember that a certain type of "time-sharing computer" — with its terminal similar to a teletype printer with paper rolls — was then the system being used for practice with its remote server located somewhere within the state of New York.

   Since 1994 — a year after being retired from the service — I had been appointed academic instructor to the Avindo Angkasa Pilot School, a private-owned flying school, at Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta, presenting lectures on Principles of Flight to its student pilots. But in lieu of the prevailing multi-dimensional crises in Indonesia, since early 2000 all courses (PPL and CPL) at Avindo Angkasa had been suspended. Later in 2003 I had another chance to be appointed instructor to Deraya Flying School, another private flying school in Jakarta, presenting lectures to its students (PPL, CPL, and ATPL courses).

   OK, then who is Jupiter 39?  Yes, it's me.  "Jupiter-Three-Niner" was my radio call sign that was designated to me while doing my job as a flight instructor at the Air Force Flight School in Yogyakarta more than three and a half decades ago. Once a pilot had been assigned as a flight instructor at the Flight School, he would then have a Jupiter number.

   Well, I hope you've got the general picture of my background so far. You may find to some more details about me in the other pages of this web site. So, please don't go away....