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Live Aircraft Tracking

61 points by eam 17y ago

stse 17y ago
Similar app covering the Baltic region http://www.flightradar24.com/ http://www.flightradar24.com/ which parses data from this system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance-broadcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...
thwarted 17y ago
While sitting on a plane over the holidays, I was thinking something like this would be pretty cool, especially if Google Earth was the visualization engine.
maigret 17y ago
Such services like http://radar.zhaw.ch http://radar.zhaw.ch used to have a 15 min delay one year ago for security reasons. Not sure if that is still true, it seems like it's realtime now.
samlittlewood 17y ago
Cool - now I want a link into Google Earth: - First person view from cockpit. - Look 'up' from current ground position, and identify what the various contrails I see are. - General 3d free view of airways etc.
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GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
This would be awesome for me since I live beside an airport. Is there a similar site for North America?
ynniv 17y ago
I worked on a proprietary system that did first person, single flight tracking in 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Jw1vNrh0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Jw1vNrh0Q Similar data is available in KML for GoogleEarth from http://flightwise.com/flighttracking/ http://flightwise.com/flighttracking/
haonanzhang 17y ago
@samlittlewood, that would be a really cool augmented reality application. just point it up at the sky to see all the various locations of airplanes.
- sailormoon 17y ago
  You know, there is this wonderful feature here called "reply" ...
wensing 17y ago
In case you're wondering about public access to these kinds of datasets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance-broadcast#Public_Access_to_ADS-B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc... According to the same Wikipedia article, the FAA is has been rolling this out since 2006 (target date of 2015 for full coverage).
- blantonl 17y ago
  It's not actually public access to "Data sets" - these folks are intercepting over the air live transponder data from each aircraft and then plotting the resulting information. There are two primary forms of these types of transponders, one basic which just transmits the aircraft altitude and unique identifier, and the other advanced which transmits location, altitude, heading, intent (lading, taking off, descending etc). In the United States, most aircraft only use the basic version, so actual plotting all aircraft using these interception techniques is much more difficult. However, any international aircraft that fly in the US, or aircraft that are international capable, can be tracked. There are out of the box commercially available receivers and software that you can use to get started... but again be warned that until US adoption becomes more widespread you'll only be able to track International flights. For example: http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/index.html http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/index.html
  - sokoloff 17y ago
    The code for a the basic (mode A/C) transponder isn't actually unique. It's just 4 base-8 digits settable by the pilot, with several codes reserved for specific uses. When on an ATC-assigned code, that code in only "unique" within a specific area. I might be assigned 0234 flying in Boston Center's airspace and someone else might be on 0234 in Phoenix.
joshwa 17y ago
Passur does this for a number of large US airports: http://www.passur.com/airportmonitor-locations.htm http://www.passur.com/airportmonitor-locations.htm
- borism 17y ago
  Passur uses active radar and restricts access to its' apps outside US AFAIK. Flightaware.com uses FAA feed (with a slight delay), but thus has full coverage of US airspace and a lot of other useful information (flight plans etc), but its' map sucks.
stcredzero 17y ago
flightstats.com seems to have flight tracking for a particular flight. I'm not sure if this isn't just a display of "elapsed flight time vs. scheduled arrival" though.
charlesmarshall 17y ago
similar site, but for shipping - http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
timdorr 17y ago
Really cool effect that it changes the map from light to dark depending on the time of day where you're looking.

61 points by eam 17y ago

stse 17y ago

Similar app covering the Baltic region http://www.flightradar24.com/ http://www.flightradar24.com/ which parses data from this system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance-broadcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...

thwarted 17y ago

While sitting on a plane over the holidays, I was thinking something like this would be pretty cool, especially if Google Earth was the visualization engine.

maigret 17y ago

Such services like http://radar.zhaw.ch http://radar.zhaw.ch used to have a 15 min delay one year ago for security reasons. Not sure if that is still true, it seems like it's realtime now.

samlittlewood 17y ago

Cool - now I want a link into Google Earth: - First person view from cockpit. - Look 'up' from current ground position, and identify what the various contrails I see are. - General 3d free view of airways etc.

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GiraffeNecktie 17y ago

This would be awesome for me since I live beside an airport. Is there a similar site for North America?

ynniv 17y ago

I worked on a proprietary system that did first person, single flight tracking in 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Jw1vNrh0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Jw1vNrh0Q Similar data is available in KML for GoogleEarth from http://flightwise.com/flighttracking/ http://flightwise.com/flighttracking/

haonanzhang 17y ago

@samlittlewood, that would be a really cool augmented reality application. just point it up at the sky to see all the various locations of airplanes.

sailormoon 17y ago
You know, there is this wonderful feature here called "reply" ...

wensing 17y ago

In case you're wondering about public access to these kinds of datasets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillance-broadcast#Public_Access_to_ADS-B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc... According to the same Wikipedia article, the FAA is has been rolling this out since 2006 (target date of 2015 for full coverage).

blantonl 17y ago
It's not actually public access to "Data sets" - these folks are intercepting over the air live transponder data from each aircraft and then plotting the resulting information. There are two primary forms of these types of transponders, one basic which just transmits the aircraft altitude and unique identifier, and the other advanced which transmits location, altitude, heading, intent (lading, taking off, descending etc). In the United States, most aircraft only use the basic version, so actual plotting all aircraft using these interception techniques is much more difficult. However, any international aircraft that fly in the US, or aircraft that are international capable, can be tracked. There are out of the box commercially available receivers and software that you can use to get started... but again be warned that until US adoption becomes more widespread you'll only be able to track International flights. For example: http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/index.html http://www.airnavsystems.com/RadarBox/index.html
- sokoloff 17y ago
  The code for a the basic (mode A/C) transponder isn't actually unique. It's just 4 base-8 digits settable by the pilot, with several codes reserved for specific uses. When on an ATC-assigned code, that code in only "unique" within a specific area. I might be assigned 0234 flying in Boston Center's airspace and someone else might be on 0234 in Phoenix.

joshwa 17y ago

Passur does this for a number of large US airports: http://www.passur.com/airportmonitor-locations.htm http://www.passur.com/airportmonitor-locations.htm

borism 17y ago
Passur uses active radar and restricts access to its' apps outside US AFAIK. Flightaware.com uses FAA feed (with a slight delay), but thus has full coverage of US airspace and a lot of other useful information (flight plans etc), but its' map sucks.

stcredzero 17y ago

flightstats.com seems to have flight tracking for a particular flight. I'm not sure if this isn't just a display of "elapsed flight time vs. scheduled arrival" though.

charlesmarshall 17y ago

similar site, but for shipping - http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

timdorr 17y ago

Really cool effect that it changes the map from light to dark depending on the time of day where you're looking.