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Somewhat related. For those who are new to SDRs, you can easily view airplane altitude, heading, speed, and other stats of passing aircraft with a cheap SDR. Ai
by jonpurdy 6y ago
Somewhat related. For those who are new to SDRs, you can easily view airplane altitude, heading, speed, and other stats of passing aircraft with a cheap SDR. Aircraft transmit this using ADS-B and it's totally open and unencrypted.
FlightAware (among other services) work by aggregating data from users around the world. You can even get a free premium subscription to their service by contributing. Easiest way is to use a Raspberry Pi, install their software (much easier now than back in 2013!), and you're good to go!
- mysterydip 6y agoI've said this before, but the first time I hooked up an RTL-SDR and tuned it to 1090 and saw live air traffic, I was awestruck. Sure the same info was available on flightaware, but something was special about being able to retrieve it myself.
- tverbeure 6y agoFor those who are interested in submitting airplane data to the non-commercial ADSB-Exchange project, here are my extensive installation instructions: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2019/05/11/ADSB-Exchange-Feeder.html https://tomverbeure.github.io/2019/05/11/ADSB-Exchange-Feede....
- joncrane 6y agoAlso note that Flightradar allows rich/famous people to pay to have their airplanes omitted from the display on the website.