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I wish the article had a bit more technical details about the failover system used. What's interesting is, although nowhere near useful enough to organize rapi
by tomswartz07 12y ago
I wish the article had a bit more technical details about the failover system used.
What's interesting is, although nowhere near useful enough to organize rapid aircraft landing, one could purchase a cheap ($10) Software Defined Radio and use something like Dump1090[1] to view all local planes.
I imagine they still had some sort of capability close to this while their machines were 'offline'.
[1] https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090 https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090
- dhbanes 12y agoNot all planes broadcast ads-b.
- damian2000 12y agoThere's a schedule for making it mandatory by 2020 in the US. Since last year in Australia every aircraft flying over 29,000ft must have one fitted.
- tomswartz07 12y agoI might be wrong, but I believe most passenger airlines currently have it onboard. It's supposedly required to be on board in the very near future.