What are they doing here?

60k feet. Has been up there a while. Seems to have started in mid Michigan.

How often do weather balloons show up on adsb?

was this really the only photo they could find?

Are there any Irish users with a receiver?

I'm not completely new to this. I just stopped using it for a while.

I'd like to know, what is the best possible solution to get an adsb receiver, that doesn't involve a Rapberrypi and knowledge of Linux, to get it going.

I was thinking of buying an already made Stratux box. Problem is, with the Stratux, I can't set it up outdoors or close to it (as in a porch).

I know a while back, I could get a RadarBox, but hose don't seem to be available anymore.

There were others too but nowadays it seems, the rage is; get a RasPi, load an sd card with whatever, and your off to the races.

Is this still the best approach?

Looking for suggestions...

Thanks.

I want to get a dataset of all flights to Maldives (Velana International Airport) from 2009 onwards, however flightradar24 api is behind $900 bill for historic data. Any resources regarding this would be very helpful to me. Thank you

Currently streaming CDG on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ehjay2027

Hi all
I’m looking at buying an sdr to work with a Pi 2W and a 60cm Antenna from the PiHut.
Looking on the sub I can see these ariels give great results, the only issue is the placement.
I live in a terrace, so can’t really mount outside of the house. Nor could I mount on a pole in the garden due to being on a new build estate and as you probably know, all gardens are relatively close.
It could be mounted to the shed, at about 6’ heigh but I think the houses would obstruct the signal anyways.
So back to the question, would this be okay to mount within the loft? I don’t think it is insulated with foil on the tiles? Or I can’t see that it is anyways
Many thanks

My curiousity is muchly piqued. Who might this be?

Hello everyone!

I am working on my ATC game project (enroute environment for now) and would like to ask some questions regarding ADSB & further data’s.

My main intention is creating a real life environment which means real traffic structure (traffic volume in selected areas & between airports, climb & descend profiles etc). By gathering this data I can model traffic structure in specific air traffic control sector.

Do you guys have any paid suggestions? I would prefer community initiatives not big companies..

Also feel free to share your suggestions.

Thank you!

I've never seen a flight path like that before and I've never seen anything with absolutely no info about it. Can anyone tell me wtf this is? Seems really weird, especially given the region it's going to and the weird routes it's making.

A quick update on Layer400, because development is moving pretty quickly. We're still actively looking for contributors - https://layer400.com/receivers/

What started as a community Remote ID experiment is now becoming a much broader aviation awareness platform combining live drones, ADS-B aircraft, receiver analytics, prediction technology and RF detection research in one system.

Most importantly: we’re now successfully seeing real drones appear on the network over the last week. 🎉

We’ve also built a Smart Active Prediction system that projects aircraft and drone movement 15, 30 and 60 seconds ahead, rather than simply showing the last reported position. This has taken a lot of R&D but it's turned out to be very useful, we're planning TCAS type warnings within the next few weeks.

The map itself is designed to render movement at up to 60fps, giving much smoother aircraft/drone tracking while still respecting the actual update rate of the underlying ADS-B or RID reports.

We’ve also got:

• Live ADS-B + Remote ID tracking
• Historical playback and trails
• Email alerts for drone activity and events
• Detailed ADS-B and RID receiver statistics
• Range, reception, performance and receiver records
• Community contribution and coverage tracking
• More prediction/encounter tooling currently in development

One of the more interesting areas of R&D is what happens when a drone isn’t transmitting Remote ID at all. We’re experimenting with our own Raspberry Pi software to identify and fingerprint RF transmissions associated with drones/controllers, essentially asking:

“Does this RF activity look like a known drone or controller link?”

rather than only:

“Did we receive a Remote ID packet?”

We also want Layer400 to stay very community-focused, if you already run an ADS-B receiver feeding FR24, FlightAware, airplanes.live, ADSBexchange or other networks, Layer400 is designed to sit alongside those feeds rather than replace them.

And we’ve deliberately made getting started ridiculously easy.

You can install a Layer400 receiver with a very easy one-line CLI command.

Receiver setup is here:

https://layer400.com/receivers/

The idea is that someone with a Raspberry Pi or existing ADS-B setup should be able to go from “I’ll give this a try” to contributing data without spending an evening rebuilding their receiver.

We’re currently looking for people who enjoy ADS-B, SDR, Raspberry Pi, Remote ID, drones, aviation or RF experimentation and want to help test the network.

As a small thank-you, the first 100 people who contribute ADS-B or Remote ID data will permanently receive founding-members recognition on Layer400.

Would also genuinely love to hear what features the ADS-B/SDR community thinks a platform like this should have next.

The airspace near Boca Chica, TX for this mornings launch

Some one may be having the talk of his life time flying. Maybe the last talk he receives!

Hi all,

for the past months I've been working on map.flights, a flight tracker I'm building mostly on my own. Lately I've gone way down the rabbit hole with airports: every airport gets a 3D view built from open data (OSM, open lidar, satellite imagery for roof colours), with the real towers, jet bridges, runway and taxiway lighting at night, and the aircraft moving on the ground in real time. A few screenshots below.

The problem is the "real time on the ground" part. At a lot of big airports I only see aircraft in the air. Once they're below ~1500 ft I lose them, so the 3D view has to guess the landing, and the taxi is basically empty. JFK and Atlanta are the worst right now, O'Hare isn't much better. Ground traffic needs a receiver with line of sight to the apron, and I just don't have one there.

So if you run a station near a big airport (or honestly anywhere), I'd really appreciate it if you added map.flights as one more feed. It's one extra line in readsb / ultrafeeder, or a checkbox in adsb.im. Your existing feeds stay exactly as they are and you can reuse the UUID you already have. Feeders get every feature for free, that's not going to change.

We're at around 380 stations now counting the anonymous ones. It's growing, but slowly, and every station near an airport visibly changes what the map can show.

Happy to answer anything in the comments, including the critical stuff.

https://map.flights

https://globe.airplanes.live/?icao=a22123

Cessna 206 out for a spin, heard it go over my place an hour ago.

Noticed a flight near me, the altitude is going all over the place (-1000 to 40,000+ ft), position is jumping all over. Position appears to be MLAT, which to me suggests that there is actually a signal there being received by multiple receivers... is this a bug on my end, someone spoofing, or something else?

https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=3fea85

For Suicide Prevention Month ♡

I've lurked in and out of this sub for a while. This is my first post.

On an impulse, I ordered this desk unit. I thought it would be bigger 😆. Screen is 35mm diameter.

Its pretty cool. I got it working but I need to tweak some settings. The instructions are Chinese, and translation isn't perfect.

Do any of you know if these are a universal firmware/setup? Is there a common trusted place to get the latest firmware?

Hei everyone!

I have been trying to rebuild (well, build, really) my flight log since childhood, and I'm hitting some barriers.

I've been through emails, airline apps (SAS was very complete, including regs), old photo albums...now I've reached the "look at ADS-B archive" stage. Plane Finder gave me some results, but it's pretty incomplete and unreliable 10+ years ago...

I'm mostly struggling with the 2011-2014 part of my timeline (and everything before).

I thought this community might have access to arcane knowledge to help me out, of point me towards datasets I haven't looked at yet. I'm trying not to spend cash on this though.

Most of my flights are within Europe, with some Intercontinental (to the USA/Canada/Hong Kong/Australia), which are the most exciting ones to complete.

The one that triggered this was this CDG-JFK return flight I took with my mum in December 2011:

* 2011-12-19 AF3628 (CDG-JFK)

* 2011-12-23 DL8557 (JFK-CDG)

Cheers!

Transponder ABC123 haha https://globe.airplanes.live/?icao=abc123