![]() Since I live right on the water in a major shipping lane, I also can follow all this stuff for marine traffic - via a similar site:Īnd you can do this for rail traffic as well. Or - since I plan to go flying Mon and Tues, you can track me!įlight Radar 24 - Never Leave Home Without It.īTW - you can also listen in to the air traffic on the radio at many major airports, while following the flights on radar. If you have a Mode-S, gimme your tail number and I'll track you. You can do all that for free, and from anywhere in the world. In many cases, you can even see a photo of the specific airplane. And even watch it in 3D via Google Earth if you want. You can track and follow an entire flight. If you have a Flight Number - mostly Air Carriers, but also - around here - Boeing test flights - it will show that too. If you're "in the system" - either via a Flight Plan or just Flight Following, it will also show your origin and destination, ETA, and Squawk Code. As I showed in my example picture, it will also show where you've been (and you can play it back the next day if you want.) And - it also shows your altitude, speed, vertical speed, and ground track. If you have a Mode S transponder - the Hex code you entered during setup will automatically tell the world who you are - airplane type and tail number - and where you are. In the morning, I can see the trans-Pacific flights descending into KSEA in advance, and watch them fly over from my deck. ![]() When I see strange airplanes, I check to see who they are and what they're about. The source are ADS-B squitter transmissions or FAA (and other) radars. ![]() Most of the data is real time - some is delayed 5 minutes. You can track airplanes around Seattle - my location - or London, Tokyo, wherever. Go to my link for Flight Radar 24 - it's one of my favorite sites. I have nothing against APRS - it's just another gadget in the cockpit when you already have a gadget - it's called your transponder - and it provides a lot more data - for nothing. While it's true APRS is used for hiking, biking, camping, boating, hang gliding, and traveling by car and truck, it also is a very useful tool for flying. With APRS, even a 20 minute sightseeing trip near the airport generates a complete track showing velocity, direction, Lat/long, altitude, and lots more data about the flight. I've noticed that some of the flights show up in Flightaware and some don't. Whenever I fly a Pilots N Paws mission, I file a VFR flight plan so if something does happen, the Search and Rescue folks will have an official reason to start looking. And it's not dependent on a flight plan being in the system. And the data is typically not more than ten minutes old.Ĭheck APRS out. My wife and my kids all know how to check my APRS tracks any time they want to. Even though I'm eligible to retire, I've only been a Ham for almost five years. Your signature indicates you have been a Ham for a long time, and I respect that accomplishment. Sure there are some areas of the country where ground based stations which receive and then feed the data to the Google web site are scarce, but for the areas where I typically fly, I couldn't ask for more data than what my rig generates. ![]() ![]() I'm not sure what a "flight tracking radar system" includes, but I have been extremely happy with the data generated by the APRS rig I have in my plane. ![]()
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