A comprehensive list of plane tracking websites (1/2)
100+ ways to track commercial, private and military aircraft around the world. Commercial trackers, community aggregators, Virtual Radar Servers and other websites....
Having fun with my ADS-B tracker project
How it started Some years ago, I bumped into an article on Mashable about Jeremy Merrill using a Raspberry Pi ADS-B tracker to detect aircraft flying over his house and display the origin or destination of that plane (see article here and github there). As my place is just...
A Guide to Presidential Planes – Airport Spotting
Some of the various presidential planes that are used to transport heads of state or members of government from various countries around the world. See them on FoxtrotCharlie: Brazil – United Kingdom – France (F-UJCS and F-UJCT) – USA (82-8000 and 92-9000) – Russia — Read on www.airportspotting.com/a-guide-to-presidential-planes/...
SkyAware Anywhere
SkyAware Anywhere, a great new tool from FlightAware for those with multiple receivers...
‘Why Don’t They Just Land?’: Why the Best Diversion Airport May Not Be the Closest
We take a closer look at what happens when a flight diverts and why sometimes the aircraft don’t just land at the nearest airport. What’s the best strategy to find a diversion airport? — Read on www.flightradar24.com/blog/why-dont-they-just-land-why-the-best-diversion-airport-may-not-be-the-closest/...
Troll Air Station
Great article on what it takes to operate an Airfield in Antarctica. Check Troll Air Station / AT27 on foxtrotcharlie....
Build a 3D flight tracker
An interesting tutorial. Adding this to my to-do-list!...
COVID-19 impact on aviation industry
COVID-19 impact on aviation industry...
Flightradar24: new receivers activated in December 2020
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Tony Webster – Is a war on live flight tracking coming?
Tony Webster is analysing the risk that hex code anonymised is bringing to live flight tracking....
2to3, Python 2 to Python 3 made easy!
Do I need to upgrade from Python 2 to Python 3? I started to develop my ADS-B tracker software in Python 2 and I delayed the upgrade to Python 3 for a long time. I was thinking it would be pretty difficult! Now that PIP is soon to drop...