ADS-B Aircraft Tracking
The cluster focuses on ADS-B technology for real-time airplane position tracking, discussions of services like ADS-B Exchange, FlightRadar24, and FlightAware, including comparisons, censorship via programs like LADD, and setting up personal receivers.
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This is fantastic! Is the airplanes.live related to ADS-B exchange or is this an unrelated effort?
There's always ADSB (plane traffic).
Check out https://adsb.im
The FAA has a program called LADD (Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed) and high-profile individuals, etc can sign up to it. The major players in the flight tracking business like FlightRadar24 or FlightAware follow that. But sites like ADS-B Exchange do not adhere to that, so you can see a lot more flights that are blocked on the others. Also anyone with a Raspberry Pi and a cheap antenna can build their own ADS-B receiver and get that unfiltered data.
This may interest you: https://adsb.exposed/Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990346
Probably satellite ADS-B receivers like from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aireon
Here you go https://flightaware.com/adsb/
ADS-B is an automatic broadcast of an airplane's position and velocity, intended for making management of the airspace easer, among other things. It is not encrypted, and you can set up the hardware to receive the signal with a modest amount of effort. There is apparently a website somewhere where these hobbyists are aggregating this data.
You can probably fish it off flight radar. If you have an adsb broadcaster they’ll give you a free pro subscription
Feed ADSBExchange does not have a good return, ADSBExchange have way less data available, they don’t even have a free iOS client. A single Raspberry pi feeds both FlightAware and Flightradar24, they give you free business plan with apps with good user experience. From a normal user’s point, don’t see a good justification to do so.