pinkfoot Plane Finder AN AMAZING SOFTWARE

[SydMel]

I am monitoring ALL TRAFFIC in and out of Sydney and by-passing Sydney within an estimated radius of 300 nm . All planes appear as little red plane icons over a map of NSW and when I touch a plane it gives all data
origin destination, airline , aircraft type altitude speed magnetic direction.
At any one time I see about 20 to 30 planes ALL MOVING like on an AT screen
This is amazing. Thought I will let you guys know about it

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Now more and more planes are equipped with ADS-B, a very cheap receiver can track nearly everything up there as well or better as a traditional radar. Put one of these boxes on top of your roof, hook up some software and a web site, and hey presto.

casper.frontier.nl/eham/

[Shiv Mathur]

Is pinkfoot the same as pinkfroot ?

[SydMel]

Sorry guys . I misspelt. It is pinkfroot, yes Chiv.

you are right. I have ""wasted"" the whole day watching plane icons move over a map of NSW and over an enlarged map landing and taking off from YSSY international airport.

I feel like an air traffic controller, that many planes coming  and going in
all directions. My head is almost "spinning".

All  this wonderful technology.
 

[Shiv Mathur]

I wasn't trying to correct you ... it's just that googling 'pinkfoot'
does indeed return results, but all of which take you to 'pinkfroot' !

Edit: I mean, googling 'pinkfoot plane finder'.

[torrence]

Now more and more planes are equipped with ADS-B, a very cheap receiver can track nearly everything up there as well or better as a traditional radar. Put one of these boxes on top of your roof, hook up some software and a web site, and hey presto.

casper.frontier.nl/eham/

Obvious question, Jeroen - couldn't this be used to inject real-time traffic into PSX's TCAS fairly easily?

Cheers,
Torrence

[SydMel]

On my iphone screen [minimised to cover the area Sydney Melbourne [[hence my SydMel name]]  ]  I see a line of aircraft traffic, following one another like cars on a highway, no wonder they call it "airways"


Question for Jeroen, what do I connect to the ADS-B receiver and how?

I feel as if I am with the air traffic controllers in the ATC room at Kingsford Smith Airport.

[Phil Bunch]

As best I can tell, only a few planes have ADS-B enabled within US airspace.  

Still, it's fun to watch the landing patterns, etc, within Europe and Australia, etc!

There is a free version of this software for the iPad, too (search for Plane Finder at the App Store), although the free version leaves out altitude and flight ID, etc.  The paid version costs 8 US dollars, from memory.  I may not be able to resist much longer, just thinking about tracking EU and other traffic...  They also make a ship tracker/mapping app for the iPad, search for Ship Finder.

One of these days, someone is going to develop something useful for PCs, tablets, etc!  (grins)

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Torrence: there is no difference between feeding real traffic and simulated (VATSIM) traffic into PSX. Both are easy, if you have the traffic data in textual form (not just on a moving map).

SydMel: I am not aware of readily available programs that you can run on a PC, but technically an ADS-B receiver just spits out streams of textual plane positions, so either via RS232 or USB these can be fed into a PC. I think some searching on the intarwebs will reveal plenty of suggestions.


Jeroen

[martin]

One of these days, someone is going to develop something useful for PCs

You mean like this or this?
Or do I misunderstand?

Cheers,
Martin

[Richard McDonald Woods]

The problem, of course, with feeding real world data into a virtual world would be deciding whether you can fly with most of the traffic obeying real world ATC instructions and you following virtual world ATC instructions or none.

This would not be very useful in my view.

[Hessel Oosten]

Probably nowadays also a lot of virtual traffic in the "electronic air".

I heard from an online flying friend, that during the last big IVAO event, he saw
2298 aircraft logged in (at the same time) !

Hessel

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Imagine the issues the people who fly unmanned aircraft are facing, whose remote crafts are increasingly part of controlled air space.

[Jamie]

Sydmel, on my iPhone4 I run 'ATCbox stream player' (developed by me grin) and listen to live ATC chatter in background as aircraft turn inbound EHAM on the Plane Finder App.
Currently busy doing the same thing: adding a map to my ATCbox app

All these home-ADS-B/Acars receivers are sharing info with each other in one giant 'radar pool', amazing indeed. http://www.kinetic-avionics.com sells them.

[Phil Bunch]

Sydmel, on my iPhone4 I run 'ATCbox stream player' (developed by me grin) and listen to live ATC chatter in background as aircraft turn inbound EHAM on the Plane Finder App.
Currently busy doing the same thing: adding a map to my ATCbox app

All these home-ADS-B/Acars receivers are sharing info with each other in one giant 'radar pool', amazing indeed. http://www.kinetic-avionics.com sells them.

Thanks for the tips and reference to your iPod/iPhone app.  I just downloaded it and look forward to enjoying its capabilities.

I previously acquired the "LiveATC air radio" app, which I believe takes a interesting approach to ATC listening.  This app provides internet-based audio access to many realtime ATC streams, from around the world.  As best I can tell, it is somewhat a matter of chance as to what streams will be active at a given time but the bigger airports seem to have reasonably good coverage.  For example, KJFK has about 10 or so streams at the moment, representing everything from various approach controls to ground control, etc, and most airports also provide a basic runway and taxiway map within the app.  Frequencies are also provided, and these features make it easier to follow the radio traffic.

The many good ATC apps that are now available, on both PC and mobile devices, are quite enjoyable, and provide much more convenient and flexible access than we had even a few years or so in the past.

[Jamie]

True, mine does it too, but then you have to be ATCbox member:)