Author: Dan

Due to FlightAware’s decision to start “filtering” some aircraft from their MLAT feeds, ADSBexchange has started a beta test to calculate our own MLAT positions.  For more information on how to participate, check here: http://www.adsbexchange.com/mlat-beta

I’ve never heard of this before, but it is an interesting application for our API. http://airscout.eu   

This is a very interesting article about police surveillance and how one of these programs works.  Lots of potential here for stopping crime.  What do you think, invasion of privacy or not?   https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/

This was helpful when we were getting our ADS-B transmitter kinks ironed out. They’ve moved from an e-mail service to web-based. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/august/11/faa-improves-performance-monitor –Dan

Here are some interesting details from the latest meeting of the ICAO ADS-B Study and Implementation Task Force. The “Boeing 787 ADS-B Deficiency Update” document was especially interesting. Also of note, in the summary document, PDF page 92 the ICAO states: “It was noted that there has been considerable alarmist publicity regarding ADS-B security. To a Read More …

If you are using PiAware, and your MLAT results suddenly are not appearing on your dump1090 local web interface. Check your MLAT configuration. SSH into your PiAware device and issue the following commands: sudo piaware-config -mlatResultsFormat “beast,connect,localhost:30104 beast,connect,feed.adsbexchange.com:30005” sudo piaware-config -restart This tells PiAware to send MLAT results to ADS-B exchange, as well as the default Read More …

Interesting article here: Battle During Coup Attempt

All, The day job has been keeping me exceedingly busy recently. My schedule should lighten up in approximately 2 weeks, at which time I will be doing some more enhancements, as well as adding additional server capacity to handle the ever increasing number of visitors we have been getting. Thanks, Dan

One of the two PC-24 prototypes (HB-VXB, ICAO: 4B39CB) can be seen from time to time flying out of KDVT in Phoenix for avionics and autopilot trials.  It will return to Switzerland in late 2016.

FYI, if you’re running Firefox and have recently updated to version 46, you may have noticed the “menu” button on the main radar screen does not work.  This has been fixed. Thanks, Dan