Because it's military. If the 'Interesting' box were to be checked in the database then it wouldn't show up if you wanted to see only interesting or military. All filters would need to be off to see it.
I've been using the iOS "app" (really nicely done, BTW) to watch air traffic having been unsuccessful in getting VRS to remember my desired location (which is not London). I see many aircraft marked as "interesting" which are really anything but -- fleets such as Kent State University's and Embry Riddle's training aircraft, for example. Not much interest in watching C152s doing TnGs and PA44s training aspiring ATPs. ;<) There are also many aircraft marked as "interesting" with no explanation -- from C172s to 737s. Military, law enforcement, medevac -- absolutely. FLIBs? No. Does the user have any control over what is "interesting?" Or, once someone says they're "interesting" is that the way it is ... forever? I think I'm missign something ... :<)
While I understand what you are saying, and have seen several unexplained "INTERESTING" aircraft, I also understand that what I feel is interesting you might not. Is Amazon aircraft interesting? It might be to someone who was interested in Amazon. The same for companies like Cesar's Entertainment, or Google, or Northrup Gromen? The number of interesting aircraft isn't that numerous, and easily ignored by those who doesn't find a plane interesting. However, I do agree with you that if an aircraft is marked as interesting an explanation should be added as to why or who it belongs to, beyond the 3 or 4 letter tag.
I agree -- we won't all agree. I sent that message after I noted that fully 30-40% of the aircraft on a given screen were "interesting" -- and they were FLIB flight trainers. And, there were several that were PA32s, C172, etc that may be of interest to someone -- but who and why? Someone's buddy's airplane maybe? Dunno. I think what I'm saying is that the bar seems to be so low that the attribute has actually become annoying. And, your example is a good one (and I agree that all could be considered "interesting").
Just picked up a Grizzly over Maryland that is marked "No" for Interesting 54+08 3F727C German Air Force GAF124 Germany Military Airbus Military A400M A400 Altitude: 9000 ft Speed: 328.5 mph Heading: 218.3° Vertical Speed: -1152 ft/m Squawk: 6704 Species: Landplane Transponder: ADS-B v1 Latitude: 39.65040° Longitude: -77.24225° Route: Route not known Interesting: No User Tag: Flights Count: 0 Receiver: QSMAN-51065 MLAT: No Message Count: 139 Time Tracked: 08:12 Avg. Signal Level: 32 Operator Code: GAF www.airport-data.com : : www.airliners.net : : www.airframes.org Show on map : : Enable auto-sel Following a German Air Force A340-300 which is heading for IAD....
REQUEST Flight be added as interesting N407KV A4C797 Owner - Duke Energy (business) Being used for Hurricane Florence
Are EMS Helicopters really interesting? Seems those keep getting added, and they seem less than interesting. Input?
People have different interests. If you wish not to see them it's very easy to add a filter for User Tag does not contain EMS.
So where do you get aircraft Hey James, where are you getting aircraft data from, I always thought you got had a database like that already. I'm a budding db guy, almost out of necessity to support my other new-ish interest, GIS. Not to go too far off the route, but to that point the layers are awesome! I'll add another post because I love that Airspace TMS!! Anyway, back to the question at hand, aircraft database: What are you guys using now, because there is absolutely no query latencies on my end! When I first started watching ADSBx a couple years ago, I figured the system was querying some or all of those links listed below the Aircraft Details pane. But as I learned more about this GIS stuff, I thought you must have db on your servers because things update so quickly! I have no professional or practical experiences with GIS or db to draw upon, so hopefully these are't stupid questions !!!
Dang, I need to be an better active participant in these discussions, I'm not really that new!! #LurkingTheForums
VRS uses SQLite as a database. It's ... challenging to keep working. How it works now is the community guys talk to an instance of VRS that has a Basestation.SQB database. They make changes, we copy that database to the globals periodically. There's a ton of issues with it and I don't think it currently works. One issues is that VRS just keeps pushing data into the SQLite database until it gets so big that it crashes VRS. Then we have to go in a clean it up, more or less reset it is but keep all the edits. Try to import FAA databse ... I'm not sure. As for the Global UI, that's gotten better because there are 30 servers backing it up vs only 2 from the early days. We also pay for Cloudflare to cache a lot of things so VRS doesn't have to serve flat files because .NET http library is trash, not even trash, it's burning trash.
https://fpx.adsbexchange.com/#2/0.0/0.0 This is docker PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GraphQL, and a bunch of other tools. It doesn't suck like VRS. But it also doesn't have the same look as VRS, but we're getting there.
Man, that does sound frustrating in a tangible way, and far more work intensive than I thought. Well, I have a bunch of aviation experience and knowledge, and as I said earlier, I'm working on the db and GIS pieces.
Is there any way to get a copy of BaseStation.sqb from ADS-B Exchange? At least a current version of it? I am only VIEWING not ADDING. What I am most after is a fairly decent "Interesting" populated db ... today I do it by hand but have only about 50 records changed... and then all by hand via SQLite tools... Thank you.
