Local ACARS Spotting Info - inbound/outbound aircraft
Folks - it's been about a year I've had a system up monitoring inbound/outbound flights for IAD and BWI at http://www.qatipi.com/acars/ . It's been about three weeks or so that I upgraded it to a new version that monitors multiple airports. I have included for now JFK, IAD, BWI and PHL. My intent is to add EWR and CLT sometime soon.
Since I take photos, I thought it would be very useful to know which aircraft is inbound, that way I can decide whether I need to rush or I can skip going to one airport and go to another.
Currently the programs monitor what is captured by acars listening posts and when it gets a match to the regular flight numbers it collects the registration. Please note that this won't catch any special flights (since we don't know the flight number before hand). Also, while we are working on some redundancy, there is no guarantee that we'll be able to catch all.
It will depend on ISP uptime, acars listening stations being up etc. etc. etc. However some information is better than no information.
The list of flights currently monitored is at
http://www.qatipi.com/acars/localflights.txt
So folks - check it out at http://www.qatipi.com/acars/ and suggestions are welcome
Blendi
Re: Local ACARS Spotting Info - inbound/outbound aircraft
Wow, this is pretty freakin' awesome! :) Great work and thanks for sharing!
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Originally Posted by blendq
Currently the programs monitor what is captured by acars listening posts and when it gets a match to the regular flight numbers it collects the registration. Please note that this won't catch any special flights (since we don't know the flight number before hand).
Where are you getting these "regular flight numbers" from? Are you manually compiling them? Might it might be possible to get a daily, dynamic list off free sites like FlyteComm or FlightAware so you can get special flights?
LGA would be pretty useful, too (not to say that what you already have isn't incredible). If you'd need help getting this off the ground, or with anything else, I know myself and others around here would be ready and willing.
Again, great work!
Brian