USAF C-40 LGA

[SengaB]

USAF C-40 at LGA if anyone is interested
Aircraft reg: 01-0041
Message label: H1 Block id: 4 Msg. no: F11A
Flight id: MC2309
Message content:-
#M1BPRG/FNEXEC1F/DTKLGA,22O,225,153118,29A2F4
-----------------------------------------------------------[05/03/2008 10:21]

Senga

[nikon50bigma]

Quick question; I see this a lot but I have no idea what those numbers mean.

"Message content:-
#M1BPRG/FNEXEC1F/DTKLGA,22O,225,153118,29A2F4"

Are those numbers VORs or flight times or???
Thanks

[SengaB]

nikon50bigma,

Most of the data in that strip is usless to us. Most of it is just Raw data being sent to and from groundstations.
For this particular transmission the useful part is ..(Direct Track DTK to LGA with either a heading or VOR radial of 220, 225. More than likely it was a heading.

DTKLGA,22O,225
Heres one from Republic Airlines E-170 trasmitting engine performance data.
Aircraft reg: .N118HQ
Message label: H1 Block id: 6 Msg. no: C03F
Flight id: RW3238
Message content:-
#CFBEngine1_vgAngle
3.1875
Engine2_ChannelinControl
0
Engine2_FADEC_SAT
458.75
Engine2_Fan_In_Temp
0.59375
Engine2_FuelFlow
2002.62
Engine2_ITT
672.625
Engine2_N1
77.125
Engine2_N2
83.7187
Engine2_OilPress
66.6
-----------------------------------------------------------[03/03/2008 12:11
How about a Jet Blue Toilet report?
Aircraft reg: .N599JB
Message label: H1 Block id: 0 Msg. no: C10A
Flight id: B60090
Message content:-
#CFBFLR/FR08030409410038316206LIQD LVL XMTR/IDTOILET

-----------------------------------------------------------[04/03/2008 04:42]
Senga

[SengaB]

The C-40 just took off to ADW
ACARS mode: 2 Aircraft reg: 01-0041
Message label: B9 Block id: 1 Msg. no: L09A
Flight id: MC2309
Message content:-
/KADW.TI2/024KADWA53E9
-----------------------------------------------------------[05/03/2008 16:53]

Senga

[Lezam]

How can you pick that stuff up?

[lijk604]

a scanner & cable from Radio Shack and a small program from AirNav systems.

You can see some crazy stuff over the "airwaves". A lot of the time from bizjets.

Cant tell you how many times though during "big games" (ie: Super Bowl, Final Four, World Series) you get a message saying "What's the score in the xxx game?"

Yeah, I'm one of those geeks. I haven't done decoding in a while, but, when I have some spare time and the weather sucks, I'll throw it on.

[SengaB]

Lezam,
I use ACARSD. You can pick anything and everything up with it as long as they participate.
To build on what lijk604 said.
You need a scanner or scanners, audio cables, sound card (or Cards) your computer and software like Acarsd or Airnav. The better set up you have the more transmissions you will get.
I currently can utilized 4 scanners. But you can have more with Acarsd.

Along with the standard data I have recived all kind of messages.
Everything from making hotel reservatios, flirting pilot/ground ops to gossip.

I let it run for about 14.5 hours on this particular session.
I stopped it after 3000 hits on 131.12.
http://sneakyfetus.tripod.com/acars.htm

Senga


Senga

[Lezam]

Thats really cool, maybe I could set it up on the liveatc server... letting the acars go public

[SengaB]

Yea its pretty cool. I thought about starting my own server as well. Maybe someday.

Senga