{"id":18155,"date":"2016-04-08T07:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18155"},"modified":"2016-04-08T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:41:22","slug":"real-time-flight-status-and-radar-for-all-uscanada-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/real-time-flight-status-and-radar-for-all-uscanada-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-time Flight Status And Radar For All US\/Canada Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FlightAware.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18156\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FlightAware.jpg\" alt=\"FlightAware\" width=\"523\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FlightAware.jpg 523w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FlightAware-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FlightAware-439x300.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a>For those who receive (and send) flight data from ADS-B capable devices such as the RTL-SDR dongles or have Apps for their tablets and phones, <a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\">FlightAware<\/a> announced on Wednesday this change to their service:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi from FlightAware,<\/p>\n<p>After months of development, we released a large upgrade to our back-end flight tracking engine on Tuesday. Not only did the upgrade include dozens of bug fixes and flight tracking improvements, but we added a massive enhancement for US and Canadian flight tracking &#8212; the <strong>flight status and radar data is now live with no more five minute delay!<\/strong> Previously, the US\/Canada data feed contained a five minute delay in addition to our ~30 second processing time, but now all data is less than a minute delayed from real time. In addition to the general improvement, this yields a lot of additional benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More seamless transition between RADAR, ADS-B, and MLAT positions<\/li>\n<li>Flights will no longer transition from &#8220;Arriving soon&#8221; to &#8220;Arrived 5 minutes ago&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Fewer estimated positions due to delayed RADAR data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now that the radar data in the US and Canada is real-time, we&#8217;ll soon be enabling public <a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/adsb\/mlat\/\">MLAT data<\/a> in the US, which is real-time just like our <a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/adsb\/\">ADS-B data<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a major upgrade in data for folks in North America, and it will make using programs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coaa.co.uk\/planeplotter.htm\" target=\"_blank\">PlanePlotter<\/a> even more useful!<\/p>\n<p>For those who might be interested in building their own dedicated ADS-B receiver, information <a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/adsb\/piaware\/build\" target=\"_blank\">may be found here<\/a>. Of course FlightAware may be used as an online flight checking service just for tracking the progress of a given flight, which is in itself a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Robert Gulley, AK3Q,\u00a0is the author of this post and <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/author\/robert\/\" target=\"_blank\">a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post. Robert also blogs<\/em><em>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ak3q.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who receive (and send) flight data from ADS-B capable devices such as the RTL-SDR dongles or have Apps for their tablets and phones, FlightAware announced on Wednesday this change to their service: Hi from FlightAware, After months of development, we released a large upgrade to our back-end flight tracking engine on Tuesday. Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[344,3,554],"tags":[4935,4936,3627],"class_list":["post-18155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kits","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-ads-b","tag-aviation-monitoring","tag-utility"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4IP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24542,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/making-a-flightaware-ads-b-feeder-with-a-raspberry-pi-3-and-rtl-sdr-dongle\/","url_meta":{"origin":18155,"position":0},"title":"Making a FlightAware ADS-B feeder with a Raspberry Pi 3 and RTL-SDR dongle","author":"Thomas","date":"March 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been nearly a year since I acquired both the RTL-SDR\u00a0(above) and Rasperry Pi 3\u00a0(below)r. 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