[jhb] Re: Mode S data.
- From: MikeB <mike.brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:27:33 +0100
Not me!
MikeB
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On 22 May 2013, at 15:25, Fred Stopforth <fredstopforth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With regards to E-mails coming in from the group. I am getting the red
> 'phishing' alert about E- mails from Bones and Gerry . Anybody else getting
> this problem? Fred
>
> From: John Woodside
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:28 PM
> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jhb] Mode S data.
>
> Possibly a repeat because I forget what I’ve told you..
>
> Aircraft send very little information about themselves but a lot about the
> flight conditions. This makes sense in reducing data length. All you will see
> about the specific aircraft is a Moe S code and a callsign – if the pilot has
> dialled one in. It is the software in the radar that does the data lookup and
> turns the Mode S code into a something more tangible. It can provide
> registration, type, c/n, Owner and almost anything else you wish to add.
>
> Most display programs have been made to do the same. They will show
> registration, type, c/n, owner, maybe an aircraft silhouette and maybe an
> airline logo. For an example see a live VRS feed at
> http://example.virtualradarserver.co.uk:8080/VirtualRadar/GoogleMap.htm#
> taken in the London area.
>
> All use a database for this data and almost all are tuned to the Kinetic
> Basestation.sqb file. And you don’t have one of these. Nor do you have
> airline logo bitmaps, aircraft silhouettes, photos. And for the Planeplotter
> radar display you don’t have coastlines, airspace, navaids, airports,
> waypoints or suchlike either. That can be fixed though.
>
> I pick up about 10/15 new aircraft each day that my SBS has never detected
> before. I don’t have to go online to find out who these new Mode S codes
> belong to – although there is a website at http://www.airframes.org/ that
> allows you to do just that. Luckily there is a program written for the SBS
> that does it automatically. It constantly looks at new records in the SQB and
> if it sees missing data it looks this up on the Gatwick server and reads the
> data into the sqb. It takes a lot of hard work out of the game. J
>
> But enough of this now for the first step will be to see if you can get data
> in the first place..
>
> As Planeplotter and VRS seem to be grabbing my data anyway I will, when
> ready, give you a link to download the various bitmap sets you may want to
> try plus a fairly up to date SQB file.
>
>
> John Woodside
>
> bones@xxxxxxx
>
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