tracking flights
 

hi

Read and tryed this out and like SBS i am wondering at
why if you want to get Live info FREE or Nearly free
(registration) why dont you Use ACARS set up
currently WACARS \and this http://www.acarsd.org/
are Free and http://www.airnavsystems.com
with a Reciever and Antenne you can expect to
recieve over 1000 flights per day over most of europe
if you want Heathrow stuff you will be well pleased
A lot of spotters bought SBS stuff use it very succesfully
And ACARS , YAHOOGROUPS\GOOGLEGROUPS have
many Lists that cover these subjects for those that
need help and information . Again £500 + Seems a lot
for what you can get FREE If its the registrations you
are after .

Tony

I understand openATC is not about collecting registrations, it's about tracking flights.

Cheers

hi

Sorry youve lost me ? the ultimate aim being the Route and Frame on
that flight ? am i right like this VT-JWA 20061004 2211 9W0117 (A340 JAI) (EGLL-VABB) if not what exactly are you after .

Tony:confused:

As far as I know ACARS only gives you position updates every 30 minutes or so. In addition, it's not an operational requirement to have ACARS. ADS-B on the other hand is on its way to become (and already has become in certain areas here in Oz) radar replacement in many locations, so most airplanes will be equipped in the near future.

Cheers

Dot Spotters ACARS SBS
 

hi

Yes i see the dIfferant Approach there in OZ to GB . Dot Spotting is
the name used here for High altitude Flights most Spotters into that
use Acars logs and SBS Logs to tieup civil and mil overflights and
Airport Arrivals . 99 pecent of requests are for Registrations for
a flight seen maybe miles high this seems to fit the bill ok.
Some of us are watching for new Frames biz and civil-liners and
getting Rare some of the older Series .one seen first time by me
this Morning on ACARS F-WXXL A380 002 . The high cost of
SBS eguipment here £500 TO 600 if you get properly installed
seems very high unless your a real Enthusiest and try to keep
databases and groups updated sadly a lot Dont . anyway will
have another longer look at Website when i have time see
if in any way i can help with updates

thanks your response

Tony
uk-acars enthusiest list owner

Channel 9 on UAL
 

I always enjoy listening to channel 9 when I fly UAL and wondered why noone else offered it. Monday nite on a trip LAX-SFO I started listening to it as we taxied out from our gate at LAX. There was a conversation from another UAL plane that had evidently taxied past a point that the controller wanted to hold him. I think he stated, the tower told him to continue to further point, at which point the present controller said he'd have to come back. CLICK....that was the end of channel 9 for our trip! I imagine our pilot didn't want us listening to this situation, although I was curious. I can now see that although some passengers like to listen to it, pilots must consider it an invasion of their privacey and prefer not to have it.

I have been an avid listener to UA channel 9 for many years and was pleasantly surprised when it was not removed post 11/9. I have developed a huge respect for ATCers everywhere as a result of listening to their efforts, particularly at times of traffic challenges.

I have however also seen the downside (for UA) of this open approach. On one memorable occasion I was at JFK on a 767 flight to London which was delayed departing by an engine problem. As we waited at the gate the engineers were called to lift the cowling and try to fix the problem. The captain was giving soothing words over the PA about how minor the problem was and how soon it would be fixed. Unfortunately for him, "someone" had also, presumably unwittingly, switched Ch9 away from ATC and on to the company channel, so those of us listening were priviledged to hear the exchanges between flight deck and the engineers. These exchanges were telling a very different tale relative to the nature of the problem! As time wore on the poor captain's tortured updates on the PA were getting increasingly baffling to all except those of us receiving the real blow-by-blow account on Ch9.

It took more than two hours to fix and test the problem, by which time I had learned a lot about UA's approach to crisis engineering - which appeared extremely professional, if a little harassed at times!

real time flight tracking
 

Hi everyone

I wonder if anyone could suggest a better free internet flight tracker for the UK than flytecom? I'm currently using this for arrivals into LHR (mainly to match up callsigns with flight numbers etc.) but it's not always accurate and completely omits a number of arrivals. Anyone got a better site up their sleeves?

What I do like about flytecom is the way it gives the ATC Callsign and provenance of flights.

As ever, MM

Not quite real time, about 5 minute delay, but very good.
http://www.openatc.com/

'scuse the daft question, but isn't it possible to read the reg from the underwing anymore?

read the REG
 

HI

Yes suppose you still can on some Stuff with a decent pair of bins
but at 37000 IT Isnt so easy and many Frames have Very small lettering
and colours " low vis they call it " Mil frames its vertualy impossible
on many of them " ok save you all the truouble You should all have gone to
SPECSAV--S ":rolleyes: :8

live ATC transmissions
 

Hi guys. I´m looking for any good page at internet where I can listen ATC, tower, aproach,etc live transmissions.
Can someone help me with that?

Thanks in advance :ok:

To make it ever more interesting try listening to the Boston Tower while watching this

http://www4.passur.com/bos.html

Just be aware that it has a ten minute delay. Still interesting though.

Thanks a lot guys!!!

Anyone else having trouble gettin that Passur website working?

Now that you mention it, I did have trouble with it on some other computers. It just doesn't seem to load. I never did find a solution.

And for those of you that it does work for:

LaGuardia: http://www4.passur.com/lga.html
Newark: http://www4.passur.com/ewr.html
JFK: http://www4.passur.com/jfk.html
St Petersburg/Clearwater (Tampa): http://www4.passur.com/pie.html

Hope it works.

You could also try

http://www.openatc.com/

for related info.

ATIS listening
 

Hi ,

does anybody know any website where to find live ATIS transmissions? Thanks

For anywhere in particular?

Try www.liveatc.net. I know they have feeds for ground/approach control, not sure about ATIS though.

B

You can look them up here:

http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/airlcodesearch.asp

Nothing found for 'jennings' though.

M.