Don’t use adsb exchange! They up and sold out for money a few years ago. I stopped feeding them.
Use one of the not for profit ones. Like airplanes.live, adsb.fi, or adsb.lol
Sweet! Unfortunately just paid a year for exchange. Do the others honor requests to have certain planes not appear?
Nope. The 3 I listed do not filter any aircraft from being visible. They display everything the feeders submit to them.
I have a whole ADSB/VHF/L-Band feeder station on the roof of my garage and I feed the 3 I listed and ACARS data to airframes.io
I do feed flightaware…but only because they’re up front about being for profit and the fact they give feeders a free pro account. But sadly they do filter since its one of the requirements when have access to data directly from FAA. The pro account is nice for setting up alerts for flights family or friends may be on just so you know the plane made it.
Awesome, thanks for posting. I just recently got into plane watching, listening to ATC, etc. One day, when I’m able, I’ll have a setup like yours.
omg thank you so much for this i didnt know about that, i was thinking about to build a ADS-B feeding box for exchange D:
airplanes.live, adsb.fi, or adsb.lol seam to have the exact same feature set as ADS-B exchange minus the replay function, but i can life with that :D
Edit: airplanes.live seams to have replay feature the button just moved up lol
aussieadsb.com for Australia
all the big sites censor emergency services.
I find that despite it being a cardinal sin to use flightradar24, it generally has better coverage for non-commercial aircraft
Since when is it a sin? It’s got great coverage
In my experience, Lemmy seems to hate anything with a subscription model
Never paid for it, been using it to watch Blackhawks patrol the coast daily for years.
What do they use instead?
I mostly use ADS-B exchange, and if I can’t find what I’m looking for I open flightradar.
dosent they filter a lot? i switched to ADS-B exchange because flightradar24 didnt show military planes or something like that…
For military stuff, I go to RadarBox.
Thankfully, there hasn’t been any reason recently to look up military activity. 🙄
I’m in california and a blackhawk was in Anaheim recently in light of recent ICE protests. Can’t be a coincidence
Fuckers backing ice. Military needs to know they never get to recruit here again.
You know I was finding it interesting that most (but not all) of the planes at the military air show showed up on flightradar24. We got to watch half of it from the car on the drive up, as it’s tradition, so the app let me be a much poorer quality announcer.
I have a grandfathered purchase of their app on android, works very well
I live near a hospital with a landing pad, and there is also an airport on the other side of the city. Mostly I see medical transports or police choppers. But every once in a while, there’s a whole group of what look like chinooks (or some kind of doubles rotor chopper), all black, no markings visible from the ground, in formation flying by. That’s when it’s exciting.
The air force base I live by does not do a lot of helicopter anything. I’m bored as fuck by C5s but a squadron of chinooks sounds cool to watch. Never quite grow out of that.
Grab an RTL sdr and listen in yourself!
Just for ease of use my process is: If FlightRadar24 = null then ADS-B.
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