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wiedehopf··on ADS-B Exposed
If you're not comfortable running my readsb (fork of dump1090) which is the feed client used by live / lol / fi and some other sites, then you can probably just send them data using socat.

Most of them will have port 30004 open for their ingest domain, usually feed.domain.com. Thus you'd hook up socat to 127.0.0.1:30005 (i assume you run dump1090 or readsb locally as a decoder). And make socat send that to feed.adsb.lol:30004 and/or feed.airplanes.live:30004

If you're in a remote location, you don't need to worry about mlat-client as MLAT requires at least 4 receivers that receive common aircraft.

wiedehopf··on ADS-B Exposed
That's only MLAT though and won't feed the ADS-B data.
wiedehopf··on Ghana bans a Delta Boeing 767 (yes, just one)
Aircraft is in the air right now: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a17b16&lat=54.936&lon=-...

Back to back turnback: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a17b16&lat=42.330&lon=-... https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a17b16&lat=42.330&lon=-...

wiedehopf··on Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
There are checklists for configuring everything as required.
wiedehopf··on Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
Yeah i know it is what you want.

I'm just asking if it's really a reality as i previously got the impression airline training wasn't quite at that level. As in mostly you get an engine out because that needs training every time. And if the unexpected scenario is an engine out most of the time ... it's not really unexpected.

I wonder how often stuff like static port blockages and even maybe the flight director being wrong during takeoff are trained in an unexpected fashion. I'd expect quite rarely if at all. That's ok i suppose as it's rare failures, but the descriptions here kinda suggested a level of random scenarios being thrown at pilots ... which isn't quite realistic i think due to limited simulator time alone.

wiedehopf··on Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff
Is it really unexpected failures or do they discuss scenario / do you expect one of a few typical scenarios?

Really throwing failures at pilots without them knowing what's going on seems to mean too many fail or rather there is not enough time to train pre-discussed scenarios and do scenarios that aren't announced.

I'm not sure it's really what you'd want.

wiedehopf··on Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel
With batteries it's a bit more complicated as LiIon degrades faster at higher charge levels / voltages. So you're trading longevity for extra capacity in that case.
wiedehopf··on China Bans Flightradar24
That's not Aireon data but rather ADS-C which is just Iridium data link as far as i know.
wiedehopf··on Midair Collision over Denver
Exact tracks of both aircraft with timestamps: press K to enable labels https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a4eabe,a2cee7&lat=39.63...
wiedehopf··on Ask HN: Ads-B Tracking PD Helicopters in South SF Bay Area
ModeC MLAT ... is theoretically possible but you can't tell the aircraft identity and implementation is complicated and not planned.
wiedehopf··on Ask HN: Ads-B Tracking PD Helicopters in South SF Bay Area
We're not censoring anything.

They changed their transponders to either military stuff or ModeC which can't be easily identified.

TIS-B are traffic information broadcast by ATC so we're not getting signals directly from the aircraft.

wiedehopf··on Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi
No we don't need to fix the ports, we recommend installing a standalone decoder. Data going through fr24feed is likely not to work for MLAT. Anyhow that port 30003 is unreliable as fr24feed at least used to crash with multiple connections to it.

In a similar spirit: FR24 should fix their installs and ports.

wiedehopf··on Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi
A few pointers to get a receiver going if you're interested and don't want to use the Flightaware image: https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wiki/wiki/adsb-receiver-sh... https://github.com/wiedehopf/adsb-wiki/wiki/Raspbian-Lite:-A...