ADSB: Airplane Tracking

ADS-B tracking websites DO NOT show every aircraft that is flying. Neither radar nor hobbyist tracking has perfect coverage of the U.S., let alone the entire world. The ADS-B transponder can also be turned off legally, in some situations.

2023-12-18T06:30:21+00:00

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I haven't seen this many blackhawks training off the shore of ca before

2026-06-09T20:24:36+00:00

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In full french fashion - late

2026-06-09T14:43:52+00:00

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Red Flag Exercise

2026-06-09T23:49:38+00:00

It’s a good time to watch for new aircraft in the area with Red Flag happening up here right now. Found this A400 out of the UK and a C-130 from New Zealand.

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Swiss Air Force in SoCal?

2026-06-09T03:20:34+00:00

Hadn’t seen these before. What would they be in Oxnard, CA for?

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First time seeing blimp

2026-06-08T10:01:50+00:00

Sorry for the bad picture of the goodyear blimp, but it was 25km away.

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Boeing's 757 flight test aircraft

2026-06-08T20:11:14+00:00

Boeing's own 757 flight test aircraft (N757A) over Colorado, with special instrumentation boom.

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ADS-B as a data layer on my satellite tracking globe

2026-06-08T12:55:47+00:00

I did a thing: https://satellitemap.space/aircraft and in fact, if on a phone, AR mode works, and in the app, AR with camera.

The global backend update is quite slow (no ADSB API is generous) so extrapolated positions are quite inaccurate in turns. If you'd like to feed your ADSB to the globe, and get fast updates for your planes, it's very easy, this is the shell loop I run on mine so planes in Sydney are fast.

while true; do curl -s http://localhost/tar1090/data/aircraft.binCraft.zst | \ curl -s -X POST https://api.satellitemap.space/re-api/feed \ -H "X-Feeder-ID: rpi-$(cat /etc/machine-id)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \ -H "Content-Encoding: zstd" \ --data-binary @- sleep 5 done

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Does anyone know what happened to flyitalyadsb.com?

2026-06-09T00:04:30+00:00

flyitalyadsb.com seems to have been down for a long time. Does anyone know what happened to it? Is it permanently down? It is still listed as one of the ADSB feeds in ADSB.im

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Spad on the loose

2026-06-07T22:07:49+00:00

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Phantom and Skyhawk flying around KEFD

2026-06-07T22:27:18+00:00

https://preview.redd.it/nljmyxe9rx5h1.png?width=652&format=png&auto=webp&s=48406d3decd0d3bfcd0211b628664a9b62e2cea6

A couple of legends flying around this afternoon. And there's no airshow...

The A4 landed down in Galveston. Flew in from North Texas Regional outside Sherman. I've seen him go down there before. Not sure where the F4 flew in from but I didn't need to see it to know what was flying overhead. It's the one owned by Collings Foundation but possibly kept at the Viet Nam Flight museum out at Ellington. Not sure.

https://preview.redd.it/201k2sgorx5h1.png?width=893&format=png&auto=webp&s=2840c7f265586c27b0feb43c0d9da8cad85f3453

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Flightaware AeroAPI pricing -- out of control?

2026-06-08T07:42:58+00:00

I thought it might be fun to build some flight status displays for my house. I bought a bunch of ADS-B hardware, put the antenna on my roof, and figured I'd start with piaware.

FlightAware offers an additional $5 of API credit to anyone who feeds them data, for a total of $10 a month. A simple display that shows extra information about nearby airplanes would fit comfortably in that limit, right?

Nope, turns out just just a few days of queries quickly racked up hundreds of dollars of charges. There's no way to set a max spend, and the dashboard doesn't show you your totals until the next day, at which point it is too late.

I'm not sure I see the value in feeding data to FlightAware if the API pricing is so high that I can't realistically use it for anything, and I'm just a hobbyist.

Has anyone else here had a similar experience? Where are you sourcing your flight data from, if at all? Thanks!

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Looking for ADSB Small Anteena

2026-06-08T04:30:03+00:00

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ADSB on an RP2040 microcontroller!

2026-06-07T11:01:23+00:00

I posted about my Pi Pico ADS-B receiver project a year ago, and I've been working on it ever since! It now supports dual band (UAT ADSB / TIS-B / FIS-B weather in the USA), and we have a locally hosted map interface.

https://github.com/CoolNamesAllTaken/adsbee/

After many months tuning the PIO Mode S decoder and improving the network stack, I think it's finally approached its performance limit. These are some screenshots from a user station located in Germany, with some nice antennas and a cavity filter. Our range is similar to some RTL-SDR dongles at this point, and the packet rate is a bit lower (but still extremely serviceable, we're getting at least 2Hz updates per aircraft).

If people like reading about adventures in embedded open source ADSB engineering, there are some blog posts on my website that detail building a Mode S transponder with $40 of parts, tuning PIO instructions to improve receiver dynamic range, getting MLAT-grade timestamps with PIO and DMA hacks, and similar topics :) https://pantsforbirds.com/blog/

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one of my fav call signs i’ve seen 😂

2026-06-05T18:10:26+00:00

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Hello Scandinavia Airlines #932 (LAX -> CPH) [Airbus A333]

2026-06-06T05:14:02+00:00

Saw these beautiful contrails while I was outside tonight. Thought I'd share with you all. Thanks for the amazing pictures flight 932.

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Turbine Caribou

2026-06-06T00:10:39+00:00

Been enjoying seeing this turbine conversion de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou at the Palmer Municipal Airport

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US Navy flying a drone around Cuba

2026-06-05T21:11:56+00:00

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Radar tracking sites which return data in exchange for feeding

2026-06-06T13:50:39+00:00

Hello, does anyone know of any sites which offer data return in exchange for feeding?

I know of adsb hub and adsb lol though the adsb lol api hasn't worked for a while using the ports.

Are there any other sites I can feed which offer global data in exchange for feeding?

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Antenna mounting

2026-06-06T02:12:33+00:00

I want to mount the antenna outside my window and get it above the roof but don’t want to have to climb up to install it. It there any way I could do this? I would be mounting it out the circled window.

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Cat and Mouse

2026-06-06T02:14:42+00:00

Lol I just hear them circling

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My first coding project: a lightweight local dashboard for PiAware / dump1090-fa

2026-06-05T12:59:46+00:00

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on: PiAware Dashboard, a Palantir-style lightweight local dashboard for Raspberry Pi ADS-B stations running PiAware / dump1090-fa.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/B1ackCat7/PiAware-Dashboard

This is my first vibe coding project, so I’m sure there are things that can be improved — but I’ve really enjoyed building it and wanted to share it with other ADS-B enthusiasts who might be interested in testing it.

The dashboard shows things like:
Raspberry Pi system health
Network status
PiAware / dump1090-fa service status
Aircraft count and positioned tracks
Messages per second
Range history
Signal / noise / gain stats
A compact receiver-centred aircraft display

It’s designed to be simple and local: no Node.js, no database, no build step, and no external web services required for the main dashboard. It runs as a small Python web server on the Pi and uses the existing dump1090-fa runtime JSON data.

I’m using it for my own ground ADS-B station, and it has been really fun to see the data from my receiver in a more personalized way.

I’d really appreciate any comments, feedback, bug reports, suggestions, or pull requests especially from people who are running different PiAware setups and can help test whether it works smoothly outside my own station.

Thanks in advance, and happy tracking!

Update: A few people asked about the AI-assisted part. This project was partly an experiment to see how far someone with limited coding background could get using AI as a coding assistant. AI (Claude and Codex, specifically) helped me write, understand, and debug most part of the code, but the idea, ADS-B setup, feature choices, testing, and iteration came from my own station and my own curiosity. I’m sharing it as a DIY learning project, not a polished commercial product, and I’d really appreciate feedback from people with more experience.

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Antenna mounting

2026-06-06T02:12:40+00:00

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Why isn’t 92-9000 showing on ADSB?

2026-06-05T22:57:30+00:00

When I tried to track this plane using history it went from today’s date back to 10/31/2025. There’s no other history showing. Is this a glitch or just my app messing up?

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US military callsigns are getting out of hand..

2026-06-04T21:01:34+00:00

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae68bf

Not the first time I've seen this specific callsign, regrettably. 😂

I know the US military use pretty wild callsigns but seriously I have a whole lot of questions regarding this one.

I've also seen V-22 Ospreys with the callsign UGLY 😢

Pretty sure I've seen NUKED and STAB also..

Just wondering what's the craziest callsigns everyone else has seen?

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