Plane Spotters / Flight Radar Thread

wez130 · 27 Feb 2017 at 10:02

VaderDSL said:
Some impressive videos floating around, e.g.

I was watching the flight radar for a few hours this morning, loads aborted and were diverted to Liverpool/Leeds. Not surprised after watching that vid.

I was on that flight a couple of weeks ago, i'd have been bricking it if i was on that one! Thanks for waiting a couple of weeks Doris

Feek · 27 Feb 2017 at 10:11

neodude said:
It was a guy on the FlightAware forums that made those overlays. Backup your dump1090 HTML folder, Download this and extract it to your dump1090 HTML folder, replacing the 2 files already there.

Thanks, I'll take a look and see if I can pinch the appropriate bits of code out as I've made some tweaks that I like better than all those changes.

miller745 · 27 Feb 2017 at 16:52

neodude said:
What dongle/filter/antenna are you currently using? Have you calculated your maximum possible range based on your location and compared it to what you're getting?
There's plenty of customisation available for the map, have look around the flight aware forums.
Here's a live feed of my current setup.... http://neodude.home.kg/

I like the look of your map, but having no callsign/info under the aircraft icon is a pain. I seem to be clicking and guessing what's what from the sidebar at the minute.

I'm using a £5 3dBi SMA Antenna, with a FlightAware Pro Stick Plus, antenna is in the first floor window. Should be doing better going from HayWhatsThat.

Found this fork of 1090dump, which I'll try this week. http://www.mictronics.de/2017/02/dump1090-fa-modification

Cleisthenes · 27 Feb 2017 at 16:58

Crikey, that aborted A380 landing :eek:

No thank you very much!

topgun06 · 21 Mar 2017 at 14:55

So what on earth was G-LSAC doing? Training?

Feek · 21 Mar 2017 at 15:32

Diverted because of a failure maybe? It'll be on the Daily Mail soon if that was the case!

miller745 · 22 Mar 2017 at 15:14

Has anyone made a soldered 8 leg spider antenna? I can't for the life of me get solder to lay down onto the SO-239 connector. Keeps balling up.

Trying different antennas while I wait for a POE adaptor so I put it up in the loft. Using a 3 element collinear J pole just now, was meant to be a 4 but I cut the cable too short

Feek · 23 Mar 2017 at 00:17

You need to get rid of the coating on the SO-239 socket. I attacked mine with a dremel before I soldered to it and it was perfectly fine afterwards. Having said that, the two element j-pole collinear I built afterwards works better. The four element one I built (and tuned with an analyser) really didn't seem to work as well as the two element one.
There are pictures of my spider earlier in this thread and in post #118 I link to a comparison article of an indoor j-pole and an external commercial aerial. It's worth a look if you haven't already.

miller745 · 23 Mar 2017 at 01:28

Yes I read that post think that's what made me try one, got the dimensions for it from a forum somewhere. Will chop mine down to 2 because it seems to be performing much worse than the £5 aerial. Gone from 50k+ reports received per day to half that at best :|

miller745 · 23 Mar 2017 at 14:06

Feek I'm guessing your elements were 137mm then 16 turns over 53mm?

Feek · 23 Mar 2017 at 14:07

Sounds about right, yes.
/edit - Those were my starting measurements, I did trim the top section down slightly to get the best SWR match.

miller745 · 23 Mar 2017 at 14:51

Thanks, I'm going to make another one but try to be spot on with the measurements this time..

neodude · 23 Mar 2017 at 22:35

Feek said:
Diverted because of a failure maybe? It'll be on the Daily Mail soon if that was the case!

Yep, looks like it diverted, tried to land at Shannon then changed his mind at the last minute.

Feek · 28 Mar 2017 at 22:58

There are protesters blocking the runway at Stansted this evening.

Lots of aircraft in the hold, that's very unusual for this time of night.

neodude · 29 Mar 2017 at 08:06

NIMBYs

agnes · 29 Mar 2017 at 21:42

Yo, plane guru's, I didn't want to create a new thread just for this question, but does a Boeing 787-9 have power sockets per seat? Or per row? I ask as I'm flying with this plane to San Francisco later this year and I'm just curious.

bingham67 · 29 Mar 2017 at 21:53

agnes said:
Yo, plane guru's, I didn't want to create a new thread just for this question, but does a Boeing 787-9 have power sockets per seat? Or per row? I ask as I'm flying with this plane to San Francisco later this year and I'm just curious.

Usb power socket per back seat head rest on the 787-9 I was on

agnes · 29 Mar 2017 at 22:04

bingham67 said:
Usb power socket per back seat head rest on the 787-9 I was on

Hmmm, wonder what it's outputting? I need to power a Nintendo Switch. Wondering wether or not I want to take a power bank or not. I imagine the headrest ones are only 5V.

Scuzi · 29 Mar 2017 at 22:08

Feek said:
There are protesters blocking the runway at Stansted this evening.

Lots of aircraft in the hold, that's very unusual for this time of night.

About 10 years ago it used to be busier than that right up until about 0100. It all ended in 2008 when the recession hit. We are headed that direction again too, expect it to get busier later in the evening as the loco fleets head home for the night.

Holding at LAPRA (the one to the east) isn't so common at that time though.

Protesters are a pain in the ass. Last time they did Heathrow, they chained their arms together inside glass tubes at the top of a tripod. Health and safety rules mean it takes a specialist "working at heights" team an absolute age to get them down without injuring them.

bingham67 · 29 Mar 2017 at 23:08

agnes said:
Hmmm, wonder what it's outputting? I need to power a Nintendo Switch. Wondering wether or not I want to take a power bank or not. I imagine the headrest ones are only 5V.

No idea was slow charging my phone though but there was no problem with that being on a 12 hour flight