This is a quick post, since I'm hoping to get out of the house and finally see Tron: Ares tonight.
With the NAS having issues driven by the government shutdown, I figured it would be useful to folks to know where to get Open Source Intelligence on aircraft flying in the United States. Here are some of my favorites:
- https://acarsdrama.com/ - Listening to aircraft to airline operations center traffic. A lot of housekeeping traffic, but also discussion of delays and reroutes.
- https://www.flightradar24.com/ - Where are the planes now? (user friendly, FAA-driven filters, delayed five minutes by FAA, data from official sources)
- https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ - Where are the planes now? (no filters, ADS-B only, crowd sourced, useful for military and planes who asked to be blocked)
- https://www.flightaware.com/ - Tracking, Data, Tons of Detail, Favorite of the News Media.
- https://nasstatus.faa.gov/ - A peek into what the Air Traffic Control System Command Center sees, the learning curve is a bit steeper here.
I speak air traffic control technobabble at a reasonable level. Feel free to hit me with questions.
FLYNN LIVES
NEXT TIME, GO AMTRAK
Have a good weekend.
