#flightaware — Public Fediverse posts

Hey, #adsb folks - if you're feeding your data to #FlightAware, you'll receive a free US$10 monthly "ADS-B feeder" credit for their #AeroAPI services when you register for their Personal service tier. I'm using it to identify airlines/operators...

https://www.flightaware.com/commercial/aeroapi

OK, managed to find that the registration of the helicopter over us right now is N42SL and it's (no surprise) been circling overhead for about 25 minutes - what else can I find out about it?

#flightaware #helicopter

#NBC #SuperBowl Sportscaster Mike Tirico Left #BayArea Via Private Jet Out Of #Oakland And Landed In Italy To Broadcast Next Day's Winter #Olympics Coverage

Rented Bombardier Global 7500 aircraft out of #Oak probably cost Comcast owned network a quarter mil and left in wee hours Monday AM and landed at #Milan #Malpensa International Airport (#MXP) just 10.5 hours later, according to data from #FlightAware.

https://simpleflying.com/nbc-sportscaster-flies-10-hours-private-jet-super-bowl-olympics/

#NBC #SuperBowl Sportscaster Mike Tirico Left #BayArea Via Private Jet Out Of #Oakland And Landed In Italy To Broadcast Next Day's Winter #Olympics Coverage

Rented Bombardier Global 7500 aircraft out of #Oak probably cost Comcast owned network a quarter mil and left in wee hours Monday AM and landed at #Milan #Malpensa International Airport (#MXP) just 10.5 hours later, according to data from #FlightAware.

https://simpleflying.com/nbc-sportscaster-flies-10-hours-private-jet-super-bowl-olympics/

#NBC #SuperBowl Sportscaster Mike Tirico Left #BayArea Via Private Jet Out Of #Oakland And Landed In Italy To Broadcast Next Day's Winter #Olympics Coverage

Rented Bombardier Global 7500 aircraft out of #Oak probably cost Comcast owned network a quarter mil and left in wee hours Monday AM and landed at #Milan #Malpensa International Airport (#MXP) just 10.5 hours later, according to data from #FlightAware.

https://simpleflying.com/nbc-sportscaster-flies-10-hours-private-jet-super-bowl-olympics/

If you or anyone you know has/had plans to get in or out of DC or NYC today, fuggitaboutit. One look at Flightaware's Misery Map confirms there are a LOT of parked airplanes from KDFW thru KATL all the way to KBOS.

By the numbers, via #flightaware

Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,559

Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 11,034

And even many of the trains and busses are also parked.

#StayHome

#avgeeks #aviation #travel

If you or anyone you know has/had plans to get in or out of DC or NYC today, fuggitaboutit. One look at Flightaware's Misery Map confirms there are a LOT of parked airplanes from KDFW thru KATL all the way to KBOS.

By the numbers, via #flightaware

Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,559

Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 11,034

And even many of the trains and busses are also parked.

#StayHome

#avgeeks #aviation #travel

If you or anyone you know has/had plans to get in or out of DC or NYC today, fuggitaboutit. One look at Flightaware's Misery Map confirms there are a LOT of parked airplanes from KDFW thru KATL all the way to KBOS.

By the numbers, via #flightaware

Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,559

Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 11,034

And even many of the trains and busses are also parked.

#StayHome

#avgeeks #aviation #travel

If you or anyone you know has/had plans to get in or out of DC or NYC today, fuggitaboutit. One look at Flightaware's Misery Map confirms there are a LOT of parked airplanes from KDFW thru KATL all the way to KBOS.

By the numbers, via #flightaware

Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,559

Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 11,034

And even many of the trains and busses are also parked.

#StayHome

#avgeeks #aviation #travel

If you or anyone you know has/had plans to get in or out of DC or NYC today, fuggitaboutit. One look at Flightaware's Misery Map confirms there are a LOT of parked airplanes from KDFW thru KATL all the way to KBOS.

By the numbers, via #flightaware

Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 3,559

Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 11,034

And even many of the trains and busses are also parked.

#StayHome

#avgeeks #aviation #travel

Need to work on creating a real-time actionable dashboard at some point. But for now, I'll watch my ADS-B #FlightAware feeder. (Also feeding to #FlightRadar24.)

So today I spotted these #Canadian fighters training over the #WaddenZee.

#FlightRadar #ADSB

Wait a second! This dude actually has a girl friend? Does she know? :-) That is the real story here!

The head of the FBI’s critical incident response group (a 27 year veteran) was told he could resign instantly or be fired after flight schedules and tail tracking information for one of the FBI's private jets was public. The flight info detailed FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the private jet to go on a date night with his girlfriend. Jet tracking data is fully in the public domain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use #FBI #PrivateJets #FlightAware #FBIDirector #FlightTracking #N708JH #DoJ #GulfstreamG550

We now have an #ADSB Rx station at the club shack, thanks to members chipping in to help set this up.
We are feeding many services, including #FlightRadar24 #ADSBExchange #ADSBfi #ADSBlol #ADSBHub #FlightAware #PlaneWatch #RadarBox #OpenSky #1090MhzUK and more.
Group members can now enjoy premium features of some of these services.
We still have more to do to improve the setup, as currently when we Tx on other bands, the RTLSDR goes deaf. Perhaps a nice cavity filter! #1090mhz #AmateurRadio

Anyone know if the #FlightAware "security incident" involved plaintext passwords? Certainly smells like it... First I'm seeing anything about this.

Edit:
They replied in a support thread indicating passwords are "hashed", reply included in the thread below.

#DataBreach #securityincident #plaintextpasswords #infosec #cybersecurity #avgeek

#pihole läuft stabil seit 129 Tagen. Hat aber auch nen dedzizierten #raspberrypi
#homeassistant läuft nun seit 33 Tagen stabil. Und das in der #testumgebung.
#adsbfi #tar1090 #flightaware laufen seit 2 Tagen. Hier gabs nen Absturz des Systems.

@sfoskett Thank you for that excellent writeup!
I had ordered the same #RTLSDR kit about a year ago, but never took the time to set things up. But after reading your post, I realized how easy it actually is.
Took less than an hour (including flashing the microSD card) to set things up and track the first three planes. ✈️✈️✈️

#RaspberryPi #ADSB #FlightAware #ADSBfi

My initial #ADSB setup is super simple: I just put the pi and the antenna on top of a hutch in my office near an outside wall. Obviously this isn't perfect, and I don't know nothing about no antennas, but it's working! It can "see" half a dozen planes, including a rescue helicopter just now.

Contributing to #FlightAware gets you a fancy account there and contributing to #ADSBfi is the right thing to do.

Plus there's a serious hacker feeling in decoding mysterious aerial signals!

Interesting to see how much coverage can get spun up fairly quickly; ADSB.fi already tracking 42% the number of flights as ADSBx is.

Number of aircraft being tracked by the large flight trackers at 1600 UTC (10:00 AM CST).

#FlightRadar24: 14059
#RadarBox: 12536
#FlightAware: 12494
#ADSBExchange: 11008
#ADSBfi: 4618
#ADSBlol: 1905
#GrndcCtrl: 1561
#ADSBone: N/A

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/07/03/12496/%e5%90%84%e5%ae%b6%e9%a3%9b%e6%a9%9f%e5%8d%b3%e6%99%82%e8%b3%87%e8%a8%8a%e7%b6%b2%e7%ab%99%e7%94%a8%e7%9a%84-mlat%ef%bc%8c%e5%ae%9a%e4%bd%8d%e9%a3%9b%e6%a9%9f%e4%bd%8d%e7%bd%ae/

各家飛機即時資訊網站用的 MLAT，定位飛機位置

#AdsB #airplane #flightaware #flightradar24 #fr24 #gps #jamming #mlat #multilateration #plane

The #UAT instructions I followed for #Piaware / #flightaware are here

https://support.flightaware.com/hc/en-us/articles/32728331148951-Dual-Band-Raspberry-Pi-installation-1090-978

"This article will show how to create a dual frequency PiAware with 1090 and 978 on one platform."

this uses two SDR devices and two antennas.

✈️❄️ Christmas Eve skies can be tricky! Check FlightAware’s MiseryMap for real-time flight delays and cancellations across the U.S. and Alaska before you head to the airport. Stay ahead of the chaos and travel smarter!
🧑‍🎄 https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
#ChristmasEve #Travel #FlightAware #AlaskaFlights #HolidayTravel #travel #news #TravelSmart #Alaska #TedStevensInternationalAirport #AlaskaHeadlineLiving

My #adsb receiver is working again. 😃

#flightaware #piaware #fr24feed #flightradar24 #adsbexchange

#ICE "used #HollywoodBurbankAirport for detention transport operations last week, flying detainees to #SanAntonio, Texas following large-scale #LosAngeles raids, according to flight tracking data and witness accounts.
#FreightRunnersExpress operated flights between Hollywood Burbank Airport and San Antonio International Airport on June 7, 2025, according to #FlightAware data. Flight FRG247 departed Burbank for San Antonio, while flight FRG9506 made the return trip."

#immigration

My view of the central Kentucky skies this noontide is...a bit busy. #adsb #flightaware

But for now, since it's only one now, it will be used to feed data into #flightradar24 and #flightaware Plan is to get another one and use a node selector so the ultrafeeder demands a node with an #RTL-SDR connected to a #USB power

The first Concorde flight since 2003 is underway from Heathrow to JFK.

I had no idea this was happening, and my mind is blown.

#concorde #flightradar24 #flightaware #aprilfools

https://www.flightradar24.com/BAW9999/39b3ee42

Evidence of a massively busy travel day. On a typical weekday, my flight tracker sees maybe 80-100 flights. Today, it's been consistently 130+

The tracker is located about 45 miles NE of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport. Many of the flights are pointed toward or away from the airport, which is located just south of downtown Atlanta.

#Travel
#AirTravel
#Atlanta
#FlightAware

Why does FlightAware have phone numbers and DoB?

Were they just collected from stupid users or cross-correlated from other sources?

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/26/whoops-flightaware-exposes-sensitive-personal-data-of-millions-of-users-pilots-and-plane-owners/

#PII #FlightAware

Flugtracking-Dienst #Flightaware warnt Nutzer vor möglichem Datendiebstahl | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Flugtracking-Dienst-Flightaware-warnt-Nutzer-vor-moeglichem-Datendiebstahl-9842098.html #DataLeak #Datenleck #Datenschutz #privacy

FlightAware warns that some customers’ info has been ‘exposed,’ including Social Security numbers

A misconfiguration on popular flight tracking platform #FlightAware has been exposing user data since at least 2021.

Data exposed includes:

- email addresses
- billing and shipping addresses
- phone numbers
- social media accounts
- passwords (uhhhhh, no specifics on plaintext or hashed)
- SSNs
- DOB
- information on owned aircraft
- activity on the platform
- last 4 digits of credit card number

#dataleak #cybersecurity #security #privacy

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/flightaware-warns-that-some-customers-info-has-been-exposed-including-social-security-numbers/

Flight Aware admits to leaking user's sensitive data for years⤵️
#FlightAware #privacy #datasecurity #cybersecurity #infosec

https://cnews.link/flight-aware-admits-leaking-users-sensitive-data/

#FlightAware Exposed Pilots’ and Users’ Info

The popular flight tracking website FlightAware exposed users’ personal and professional information, including their physical addresses, what #aircraft they owned, #pilot status, and what flights they viewed, according to a data #breach notification shared with 404 Media.
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/flightaware-exposed-pilots-and-users-info-2/

Remote ADS-B Install Listens in on All the Aircraft Transmissions with RTL-SDR Trio, Phones Home on Cellular - When installing almost any kind of radio gear, the three factors that matter most are the same as in... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/08/14/remote-ads-b-install-listens-in-on-all-the-aircraft-transmissions-with-rtl-sdr-trio-phones-home-on-cellular/ #wirelesshacks #raspberrypi3 #flightaware #mischacks #co-linear #coaxial #rtl-sdr #dongle #acars #ads-b

Wait a second! This dude actually has a girl friend? Does she know? :-) That is the real story here!

The head of the FBI’s critical incident response group (a 27 year veteran) was told he could resign instantly or be fired after flight schedules and tail tracking information for one of the FBI's private jets was public. The flight info detailed FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the private jet to go on a date night with his girlfriend. Jet tracking data is fully in the public domain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use #FBI #PrivateJets #FlightAware #FBIDirector #FlightTracking #N708JH #DoJ #GulfstreamG550

Wait a second! This dude actually has a girl friend? Does she know? :-) That is the real story here!

The head of the FBI’s critical incident response group (a 27 year veteran) was told he could resign instantly or be fired after flight schedules and tail tracking information for one of the FBI's private jets was public. The flight info detailed FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the private jet to go on a date night with his girlfriend. Jet tracking data is fully in the public domain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use #FBI #PrivateJets #FlightAware #FBIDirector #FlightTracking #N708JH #DoJ #GulfstreamG550

Wait a second! This dude actually has a girl friend? Does she know? :-) That is the real story here!

The head of the FBI’s critical incident response group (a 27 year veteran) was told he could resign instantly or be fired after flight schedules and tail tracking information for one of the FBI's private jets was public. The flight info detailed FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the private jet to go on a date night with his girlfriend. Jet tracking data is fully in the public domain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use #FBI #PrivateJets #FlightAware #FBIDirector #FlightTracking #N708JH #DoJ #GulfstreamG550

Wait a second! This dude actually has a girl friend? Does she know? :-) That is the real story here!

The head of the FBI’s critical incident response group (a 27 year veteran) was told he could resign instantly or be fired after flight schedules and tail tracking information for one of the FBI's private jets was public. The flight info detailed FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the private jet to go on a date night with his girlfriend. Jet tracking data is fully in the public domain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use #FBI #PrivateJets #FlightAware #FBIDirector #FlightTracking #N708JH #DoJ #GulfstreamG550

US Airlines flew around a week's end
With barely a degree to descend
Though delays had been rough
The flying seemed tough
Less than one percent flights they did suspend

#usairlines #flightaware #holidaytravel #limerick #poetry

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/travel/airlines-winter-holiday-improvement/index.html

Continuing on my weekly posts about #ADSB I thought this one I would focus on "How I added more CPU power without replacing my RPI3".

Previously I had literally just mounted my RPI and kit straight into the unfinished drywall in the attic, but came up with a more attractive mounting solution when my wife made the attic her new perm home office last year but I also made some real performance upgrades then too. (TBC in reply)

#ADSBExchange #SDR #flightaware #flightradar24 #dump1090 #readsb

#pihole läuft stabil seit 129 Tagen. Hat aber auch nen dedzizierten #raspberrypi
#homeassistant läuft nun seit 33 Tagen stabil. Und das in der #testumgebung.
#adsbfi #tar1090 #flightaware laufen seit 2 Tagen. Hier gabs nen Absturz des Systems.

#pihole läuft stabil seit 129 Tagen. Hat aber auch nen dedzizierten #raspberrypi
#homeassistant läuft nun seit 33 Tagen stabil. Und das in der #testumgebung.
#adsbfi #tar1090 #flightaware laufen seit 2 Tagen. Hier gabs nen Absturz des Systems.

#pihole läuft stabil seit 129 Tagen. Hat aber auch nen dedzizierten #raspberrypi
#homeassistant läuft nun seit 33 Tagen stabil. Und das in der #testumgebung.
#adsbfi #tar1090 #flightaware laufen seit 2 Tagen. Hier gabs nen Absturz des Systems.

#pihole läuft stabil seit 129 Tagen. Hat aber auch nen dedzizierten #raspberrypi
#homeassistant läuft nun seit 33 Tagen stabil. Und das in der #testumgebung.
#adsbfi #tar1090 #flightaware laufen seit 2 Tagen. Hier gabs nen Absturz des Systems.

We now have an #ADSB Rx station at the club shack, thanks to members chipping in to help set this up.
We are feeding many services, including #FlightRadar24 #ADSBExchange #ADSBfi #ADSBlol #ADSBHub #FlightAware #PlaneWatch #RadarBox #OpenSky #1090MhzUK and more.
Group members can now enjoy premium features of some of these services.
We still have more to do to improve the setup, as currently when we Tx on other bands, the RTLSDR goes deaf. Perhaps a nice cavity filter! #1090mhz #AmateurRadio

We now have an #ADSB Rx station at the club shack, thanks to members chipping in to help set this up.
We are feeding many services, including #FlightRadar24 #ADSBExchange #ADSBfi #ADSBlol #ADSBHub #FlightAware #PlaneWatch #RadarBox #OpenSky #1090MhzUK and more.
Group members can now enjoy premium features of some of these services.
We still have more to do to improve the setup, as currently when we Tx on other bands, the RTLSDR goes deaf. Perhaps a nice cavity filter! #1090mhz #AmateurRadio

We now have an #ADSB Rx station at the club shack, thanks to members chipping in to help set this up.
We are feeding many services, including #FlightRadar24 #ADSBExchange #ADSBfi #ADSBlol #ADSBHub #FlightAware #PlaneWatch #RadarBox #OpenSky #1090MhzUK and more.
Group members can now enjoy premium features of some of these services.
We still have more to do to improve the setup, as currently when we Tx on other bands, the RTLSDR goes deaf. Perhaps a nice cavity filter! #1090mhz #AmateurRadio

We now have an #ADSB Rx station at the club shack, thanks to members chipping in to help set this up.
We are feeding many services, including #FlightRadar24 #ADSBExchange #ADSBfi #ADSBlol #ADSBHub #FlightAware #PlaneWatch #RadarBox #OpenSky #1090MhzUK and more.
Group members can now enjoy premium features of some of these services.
We still have more to do to improve the setup, as currently when we Tx on other bands, the RTLSDR goes deaf. Perhaps a nice cavity filter! #1090mhz #AmateurRadio