Interesting Aircraft on Mode-S/Flight Tracking

[searingxheretic]

Everyone loves Bacon!

N386SFA4732A
Smithfield Packing Co Inc
Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3

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[robertmac]

Just seen this

Airline: Boeing Co.
Flight: 5Y4532
From: Everett, Paine Field (PAE)
To: Charleston, Charleston (CHS)
Aircraft: Boeing 747-409LCF 'Dreamlifter' (B74F)
Reg: N249BA
Altitude: 37000 ft (11278 m)
Speed: 532 kt (985 km/h, 612 mph)
Flying across lower Montana. Sorry if it has been noticed before. Picture with it was a little different. Getting late so did not look into it more.

 

[searingxheretic]

Airline: Boeing Co.
Aircraft: Boeing 747-409LCF 'Dreamlifter' (B74F)

Nice Catch, that's the newer version of the Russian hauler I tracked!

Now if only to see one!

 

[abear27]

You guys have inspired me.... I ordered an RTL SDR a few weeks ago and it arrived this week. I have set it up to track aircraft around me - I haven't tried PlanePlotter yet, just using ADSB# and ADSB Scope to watch the coming and goings overhead. Very cool stuff....for a $20 investment.

 

[searingxheretic]

Going back through the week...

264 738A44 Israeli Air Force

Boeing 707-3J6C

Mode-S Country: Israel
Military: Yes
Engines: 4jet
Weight: Heavy (over 135 tons)
Landplane
Species:
Serial: 20721 Flight Detected: Mon Mar 182013 13:42:11 GMT-0400 (EDT) Lost Contact: Mon Mar 182013 13:48:29 GMT-0400 (EDT) Duration: 6minutes
Callsign: IAF114
Altitude: 27000

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[robertmac]

not to steal the thread

Not that it is a new interesting plane, but one plane had to turn back into YYC because of a bird strike this evening. Landed safely with a problem with it's right engine. Was interesting watching it vector to come back and watch other in bound planes vectoring around as well to allow the emergency landing. Second one this weekend for emergency landing that I heard on the radio waves. Not sure if it showed up on any one's radar, but what looked like 2 F-18s landed at YYC on March 22 at around 1700 local. Couldn't see them at first but heard them coming in for landing on 34 and they were separated by a couple hundred meters. Sounded like they were at 150 decibels just coasting in to land.

 

[Jay911]

I haven't been in town for a while, as you might have noticed - spent some time down in Florida, in the Tampa area. I saw some neat stuff on my mobile PP setup while there, but I was more into looking at baseball games and the occasional experimentation on the P25 systems in the area.

The only Canforce milair thing my home PP unit picked up was a new (to me) C130 flying as CFC2542, tail 130612.

 

[smason]

I finally broke down and tried this. Using adsb# adsbscope and VirtualRadar.
Wow, very cool! I may need to get another USB stick to dedicate to this.

Anyone know of anybody sharing received data locally?

 

[Jay911]

I finally broke down and tried this. Using adsb# adsbscope and VirtualRadar.
Wow, very cool! I may need to get another USB stick to dedicate to this.

Anyone know of anybody sharing received data locally?

There's at least four of us on PlanePlotter's network right now. I'm B3; there's a fellow in the SW who has been posting recently on the PP Yahoo group. I'm sending this from my phone so I don't have the details but I'll get them when I get home.

Getting on to PP would be a plus since you could help with Mlat - providing location fixes for acft not sending position data.

 

[jmorgan123]

Fun thread! I've been tracking for about a year now and have seen some interesting planes (~6200 total planes). I have up to 300km range around Winnipeg. Here are a few that stand out.

U2 spy plane... note the altitude!

Reg: 80-1090
ModeS: AE0964
Type: U2
Country: United States Mil
Mode-S Country: United States Mil
Military: Yes
Engines: Single jet
Weight: Medium (up to 135 tons)
Species: Landplane
Serial: 80-1090
Friday 14 September 2012 PINON71 14:13:55
Altitude: 60000
Squawk: 4454
Duration: 58 minutes

Ethiopian B788 Delivery Flight

Reg: ET-AOR
ModeS: 040048
Owner: Ethiopian Airlines
Type: B788
Country: Ethiopia
Mode-S Country: Ethiopia
Military: No
Engines: Twin jet
Weight: Heavy (over 135 tons)
Species: Landplane
Serial: ET-AOR
Thursday 4 October 2012 ETH9202 03:10:13
Altitude: 36975 to 37000
Speed: 507 to 516
Squawk: 6621
Duration: 31 minutes

Air Force One

Reg: 92-9000
ModeS: ADFDF9
Owner: United States Air Force
Type: Boeing VC25A B742
Country: United States Mil
Mode-S Country: United States Mil
Military: Yes
Engines: 4 jet
Weight: Heavy (over 135 tons)
Species: Landplane
Serial: 92-9000
Tuesday 20 November 2012 21:18:15
Duration: 6 seconds

Here are the top 10 types I've seen:

Type - Count
B744 - 379
B738 - 377
B752 - 312
A320 - 269
B772 - 239
CRJ2 - 209
GLF5 - 202
B763 - 185
A319 - 150
B77W - 144

 

[robertmac]

Just looked at this air craft on flightradar24. Plane just over Hudson Bay. 1600 local time. From the track should be over Calgary area in a couple of hours.

Airline: Air New Zealand (NZ Rugby Union Livery)
Flight: NZ1
From: London, Heathrow (LHR)
To: Auckland, Auckland (AKL)
Comment: LHR-LAX-AKL
Aircraft: Boeing 777-319(ER) (B773)
ETA: 02:32 UTC (in 04:32)
Reg: ZK-OKQ
Altitude: 34000 ft (10363 m)
Speed: 480 kt (889 km/h, 552 mph)
Track: 224°
Hex: C81E22

 

[robertmac]

Wonder if this is a Flames charter after another road loss? Not listed on YYC as arrival time for commercial.
Flight: ACA7036
From: Chicago, Midway (MDW)
To: Calgary, Calgary (YYC)
Aircraft: Airbus A319-113 (A319)
ETA: 08:01 UTC (in 02:15)
Altitude: 38000 ft (11582 m)
Speed: 420 kt (778 km/h, 483 mph)
Track: 303°
Hex: 000000
Squawk: 0000
Pos: 45.3814 / -93.8989
Radar: T-F5M

 

[kma371]

ACA7035 / ACA7036 --> Calgary Flames
ACA7037 / ACA7038 --> Vancouver Canucks
ACA7039 / ACA7040 --> Edmonton Oilers
ACA7041 / ACA7042 --> Montreal Canadiens
ACA7043 / ACA7044 --> Toronto Maple Leafs
ACA7047 / ACA7048 --> Ottawa Senators

I believe this is still current.

 

[Jay911]

There's at least four of us on PlanePlotter's network right now. I'm B3; there's a fellow in the SW who has been posting recently on the PP Yahoo group. I'm sending this from my phone so I don't have the details but I'll get them when I get home.

Getting on to PP would be a plus since you could help with Mlat - providing location fixes for acft not sending position data.

planeplotter : PlanePlotter

If you look through the message archives (you have to join the group), you'll see a fellow named Brian who is sharer D4. There are also DM and zM in the local Calgary area but neither Brian nor I have heard from them, as far as I know.

 

[smason]

I must be missing something obvious. Between the free Virtualradar, the free ADSBscope and the paid Planeplotter, the hideous 1987 user interface and horrible map handling of Planeplotter makes me want to scream. Not sure why I'd pay for it. What am I missing?

 

[kma371]

I must be missing something obvious. Between the free Virtualradar, the free ADSBscope and the paid Planeplotter, the hideous 1987 user interface and horrible map handling of Planeplotter makes me want to scream. Not sure why I'd pay for it. What am I missing?

its the network. you share your data and receive data from other users.

 

[PlanepPlotterUK]

I must be missing something obvious. Between the free Virtualradar, the free ADSBscope and the paid Planeplotter, the hideous 1987 user interface and horrible map handling of Planeplotter makes me want to scream. Not sure why I'd pay for it. What am I missing?

Planeplotter requires a little bit of thought and effort to set up and tailor to your needs ...but if you are happy with a web based tracker , then stick with those.

Of course you'll be missing out on a great deal of info , especially now that the multilateration sectors are
developing across the USA.
About 80 % of a/c across America dont actually track.Those plots you see on the web trackers from the FAA are historic and not necessarilly accurate.......where as the data you'll get from Planeplotter will be live.

As for the maps....well its a rather simple matter of either pressing the "map" button , or creating your own ATC style mapping using any of the free map sets available.

In the last 24 hours , Planeplotter Mlat created 171,000 mlat fixes...these are fixes you won't see on any other system....many of those were across the USA.

Planeplotter is for the discerning aviation enthusiast , but if you are just a casual observer...stay with the web trackers.

 

[PlanepPlotterUK]

planeplotter : PlanePlotter

If you look through the message archives (you have to join the group), you'll see a fellow named Brian who is sharer D4. There are also DM and zM in the local Calgary area but neither Brian nor I have heard from them, as far as I know.

I check out the Calgary area every few days to see if I can activate an Mlat sector for you.....its soooooo close to becoming a useable network....just a couple more ground stations should do it.

BTW if you are trying manual mlats , then in options sharing set up , tick the "Ignore 5km rule " box , that might increase the chances of a fix as a couple of GS are quite close to each other

 

[smason]

Planeplotter requires a little bit of thought and effort to set up and tailor to your needs ...but if you are happy with a web based tracker , then stick with those.

Of course you'll be missing out on a great deal of info , especially now that the multilateration sectors are
developing across the USA.
About 80 % of a/c across America dont actually track.Those plots you see on the web trackers from the FAA are historic and not necessarilly accurate.......where as the data you'll get from Planeplotter will be live.
.

Thanks for the input! I'll give it a closer look.

I wasn't aware of mlat and how it works. Makes sense now.

 

[smason]

Getting on to PP would be a plus since you could help with Mlat - providing location fixes for acft not sending position data.

I'll work on getting an antenna outside perhaps this weekend.