Jay, I thought you had a nav box?
Can you put up a screen shot of this?
Thx
I dumped AirNav for several reasons - near 100% CPU use 24/7, a dissatisfactory program, and other varying issues. With PlanePlotter and an RTL-SDR, I pay a small fraction of what it cost to get the RadarBox up and running, and there's no yearly subscription fee either...
The screenshot is nothing special..
This image is from February 23. The aircraft with black text are being tracked by my setup, Grey text indicates data from another person's setup (shared over the net). I'm position B3, and there are several new sharers in Calgary area since this shot was taken. I'm particularly proud of the range I get with just the little indoor antenna stuck in my SW-facing windowsill. If I ever get the big DPD Productions antenna up, I might pick up the Mars rover.
The three planes coming at me from the SW are WestJet flights; their pilots key in their flight identifiers without their ICAO (WJA) or IATA (WS) codes, using only the flight number. Unfortunately other airlines also do this and somebody has entered an American carrier's flight data, which is why WestJet 212 is showing going from Boston to Milwaukee when it's clearly on approach to Calgary. I've since rectified that by deleting the existing route data in my PP database and telling the program not to accept shared route data.
You also see an Aeroflot flight and a British Airways plane, both of whom are going to overfly the Calgary region on the way to their respective destinations. The background map is from OpenStreetMap data automatically downloaded by PP.
I don't typically keep the map view up as there's a ton of aircraft not sending position data. I get tons more info on the aircraft screen - here's one from right now.
Excuse the text size, I shrunk it somewhat from my 1900x1200 screen.
From left to right the data is: Mode-S code, registration (mark/"tail number"), flag of country Mode-S belongs to, whatever is being transmitted in the "callsign" field, latitude and longitude, altitude, course, speed, aircraft type, route, transponder squawk, time of last signal received, sharer ID, last 5 sharers, aircraft category, and signal strength.
Theoretically all the ones with zeroes for lat and long should be candidates for multilateration (position fixes based on triangulation from several PP sharers), but none of them are actually plotting on my system. Either not enough of us are getting signals from them or something else is up.
