Airside Tour of Toronto Pearson YYZ

The Stakeholder Relations and Communications Department of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority invited me for a 90-minute airside tour of Toronto Pearson airport. It was raining when I got there in the morning, but once the tour started I realized I could put the rain to work for me. The resulting reflections and spray meant …

Using dump1090 in Windows

There has been a push recently from within the PlanePlotter community to use dump1090 for Windows rather than RTL1090. The reasoning is that dump1090 provides better raw data for use with multilateration (mlat for short), which can help to identify the location of non-ADS-B aircraft if enough shared data exists. I was hesitant to move …

Use a Raspberry Pi to feed FlightAware’s website

If you’ve got a Raspberry Pi running as a virtual radar system, then this may be of interest to you. FlightAware has released a small application to allow your Raspberry Pi to feed data to its website. Called PiAware, the application looks pretty simple to install and setup. It assumes you already have a Raspberry …

Plane Spotting at Toronto Pearson YYZ

I’m often asked how I get so close to the planes at Pearson to take the photos seen on my Flickr stream. Well, I don’t actually get that close; I Conditions which affect discount levitra rx metabolism like gout and pseudogout. When you give it viagra effects some thought, leaving comments on DoFollow blogs may …

A Simpler Way to Install RTL1090

Andy over at jetvision.de, the developer of RTL1090, has authored a piece of software that simplifies installation of RTL1090 and all of the libraries and drivers needed to run it. As Andy puts it in an email on the RTL1090 English Yahoo Group, the RTL1090 Installation and Maintenance Utility “…downloads all necessary files from the …