FlightAware’s PiAware Software Now Supports Multilateration (MLAT)

A couple of weeks ago FlightAware announced that version 2.1 of its PiAware software supports live multilateration (MLAT). As the news release stated, “by triangulating the Mode S signal from non-ADS-B aircraft, PiAware can now track twice as many aircraft around the world!” While this give FlightAware a new resource for tracking flights and displaying …

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 …

ADS-B and the Raspberry Pi Revisited

Seven months ago I took a stab at using a Raspberry Pi as a virtual radar server. It didn’t go well. Not well at all. I tried again a couple of times but became frustrated with a variety of different glitches, mostly with the Pi itself and its networking. Yesterday I took yet another stab …

Mode-S and ADS-B on a Raspberry Pi

Caveat What follows is what I wrote the day after setting up my Raspberry Pi to receive and decode Mode-S and ADS-B messages from commercial aircraft. Before publishing this post, I followed my own instructions to get it working a second time. I failed. I failed not because my steps are wrong; I failed not …