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 …

The easiest and simplest ADS-B solution

I’ve written many posts over the last couple of years detailing the steps needed to integrate ADS-B decoder applications (like RTL-1090 and dump1090) with virtual radar display apps (like BaseStation and PlanePlotter). The solutions were mostly complicated by the need to use additional software utilities to massage data streams. I recently came across a decoder …

My ADS-B Log is Now Online

I used to have a page on this site called Today’s Flights. It provided a list of all the flights recorded by my BaseStation setup for the day, and at midnight it would start fresh from zero. At some point, it stopped working, and I never bothered to fix it. After all, why fix it …

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 …

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 …