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 …

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 …