New Sydney ADS-B Station

[Noel White]

No, I don't think so Kurt. It's an add on for the Kinetic BaseStation program and takes a direct feed from the SBS port. Besides, the outline it draws most likely can only be read by BaseStation and not by Airnav's RadarBox.

[Grahame Hutchison]

Kurt, I zoomed the plot out one step, any further and the aircraft details vanish. There are definitely no range filters set, so it looks like the plot may be restricted to ~300nm, or those 390nm aircraft passing laterally outside the plot area do not fit the plot algorithm.

[Grahame Hutchison]

With a little more coverage now along the east coast, I was watching an interesting handover of JST4 from about 200nm east of Brisbane. Initially logged on PlanePlotter by sharer oO about 442nm out of YSSY, then switched to sharer Eu who logged it off the far north NSW coast, and finally over to sharer qR (me) over 318 nm out of YSSY, and then all the way in.

Also just noticed qR showing VH-VOZ at 31000ft and around 407 nm out of YSSY heading northeast.

[Noel White]

Thank you Grahame for your feed with PlanePlotter. The range you are obtaining to the north-east is outstanding and very much appreciated

[Grahame Hutchison]

A few more long range plots on Thursday and Friday ...



My son calculated the area of my current Polar plot at 320,986 sq km, which is almost the size of Germany.

[Maikha Ly]

Hi folks!

Forgive me for my otherwise newbie enquiry to this, but I have been following this thread with great interest.

I'm interesting in getting a system like this, very much like Mark Taylor's one that was displayed at the Rowers Club the other evening. In hindsight, I should have gone up to the computer to have a closer look, though the food and company were more of a distraction than anything!

I'm after a system purely for real-time display of in/outbound aircraft, in the display format like the one at Rowers, that had the radar style display with the aircraft tracks, flight numbers and the like, in a similar style to what the ATC would be seeing. What was the system on display and is it similar to the one being discussed in this thread? Do regional RPT aircraft (I.e. Dash-8s, Fokker 50s, Fokker 100s, Metros, etc) have these fitted on them yet? I understand quite a few SAABs do.

My second query is, I understand how the ADS-B systems work, and their progressive implementation across Australia to replace the current airborne radar systems. Is there expected to be any date/deadline to abolish airborne radar with ADS-B and the mandatory fitting to all Australian commercial and military aircraft? What about GA aircraft?

My other objective to getting a system is to see other traffic aside from jet RPTs, like the regionals, GA and if possible, military, around Adelaide/SA.


Again, please forgive me for my newbie-like replies. I've yet to get a full understanding of how it all works, but I am indeed interested in getting one. If anyone is interested in providing further assistance, please drop me a line and I can specify more about my situation, such as where I live and the structure of my residence.

Many thanks!

[Jarrad Phillips]

Grahame does your feed go into Plane Finder or Flightradar24?

[Grahame Hutchison]

Jarrad, I am feeding AirNav Systems and PlantPlotter (qR).

[Grahame Hutchison]

Also just added FlightRadar24 to my feed Jarrad.

[Jarrad Phillips]

Awesome Grahame, thanks for that!