FlightAware ADS-B

[Noel White]

Grahame, I see you are back on and your rating is on the up side of the ledger. Were you able to sort out PP or is it an on going problem?

[Grahame Hutchison]

I dont really have a cause for the drop out Noel, so at this stage I just stop PlanePlotter, disable Sharing, select Flightaware again as the secondary sharer, enable Sharing again and start PlanePlotter. All my other 24/7 systems running on this laptop have no problems at all with continuity of data sharing. FlightAware seem to take about 3 days to let you know the data feed has stopped.

There is a new version of PlanePlotter just released (received email notification the other day), so I will update and see how it goes.

The FlightAware numbers for my feed should be back to normal in about 7 days.

[Mark T]

Hi Grahame

That may explain my large drop off in numbers as well. I will have to download the new version as well.

Now, on another topic, how is the "SBS Project" coming along? Would be nice to try to do some MLATs again if we can get you feeding from the SBS.

Cheers
Mark

[Grahame Hutchison]

Hi Mark,

The "SBS Project" slipped off the radar (no pun intended) over the Chrishmas break, but I did think about it last week, and have it on my task list. I will let you know how I go.

[Mark T]

Hi Grahame

Sounds good. Please do let me know as I will contact PP to ensure that Master User status is still correctly setup. We had some good MLATs about 18 months ago but then dropped of as I think some sharers stopped sharing. It is great in the UK and I think better in in Melbourne. It might allow us to see a lot more GA.

On another note the latest version of PP seems to be more stable for me.

Cheers
Mark

[Noel White]

Mark, just to confirm I'm "GP" and sharing non curfew hours. Location lower Hills District. Seeing plenty of your "EW" plots this morning. :-))

There were a few MLATs about earlier, so things are on the improve.

Grahame if you need some help with your SBS project (BaseStation & PlanePlotter) to get it up and running, don't hesitate to give one of us a call.

That goes for any of the other PP sharers in the Sydney basin who want to get on the MLAT bandwagon.

[Steve McGinley]

Guys I am the SMU for Sydney area (vP), and based on stats from yesterday we had 69 auto mlats, normally its been under 10, if any at all, for a 24 hour. So something has improved heaps.

Steve

[Mark T]

Hi Steve

John at PP advised that he had lost your link, so you may not have been sharing, so he has temporarily made me SMU, but happy for you to be SMU if you are running 24/7. Let me know.

Cheers
Mark

[Steve McGinley]

Hi Mark

If you want SMU by all means you can have it. But it looks like I still am. This morning I am seeing Sector MU raw reports almost up to 1,000, whereas recently it was down to a couple of hundred, which generated 0 fixes.

I have been online 24x7 except for a blue screen (bloody USB server) which happened the other day when I was at work. I have also resorted to restarting PP every morning, due to some recent postings about SMU connection problems.

Would be good to see a map, which you can read, exactly where the SYD feeders are.

We are generating mlats this morning.

Steve

[Steve McGinley]

Something is working well now, in the 4 hours since 6am, we have had 127 auto fixes.

Steve