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Old 3rd May 2010, 06:07 PM
Geoff Leff Geoff Leff is offline
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Great job Geoff with your Flight Tracker, very impressive.

This may be a newbie question but does Flight Tracker monitor VFR aircraft positions. I am under the impression that these don't use squawk codes but are monitored by airport radar. I am in Sydney and I would like to watch helicopter movements as I am along a popular flight path.

Do you or others know how these are usually tracked?

Daniel
Thanks Daniel,

My site only tracks aircraft that transmit ADS-B which is usually commercial aircraft. Non ADS-B transmitting aircraft either need multlateration (MLAT) which I believe is where aircraft locations are calculated mathimatically by multiple people receiving ModeS signals and sharing the data (I could be wrong here). Or alternatively by standard radar.

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Old 3rd May 2010, 06:10 PM
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Looks good Geoff but have you seen this site : http://www.flightradar24.com/
Thanks Bob,

Yeh it's a great site. I know there are a few people that have done similar things to what I've done but I like the buzz of knowing I have developed this all by myself and learned it all as I went. This was really for my own benefit to view aircraft positions on google maps. If other people enjoy the site, then that's an added bonus.

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Old 18th July 2012, 05:46 PM
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Just a FYI.. I've just recently moved to Brisbane from Sydney and have now brought my flight tracker site up for Brisbane.

Incidently, I'm now getting much better coverage than I was in Sydney

Just a reminder if your interested.. http://www.flighttracker.gleff.com

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