PlanePlotter - Features Message display PlanePlotter shows a table
display of messages received and decoded from live aircraft
transmissions. Data saving PlanePlotter archives all the digital data
that it receives and decodes to a log file. Chart display
PlanePlotter plots aircraft positions, altitudes and times decoded
from the message traffic that it receives. These include embedded
position reports, AMDAR reports and ADS reports contained in ACARS
messages, ADS-B position reports received by the SBS1 Mode-S
receiver, and position reports on HF using Charles Brain's PC-HFDL
software. The plot can be superimposed on a suitable aeronatical
chart that you have prepared, or PlanePlotter can download satellite
imagery and plot the aircraft symbols on that. Where altitude
information is available (eg Mode-S messages), you can select the
data by altitude band to distinguish low level and high level
traffic. Google Earth server If you are receiving Mode-S ADS-B
position reports, PlanePlotter can interface to Google Earth to
display aircraft positions over the Google Earth base map. It can
even give you a dynamic real-time view from the flight deck of an
aircraft that you designate. Direction finding PlanePlotter can
determine and display the direction of any transmission using a
simple passive antenna switch. This allows aircraft to be located
even if they are not equipped with ACARS or Mode-S/ADS-B. Input
signals PlanePlotter can decode ACARS messages, display the message
content and plot any positions on a chart. PlanePlotter can also
process and display ADS-B position reports captured by the Kinetic
SBS1 mode-S receiver. PlanePlotter can also work in conjunction with
Charles Brain's PC-HFDL software
(http://www.chbrain.dircon.co.uk/pchfdl.html) byautomatically
extracting position reports from the log file and plotting them in
real time on the same chart display. PlanePlotter adds value by
calculating course and heading from successive reports from the same
aircraft and plotting the predicted position between reports (right).
PlanePlotter can drive a passive antenna switch and display the
direction (QDM) of any aircraft voice transmission.
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