FlightRadar24
I feed data into FlightRadar24 via
Raspberry Pi.

Flight Radar 24 (FR24) is the leading website and app for tracking aircaft all over the world.

Daily more than 200,000 flights take off worldwide including commercial, cargo and charter planes, business jets, private aircraft, helicopters, air ambulances, government and military aircraft, drones, hot air balloons and gliders.

The majority are fitted with a a transponder which is the Second Surveillance Radar. Air traffic controllers tell pilots what four digit code to set their transponder to to enable identification of their aircraft versus all the others in the vicinity.

There is also a host of codes which aircraft use to denote specific types of operation, or situation.

FR24 processes data from around 34,000 individual feeds arounnd the world to enable production of the live aircraft maps. I provide them with one such feed.

Flight Radar 24 Resources

FlightRadar24 Website

Flightradar24 is a global flight tracking service that provides real-time information about thousands of aircraft around the world on a live map.

Flightradar24 combines data from sources including ADS-B, MLAT, satellite, and radar data which is aggregated with schedule and flight status data from airlines and airports to create a unique flight tracking experience.

This are 4 levels of access :- Basic, Silver, Gold and Business.

Basic access is free, but contains advertising very basic functionality. The other levels require a paid subscription, with increasing features for each level.

The Business subscription allows you to add multiple layers to the maps, create multiple filters and multiple fleets, overlay aviation maps and much more. The cost is several hundred pounds annually, however if you feed aircraft data, you get business level for free. see the section on feeding data!

Squawk Codes

A four-digit number known as a squawk code is set by the pilt, and transmitted transmitted by the transponder when pinged by secondary surveillance radar.

This assists air traffic controllers with aircraft separation.

The main emergency codes are 7700 (General Emergency), 7600 (Radio Failure) and 7500 (Hijack).

The full list of UK Squawk codes is here.

Build a Flight Radar 24 Feeder

You'll need a Raspberry Pi 3b or later model.

You'll also need RTL2832/R820T2 based dongle, plus a combatable antenna. All you need then to feed data is to follow the info at Build your own ADS-B receiver for FR24

Raspberry Pi Flight Tracker

This guide on the official Raspberry Pi website also shows you step by step how to use Rasbberry Pi to build a receiver and feeder for use with flight tracker websites such as Flight Radar 24.

You'll need to buy a Dongle, click here to see range of ADSB RTL2832/R820T2-based USB dongles on Amazon.

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