Using PlanePlotter, you can see a radar-like display of all those aircraft around you that are transmitting the appropriate

digital messages including ACARS, ADS-B and HFDL.


PlanePlotter - Features

The animated screen grab from PlanePlotter (left) was kindly provided by John Locker.
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

Kinetic SBS1™ or AirNav System RadarBox™ Mode-S receivers, 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™ or AirNav Systems RadarBox™

mode-S receivers.
PlanePlotter can also work in conjunction with Charles Brain's PC-HFDL software (http://www.chbrain.dircon.co.uk/pchfdl.html)

by automatically 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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