"The plane showed up on our system at 5:20 on 25 June," according to our source, a member of an internet aircraft-tracking network run by enthusiasts in the UK. It had not filed a flight plan, and was flying above the level at which air traffic control reporting is mandatory. Manassas Regional Airport discreetly offers its clients "the personal accommodations and amenities you can't find at commercial airports".Įarly next morning, N977GA was detected heading east over Scotland at the unusually high altitude of 45,000 feet. On the evening of 24 June 2013, as Snowden arrived in Moscow from Hong Kong intending to fly on to Cuba, an unmarked Gulfstream V business jet - tail number N977GA - took off from a quiet commercial airport 30 miles from Washington DC.
The concept can be extended to land transport spotting and vehicle or personal mobile tracking.Mr Snowden, your ride is waiting. The development will be tailored for local spotters aiming to promote sharing of information and resources for the betterment of aviation knowledge development, electronic engineering and most important flight safety. With the grow of my interest in server-side and mobile app development for my own interest, I shared my development to my peer colleagues and local spotter community and hopefully will be launched in end 2013. By then I acquired different low-cost receivers mainly from Europe to expand my own network of receivers apart from feeding to other data servers including FR24, planefinder and planeplotter networks.
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To get rid of the necessity of running my PC in 24-hours a day, I intended to put everything inside a Linux box embedded in my QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) that will be running anyway round-the-clock consuming about 0.1kwh energy daily. The beauty of the data sharing concept stimulated my engineering nerve and started my development of web codes, databases, fusion logic and webservices after my first contact to Mikael Robertsson, the owner of FR24 through the sharing of my radarbox data.
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Apart from its infamous in secured communication between the receiver and the proprietary base-station software and the lack of support to Mac OSX, it ran in the past 3 years without a single problem. Apart from the multi-million dollars project, I noticed that there were some low-cost breeds of receiver available in the market and here come my first ADS-B receiver from Airnav Systems, Radarbox in 2010.
The program succeeded in cut down the accident rate by half and then proceeded to spin off to a wider community in commercial civil aviation.
The State studied the possibility of reducing aviation accidents due to weather, terrain and lack of surveillance capability by the introduction of cooperative surveillance technology to retrofit Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) on aircrafts sponsored by the government. Despite of my working aviation background, I started my journey in Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) since FAA’s introduction of Capstone program in Alaska in 2007.