Don't use adsb exchange! They up and sold out for money a few years ago. I stopped feeding them.
Use one of the not for profit ones. Like airplanes.live, adsb.fi, or adsb.lol
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omg thank you so much for this i didnt know about that, i was thinking about to build a ADS-B feeding box for exchange D:
airplanes.live, adsb.fi, or adsb.lol seam to have the exact same feature set as ADS-B exchange minus the replay function, but i can life with that :D
Edit: airplanes.live seams to have replay feature the button just moved up lol
I find that despite it being a cardinal sin to use flightradar24, it generally has better coverage for non-commercial aircraft
Since when is it a sin? It's got great coverage
In my experience, Lemmy seems to hate anything with a subscription model
Never paid for it, been using it to watch Blackhawks patrol the coast daily for years.
What do they use instead?
I mostly use ADS-B exchange, and if I can't find what I'm looking for I open flightradar.
I have a grandfathered purchase of their app on android, works very well
dosent they filter a lot? i switched to ADS-B exchange because flightradar24 didnt show military planes or something like that....
You know I was finding it interesting that most (but not all) of the planes at the military air show showed up on flightradar24. We got to watch half of it from the car on the drive up, as it's tradition, so the app let me be a much poorer quality announcer.
For military stuff, I go to RadarBox.
Thankfully, there hasn't been any reason recently to look up military activity. 🙄
I'm in california and a blackhawk was in Anaheim recently in light of recent ICE protests. Can't be a coincidence
Fuckers backing ice. Military needs to know they never get to recruit here again.
I live near a hospital with a landing pad, and there is also an airport on the other side of the city. Mostly I see medical transports or police choppers. But every once in a while, there's a whole group of what look like chinooks (or some kind of doubles rotor chopper), all black, no markings visible from the ground, in formation flying by. That's when it's exciting.
The air force base I live by does not do a lot of helicopter anything. I'm bored as fuck by C5s but a squadron of chinooks sounds cool to watch. Never quite grow out of that.
Grab an RTL sdr and listen in yourself!
Just for ease of use my process is: If FlightRadar24 = null then ADS-B.
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