[Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions

[Max Harper]

APRS isn't the place for aircraft IMHO. If someone is interested in monitoring aircraft they need to check out FlightAware. They have updated the dump1090 software and call it PiAware which sends the data to their network. ADS-B can generate a lot of traffic since they send updates at like once per second. I run Dump1090 and would never dream of sending that much data to the APRS-IS and RF couldn't even come close to handling that much data. If I'm not mistaken, PiAware puts the correct aircraft icon as the aircraft type is sent in the data.
Max KG4PID
      From: Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
 To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 1:56 PM
 Subject: Re: [Xastir] New script: ads-b.pl for snagging airplane positions
   
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:50 AM, VE2GQF <ve2gqf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I will try this script, I thing it's good project, but Is it a good
> feature to send to aprs.fi all ads-b traffic ?  I think it will
> probably better to have the oppportunity to transmit only specific
> traffic based on one tail-number(s) / flight number(s) ?
>

Again, it doesn't send ANYTHING to RF or INET unless the user specifically
tries to do so. The script just injects packets into Xastir itself, so it's
a local display.

However: The possibility does exist so I want to make sure it doesn't
happen by mistake.

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Curt, WE7U
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