Author: Admin 29 April 2009 Views: 284 Other

by : imfamous 29 April 2009 Views: 284 Software

PlanePlotter receives and decodes live digital position reports from aircraft and plots them on a chart. 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.

Requirements to run PlanePlotter:
* Pentium level PC running 2k/XP/Vista with compatible sound card
* For ACARS : VHF receiver tuned to an appropriate ACARS channel in AM mode and Aircraft within VHF range that are transmitting the messages
* For ADS-B : Kinetic (www.kinetic-avionics.co.uk) SBS1(tm) Mode-S receiver and BaseStation software or AirNav Systems RadarBox(tm) receiver system. Versions of PlanePlotter up to 2.6 work with the Spider version of BaseStation; subsequent versions work with the Snoopy BaseStation. Versions of PlanePlotter from 3.8 work with the RadarBox(tm)
* For real-time flight deck views : Google Earth software
* For direction finding : DF antenna switch
* For HFDL plotting : PC-HFDL software (http://www.chbrain.dircon.co.uk/pchfdl.html) and an HF SSB receiver
* For HF selcal decoding : HF receiver with USB mode and fine tuning steps
* To share local ATC calls : VHF receiver with AM mode tuned to your local ATC frequencies