srmanuel wrote:
The rumor that all flights in/out of Florida have been cancelled as result of Air Traffic Controllers not showing up for work is just that a rumor, it’s not even remotely true...
I monitor air traffic with a Raspberry PI and Flightaware Software and it’s a normal traffic day right now and was yesterday as well....
Some flights might have been cancelled but traffic is still flying...
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What about Flightaware ?
If you look at all the live air traffic on Flightaware, all of the information is being provided by their user community by people just like me, literally thousands of people all over the USA and around the world....
If you have a Raspberry PI, flightaware allows you to sign up for a corporate account for free, you download and install their software on your Raspberry PI, connect up a Antenna to the Raspberry PI and you will start to gather data from planes flying around your location, that data gets uploaded in real time to Flightaware to populate the maps you see.....
My installation is about average and I gather information from around 200 planes aware at distances up to 200 miles away....
Some users have better antennas and have them installed higher in the air and can dwarf my numbers......