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Aircraft Data Links

send us ACARS, VDL2 and HFDL too.

three extra things you can send us, on top of adsb and mlat.

what they are

  • ACARS — airline messages: flight plans, weather, engine data, gate info.
  • VDL2 — VHF link (118-137 MHz), common in Europe and Asia.
  • HFDL — HF link, covers the oceans where VHF does not reach.

send us data

one host, one port each, all TCP:

  • ACARS on feed-acars.adsb.lol:5550
  • HFDL on feed-acars.adsb.lol:5551
  • VDL2 on feed-acars.adsb.lol:5552

JSON only, one message per line. decoders that already emit JSON:

  • acarsdec --output-format json for VHF ACARS
  • vdlm2dec --output-format json for VDL2
  • dumpvdl2 --output-format json for VDL2
  • dumphfdl --output-format json for HFDL

license

everything we collect is published under CC0.

privacy: see privacy and license.