Flightradar24 Expands Live Flight Tracking Service Over Russia
03 July 2013 | Issue 5160
Stockholm-based Flightradar24 has extended its capability to track commercial flights over Russia in real time, installing additional plane positioning receivers on local roofs.
Flightradar24's service displays comprehensive live flight information, including the origin and destination of the route and the plane's speed, altitude, type and tail number.
It has become popular among people looking for the causes of flight delays in Russia's increasingly crowded skies.
"Last month, we had over 1 million visits from Russia," Flightradar24 CEO Fredrik Lindahl said, "so we are very keen to improve our coverage even further."
Most of the data feeds are provided by hobbyists, Lindahl said. There are about 200 people in Russia who have agreed to put aerials on the tops of their houses to collect data from nearby flights and send them to Flightradar24's servers over the Internet.
The company has recently sent 20 more devices to Russia to improve coverage around Magnitogorsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Yakutsk and olympic host city Sochi.
Lindahl dismissed concerns about flight privacy and general security of his operation. "The B in the ADS-B stands for broadcast," he said. "It's a publicly available data feed. It was intended that way, so that the signal could be picked up by others," he said.
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The Moscow Times
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/busine...ia/482625.html
03 July 2013 | Issue 5160
Stockholm-based Flightradar24 has extended its capability to track commercial flights over Russia in real time, installing additional plane positioning receivers on local roofs.
Flightradar24's service displays comprehensive live flight information, including the origin and destination of the route and the plane's speed, altitude, type and tail number.
It has become popular among people looking for the causes of flight delays in Russia's increasingly crowded skies.
"Last month, we had over 1 million visits from Russia," Flightradar24 CEO Fredrik Lindahl said, "so we are very keen to improve our coverage even further."
Most of the data feeds are provided by hobbyists, Lindahl said. There are about 200 people in Russia who have agreed to put aerials on the tops of their houses to collect data from nearby flights and send them to Flightradar24's servers over the Internet.
The company has recently sent 20 more devices to Russia to improve coverage around Magnitogorsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Yakutsk and olympic host city Sochi.
Lindahl dismissed concerns about flight privacy and general security of his operation. "The B in the ADS-B stands for broadcast," he said. "It's a publicly available data feed. It was intended that way, so that the signal could be picked up by others," he said.
Read more on the Website link.
The Moscow Times
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/busine...ia/482625.html