Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-07 Thread Alex Perry
From: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Josh Babcock wrote:
  Sounds like a good reason to fly VFR. I wonder if they have considered
  the safety implications of this. I know in the US you can request that
  ATC watch you while you are flying VFR, but I don't know if you need to
  give your tail number when you do. I would guess that you do.
 We call this Flight Information Service, FIS - [...]

In the US, you request VFR Flight Following from the ATC sector.
If approved, you receive Traffic Advisory service (no separation).
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-07 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Martin Spott wrote:

 Frederic Bouvier wrote:

  And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)

  but hey, it is equipped with a mode S transponder, which
 only few light aircraft have nowadays (at least here in Germany),

the Mode S code you see in the FAA registration is a reserved code for
that particular tail number. In fact, a lot of transponders are not like
that, and if you look up the tail number 33966 (an SGS 2-33A that I happen
to have some time in), you'll discover an aircraft with a mode S code
listed, but no transponder (actually, no electrical system at all) on
board! However, if whenever in the future it is equipped to have one, the
mechanic will use the particular mode S code reserved for this very
aircraft to program into the hardware.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-06 Thread Stuart Buchanan
  When you enter the airspace (or the roadways) you give up some of your
  privacy and freedoms and agree to play by a common set of rules ...
  usually for the sake of safety, or the environment, or justified for
  some greater common good.
 
 As far as I know, there is no mean for the public, to link a plate # to
 a
 owner's name. It is illegal here.

Somewhat strangely, this information is public in the UK:

http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?categoryid=60pagetype=65applicationid=1

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-06 Thread Martin Spott
Josh Babcock wrote:

 Sounds like a good reason to fly VFR. I wonder if they have considered
 the safety implications of this. I know in the US you can request that
 ATC watch you while you are flying VFR, but I don't know if you need to
 give your tail number when you do. I would guess that you do.

We call this Flight Information Service, FIS - whose use is
recommended but not mandantory. You call them by telling your call
sign/registration (alias tail number), they give you a transponder
squawk, a four digit number, in order to identify your radar
response, and you have to listen on their frequency as long as you wish
to stay under their surveillance.

I'd be very surprised if this sort of service in the EU would be unique
in the world. Still I'm pretty sure that your position data that is
recorded at ATC is locked by privacy protection (at least in Old
Europe  ;-)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-06 Thread Josh Babcock
Frederic Bouvier wrote:
 Selon Curtis L. Olson:
 
 Frederic Bouvier wrote:
 Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov :


 It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
 people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
 permitted this side of the Atlantic.

 in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter
 company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed.

 Not true when people are flying their own plane. Here a counter example :
 http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N555CA

 And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)
 I think there is some gray area here.  When you drive your car, you post
 your license plate # in plain and easy view both front and back.  An
 airplane will also have it's registration number prominently displayed
 for all to see, and you need to transmit your identity and location in
 order for ATC to track you and maintain the safety of everyone in the
 airspace.

 When you enter the airspace (or the roadways) you give up some of your
 privacy and freedoms and agree to play by a common set of rules ...
 usually for the sake of safety, or the environment, or justified for
 some greater common good.
 
 As far as I know, there is no mean for the public, to link a plate # to a
 owner's name. It is illegal here.
 
 I don't know what the correct answer is for this particular case, and
 being able to go back and lookup a complete history of a private pilot's
 travels (start, destination, times, dates, etc.) seems like it could be
 a little over the line.

 The ability of computers to collect and index and sort and preserve
 massive amounts of public information creates definite privacy issues.
 Where as before you were protected by being a needle in a haystack and
 an observer has to watch you fly over to get any public data on you, now
 anyone can specifically lookup all public data about your flights, and
 the sum of that public data might be infringing on your privacy rights.
 Interesting debate. :-)

 The gov't could track how well you hold your heading, altitude, and
 speed, and revoke the licenses of the bottom 10% every year ... there's
 all kinds of fun stuff you could do with this data. :-)
 
 It is normal that public agencies ( police dept, justice, Aviation authorities
 ... ) can make a link between tail or plate # and identities, just to enforce
 regulations and play their role, as long as they don't make 'Big Brother Is
 Watching You' their creed. My concern is that Joe Public is able to get this
 kind of informations.
 

In most states in th US car registrations are public information. Where
they are not, a private investigator can usually get them anyway.

Josh

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-06 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 22:02, Buchanan, Stuart wrote:
 Hi All,

 Some of you may have come across www.flightaware.com as a way to track IFR
 flights. It uses data from the FAA radar system and provides products
 (free and commercial) based on it. The data is quite detailed -
 minute-by-minute lat/long/altitude and speed along with aircraft type,
 flight number and call-sign.

 Out of curiosity I dropped them a mail saying who we were and wondering if
 they would donate some historical data to the project. To my pleasant
 surprise they said they would be able to help. How very nice. I've been
 asked to get back in contact in November as they are quite busy right now.

 So, it looks like we might have some really nice data to build some AI
 flights with in the not-to-distant future.


I just had a quick look at the website, and saw that they provide departure 
and arrival times and airport codes for each tail number. This would form an 
excellent basis to create AI traffic using the traffic manager, which 
basically requires just this information.

Cheers,
Durk

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-06 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Friday 06 October 2006 14:32, Durk Talsma wrote:
 I just had a quick look at the website, and saw that they provide departure
 and arrival times and airport codes for each tail number. This would form
 an excellent basis to create AI traffic using the traffic manager, which
 basically requires just this information.

 Cheers,
 Durk

I think you could get similar data from the Airlines' own websites.

Ampere

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Martin Spott wrote :
 Hi Stuart,

 Buchanan, Stuart wrote:

   
 Some of you may have come across www.flightaware.com as a way to track IFR
 flights. It uses data from the FAA radar system and provides products
 (free and commercial) based on it.
 

 I see one drawback here: They really only track flights in the coverage
 of US American Radar. Explicitly they state FlightAware is the first
 company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and
 commercial air traffic in the United States.

 Accidentially I came across this web site while googling for the
 registration of an aircraft that I spotted on the apron of Berlin
 Tempelhof (EDDI) last sunday (surrounded by police and a crowd of 6 or
 8 black limo's). Our Cessna was No. 2 behind this flight 

 FlightAware tracks the route of this aircraft until it leaves Canadian
 territory:

   http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N14R

   but I would have loved to investigate the aerodrome of departure
 of this flight that ended at Tempelhof  ;-)
   


It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
permitted this side of the Atlantic.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
 It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
 people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
 permitted this side of the Atlantic.

in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter
company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov :

  It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
  people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
  permitted this side of the Atlantic.

 in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter
 company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed.

Not true when people are flying their own plane. Here a counter example :
http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N555CA

And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote:

 And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)

 but hey, it is equipped with a mode S transponder, which
only few light aircraft have nowadays (at least here in Germany),

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Frederic Bouvier wrote:
 Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov :

   
 It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
 people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
 permitted this side of the Atlantic.
   
 in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter
 company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed.
 

 Not true when people are flying their own plane. Here a counter example :
 http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N555CA

 And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)

I think there is some gray area here.  When you drive your car, you post 
your license plate # in plain and easy view both front and back.  An 
airplane will also have it's registration number prominently displayed 
for all to see, and you need to transmit your identity and location in 
order for ATC to track you and maintain the safety of everyone in the 
airspace.

When you enter the airspace (or the roadways) you give up some of your 
privacy and freedoms and agree to play by a common set of rules ... 
usually for the sake of safety, or the environment, or justified for 
some greater common good.

I don't know what the correct answer is for this particular case, and 
being able to go back and lookup a complete history of a private pilot's 
travels (start, destination, times, dates, etc.) seems like it could be 
a little over the line.

The ability of computers to collect and index and sort and preserve 
massive amounts of public information creates definite privacy issues.  
Where as before you were protected by being a needle in a haystack and 
an observer has to watch you fly over to get any public data on you, now 
anyone can specifically lookup all public data about your flights, and 
the sum of that public data might be infringing on your privacy rights.  
Interesting debate. :-)

The gov't could track how well you hold your heading, altitude, and 
speed, and revoke the licenses of the bottom 10% every year ... there's 
all kinds of fun stuff you could do with this data. :-)

Curt.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote:

 I think there is some gray area here.  When you drive your car, you post 
 your license plate # in plain and easy view both front and back.  An 
 airplane will also have it's registration number prominently displayed 
 for all to see, and you need to transmit your identity and location in 
 order for ATC to track you and maintain the safety of everyone in the 
 airspace.

If you look at the details, then it comes very clear that there's a
significant distinction between 1.) posting ones license plate to the
public and 2.) automated aggregation of position data which further
leads to the ability to track one person's movements.

Once governments are able to track these movements there emerges a huge
risk that this data is being misinterpreted or misused. This is why
everyone should have a severe interest in not having the protection of
his very own privacy undermined by populist attempts - whose number
increase alarmingly (not only in the US but also in Europe). If done
right (TM), data protection should strictly forbid governmental/
intelligence access to ATC position recordings.

We have this nice Toll Collect system in Germany which determines the
usage of motorways by heavy trucks. This apparatus is (technically)
capable of recording every vehicle passing the respective cameras (if
the system really works).
Fortunately the appropriate law restricts analysis of the data to well
defined cases of criminal prosecution   which doesn't prevent some
retarded politicians from pretending that we would live in a safer
world if police had general access to the data 

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Josh Babcock
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
 Frederic Bouvier wrote:
 Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov :

   
 It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
 people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
 permitted this side of the Atlantic.
   
 in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter
 company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed.
 
 Not true when people are flying their own plane. Here a counter example :
 http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N555CA

 And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)
 
 I think there is some gray area here.  When you drive your car, you post 
 your license plate # in plain and easy view both front and back.  An 
 airplane will also have it's registration number prominently displayed 
 for all to see, and you need to transmit your identity and location in 
 order for ATC to track you and maintain the safety of everyone in the 
 airspace.
 
 When you enter the airspace (or the roadways) you give up some of your 
 privacy and freedoms and agree to play by a common set of rules ... 
 usually for the sake of safety, or the environment, or justified for 
 some greater common good.
 
 I don't know what the correct answer is for this particular case, and 
 being able to go back and lookup a complete history of a private pilot's 
 travels (start, destination, times, dates, etc.) seems like it could be 
 a little over the line.
 
 The ability of computers to collect and index and sort and preserve 
 massive amounts of public information creates definite privacy issues.  
 Where as before you were protected by being a needle in a haystack and 
 an observer has to watch you fly over to get any public data on you, now 
 anyone can specifically lookup all public data about your flights, and 
 the sum of that public data might be infringing on your privacy rights.  
 Interesting debate. :-)
 
 The gov't could track how well you hold your heading, altitude, and 
 speed, and revoke the licenses of the bottom 10% every year ... there's 
 all kinds of fun stuff you could do with this data. :-)
 
 Curt.
 

Sounds like a good reason to fly VFR. I wonder if they have considered
the safety implications of this. I know in the US you can request that
ATC watch you while you are flying VFR, but I don't know if you need to
give your tail number when you do. I would guess that you do.

Josh

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-05 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Selon Curtis L. Olson:

 Frederic Bouvier wrote:
  Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov :
 
 
  It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track
  people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be
  permitted this side of the Atlantic.
 
  in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter
  company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed.
 
 
  Not true when people are flying their own plane. Here a counter example :
  http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N555CA
 
  And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-)

 I think there is some gray area here.  When you drive your car, you post
 your license plate # in plain and easy view both front and back.  An
 airplane will also have it's registration number prominently displayed
 for all to see, and you need to transmit your identity and location in
 order for ATC to track you and maintain the safety of everyone in the
 airspace.

 When you enter the airspace (or the roadways) you give up some of your
 privacy and freedoms and agree to play by a common set of rules ...
 usually for the sake of safety, or the environment, or justified for
 some greater common good.

As far as I know, there is no mean for the public, to link a plate # to a
owner's name. It is illegal here.

 I don't know what the correct answer is for this particular case, and
 being able to go back and lookup a complete history of a private pilot's
 travels (start, destination, times, dates, etc.) seems like it could be
 a little over the line.

 The ability of computers to collect and index and sort and preserve
 massive amounts of public information creates definite privacy issues.
 Where as before you were protected by being a needle in a haystack and
 an observer has to watch you fly over to get any public data on you, now
 anyone can specifically lookup all public data about your flights, and
 the sum of that public data might be infringing on your privacy rights.
 Interesting debate. :-)

 The gov't could track how well you hold your heading, altitude, and
 speed, and revoke the licenses of the bottom 10% every year ... there's
 all kinds of fun stuff you could do with this data. :-)

It is normal that public agencies ( police dept, justice, Aviation authorities
... ) can make a link between tail or plate # and identities, just to enforce
regulations and play their role, as long as they don't make 'Big Brother Is
Watching You' their creed. My concern is that Joe Public is able to get this
kind of informations.

-Fred

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Stuart,

Buchanan, Stuart wrote:

 Some of you may have come across www.flightaware.com as a way to track IFR
 flights. It uses data from the FAA radar system and provides products
 (free and commercial) based on it.

I see one drawback here: They really only track flights in the coverage
of US American Radar. Explicitly they state FlightAware is the first
company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and
commercial air traffic in the United States.
   
Accidentially I came across this web site while googling for the
registration of an aircraft that I spotted on the apron of Berlin
Tempelhof (EDDI) last sunday (surrounded by police and a crowd of 6 or
8 black limo's). Our Cessna was No. 2 behind this flight 

FlightAware tracks the route of this aircraft until it leaves Canadian
territory:

  http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N14R

  but I would have loved to investigate the aerodrome of departure
of this flight that ended at Tempelhof  ;-)

Cheers,
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-04 Thread Buchanan, Stuart

--- Martin Spott wrote:
 Hi Stuart,
 
 Buchanan, Stuart wrote:
 
  Some of you may have come across www.flightaware.com as a way to track
 IFR
  flights. It uses data from the FAA radar system and provides products
  (free and commercial) based on it.
 
 I see one drawback here: They really only track flights in the coverage
 of US American Radar. Explicitly they state FlightAware is the first
 company to offer free flight tracking services for both private and
 commercial air traffic in the United States.


Hi Martin,

Yes, the data is US-specific. However, the USA is the only country I know
of that publishes this sort of information. Better, they provide it for
free, provided you have the hardware etc. to install in their radar
facility. 

Personally, I think the US approach of making all government data public
domain is one of their most endearing aspects.

Anyway, to get back on topic. My honest expectation is that we'll get 24
hours of data for the San Francisco area. Anything further will be a nice
bonus. We'll then convert the data to AI flight-plans and use it to
populate the default scenery area with some busy traffic. Because it is
quite detailed, the aircraft will be following STARs and approaches
accurately.

Of course, if they offer to give us a live feed of all their data that we
can plug into the MP server I wouldn't want to discourage them :)

It would be nice if we could expect to get similar data from other
countries, but I don't think that is realistic. 

-Stuart





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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Spott
Buchanan, Stuart wrote:

 Personally, I think the US approach of making all government data public
 domain is one of their most endearing aspects.

I agree,
Martin.
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