![planeplotter current position planeplotter current position](https://www.coaa.co.uk/hfdlgrab.jpg)
range appear to be fitted with ACARS units which insert a leading zero into the "Degrees of Latitude" column. Q: Why do some British Airways flights appear over the Gulf of Guinea when they're actually over the North Sea?.
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That way, PP will only display the latest position and will update it whenever a newer one is found for that particular flight If you DON'T want to see a string of red triangles cluttering up your map of the North Atlantic, or wherever, then click on Options.Acars decoder, and then tick the 'override reports' box.
#PLANEPLOTTER CURRENT POSITION FULL#
The most well-known examples are the VHF ACARS Oceanic Clearance messages from Shanwick, which normally contain positions in full (e.g 50N 20W, 50N 30W, 50N 40W etc). In the case of messages which contain more than one valid position, Plane Plotter obviously cannot tell which position is the current one, so it plots them all.
![planeplotter current position planeplotter current position](https://i0.wp.com/gisgeography.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Magnetic-North-Shift-NOAA.png)
Q: Can I use a low-cost USB TV receiver dongle as a receiver for ACARS?.Plane Plotter attempts to establish this mode of operation in the sound card and will report an error if the mode is not supported by the sound card, or if the sound card is being used by another application. A: The sound card must be capable of operation at a 48 KHz sampling rate and of yielding a 8-bit mono result.Details for the RPi are here and for the PC here. There is now a program available for the Raspberry Pi which allows simultaneous decoding of multiple ACARS frequencies using the low-cost RTL dongle. Traffic appears to be evenly shared between all four frequencies, so if you have the facility to scan them all, then do so. The mode is AM, so use the line, headphone or speaker output, and not from a discriminator tap!. There are four main ACARS frequencies for the UK and Europe.