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Where is Charles flying?

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✈️ Where is Charles flying?
🧪 Dashboard test in progress — this is simulated flight data, not a real flight.

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Altitude—
Speed—
Track—
Vertical—
Squawk—
From home—
Aircraft—
Last seen—
⚠ unverified match (tail-string, not hex)

Next flight

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Map ⬤ Live

Updates live during flight
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Flight history

DateTailWindowDuration AirportsMax altLegs

Self management

NameKey URLActivity

Local pusher

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Last push—

iCal feed

Last pull—
Reservations—
Status—
Next pull—

ADS-B

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Last poll—

Simulation

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Tail—

How this works

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Raspberry Pi + ADS-B antenna

A Raspberry Pi with a software-defined radio antenna picks up position broadcasts that aircraft transmit every second, hearing everything within ~100 miles.

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Aircraft booking system

The flight school's aircraft booking system exports a calendar of reservations, including which aircraft (by tail number) is reserved and when.

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Matched in real time

When a reservation is active, a Mac Mini on the home network watches for that specific tail number in the ADS-B feed and tracks its position live.

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Pushed to the cloud

The Mac Mini pushes live status here every few seconds — no raw ADS-B data leaves the house otherwise.

Live flight tracking · built with ❤️ by Charles and Claude