Aircraft — live map and tables open full screen →
tap to use the map
Table row colours:
Listen — MCO area scanner open →
ACARS — airline datalink messages full ACARS Hub →
Station — what the antennas are doing
Right now and today
–aircraft right now
–with a position
–messages / sec
–farthest right now (nm)
–aircraft seen today
–flights today
–today's max range (nm)
–today's highest (ft)
–today's fastest (mph)
–most aircraft at once today
–FlightAware ranking, worldwide
–aircraft sent to FlightAware today (UTC)
All-time records
–longest range (nm)
–highest (ft)
–fastest (mph)
–most aircraft at once
–busiest day (aircraft)
–aircraft sent to FlightAware, all time
–positions sent to FlightAware, all time
Where it goes: aircraft positions (1090 MHz ADS-B, plus 978 MHz UAT from light aircraft) are shared with FlightAware, Flightradar24 (T-KMCO49), RadarBox, Plane Finder, OpenSky Network, ADS-B Exchange, adsb.fi, adsb.lol, airplanes.live, Planespotters and AeroDataBox, with MLAT on the community networks. Airline datalink (ACARS and VDL2) goes to airframes.io as CLIPPERMIKE1-VDL2.
The hardware: two small Linux boxes and eleven SDR receivers. The main box runs nine: 1090 MHz ADS-B, ACARS and VDL2 datalink, two airband receivers for MCO tower/approach/departures on VHF dipoles, and four on the Orange and Osceola P25 trunked radio systems. A second box has its own 978 MHz antenna for UAT.
The hardware: two small Linux boxes and eleven SDR receivers. The main box runs nine: 1090 MHz ADS-B, ACARS and VDL2 datalink, two airband receivers for MCO tower/approach/departures on VHF dipoles, and four on the Orange and Osceola P25 trunked radio systems. A second box has its own 978 MHz antenna for UAT.
Radiosondes — weather balloons decoded here
–flights decoded, all time
–farthest range (mi)
–highest altitude (ft)
–longest tracked (min)
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What this is: radiosondes are the small expendable weather balloons the National Weather Service (and hobbyists) launch daily; each carries a GPS/telemetry transmitter around 400 MHz. This station decodes them with radiosonde_auto_rx and uploads to SondeHub as skyking-403. A flight is logged here only once it has been decoded directly by this station — not just seen nearby by someone else's receiver. Temperature and battery voltage are reported by some sonde types (DFM, RS41) but not others (LMS6). Click a sonde type for a fact sheet on that model, or the balloon # to open its track on SondeHub. Launch site is a best-effort guess — the nearest known NWS upper-air station to the flight's earliest received position. A flight still in the air shows as a pulsing LIVE card above, updating every 30 seconds while it's tracked.
Weather satellite pictures — Meteor-M2, decoded here
–pictures received
–latest pass
–highest pass
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What this is: Russia's Meteor-M2 weather satellites (M2-3 and M2-4) fly over twice a day each, about 500 miles up, and send their pictures down live on 137 MHz. A small antenna on the porch roof catches them and SatDump turns the radio signal into an image. Daytime passes are shown in colour; at night the camera still sees heat, so those are infrared (white = cold cloud tops, dark = warm land and sea). The house blocks part of the sky, so most passes give a strip rather than a full frame — the higher the pass (degrees above the horizon), the more we get. Click a picture for full size; arrow keys step through them.