Data Download

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Is there a way to download the data I send to FA? Or can I capture it locally? I’d like to so some analysis on it. Thanks, Keith

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You can capture data directly from dump1090 in various forms, notably:

  • TCP port 30005 (“raw Beast”) – these are the individual raw messages received.
  • aircraft.json generated by dump1090, which is a frequently-updated snapshot of currently tracked aircraft - this is what backs the local SkyAware display.

If you’d like to see the exact data uploaded to FA, you could run faup1090 by hand (it writes to stdout), but the format is mostly internal/undocumented so it’s probably not hugely useful to you.

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Or the smarter way is that one:

http://cactusprojects.com/logging-dump1090-fa-to-local-database/

Works for me since over a year.

Another option would be ModeSMixer which offers a direct output option to a SQLite DB.
But the tool is not any longer under active development

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