Flight Alert Improvement?

FlightAware General
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I would like to set up flight alerts for certain aircraft types.

Specifically 747SP and DC-8 activity. As these types are very rare (almost non-existent), I should not be overwhelmed with alerts.

Example: Some middle eastern governments occasionally fly into KIAD using 747SP’s. I want to capture that without having to constantlly monitor all traffic for that busy airport.

As it stands now, I can only set up an alert for a specific commercial flight number, or a specific reg. number. Is that correct?

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Aircraft type alerts are now available - flightaware.com/account/manage/alerts/

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How do I set it up to alert on everything except prop planes. ex: all jets ok.

4

You do realize that would entail thousands of alerts each day? The system won’t let you get an alert that gives you over a 1,000 alerts.

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You’d need a separate alert for each jet aircraft type you want to be alerted for.

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This is great news! Thanks.

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I think there may be a few kinks to work out on this one.

If I’ve read the alert setup instructions correctly, I should be able to specify a certain aircraft type and a certain destination and get alerts only for that type arriving at that location.

But when I set up 5-6 alerts, my cell phone started going wild with all flights (of any aircraft type) arriving at my destination airport.

It was not recognizing the a/c type as a filter.

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Note: They appear as disabled because they aren’t delivering the correct results. They were enabled a few minutes before the screenshot was made.

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Three questions:
How many alerts can I now get? It accepted number six for my account.
How do I delete an alert from the list?
How do you access the “recent activity log?”

Thanks.

EDIT: And the airport alerts aren’t working for me. I put in an airport code as the departure airport, with a start date of 7/7/09 and an end date of 7/31/2009. After I enabled the alert, an aircraft filed a flight plan and departed. I received no notification.

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Got this one fixed, sorry for the flood. It was matching any flight plan with an unknown aircraft type, and your KIAD alert has a lot of that sort of traffic (inbound from Europe we often do not receive the aircraft type initially).

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Registered members can have 5 enabled alerts; for premium and premium plus accounts it’s 25 and unlimited, respectively.
Just disable it.
It should appear once alerts have been sent for you.

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Thanks. I’ll do it.

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My airport gets about two jet flights a day and everything else is small single engine. Most of the single engine planes do need to file.

13

I’m still having some difficulty getting the airport alerts to work. I set up both an arrival and departure alert for one airport, and have received no notification even though aircraft are going in and out. I set up another departure alert for a different airport and received three messages within moments.

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Ah! I see know. But that’s not what you said. I read it has you wanting to get alerts on all jets throughout the nation, not all jets for a specific airport.

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Did you set up separate alerts for arrivals and departures? All fields are combined with a logical AND, so if you put the same airport for origin and destination you’ll only get aircraft flying in circles.

edit: I see the alert now. When did you create it? Not much traffic at that airport.

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I created it yesterday morning about this time. (7:00 AM Eastern). The two arrivals and two departures on there now all occurred after I set up the alert.

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Oops, fixed.

18

Thanks, it’s working great now!

19

The old flight plan alert included the expected route. Has the “upgrade” done away with that feature?

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I am noticing a problem with the new alerts.

I’ve set up my maximum allowed (5) and enabled them all.

However, when I check back later, various alerts disable themselves randomly. I can re-enable them. But a few hours later, another one disables itself.