Yesterday exactly three years ago it was the first full day of my flight feeding experience.
Started with a Raspberry 3 and Piaware Image, changed to a individual install on a Raspberry 4 with first FA stick, later an Airspy and ended up with a Jetvision Airsuitter and countless antenna experiments i can say it is an interesting experience where this forum helped a lot.
I hadn’t looked at my stats for a while, but apparently I am just a little bit behind you, at 997 days. Now I need to remember to to grab a screenshot on Saturday to commemorate 1,000 days!
Congrats on the 3 years of continuous feeding foxhunter!
I get excited looking at my 574 continuous days since I joined in 25/12/2020 let alone seeing what those other feeders in the other threads have been feeding for.
I’m disappointed that I fell out with AirNav back in 2008/9 which made me give up on VR as a hobby for all those years as I would have loved to become a feeder back in the day when I had 700+ aircraft on screen at any one time. These days the most I see is a little more than half that.
I like your statistics chart…where do your overall reported stats come from? I would like to see how many aircraft & ADS-B positions my box has seen since I started feeding…
It’s the official stats from Flightaware profile. I am copy&paste the values reported there every several days to a spreadsheet and get the graphs there.
Another option would be a python script which records the aircraft seen by your receiver into a SQLite DB - with some knowledge about data aggregation you can run also charts.
I am doing this as well and query additionally a database where the flight information is stored to get a full overview.
Unfortunately about a third of the flights are missing a flight number, so only basic information are collected.
Ah so its pretty much a manual process grabbing the data from FA and stuffing it into a spreadsheet?
Well I won’t be able to go back more than a month by the looks of it even if I knew what I was doing!
Attached is a screenshot of my FA Flight Feeder page for the past and it seems I am seeing @3.5k aircraft and over 1.2m positions a day on average but it would be good to know for sure over time.
One of the reasons I liked the RadarBox Windows app back in the day was the ability to query the database so I might have to dig a little deeper and see what is available to me these days…
Correct
The values in the 30 day table can be copied in a spreadsheet where you can generate these nice loking graphs.
If you lose that sheet - no data before the last 30 days
To get a real idea what my receiver covers over time i am using a flight logging script which captures the data from the readsb instance (in fact from the JSON files) and store it in a database.
This gives you all flights, not only unique aircraft. I am close to Frankfurt and have the same aircraft on different flights over day multiple times on the screen. FA is not counting these, they are looking for unique aircraft.
Guess you only use the AVG formula in Excel. Little bit more “work”:), but afte rall it is a hobby:) I love to see the daily sats in a graph, so I can compare day by day
