PlanePlotter 5.5

PlanePlotter receives and decodes live digital position reports from aircraft and plots them on a chart. Using PlanePlotter, you can see a radar-like display of all those aircraft around you that are transmitting the appropriate digital messages including ACARS, ADS-B, and HFDL.

PlanePlotter plots aircraft positions, altitudes, and times decoded from the message traffic that it receives. These include embedded position reports, AMDAR reports and ADS reports contained in ACARS messages, ADS-B position reports received by the Kinetic SBS1or AirNav System RadarBox Mode-S receivers, and position reports on HF using Charles Brain's PC-HFDL program. The plot can be superimposed on a suitable aeronautical chart that you have prepared, or PlanePlotter can download satellite imagery and plot the aircraft symbols on that. Where altitude information is available, you can select the data by altitude band to distinguish low level and high level traffic.