acars.adsbexchange

[POL]

Is there an issue today,will not open on the military movements page ??

Bit late now I guess but all working for me

[BOLLO]

Yeah same here now,was not this morning .

[Tanker Ray]

Is anyone else having a problem opening the acars.adsbexchange.com webpage? I seem to be constantly getting a 'Checking if the site connection is secure' message and then get timed out. I've tried opening in both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge but same result. Do I need to adjust settings to enable me to access an https site?

TR

[JAWS]

Is anyone else having a problem opening the acars.adsbexchange.com webpage? I seem to be constantly getting a 'Checking if the site connection is secure' message and then get timed out. I've tried opening in both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge but same result. Do I need to adjust settings to enable me to access an https site?

TR

Working fine for me on Mac Safari.

[DarkSky]

Great work as always with the site Ben. Noticed yesterday a INI message from a K35R in the states using Iridium - INI/ID80027S,UTAH52,DUN83TB01165/MR0,1/AFKSLC,KSLC/TD140040,00409D63 - AE0476
This is the first INI message i have seen using the Iridium network but encouraging the format remains the same. Could be good to start adding Iridium INI messages to the Mil Movements page so we can start catching these as more start to use it as Inmarsat Classic Aero is phased out.

Is Iridium the defacto replacement, or will Inmarsat (ViaSat) be also providing a solution?

From the documents i've seen Iridium is the replacement for the K35R - likely the rest of the USAF fleet will follow if their not already fitted with the H+ service as the Classic Aero I & H service is due to end this December (whether this date has changed i'm not sure)

Look like C-17's will remain on the Inmarsat network as they will be upgrading to H+
https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/ ... ator-700d/

[slogen51]

The EMEA , AMEA and RAF pages have not received a new message since 17:39Z 04/07/2023

These pages in my view are the most useful as they show enroute messages

APAC - Pacific is working

[thebaldgeek]

I got some time to work on the site yesterday. As usual, I broke some stuff.
But, in return.... I also made two big changes....

1. Fix the time stamp we were using.
When I started the site it was 100% live. No search or data storage at all.
At the time, the three users decided that the time stamp column needed to have time first since we needed to be able to sort that before the date.
Well, the sites grown up and has some stuff that can streach out over a month now so the timestamp column sort was broken.
Finally got to fixing it.
Do note its going to take some time for that new format to get into every nook and cranny of the site.

2. This one is HUGE....
From now on all ADSB map links are for the time that the ACARS message was received. NOT for where the aircraft is now (as was the old behavior).
This will also take some time to fully propagate through the site.
This is HUGE for say the mission code past month table. Any links on that table will be up to a month old which is exactly as it should be. Where the aircraft _was_ when it got the mission code ACARS msg!
How am I doing this? Turns out you can append the EPOCH time in seconds to the URL. Example: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae ... 1688484806
This will work on http://adsb.fi as well as any of the new ADSB sites that use the globe code.
Note you can also click on the track and place the aircraft there and see the ADSB data for that time.

[elderforest]

ACARS monitoring is a fantastic addition to the enthusiast toolset.

Would it be possible to add an option to filter out the positional and weather reports to make it easier to see the enroute messages?

Many thanks for all your efforts.

[thebaldgeek]

ACARS monitoring is a fantastic addition to the enthusiast toolset.

Would it be possible to add an option to filter out the positional and weather reports to make it easier to see the enroute messages?

Many thanks for all your efforts.

I need just a little more help to understand exactly where on my site you are wanting such a filter?
I have many tabs and tables.... which ones do you have in mind?
I would have to make it selectable since many people use my site for the weather data and we are mapping the position reports (Military aircraft often run with ADSB/ADSC transponder off, but ACARS on), so I cant just delete them.

[elderforest]

ACARS monitoring is a fantastic addition to the enthusiast toolset.

Would it be possible to add an option to sort the table my message type (if there is one) to make it easier to see the enroute messages?

Many thanks for all your efforts.

I need just a little more help to understand exactly where on my site you are wanting such a filter?
I have many tabs and tables.... which ones do you have in mind?
I would have to make it selectable since many people use my site for the weather data and we are mapping the position reports (Military aircraft often run with ADSB/ADSC transponder off, but ACARS on), so I cant just delete them.

Example: When there is a Voyager tanker up I go to the RAF section to see if there are any ACARS messages from Tanker Ops regarding receivers. To find these I have scroll through lots of positional and weather entries (which I'm not concerned with). I'm asking if it would be possible to sort the table by message type (if this exists) so enroute messages are easier to find.

Hope this is clearer! Thanks.

[thebaldgeek]

Yes, that helps and I have been criticized for being too accommodating, so it pains me to say that I am not going to implement that feature.
Thats the wrong use of that page.
Its a live page, it is to help people just follow all movements of that group of aircraft, its not for searching like you are doing.
I have a perfectly good page for that, three of them even.
You can search for exactly what you want and only what you want on any of the three search pages with none of the stuff you don't want.
So watch the RAF page, when you see something of interest to you, search for that on the search pages.
I have been asked to have a feature where you can click on one thing on one page and link it to another (like click on an aircraft or message on the RAF page and have it take you to the search page with the results already there) - its a good idea and one I cant do with the way the site is built at the moment, but I am keeping it in mind for v2.

[slogen51]

Well done

I personally like the position and metar - the RAF section was brilliant during the A400M Guam drag

It is not like there are many messages to scroll through and each message might have a hidden gem

[BANDIT]

Well done on your site a valuable source of information
many thanks
BANDIT

[diamond chap]

Has anyone else noticed this site (which is excellent btw, many thanks @thebaldgeek) slowing down considerably during the afternoon and evening (UK time)? It loads fine in the morning, but for the last week or so it's hardly loading at all in the afternoon or evening and I usually end up with a blank black screen and 'x connection lost' in the top right corner. It's not an issue with my ISP, as it happens on several different broadband connections and on my phone over mobile data.

[POL]

It's built on a platform that isn't designed to have multiple connections. Evening UK time is daytime in the US, so lots of people trying to use it at the same time.

[Undertaker]

working ok my end

[BOLLO]

Has anyone else noticed this site (which is excellent btw, many thanks @thebaldgeek) slowing down considerably during the afternoon and evening (UK time)? It loads fine in the morning, but for the last week or so it's hardly loading at all in the afternoon or evening and I usually end up with a blank black screen and 'x connection lost' in the top right corner. It's not an issue with my ISP, as it happens on several different broadband connections and on my phone over mobile data.

Yeah noticed that even on my phone app is slow then when it does connect it loses connection. Have to reset a lot over the past few weeks.

[thebaldgeek]

Sorry that the site is not running very well of late.
I have been monitoring it and making changes and believe it or not, the past 2 weeks have been better than the past month or so.
I cant post images here, but I have a graph that shows users and site load times.
The core issue (of the top 3-4 issues with the site) is that I still have 2 users from China and 2 from Japan that are using bots to scape the site, those bot 'attacks' are slowing it down for everyone.

I guess your takeaway is that I feel your load time pain and please know I am working on fixing it.

[DarkSky]

Sorry that the site is not running very well of late.
I have been monitoring it and making changes and believe it or not, the past 2 weeks have been better than the past month or so.
I cant post images here, but I have a graph that shows users and site load times.
The core issue (of the top 3-4 issues with the site) is that I still have 2 users from China and 2 from Japan that are using bots to scape the site, those bot 'attacks' are slowing it down for everyone.

I guess your takeaway is that I feel your load time pain and please know I am working on fixing it.

Thought the site Ben had been loading faster this week Ben. One other thought to stop the bots is could you have a reCAPTCHA when first entering the site?

[thebaldgeek]

https://x.com/thebaldgeek/status/172463 ... 59039?s=20

tl;dr. Pushed the first of two hopefully major speed tweaks to the site a few hours ago.
The second will be in 24 hours from now.

For those that are interested, I'm moving the two main sqlite databases from files (SSD) to memory (RAM). They are the airframes db (with around 560,000 aircraft details) and the 48 site search db (with around 540,000 ACARS messages in it).
The dev site responded well to both changes.
Its not a big deal till I have to reboot the server (or the data center does some updates on the server and restarts it).
At that time, the pain will come back for a few hours, but since its been over 409 days since the last restart, I think I can live with that. (I bet people still complain <grin>).