Brian's Blog - Or Carlsbad's Missing Villager

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Watch the Biggest Ship Ever to Dock in North America Pull Into the Port of LA
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/12/huge_ship_port_of_los_angeles_benjamin_franklin_megaship.php

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Plane lands on taxiway instead of runway in Seattle

An Alaska Airlines plane accidentally landed on a taxiway in between two runways in mid-December, prompting an FAA investigation at Sea-Tac International Airport. No one was injured in the incident.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/29/plane-lands-taxiway-instead-runway-seattle/78056520/

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89035

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Tower: "Flight 27, OK to land on 16 Right."
Pilot: "Okay, that's a GO for 16 Right."
Tower: "Oops, make that 16 Left."
Pilot: "Okay, that's a GO for change to 16 Left... Right?"
Tower: "Nope! Make that 16 Left."
Pilot: "That's what I said... right?"
Tower: "NO! I said 16 LEFT!"
Pilot: "Right!"
Tower: NO! Go land on the LEFT!"
Pilot: "I think I'll just split the difference..."

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The Air Traffic Control System -- Privatizing A Failed FAA NextGen Program Is Bad For America

DEC 30, 2015

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeboyd/2015/12/30/the-air-traffic-control-system-privatizing-a-failed-faa-nextgen-program-is-bad-for-america/

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Damage claims piling up over Army's infamous runaway blimp

More trouble for the JLENS surveillance blimp. Two months after it broke loose in Aberdeen and floated away for hours, damage claims are now being filed

The aftermath could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Rick Ritter breaks it down.

Claims top $300,000 worth of damage and could cost even more when it's all said and done. The news comes just days after Congress decided to make big cuts to the program.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/over-300000-in-claims-filed-over-armys-infamous-runaway-blimp/

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Bad Elf Crowd-funding Aims To Cut Cost of ADS-B IN Receivers

Bluetooth GPS manufacturer Bad Elf has launched a crowd-funding effort on Kickstarter to bring a low-cost and universally compatible portable ADS-B receiver to market. The Bad Elf receiver will come in four configurations, all with GPS: $299 for single-band 978 MHz (weather and traffic); $449 for 978 MHz with AHRS (attitude information); $449 for single-band 1090 MHz with AHRS (air-to-air traffic, for use outside the U.S. where ADS-B IN weather is not available); $549 for dual-band 978 and 1090 MHz with AHRS. These prices are for the Kickstarter effort. The Bad Elf Kickstarter ends on January 14 at 7 p.m.

http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/general-aviation/2015-12-29/bad-elf-crowd-funding-aims-cut-cost-ads-b-receivers

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Is there anyone still left at Kinetic Aviation ?

Last News,Announcements and Events update on the website was from 2013.
http://www.kinetic.co.uk/news.php

No updates for SBS-3, BaseStation software or any SBS Resources Operator Logos, Silhouette Logos, Outlines, or SQB Database Aircraft Files.
http://www.kinetic.co.uk/resourcesdownloads.php

KineticDavid Last Posts was on January 2nd, 2013 and the one before that was on November 14th, 2011

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I see the New Year hasn't dampened his enthusiasm for posting irresponsible, irrelevant and inflammatory "tosh".

Why Taylor Made RF Should Hang Up and stop selling Kinetic Aviation Product line(SBS-3,1090 Puck) in 2016.

Ever since nearly few years ago, Kinetic Aviation hasn't been able to compete with the other ADS-B Products.

Kinetic Aviation development ended years ago and hasn't seen any updates for many years.

* No BaseStation software updates in the last few years.
* No BaseStation Aircraft Database released for many years by Kinetic Aviation.
* Kinetic Aviation doesn't provide direct customer support.  They tell the distributor/dealers to provide support.  (Product support could be limited when the Distributor/Dealer sell many other products.)

Being a distant fourth place might not be a big deal for Kinetic Aviation.

** Other products from AirNav Systems,Radarcape,PlanePlotter,etc includes built-in aircraft database updating.
** Other ADS-B products provide their own customer support.

Taylor Made RF could start selling the updated ADS-B products like Radarcape, Flightfeeder/PiAware, AirNavSystems ComStation, Planevision, ADS-B R820T USB-Dongles, etc

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Plane Finder Aircraft ADS-B statistics Report for December 31, 2015 / January 1, 2016.

Over the last 30 days tracked:
71,871,293 - Flights
471,432 - Aircraft
5,618 - Sharers

Top Rank -- Country ------   Positions Reported
1) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 741,861,715
2) United StatesUnited States   442,597,490
3) GermanyGermany   247,859,139
4) NetherlandsNetherlands   120,782,317
5) FranceFrance   112,762,671
6) CanadaCanada   82,209,862
7) SwitzerlandSwitzerland   75,121,699
AustraliaAustralia   60,548,632
9) SpainSpain   42,022,063
10) TaiwanTaiwan   41,066,401
https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver_list

Top End of the 2015 Year PlaneFinder.net Sharers
1.) Roger Jackson - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/87950
2.) Anonymous - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/87967
3.) Oz Wald - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/88677
4.) Ian Hill - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/91285
5.) Anonymous - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/88612
6.) Herbert Harzig - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/88082
7.) Jason Huang - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/88138
8.) CHMBLH . - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/91757
9.) Anonymous - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/8912
10.) caius - https://planefinder.net/sharing/receiver/87814

Happy New Year to you all!

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Mode-S/ADS-B Activity Stats Report for December 31, 2015 / January 1, 2016

FlightAware ADS-B Statistics

Position Volume: 20,835,254/hour
# of Participants: 3,816
# of Sites: 4,604

Top Countries: # Sites
1.) United States - 2,815
2.) United Kingdom - 460
3.) Germany - 289
4.) Netherlands 171
5.) Canada 241
6.) France 93
7.) Australia 239
8.) Belgium 34
9.)  Switzerland 50
10.) Czech Republic 45

Top Sites Ranks for ADS-B Feeders:
1.) KiWiKiWiKiWi - Cologne/Bonn, Germany
2.) Nevrmind - Berlin, Germany
3.) rgdy - Lille, France
4.) hike - Amsterdam, Netherlands
5.) ASLX - Luxembourg, Luxembourg
6.) falcon viper - Soesterberg, Netherlands
7.) weddy2015 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
8.) franzke - Antwerp / Deurne, Belgium
9.) Peter Benney - Farnborough, United Kingdom
10.) hike - Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://flightaware.com/adsb/stats/

Check out FlightAware's new Data coverage map: https://flightaware.com/adsb/coverage#data-coverage

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Check out FlightAware's new Data coverage map:

Legend and checkboxes for enabling/disabling different types of data are at the bottom and a altitude slider is on the left to control altitude.
[] ADS-B
[] MLAT
[] Radar
[] Oceanic
[] Projected

https://flightaware.com/adsb/coverage#data-coverage

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PlanePlotter NETWORK Sharers STATISTICS UPDATE:  December 31, 2015
PlanePlotter Sharers Database & Network Coverage

Total Users: 2,538
New Users: 0   
Inactive Users: 1,382
Total Ground Stations: 697
Number Upgraded: 0
Number Downgraded: 0
Number Moved: 0

http://pp-sharers.co.uk

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Tracking Aero Satcom "pings" for aircraft in pacific ocean region (POR) via VRS
http://www.radarspotters.eu/forum/index.php/topic,8596.0.html
https://twitter.com/usa_satcom

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Currently tracking 431 aircraft, many via satcom. Using VRS to create merged feed. #airspy and @rfspace SDR based



https://twitter.com/usa_satcom/status/681904014666153985

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Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Vehicles

The history of aircraft rescue firefighting (ARFF) vehicles can be traced back to 1937, when Chief J.K. Schmidt deomonstrated the capabilities of a high-pressure fog appliance at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida under the auspices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

http://www.firehouse.com/article/12142292/apparatus-architect-aircraft-rescue-fire-fighting-vehicles

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AIN Blog: 2015 Was A Year of Progress for Helicopter Technology

Last year was a noteworthy one for rotorcraft, with confirmation of some trends and the unexpected emergence of some others. Despite a softening commercial market, attributable largely to the dwindling price of oil, airframers do not appear to have scaled back their investment in technology.

Airbus Helicopters unveiled the H160 medium twin (until then codenamed X4), a clean-sheet design in the 12,000- to 13,000-pound-mtow category (typically 12 seats). As expected, it will succeed the AS365 Dauphin/EC155 series.

http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/blogs/ain-blog-2015-was-year-progress-helicopter-technology