Is there any plans to use MLAT on this Site ?
Yes - we are working on this.
You should see improvements soon plus the odd plot now as we experiment with the technology.
Slower progress than we expected but it is live in Plane Finder in Southern UK.
We will be expanding it!
How do you do that? Only using accurate timestamped source or just generic feeders?
We need to have complete control over it so it is our own hardware but so far seems to be working VERY well in just our limited setup.
Will you be blocking any aircraft?
We are currently MLATTING everything but only showing some onto public facing sites.
You should have a complete air control Very nice to be from you side.
I noticed there should be 2 or 3 feeder near my spot , I really hope they try the new app .
Hi, will a Raspberry Pi setup with dongle support mlat ?
Sorry to say that we don't have MLAT working on our client for this setup yet.
any news for mlat support?
We had a trial late last year and the results were far from the quality we needed so we didn't roll it out.
Our Plane Finder Radar receiver gets the desired timestamp resolution.
I'm feeding Mlat stuff to F aWARE and have now joined PlaneFinder and am feeding to you as well. I have a sensitive dongle and 1090 mhz bandpass filter and am running dump1090- mutability on an old linux netbook (well two actually - I'm setting up another one). On my dump1090-mutabilty screen maybe 25% of the aircraft that show up are Mlat ones. Most of these don't appear on your site if I click the planefinder link to get details about them. Does the foregoing discussion suggest that these mlat spots are of poor quality?
The obvious weaknesses are things like wrongly entered receiver location and altitude information, as well as poor time keeping on the receivers. I don't know how the piaware software handles time keeping - maybe it sets the receiver clock - I just don't know, but one thing that is sure, there are a lot of planes that don't give out their location info in the ads-b signal.
I really like the planefinder client software by the way . Nice job.
Here is my log file for Flightradar24 data feeder (MLAT enabled).
It shows they regularly synchronize time with NTP. Is this of some help for your MLAT under development?
2016-07-23 10:15:55 | [w]Detected --net argument for dump1090, disabling internal RAW feed!
2016-07-23 10:15:55 | [w]Detected --net argument for dump1090, disabling internal BS feed!
2016-07-23 10:15:56 | [reader][w]Setting new UTC offset: 0!
2016-07-23 10:16:24 | [mlat][e]Received MLAT timestamp error: 0 seconds!