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Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by joezydeco » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:44 PM UTC

cmpaul wrote: post #14

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It's a stream of data. Can you AI summarize the twitter firehose?

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by jcims » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:44 PM UTC

jparishy wrote: post #2

Very cool. I love these feeds. A very common flow for me when I see something weird on adsb or fr24 is to grab the ICAO address of the plane and search it on https://app.airframes.io/ to see if it was sending out any ACARS messages so I can... see what the drama was ha! It's a really fun hobby if you find this stuff interesting. You can pick up an SDR online for like $30 USD and be able to do all this without Interne…

(and if you set it up on a raspberry pi and run it full time you can get a free business plan subscription to flightradar24)

https://www.flightradar24.com/add-coverage

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by Leynos » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:53 PM UTC

cmpaul wrote: post #14

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Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by genewitch » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:54 PM UTC

H8crilA wrote: post #9

mmastrac wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Update: DISPMORNING. NEED LEO TO MEET THE AC. A PAX WAS INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING ANOTHER PAX IN THE ROW INFRONT OF THEM. THE FAS HAVE THE SEAT NUMBER ANDMANIFEST. FYI AND THX

What about appropriate, consensual touching?

They don't record passengers' handshakes, no

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by _-_-__-_-_- » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:57 PM UTC

MR4D wrote: post #8

Did anyone else mistakenly read this as “LCARS” and expect something related to the Star Trek interface? Clearly I need more coffee.

Exactly.

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by weard_beard » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:59 PM UTC

<3 These are the jokes folks.

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by wylie39 » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 3:59 PM UTC

What's the legality of this? I was thinking of doing something similar but with POCSAG but from what I can tell it would be illegal because of ECPA(Electronic Communications Privacy Act)

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC

maverwa wrote: post #17

kindatrue wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could've been an international (overnight) flight. Maybe alcohol was involved.

nope, flight FFT2407 from Las Vegas to Seattle, 6:49 take off, 9:30 planned landing.

What started in Vegas didn’t stay there, and got ACARS’d.

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by SSLy » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 4:02 PM UTC

maverwa wrote: post #17

kindatrue wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could've been an international (overnight) flight. Maybe alcohol was involved.

nope, flight FFT2407 from Las Vegas to Seattle, 6:49 take off, 9:30 planned landing.

someone on loads of blow still in their blood veins

Re: ACARS Drama

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Post by Suppafly » Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

marcellus23 wrote: post #18

Interesting that the keyboard for these[0] is not a QWERTY keyboard but instead has the buttons arranged alphabetically. That must be a pain in the ass to type in. Is that because the tech is 50 years old from before QWERTY was the standard? Do newer planes have QWERTY? 0: https://acarsdrama.com/fmc.webp Unrelated, this one is cute: https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114194436695883209

>Is that because the tech is 50 years old from before QWERTY was the standard?

QWERTY predates electronic devices.