Planefinder.net is very useful in that it has archives going back several years. I recently wrote a converter that lets you extract the track of a plane and view it in Google Earth with the correct timestamps and altitudes - similar to FlightAware's downloads.
To do this you need to extract the "payload" for the track. This is what PF sends to your web browser when it displays the track in the map. It requires a little trickery.
In Google Chrome, you will need to open the Developer Tools
Select "Network" and "XHR", type "position" in the search box
Then click on the plane you want, then look in the debugger for the planeposition packet (you might want to clear it first, to make sure you get the right one.
Then Right Click on it. and "Copy -> Copy Response"
That will give you something like:
Go to:
https://www.metabunk.org/PF/
And paste it into the top box
The bottom box will give you a preview of the KML file. You can just ignore this.
Click on "Download KML", and open in Google Earth
Current problems are that it does not interpolate well where ADS-B coverage is weak, so goes below the surface of the Earth.
To do this you need to extract the "payload" for the track. This is what PF sends to your web browser when it displays the track in the map. It requires a little trickery.
In Google Chrome, you will need to open the Developer Tools
Select "Network" and "XHR", type "position" in the search box
Then click on the plane you want, then look in the debugger for the planeposition packet (you might want to clear it first, to make sure you get the right one.
Then Right Click on it. and "Copy -> Copy Response"
That will give you something like:
Code:
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to:
https://www.metabunk.org/PF/
And paste it into the top box
The bottom box will give you a preview of the KML file. You can just ignore this.
Click on "Download KML", and open in Google Earth
Current problems are that it does not interpolate well where ADS-B coverage is weak, so goes below the surface of the Earth.
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