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The ACARS system has pretty neat possibilities to liven up your web site
with nice, live imagery "from the flight deck". Many of these images can be
linked uniquely to your plane; others are for a complete group of planes. In most cases, you can use a HTML <iframe> tag to include the image in your web site. Most images have parameters so you can tune them to what you want. Please be considerate to the web server: do not embed stuff that you know will be downloaded a million times per hour. But for most normal applications, my web server will be powerful enough and care has been taken that the intensive things are cached.
Current position of one planeIf a plane reports positions using the ADS-C system, its position can be shown on a live globe that shows the actual lighting of the Earth by the Sun as well.
To show this on your web site:
To manipulate the output of the actual
The
Overview of all planes in the systemA nice feature is this Google Maps-based general overview. Normally it shows all planes that are reporting positions by ADS-C and zooms in as close as possible to still catch them all. If there happens to be just one plane, the zoom depends on that plane's altitude. With no planes, you get just the world map.
To show this on your web site:
To manipulate the output of the actual
This would produce an image output of 1024 x 768 pixels (w*h) and with no
title (nt) text, of just the BAW744 aircraft (if it is present). You can
fill in any values you want. Default for both size parameters is 600 pixels.
If you leave out
Another parameter that should not be used together with In all cases, the page asks the browser to refresh itself every five minutes. This cannot be changed. WorldFlight Progress BoardIf you participate in WorldFlight, and your plane reports the standard OOOI Progress Messages, you can generate a current airport-style progress/status overview. Notice that this board is triggered only by progress messages that have the exact ICAO airport identifier pairs of a leg in the current WorldFlight route. The board will update as you make progress.
Next to the WorldFlight Air ShowEven more specific for WorldFlight is the "Air Show" which resembles what is available aboard larger passenger aircraft. This Air Show can be further specialised for WorldFlight participants by including a random photo list, but you have little control over it except for the call sign.
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