[ACARS] Comment

[Jim Wyman]

Robert and all,
    When it comes to ACARS, I am only interested on what is flying over  
or near my location . It is primarily a tracking tool. I use it for live 
time tracking.
I have written my own realtime tracking and logging system which is 
quite extensive, I probably decode more old, realtime, and predicted 
positions thatn any other system out there. And it is realtime. Others 
plot any old positions and call it realtime.
    Also my system is capable of utilizing WX data from aircraft  which 
the Forecast Sorms Lab in Norman,Ok are very interested in.
So, with all that, i have no need myself to see international flights 
overseas from another users other than seeing what kind of additional 
position reports there may be.
Sorry for being so longwinded. BTW, has anyone given thought to how 
VDL-2 will ( if ever) be decoded by people like us?

V/R,

Jim Wyman
Near KNHK

Robert C C Hall wrote:

>WUN ACARS Group seems to me as a newcomer to be composed of three separate
>groups...
>
>1. Those involved with the  internet and internationsl data
>
>2. Those who regularly produce logs for the UK and Europe
>
>3, Localised listeners like myself, quite unprofessional and able to connect
>to only one station
>
>This outline was unkown to me when I joined up and spent lotsa bucks and
>time  trying to understand the wonderful new world of ACARS, and many thanks
>to the kind folk who told me about ACARSD, JACARS et al. The essential
>questions to my mind is are you interested in International, National or
>localised trnsmissions? I have only the last to offer, which seems pretty
>small in the overall scenario, and I wonder if anyone is interested at all
>in the occasional flash from Capetown??
>
>Meanwhile I am happy to play around with my local traffic having at long
>last at least partially mastered the appalling illiterate and misguided Help
>sections offered by Airnav, and via their Email......
>
>Am putting this forward so that others interested in ACARS may have their
>introduction shortened by a few months. Perhaps the online screens might
>take notice!
>
>Bob
>IC-R8500+W40PC+C3G+M7000 + MVT7100
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