FAST (FlightAware Scraping Thingy) II

by Josh Glottmann

Version 2.1.4 - 12/09/2023

Creates scenario files for ATCTrainer by Collin Koldoff using data from FlightAware* and Flightradar24*.

A newer and fancier version of FAST.

Download v2.1.4

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Installation

1. Download FAST-II.ipynb from the link above or on this repository's releases page.
2. Download and install the latest version of Python.
3. Download and install the latest version of Jupyter.
4. Run FAST-II.ipynb from Jupyter.

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How it works

• Every minute (if possible) FAST II finds all planes in the box you define. The API to get plane data isn't fast so it takes ~0.5-1 s/plane to get the plane's position data. It spawns the plane in at the position it was capture at at the time it was at that position.

• Every minute (or whatever you define), it looks to see what planes are in the airspace again. If the plane has already been spawned in, it is ignored.

• From a practical perspective, this means that a lot of planes appear everywhere, in final airspace, etc. since they've never been "seen" before.

• After you get that initial blob, all other planes should be departures, planes entering the boundary, or planes that happened to not be broadcasting data to FR24 before (rare)

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* Josh Glottmann is not responsible for any misuse of this software.