I looked into this a bit recently and discovered that the FAA offers this,
it's called the "Aircraft Situation Display to Industry" (ADSI) feed, and
it's free to businesses if you sign a letter of agreement with the FAA. (I
have no idea what the conditions in that letter are). It's managed out of
the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA
(which is coincidentally within sight of my office where I sit right now),
but I haven't been able to find anything more specific about it online.


"David Mack" wrote in message
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I have a curiosity question for anyone who might know the answer. I
wonder where places like fboweb and fltplan get their live tracking
information. It seems to me that if the source is the FAA, I should
be able to get the raw data and mangle it myself without paying $15/mo
for their service.

Any ideas?

David