Flight tracking technologies

Hi All,

For those of you wondering about glider flight tracking options this year. I suggest watching the Seminole Lake Gliderport activity so see an example of a number of technologies all in one place.

Here is the link http://glideport.aero/map?p=GlidePort:396


Pilots with Spot
AXC,FH,G1,F6,KM,N1K,U

Pilots with InReach
DK,nb?

Pilots with Cell phone data
U (Roman has both Spot and a Cell phone)

No single solution is perfect. I suggest you watch the traces and see the delays and information provided by each technology.


Some of my personal observations
* Spot doesn't have altitude
* InReach appears to be the most consistent regarding delays. It has altitude
* Cell has the richest data but can be highly variable in delays.

Alan